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5. [video]

Who: Simon Tam and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A
When: August 13th

I have a rather strange question. Twice now, people have arrived here who look nearly identical to people I knew back home- and yet, they are clearly not those people. They are close in looks, but in personality... not so much.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is it just something I should chalk up to alternate universes and time travel? It's rather unsettling, to tell the truth...

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Wooow, that's pretty far apart. [Oh, Firefly. You and your future thing.] It could still apply, though! With that theory, a person who was born at one time in another world could've been born at another time in a completely different one. I'd have to look into it more, but that's my guess, at least.

It's enough to make one's head spin, really. I suppose that is possible, though- or something like reincarnation. Or it could just be random genetic chance, as improbable as that is.

Everything about all the possibilities and theories of the universe is enough to make one's head spin! Heck, we could be way off the mark, but that's why we need to keep theorizing, even when we're this close to the truth! [Someone thinks this is the coolest thing ever, apparently.] Nothing is improbable when it comes to this!

[Simon smiled.]

I do find it fascinating, even if it is unsettling. I'd like to be able to know for sure, but I doubt I ever will. Maybe I'll get to meet my own face some day, even.

[Man. Meeting your own face sounds more unsettling than all the other stuff they were talking about, and Clay can't help giving a shudder.]

Well. At least you'd be prepared for it, right? Maybe you two could be like... twins, or something!

[Simon chuckled.]

I'm not sure how I'd handle that, honestly- having River is quite enough for me. I wasn't quite sure what to think at first when she came along- she wasn't born until I was 10. Another self? I might avoid him for a bit.

Ha, yeaaah, can't blame you there. I've never had a real sibling, so I don't know what it's like. But someone walking around that looks just like you? That would be weird, and I've seen a lot of weird things here.

Edited 2015-08-27 10:54 (UTC)

Even moreso because I am sure it's not like I have a long-lost twin, or something like that.

Who knows? Maybe somewhere out there, in some other universe and in some other time, you do. [He raises his hands up so that they're in view of the camera, wiggles his fingers, and leans in towards the screen with wide eyes.] Woooooo!

[Simon laughs.]

Well, in that case, maybe I'll get to meet him. And hope that he's not an evil twin.

Hey, even if he was, you know it'd be good for the ratings! Good twin versus bad twin, yeaaah. [He mimics the audience cheering after that, even doing a quiet "haaa" while cupping his mouth.]

Edited 2015-09-03 20:39 (UTC)

But what if I was secretly the bad twin? It would be the type of soap opera-esque plot twist the audience would eat up, no doubt. ... I am far too nice to be the bad twin, though.

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