nexus_crossings | Blinded (with Science?)

Blinded (with Science?)

Furious, flustered and frightened, Isamu didn’t stop running until he’d reached the plaza. Out of breath, he sunk down behind one of the larger walls.

“Of all the… it is preposterous. That is what it is…” he huffed to himself, trying to gather his thoughts. “If I were actually collecting data without consent, or in direct violation of consent, that would be one thing… but a meta-analysis? A review of pre-existing literature? How can anyone object to that on ethical grounds?!”

Someone had, though. And that someone happened to be his brother’s girlfriend. Of course, it was not a question of if Minoru would find out about an argument heated enough to make the Anthean’s eyes glow. Just a question of when.

But at the moment, Isamu wasn’t even thinking about that.

“Is curiosity, in and of itself, a crime? If learning something new is satisfying or even pleasurable, does that automatically make it as reprehensible as getting high?” He pondered loud enough for any passersby to hear him. “Is science, simply because it requires empirical evidence, ideologically unethical? Where, between theory and practice, is that line drawn and who, if anyone, has the right to decide when it is crossed?!”

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“Lock?” Isamu asked.

From the sound of it, the elder Uchiwa twin might have a fair bit in common with this individual.

She softly clears her throat. "Oh erm sorry, nickname..Sherlock...ahem Holmes" She murmurs warmly and in clarification. "One of the younger ones though." She informs him, he was a few years different than herself.

Aal's ears wiggle thinking similarly.

Given the context clues, it could have just as easily been short for warlock.

“Oh! I have read quite a few stories about him while growing up.” He exclaimed, but tempered it with, “of course, being in a different world, I know that accounts can and often do vary. Stories are not always accurate… though if his analytical mind is still very much a defining feature in real life, I take the comparison as a compliment.”

Perhaps she should have thought of that, but she tended toward the use of 'Mage' etc and that for other certain types of very bad magic users. Though other realms he knew differed.

She beams at that, warmed by the thought she found at least one person so far who would care for any of the Holmeses. (Some needed it more than others) as she would if they ran into each other.

"Aye..ahem too true. I mean." She clears her throat and glances about for security and safety reasons before contiuneing. "The one I know well is a mouse shifter as well but the Holmes's tend to be trouble magnets in various ways." Her tone is soft and fond. Even so, her dear friend or those closest to him tended to receive the blowback. (and or had to do the fire putting outing and clean up)..Though he always did his best to make things right nowadays.

"Oh aye, " She grins lopsidedly as she pulls into the parking lot of the yellow apartment building. "Like a racing engine." She half murmurs half quotes. "Tis indeed." She adds in a low tone and tries to clear the lump in her throat. She might just bake some cheese crumpets now for nostalgia's sake.

Even moreso in realms where magic didn’t really even exist. Isamu may have had a tremendous lexicon, but the technical terms surrounding magic all came from fictional sources at best. There was bound to be some difficulty there.

“A mouse?” His eyebrows went up in surprise. “Forgive me. Shapeshifting abilities were never once mentioned in any book in my world.”

He’d read quite a few of the stories back when he was a child. But he was certain that was a detail he would have remembered had he come across it.

She nods softly with a slight cough, "Aye, I imagine it's likely..Only in the one realm then since I've found the only one connection in a children's book by an author Neither Doyle nor Watson. Safety measure or..skipped several generations I gather." She informs him with a soft nod. Twas rather par for the course in some cases.

"Do..ah ya have an ah Walt Disney Company in yer realm..or a Familiarity with Basil of Baker Street? Also known as the Great Mouse Detective?" She asks gently Not many were of course..The movie itself being one of those underrated gems. (though ironic how it saved the studio all those years ago.) And true not everything was accurate but it did have some grains of truth and well they were nice to watch and soothe one's soul a mite when homesick. Or hum etc the songs to the pups.

“We do.” He nodded. “And, although I have not seen the film in quite some time, yes. I have.”

It took a moment for Isamu to connect the dots that what he’d brushed off as juvenile fiction was fact somewhere else in the universe. But that was the way of the Nexus.

“I do not suppose, in your realm as you call it, Robin Hood is actually a fox?”

Minoru would probably squeal were that the case.

Aal brightens immensely her ears perking up at this. "ooh lovely." She nears purrs. Approvingly at his tastes in entertainment. "Ya know I've ben pondering over a movie night idea or something sometime." She murmurs warmly conversationally. Bonding and fun little get-together..Was something she missed and the warm companionship of a close circle of friends was something she and her wolf craved.

She waits for a beat as she did some maneuvering before letting a soft smirk twitch up at her lips. She coughs a little bemused and then looks thoughtful as she carefully parks sincerely repling. "Er well, there's one that is and one that isn't. Erm the furry kind that is..They're both dapper fellows to be fair." She murmurs playing with words a smidge but twas true. A warm chuckle softly as she shuts offer her engine.

“I am beginning to hypothesize that every fictional tale on my world, and perhaps in others, can be traced to actual events in another world…” he pondered aloud. It was a very fascinating revelation, one with many implications to not just literature but also religion or mythology. “Minoru initially suggested it, even suggested that we may find alternate versions of ourselves in those other worlds somewhere, though we have yet to observe any evidence of the latter.”

Isamu was enrapt. At the moment, there were so many different topics of scientific discussion to distract him from the argument he’d had with Ziggy and someone who didn’t mind discussing them!

Aal smirks just a little, this line of thought was hardly new to her but it had also been a long time..well. Since she could trust someone say muggle or mundane outside a certain circle of people with such thing.

