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[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

[There's a new Namine and she's just walked out of a building to find herself on an unfamiliar street.]

Hmm, did I take a wrong turn?

[She turns around to go back inside the building, but it's not the same place she left.]

How...many wrong turns could I have made?

[As if that's not strange enough, she's looking around to see color. She looks back at herself, a colorless Namine.]

Or did I get spiked with LSD....?

[ooc: new here, hallo! I actually used to lurk and post here a few years ago. I just realized there has been some sort of a setting change, so I'm going to try to get up to speed and accommodate my character.]

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[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

The second, I don't have an answer for. The first, a meeting point outside worlds. Is this - the first time you've experienced something like this?

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

[She pauses to think.]

As far as I can remember.

[She looks blankly at the woman talking to her.]

"Outside worlds"? Meaning I've left mine? How do I get back?

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

Correct. And the short answer is, barring good luck, you don't.

[Not about to sugar-coat things, here.]

This place does like to collect the unusual, sometimes.

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

...Unusual?

[blink blink]

Me?

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

Yes. You. I'm assuming you are capable of colour perception due to your reaction to your surroundings. And frankly, I've never seen an individual quite like you.

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

Well, I can see color. ... I'm not just used to it.

[She exhales and rests her chin on her hand.]

In my world, color is a disease. If you show any, you're good as dead, supposedly. I don't know how everything is functioning right now.

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[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

[She lifts an eyebrow. Well. That's interesting. Okay, maybe a little more sympathetic, another someone from a one-off world-]

A disease? I'm afraid you'll find yourself on your own, there. It's functioning, quite simply, because in most worlds that's how it does function.

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[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

Huh...

[A world with color that isn't falling apart, something new to this Namine.]

Including your world? You're from somewhere else, too, aren't you?

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

[She nods.] Everyone is. ...Or the vast majority of the population, I'd say.

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

[She sits back.]

Well, that's interesting. So they all live here now? Is that what I'm supposed to do?

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

It's what everyone else does. [She shrugs.] You're handling this well.

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

[Laughs.]

I'll have a break down, eventually. Trust me.

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

[She smiles dryly, faintly.]

Before you do, then, would you mind if I asked you a few questions?

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

Sure, go ahead.

[She's been around scientists before and this one doesn't seem too threatening.]

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

[She's good at seeming.]

I'm simply curious about your world. Has it always been - monochrome?

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

[Seeming is good enough for this Namine.]

Yes, as long as I've been alive. ... There was a time when things had color though. Once. It didn't last long.

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

Hm. [Making mental notes.] What happened?

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

I wasn't born yet but everyone older than me experienced what happened. They told me things started to fall apart. Clothes would fall apart at every seam and all the buildings started to crumble, without any other reason. The amount of natural disasters just skyrocketed. Anything bad that could happen, did happen.

[She sighed.]

And if a person showed a little color in their face, they usually died within 24 hours. First, they just started dying of disease. But then a lot of folks thought they were contagious, so they killed anyone with color as a preemptive strike against an epidemic. It was horrible. Almost the whole planet was wiped out.

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

[More mental notes. She gives a sympathetic kind of nod, though her mind's whirring away, and stops herself before calling it 'interesting'.]

... Unfortunate. Was an explanation ever found?

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

[shrugs]

They figured it was the color, so just as they killed off the last person with it, they started to rebuild and made sure everything completely monochrome. There are some who don't think the color was the reason everything fell apart, but no one can argue that when everything went monochrome, all the disasters came to an end.

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

[She nods.] I'm curious what caused it to manifest itself in the first place, though. What sort of force it was. It's not a phenomenon I've heard of elsewhere... for most worlds, colour is just a manifestation of the frequencies of light waves. For it to be a natural force that can possess such power... well.

[A little smile, trying not to overwhelm the girl-] Anyway. It's good that your world found its own balance and stability in the end.

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

[She smiles warily.]

Yeah, me too.

[Directs her gaze to her feet.]

I don't understand science all that well. I'm not sure why things are different here. It made sense when they told me. I don't know--I just believed it. But now, I don't know...

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

Worlds are different. At the moment, that's all I can say.

[Without further study. And as tempting as it is, she doesn't have the resources to study it - or its only example.]

[variouscolors.livejournal.com]

[She looks curiously at the scientist and how cool she appears. What must have it been like for her when she first arrived here?]

What about you? What's your world like?

[exmariascientia.livejournal.com]

An island city. Calm. Pleasant.

[Nice, but nothing she's excited over. It provided her a base to work, that was what mattered. Here does the same, and that's what matters now.]