[snuggle up real close everyone]

[cephalon]

Who: The fair crew and visitors of the Windrose
Action: Aboard the Windrose
When: May

[It's a mingle! Make friendly everyone~]

Comments

[passingthrough]

I guess it surprises me because our worlds seemed...similar-ish, but we don't ahve anything like that. Well, aside from genetic augmentation, but that's not usually a volunteer thing.

[pain_train]

Maybe the society is a bit? But I think we've got lots of tech you don't. Like uterine replicators and vat protein and plasma swords.

I'm from the year 3193.

[passingthrough]

I'm from the year everything is fucked. Do I want to know what a uterine replicator is? [Except it sounds kind of self explanatory.]

[pain_train]

It's a thing that babies grow in so people don't have to. Um. Gestate them in their bodies because that's got a lot of health risks and can fuck people up?

[passingthrough]

Well, that's...something. Must be extra useful for people who can't have them otherwise.

[pain_train]

Oh yeah, for sure. It means homosexual couples can have have kids too, which is great!

[passingthrough]

[Her reaction is going to be a lot milder than Kurt's there. No toxic masculinity upbringing for obvious reasons and some experience with it in the prison.]

They don't require an egg and sperm? Or do you mean with donations?

[pain_train]

Nah, they have a way to like... mix it together right in a lab. I don't know how it works. Above my paygrade. But it works!

[passingthrough]

So no one does it the old fashioned way?

[pain_train]

There are some weird ultra-conservative genetic purist people in D1, I've heard. Rich people are weird.

[passingthrough]

Huh.

So, it's cheaper this way?

[pain_train]

It's technically cheaper to do it in your body. Don't have to pay for replicator rental or anything.

[passingthrough]

But only weird, rich people do it. Hmm, I guess I never really thought about alternatives since we didn't have any like that.

[pain_train]

Well, and super poor people who don't have birth control implants, but those are cheap so...

I think the government's been making the replicators really cheap too, like with um. Subsidies? Because the population really needs to recover I guess. They were encouraging everyone to have kids and stuff. Which was... kind of weird in a way.

[passingthrough]

Yeah, having the government regulate your baby output is pretty weird no matter which direction they're doing it from.

[pain_train]

It's.... Something that I get confused about. It bothers me, but I know that they had the city's best interest at heart.

[passingthrough]

What do you mean when you say you get confused about it? [Because you say things like that a lot and she's not sure where it's coming from.]

[pain_train]

Um... I just mean that it bothers me but I know it shouldn't. Like when you think two different things at the same time. It's confusing. But not a big deal.

[passingthrough]

[Wrath, what is going on in there?] Do you mean when you can understand and sympathize with two different sides of an argument? [It doesn't exactly sound like that.]

[pain_train]

...I guess? More like... when you think too opposite things at the same time and know they're both true but they literally can't both be true. It's confusing when that happens, right?

[....isn't this a problem that everyone has?]

[passingthrough]

Yeah... [Okay, definitely concerned about that.] Yeah, that would be confusing. Does that happen a lot?

[pain_train]

Not that much since I got here. Mostly when I talk to someone about how things were back home. Or like when I'm having a weird conversation with Charles and I'm trying to explain my job. [Shrug.]

[passingthrough]

[She perks up at that since a telepath has to have some insight there.] Has Charles said anything about it?

[pain_train]

He said there are holes in my brain that aren't natural.

...which isn't surprising?

[passingthrough]

Just not reassuring probably. Does he think he can do anything to help with it?