The events of this world overlap significantly with Serph-san's. A broken moon instead of a blackened sun, humans turned into stone rather than encased in metal, but transformations to monsters and horrific experiments remain a common element, along with a search for "Nirvana."
To say nothing of the items I received from home a few months ago, calling cards that had no business being here. So, even if we take parallel realities into account, there could be more to it.
[There is a low noise that sounds like disagreement.]
The sun and moon have little in common besides being in the sky and to human gaze looking about the same size. In reality they are nothing alike, and one being reduced to rubble is not similar to another being black. Furthermore, there is a significant difference between total petrification and the husks that unleash monsters. I acknowledge that both seeking a place called Nirvana is a commonality, as are horrific experiments .. which are hardly isolated to this world, my own and Serph's.. but the other two test the limits of what counts as 'significant overlap'.
[In spite of the words, his tone is polite.]
Items being here from your own planet and time are a far more significant thing to make note of. That should be pursued. You seem perfectly sensible; think about it longer than vague surface similarity. In any other setting would you even begin to weigh as the same something as absurd as, forgive me for putting it this way, 'two unexplained and completely different alarming things happened in the sky on different planets, but since it's a celestial body in the sky it's kind of the same thing'?
Were it only that, I'd be inclined to agree, yet Serph-san's world, and the state of the sun, also are the result of an angered god. The parallels are there, just with a few details shifted. If you were writing a story about one, it might be seen as plagiarism of the other.
[Perhaps that's a better way of putting it. Symbolically, rather than the literal nature of stone versus metal, or sun versus moon.]
Moreover, humans had to transform into monsters to survive, branded not unlike our own sigils. I could have clarified initially, so I will apologize for that. You're certainly right that there are more pressing details, like the aforementioned items.
'An angry god' is the focus of endless apocalypse stories. Additionally, we have not been transformed in order to survive, it has made survival more difficult. Petrification as divine punishment is common in old stories on my planet as well. It is human nature to attempt to draw parallels and find patterns, I don't fault you for it. It may prove useful, but in this case I ... feel it is a reach.
[Only now does his tone darken by degrees, some distant mostly-buried anger that doesn't seem at all directed at Akechi, but something older.]
The comparison is not the same as knowing these are many of the same species I know from my world. Their behaviors, their habits, their appearances and abilities .. including ones created by the reach of scientists better off dead, including at least one that is a feral offspring of once-domestic species created by those same scientists. Should Serph, or anyone not of my planet, begin directly recognizing species and technology, I would like that information to be shared widely. More knowledge on the creatures we face or are becoming would be exceptionally useful.
[Akechi quiets, letting Sephiroth make his case. And he does raise many valid points, of course. It could very well be a reach...
And he's right that there are more oddities to consider.]
I've encountered a handful of familiar monsters. Pisaca, Anzu, and Mothman all look identical to the versions of them that lurk in the Metaverse, yet it's difficult to say whether or not that's due to them being from my world when they're all mythical creatures given life in the collective unconsciousness.
What you're describing sounds more distinct and tangible, so perhaps it would be worth inquiring if others recognize the wild monsters here and what significance they hold.
If they are precisely the same, something else may be at work. I have intention to put it to the test once I have secured a means of safer, faster overland travel. Those domestic creatures gone feral.. if a pup can be found and raised as it is meant to be, and becomes what it should be and not a wild beast, then the domestication lingers in its genes and it is not merely coincidentally similar. But they are now a ways behind us, and getting further.
If they are breeding true then what they were is no longer relevant, what they are is strong enough to pass on to the next generation, and the next, for who knows how long. The monsters we face are likely generations removed from any potential human ancestor.
I wonder if they are breeding, considering the vast majority emerge from the Husks themselves. We also don't have a clear timeline for when this world truly descended into chaos.
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[Is that the faintest sound of disgust in his otherwise even tone? Yep.]
This one is more advanced in ways than mine, destroying a moon is far beyond us, as is mutation on this scale.
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[He hums, soft and contemplative.]
The events of this world overlap significantly with Serph-san's. A broken moon instead of a blackened sun, humans turned into stone rather than encased in metal, but transformations to monsters and horrific experiments remain a common element, along with a search for "Nirvana."
To say nothing of the items I received from home a few months ago, calling cards that had no business being here. So, even if we take parallel realities into account, there could be more to it.
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The sun and moon have little in common besides being in the sky and to human gaze looking about the same size. In reality they are nothing alike, and one being reduced to rubble is not similar to another being black. Furthermore, there is a significant difference between total petrification and the husks that unleash monsters. I acknowledge that both seeking a place called Nirvana is a commonality, as are horrific experiments .. which are hardly isolated to this world, my own and Serph's.. but the other two test the limits of what counts as 'significant overlap'.
[In spite of the words, his tone is polite.]
Items being here from your own planet and time are a far more significant thing to make note of. That should be pursued. You seem perfectly sensible; think about it longer than vague surface similarity. In any other setting would you even begin to weigh as the same something as absurd as, forgive me for putting it this way, 'two unexplained and completely different alarming things happened in the sky on different planets, but since it's a celestial body in the sky it's kind of the same thing'?
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[Perhaps that's a better way of putting it. Symbolically, rather than the literal nature of stone versus metal, or sun versus moon.]
Moreover, humans had to transform into monsters to survive, branded not unlike our own sigils. I could have clarified initially, so I will apologize for that. You're certainly right that there are more pressing details, like the aforementioned items.
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[Only now does his tone darken by degrees, some distant mostly-buried anger that doesn't seem at all directed at Akechi, but something older.]
The comparison is not the same as knowing these are many of the same species I know from my world. Their behaviors, their habits, their appearances and abilities .. including ones created by the reach of scientists better off dead, including at least one that is a feral offspring of once-domestic species created by those same scientists. Should Serph, or anyone not of my planet, begin directly recognizing species and technology, I would like that information to be shared widely. More knowledge on the creatures we face or are becoming would be exceptionally useful.
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And he's right that there are more oddities to consider.]
I've encountered a handful of familiar monsters. Pisaca, Anzu, and Mothman all look identical to the versions of them that lurk in the Metaverse, yet it's difficult to say whether or not that's due to them being from my world when they're all mythical creatures given life in the collective unconsciousness.
What you're describing sounds more distinct and tangible, so perhaps it would be worth inquiring if others recognize the wild monsters here and what significance they hold.
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