un: aphrodite ;; text ;; 001 <- "first post"

[wingstosee]

so i'm not really sure how this works?
it doesn't look like anyone else has posted yet.
but uhhhh no time like the present, right?
so
my... bracelet? watch?
i guess it's kind of a smartwatch.
anyway it said something new just now.

"we made it work. attempt number six was successful. it worked, everyone!"
"wait, there's a problem, we're not where we..."

does this sound familiar to anyone?
there might have been more but i was in the cafeteria
or well. am, i guess

also, first post?
i think you're supposed to say that.

wow i have no idea where to end this.
i hope you're all having a good day?
even with the kidnapping and everything.
okay bye

wait jk jk
jupiter, if you see this
let me know, okay?
this is venus. though i guess that's pretty obvious.
i'm really worried :(
that was probably obvious too

okay bye for real this time?
maybe??
yeah.

Comments

un: aqua

[aequoreal]

Thank you for sharing this.
What did the person speaking sound like?

un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

um. a woman?
i'm really bad at identifying voices. sorry :(

i guess...
she wasn't a kid? probably??

[aequoreal]

Did she sound excited or scared?

[wingstosee]

oh!
definitely excited.
at first, at least. then i guess kind of... confused?
and then it cut off

[aequoreal]

And she did not say what they attempted?

[wingstosee]

not really?
a couple of people have guessed "saving the world," but...
i don't know.
how do you "try" to save the world six times?
wouldn't it just be one big try, until you actually do it?

i guess that's a really stupid thing to assume but it's also still kind of bothering me?

[aequoreal]

Perhaps she was trying to save the world in a particular way. Perhaps there were scientific experiments. Perhaps there were attempts to do something else entirely.

I do not know enough to tell.

[wingstosee]

oh.
i guess attempts at trying something different makes a lot of sense, huh.

sorry i just realized that this train of thought helps literally no one?
so. sorry about dragging you down it.

[aequoreal]

It is of no consequence.
And I, too, have been wondering what has happened to those who inhabited this station before us.

[wingstosee]

yeah.
i think it's impossible not to?
there's just... so much stuff without answers.
you know? it's a lot to deal with all at once.

at least we're not on a collision course with an asteroid or something.

probably.

[aequoreal]

I agree. It is a lot.

( he isn't a psychologist the way black canary is. he wishes she was here; it might help. )

Do you have people you can speak to, if you are overwhelmed? Here, I mean.

( and he'll just ignore that comment about the collision course with an asteroid because there really isn't a way to find out beyond trying to spot the asteroid coming on the observation deck and that isn't helpful. )

[wingstosee]

yeah, i do.
well. maybe? i haven't found them yet.
but they've got to be here. we were all together just before this
and even if god himself did this, i don't think he could have split us apart.

[ it sounds like a figure of speech. it's not. ]

[aequoreal]

I hope that they are.

( given how little kaldur remembers about how he's gotten here, who knows whether something occurred before his arrival here? he could have been separated from the others.

wally's presence and the fact that kara may well be from his future makes him wonder, too. )

[wingstosee]

i hope so too.
i already miss them. you know?

i'm sorry i'm not more helpful with this.
i get the feeling most people probably could have helped out a bit more if they got this message...
but i guess it is what it is.

[aequoreal]

You shared it. That in itself is helpful.

( she seems to be a civilian. he does not blame her for it. )

[wingstosee]

i guess that's true too.
i'll try to look at it that way instead. :)

i'm venus btw
sorry we're meeting in a place like this
but it's nice to meet you even so

[aequoreal]

Kaldur'ahm.
It is good to meet you, Venus. Even if the circumstances are not ideal.

Where are you from?

[wingstosee]

whoa.
that's a really cool name?
i'm from earth if that means anything to you.
the american midwest?
i mean if you don't know what earth is that probably means even less but.

how about you?

[aequoreal]

Thank you.
I am from Earth as well.

[wingstosee]

haha. awesome.
i kind of thought everyone was from earth at first? but so many people have said otherwise.
i guess i'm just trying not to assume now.

[aequoreal]

I have met people from other planets before, but rarely so many who may be from different universes than me entirely.

[wingstosee]

yeah. i've been hearing some about that?
i still don't really get it, i guess.
i know a lot of people don't recognize the stuff i talk about with earth...
but it's kind of crazy to think it's a different universe thing. you know?
like, we can still both go to a pizza hut, you know?
that shouldn't be possible.

[aequoreal]

I am by no means an expert. But it does seem possible that Pizza Hut or something similar has developed in several universes. Some may more alike than others.

[wingstosee]

that's not even weird to you??
it's not pizza house, or pzone hut
it's just.
pizza hut.
i literally talked to someone earlier about michael jackson??
michael jackson exists for trolls. he's called "troll michael jackson."
what gives????

[aequoreal]

It may be pizza house in some universes. I do not think it is stranger than alien life, though I cannot say that I fully understand multiverse theory.

( or at all. )