voice; iPhone; March 9; evening

[earnedmystripes]

--Did I get it? Yes, finally, must've tried typing them five times.....

[Ahem. Right, he finally typed the numbers correctly, so people can hear him now. Onto business. There's no video when he posts this time, which may be of concern to some, but at least he doesn't sound too poorly off when he speaks. Tired, sure, but no worse off than anyone else.]

Hey, this is Kotetsu. Checking in.

[Beat.]

Like I said last time with the earthquake, if anyone's place got wrecked or needs somewhere to stay for any reason right now, I've got room. You don't need to worry about paying me or owing me or anything, just. Don't want anyone on the streets right now, if I can help it.

[The snake might be dead, but who knows what might happen in the next couple of days? Better to be safe than sorry.]

No strings attached, I promise.

Take care, you guys. Stay safe.

[[Much, much later that night. Like 3:45 am late.]]

sory i knopw its a bad tine to talk abot tjis kind of thing but

itrs driving mr craxy

anyine keep renemberjng someonr really important

like

really realy realllly

earth shatteringlh
y

orther half of yiyr uinversr inportsnt

but not abything about thjm

i dint even have their name or whst they look like

thibk i miht have a vouce not sure if its themn though

is tjis happenning to antone else ??

[he's not drunk. his left-handed phone typing is just that bad and he's not paying much attention, just needing to get this off his chest before he explodes.]

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[text] ifkr??? it's my fav

[healspec]

I think a better question is, why are you still up?

[text] :D

[earnedmystripes]

cabt slep

[text]

[healspec]

Is it the injury or something else?

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

thr mising person
from y memiries

[text]

[healspec]

Is there anyone you know here who shares pulses with you?

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

atl east ome
maybe two

[actually it's three but he doesn't realize keith is part of the same past as him too yet.]

[text]

[healspec]

Ask what they remember of you, if they might know.

Or maybe it is one of them and you have not realized it yet.

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

we obly figured otu we knew eacj othr a couple months back
we havet he same christmasy pin nd were both 'nexts'
oh and givig him a nickname pulsed him too
but not me
weirdly

the othet one kidn of. ran awy from me
twice
thouh i dont think he knw it was me the second time

[text]

[healspec]

If giving him a nickname pulsed him, maybe it is him?

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

shoulfnt ive pulsed to then/

itc iuld be sime weurd comsic coincidexe

[text]

[healspec]

Maybe it was more important to him than to you.

Also pulses don't always work logically.

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

mayve

[offscreen, there's a sigh.]

hpwould i even know its them anywy
weve ben hangin out for months and ive never even goten a pulse w his face in it

[text]

[healspec]

I don't know.

Pulses are a mystery to me. I kept getting pulses about Alex that directly contradicted his.

[he is...still pretty sore about mentioning Alex, but at least he can manage to bring him up in a conversation these days.]

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

[Oh.

The mention of Alex gives him pause, and now he feels a little selfish being so desperate to find out about this mystery person when he has plenty of friendships that exist in the here and now.]

thars weird as helll im sorry

[That apology is meant to serve greater purpose than condolence for the weirdness, Ravi.]

[text]

[healspec]

It is. It makes me wonder if these pulses are real memories or only made up by whatever is giving them out.

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

somr people were thniking the pulses are abit alt universes toso mayb its like

yours are frim your past lufe in one verse and alecxs arre from anither pastlife in anothr verse

[text]

[healspec]

Ah.

That would explain it, I suppose.

That would mean he never was my Alex, then.

[that's a depressing thought. makes him feel like his entire friendship was just a waste of time, and leaves him lamenting that reality saw fit to give Alex the Reilanin from the right universe, but didn't see fit to give him the Alex from the right universe.]

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

[he actually takes a couple minutes to be sure he spells things correctly this time]

hey
dont look at it like that

you guys were friends before any of this started, right
outta all the people in the world you ended up being roommates even though neither of you had any idea there were past versions of you in other universes that were friends
it might have gotten messed up along the way this time but i think that means something

[text]

[healspec]

It means karma has a sense of irony. Nothing else.

[sry Kotetsu he is going to be super pessimistic about this because he is really NOT OKAY with anything that happened there and he's still resentful of Alex about it.]

[text]

[earnedmystripes]

i dont think so

its been a few months, have you talked to him yet?

[healspec]

No.

i'm just pretending he's actually checking his spelling now i'm too lazy to fake typo anymore

[earnedmystripes]

it could be worth a shot
i mean, we worked things out, right?

[healspec]

I won't.

[earnedmystripes]

[he almost says, 'but he was your best friend', but then thinks better of it and says instead:]

what happened?

[he'd never asked for specifics on Ravi's falling out with Alex--after all, he hadn't talked to him for a month after the Proud incident himself.]

[healspec]

He hypnotized me and forced me to let him walk out.

As far as I am concerned, he owes me one hell of an apology before I even will think about talking to him again.

[and he's...pretty stubborn, so good luck trying to get him to budge on that.]