nexus_crossings | 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?!”

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

Blinded (with Science?)

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject