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Feather 12 [Video]

[ Not that January 1st was actually Joshua's birthday instead of just being a handy date to roll up his age one more year, but Joshua couldn't help the feeling that somehow Johto had hatched his shiny new egg into a... well, shiny new male fox, of all things, this day on purpose.

It probably could only have been more on the mark if the thing had been some combination of grey, blue, and/or purple. ]

Since this isn't exactly the first time it seems everyone spontaneously obtained an egg all at once, I'm going to ask a different question. Do we have any idea what determines which Pokemon we each receive?

[ And if anyone happens to be in Cianwood, Joshua can be found towards the outskirts of the city, sitting sideways on an Absol, Espeon on shoulder and a newly hatched golden Vulpix on his lap, all four of them watching as a Luxray happily bounds about on the sand and knocks out any Pokemon it scares up with its antics. ]

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No, but presumably they follow somewhat predictable patterns if people are assigned positions dedicated to breeding. I've only dealt with eggs from my Pokemon once myself, but they all took after their mother.

Oh, of course there are specific patterns that it follows, and it obviously requires two Pokemon of opposite sexes-but beyond that, I don't think we know much about it at all, and it's possible that there may be something unusual about it that explains where these 'gift' eggs are coming from.

In that case, wouldn't you expect a breeder to have discovered it already?

There are many things about this place that I would have expected someone to have discovered already. Even the natives seem baffled by it, though I'm not sure how surprising that really is.

The natives can't be trusted for much, hee hee. But I believe every world has its own set of rules it follows, even if we can't understand what they are. The more you investigate, the more you get an idea of what those rules are.

That's certainly true, yes. They're rather off-kilter to begin with and fairly... unreliable. Nevertheless, this place at least has a consistent internal logic, even if it doesn't seem particularly logical by any reasonable standards.

Unreliable, how?

They can be fairly odd when you're speaking to them, and it seems entirely up to chance as to whether you'll have a normal conversation with them or if they'll simply just ramble at you about how much they like shorts.

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Shorts.

[ Guess who managed to avoid that one. ]

...he was visiting relatives in Johto, even, so it's not like he's one of those people who just stands in one place for the whole day, either...

... Well, I can't say there aren't people who would talk your ear off all day about a single topic back where I come from, but usually they pick more reasonable topics, like games.

...I can't say I think that's much better, but given how many kinds of games there are out there, at least there would be some variety. There is really only so much you can say about shorts.

Oh, no, just one game in particular. Tin Pin Slammer. I don't suppose you've heard of it? It's quite popular with the kids nowadays. Popular enough that some will talk for hours if you let them.

...No, it's not something I've heard of. Is it something that's native to this world...?

I haven't heard of it in this world. Then again, this world is a video game in my world, so who even knows how these things work?

Yes... I've heard that's the case, and I've always found it to be bizarre. I haven't heard of the game that seems to be based on this world, but then again, I'm not exactly one to keep up with popular culture.

Now what would be interesting is if someone here was from a game or some sort in someone else's world. Or perhaps there's a hierarchy, and we're all from worlds one level above this one, yet below others.

There seem to be some worlds that are relatively similar to each other and ones that are extremely far fetched, really. I actually have met someone here who was fictional in my world-very fictional, in fact. There is literally no way she could have been anything but fictional. Honestly, I thought the whole experience was incredibly stupid, but...

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Go on.

...it was Minnie Mouse.

[ ... oh. ]

Well, I suppose that does answer that question. I wonder if it's possible to create a loop. If we could, that would narrow the possibilities for how this all works.

A loop? Do you mean as far as which worlds are present in works of fiction in which other worlds? That would be interesting to consider, actually. It's strange to see how much overlap is present even from the few examples I've experienced.

Exactly. If a loop is possible, it gives a clear direction for cause and effect. If there's a loop, worlds aren't created as pieces as fiction first. Rather, the world would have to exist and then be recreated in another.

Edited 2013-02-19 00:02 (UTC)

I admit, while that is an interesting idea, I really doubt that worlds are created as fiction to begin with. The existence of infinite parallel worlds has been proven, so it stands to reason that at least one world would strongly resemble a given work of fiction.

Yes, but typically you wouldn't expect there to be enough works of fiction that any randomly selected parallel world would be represented. Thus we have a need for some stronger connection to exist in order for there to be any chance of such a phenomenon occurring.

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