"MMh, a grain of truth or salt in things, naturally. " She murmurs warmly with a small nod. She tilts her head a little as she undoes her buckle and her keys. "Aye would not surprise me in the least." She murmurs warmly and with a soft ease of if not a professional per say. Someone who had long ago had their first rodeo or several so to speak with such things.

She squints in a warm cainine way and her tail tip wags. "Aye ahem I mean I've been here a while myself but I stil don't rule it out someday." Even if she might squee a bit or go uber puppish if say she was every lucky to happen upon a certain batch of Ozians. and or Merlin, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

Needless to say, when Isamu met Hermione, he was practically awestruck. That was a series of books that he did enjoy very much, despite their fantastical nature. (Enough that he fancied himself a Ravenclaw, and had the costume now to boot. Minoru joined him at last year’s Halloween party dressed as a Slytherin so he could bring Kazumi along.)

“This, too, is something that will need more research.” He nodded. “If this many ideas cross worlds, then perhaps there is far much more Interdimensional travel, both historically and now, than I previously assumed.”

Aal hums and nods in agreement. "Just promise to be careful laddie.." She asks gently, "Some places aren't as welcoming to strangers than others." She cautions her motherly instincts rising. She coughs half wry half bemused. "Would not surprise me..especially if..say there's cousins and such one could say from back in the day." She murmurs as she unlocks the doors and starts to open her own.

Ah yes, a nice event least from where she was standing. Considering it lead to their pups being born doubly so.

For someone currently working at IRIS, Isamu had actually only traveled to a couple of other dimensions. He’d been to Ziggy’s world several times, but it could easily be mistaken for his Earth were it not for differences in technology brought about by Mister Newton. He’d also been to Jack’s world. If there was ever a place that fit her warning, that would be it. It wasn’t welcoming to anybody, even the people that lived there.

“Have you ventured to other worlds yourself?” He asked, following her inside. “Or met such extended family?”

It sounded like she was hinting something, but Isamu did not have enough information to not pinpoint it exactly. So, he asked to clarify.

"A few though it's been a couple of decades." She informs him her tone is slightly wistful her look a little wry as she diplomatically tilts her head to the right as she reaches for one of the bags behind her as she opens her door. putting her foot on the little 'step'. "Ahem, not as yet." She murmurs lowly and a slight wry perhaps hopeful smirk. She discounted nothing from happening in that sort of vein. Especially in places like the Nexus. Though quite a few folks in StoryBrooke oft found themselves in large sometimes tangled family trees.

Her luck however seemed to run to more losing family members or being separated from them more often than not. She glances up toward the flat, the fur along her nape and back going up slightly as her protective hackles go up. She swallows a lump of worry from rising in her throat. "Rooo." She murmurs softly.

Though there were quite a few hereabouts she wouldn't mind calling pack. She glances sideways toward Isamu, and gently tries to nudge his nearest arm with the tip of her nose in a canine gesture. "Come come, friend." She murmurs softly in a semi younger, quick tone. As she fights the urge to try and gently tug on his sleeve with her canines or front teeth.

Isamu followed her lead. Aal’s home wasn’t that far from theirs, he thought to himself, maybe a ten minute walk.

“I suppose interdimensional family trees can get extremely complicated very quickly. And depending how similar the universe of origin is, how easy or difficult it becomes to tell the same individuals apart.”

Heaven forbid, he thought to himself, he discover a world where the only difference between him and his brother was being born in the opposite order, or something equally mundane. (What consequences such a difference might have, one could only wonder.)

Aal chuckles wryly, "or inter-realm ones aye." She murmurs warmly bit with a slightly tired, 'been there done that.' edge. At least with other people. "Drama not included." She half scoffs with a tired shake of her hair as she pushes some hair out of her face, And then readies her keys in one hand as she opens the back door to grab and float another few packed full bags. "Erm, would ya mind grabbing a pack or two of the diapers?" She asks after a moment glancing tween her bags and the seat.

Didn't help at all if there were several 'bad apples/Villians among them to say the least. Or folk with vendetta's who saw the townsfolks as acceptable collateral damage one way or another. he glances up again. Was it any wonder she preferred tucking her pups in a semi-safer area? At least in some regards.

“Having witnessed the sibling bond that formed between Ziggy and Jack, despite being, as I suspect, the same person from different worlds, it does appear to be complicated. The family unit having the potential to expand infinitely… oh!” Isamu nodded. Aal needed an extra pair of hands. “Of course. I do not mind at all.”

He picked up a large package of diapers, and would gladly help carry other things if needed.

Aal squints in a happy canine-like look, her ear perking up and swiveling toward him as he talks and pleased by that. "Ah Spilt Infinities of a sort.." She half murmurs in thought with a small nod. "Indeed." She murmurs with a warm chuckle. Oh, she would definitely be trying to add to her pack if given half the chance as it was.

"Thank ya kindly and aye." She murmurs in a half sort of pleased purr at the idea. "Far better-spreading love than strife." She murmurs approvingly.

She waits for a moment before padding toward the door into the building.

He followed, carrying what he could.

“Presuming that different versions of ourselves may exist in other worlds, I suppose it could also be reasoned that there could be a version of me that has the ability to change form as your family does, or may be able to feel baby Zayda on an empathic level and be felt by her in return.”

The thought exercise was wrapping back around again in his head, and Isamu absolutely loved it.

Aal smiles softly back at him as she gets the door to hold it open. With a small nod. "Aye, some say for every choice in one direction there's the possibility a place where another was made." She murmurs recalling a little of one of the theories she'd heard about. With a warm hum,

Her ears wiggle and the tip of her tail wags happily.

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