It's kind of a constant thing back home. So dinosaurs coming back, sort of impossible, but benefiting and then cutting corners so that people get hurt? Sadly very real.
[Luz would never claim she lived anywhere close to a perfect world on Earth, for many reasons].
I'm practically having one, I just mask it with how irritated I am I was almost eaten by crabs and that I started out my adventures all nude! I'm actually pretty amazed at what I'm seeing so far, and I really want to try and understand all of it!
Well... that's kinda depressing. I know which one of those two things I'd prefer to be more common.
[Spoilers: it's the dinosaurs. Okay, he'll grin in her direction.]
Well, I've got to give you props for keeping it convincingly together while everything else goes absolutely crazy around you. Good job! And yeah, me too. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. I'm just...adjusting.
The dinosaurs obviously! Maybe without so much of the killing of humans though. Those raptors were no joke.
[Boy, if people didn't think dinosaurs were descended from birds before...]
I mean, I was grumpy for a few hours, but I was lucky: I remembered things pretty quickly. I can't fault some people who were separated from their things, or their closest friends. I'm still looking for Margot, honestly.
[She still wasn't quite ready for the reality that Margot wasn't here, so here was hoping].
Well, no. You'd want to keep them in better enclosures with better failsafes in place. I mean, if you're on a tropical island maybe have a backup power than just electirity. Wow.
[It's not HARD you guys.]
That's good. Having something to focus on. We can keep an eye out for her and make sure she's okay. She might have got out on a different part of the beach.
Well sure, but if everything actually ran smoothly, that'd be a pretty boring movie. I hear you though, they really shouldn't cut corners when it comes to dinosaurs.
[Really, they were thwarted by their own hubris if you think about it].
I just found the staff, so I'm going to try and see if I can find her somewhere in all this mess. Can't fly too high though: don't know what's up in the sky in this new world, but I CAN say there seems to be some crazy stuff in the distance.
I mean, I know it's super dangerous and obviously a lot of people die, but part of the whole point of Jurassic Park is seeing people making choices in the midst of dying and learning that humanity has to cut back on what it can do so quickly, right?
[In other words, test things out, GRADUALLY bring dinosaurs into existence by seeing how they respond to the environment, things like that will make it so there's less likely a possibility of another break out. Also, less treating dinosaurs like some kind of commodity].
There's a place next to this one, but you can see how different it is from a view. Something about it is dark, like, complicated. It's hard to describe. I couldn't help but get the feeling that I shouldn't be trying to stay in the skies too long. Almost like I might...make something mad.
I guess so? I mean, the future is already pretty obsessed with getting everything done as quickly as possible, so that makes sense. Why not apply that to dinosaurs too? Or maybe it's just a movie about dinosaurs eating people, who knows.
[Movie critics? He knows those people exist. For some reason.]
Huh. Did you feel any disorientation? Exhaustion? Fern and Glitch went really deep into Deerington's woods once and they felt that- turning them back to town. It might be the same sort of magical field, keeping people from leaving.
It was a book first, and I guess the author wanted to make it realistic and suspenseful! Honestly, I always really loved the way they captured how intense the dinosaurs were and everything! I always get excited to watch it!
[Maybe less so with that guy that gets eaten while he's on the toilet. Gross. Also, he left the kids to die, not cool].
More like...uneasiness. Like there were people watching and disapproving. I'm really not sure how to describe it, but I know that I didn't want to stay up there too long.
It was a book first?!! I have talked about this movie to so many people and none of them thought to mention that to me? Me?!!
[Sorry, all talk about the cool special effects is lost due to this brand new information!!]
Oh. Well. That's really spooky. Maybe it's another way of keeping us tied here. I guess we'll have to see how far we can go out before that feeling hits. See what sort of radius we're working with.
Yeah, it translates to a pretty great movie, but it IS a good book, and I'd know, I'm a book worm back home! Actually, I never knew why they do this, but they actually reverse the boy and girl, since the boy is the computer kid and the girl's kind of a tomboy. I thought that was super reductive, but that's why I'm not in Hollywood.
[She also thought it was sexist, but she was not going to go there now].
I think we'll have to move out from here to really find out what's going on around here. You're right. Makes things all the more scary.
Huh. That doesn't make any sense. I mean, guys and girls can be both? There's no... hard and fast rule saying a girl can be one thing but a boy can't right? That- that's not a thing in the future is it?
[Sorry, Varian, you were just lucky to live in a Kingdom that doesn't really give a shit about gender norms. ]
Well. We'll see if we can find the others first, Fern and Margot at least- and then see if we can find the house from there. Makes sense we do it as a group, right?
Well, I mean...honestly, it kind of is. Take me for instance. I like having short hair, leggings and I don't mind putting on clothes that are favored more by boys. But not everyone feels like that. Sometimes people like to police how masculine or feminine you look. But if you don't care, you do it anyway.
[Besides, Luz was made fun of for more things than that. It just happened to be the easiest thing to make fun of her for with some people].
Yeah, you're right! A-and who knows, if we don't find them right away, maybe we look later!
[That cold fear of what might be really made Luz nervous, so she was at least giving herself time, and who knew, maybe she was scared for nothing]!
Uh, that just seems... pointless. There's so much bigger things to be concerned about.
[People are checking weird and he'll never understand them.]
Sure, it might be that they show up later? I mean, who knows? There's lots of people showing up on the beach, right? At all times.
[He sounds like he's trying to convince himself pretty hard because the thought of showing up here without Fern- or Fern ending up back in Ooo- is too much to deal with right now.]
Varian, every world is different, and what makes them different is what people prioritize. In my case, when you're younger, what you look like, where you're from and how many friends you have matters. Whenever you have a place like that, there are always people who define what's normal and what's not. I've never really been considered normal, so...it was never hard to be made fun of for how I looked, or acted, or related to people.
[Would he even believe she had no friends back on Earth? Probably not].
Yeah. Yeah, that's probably true, right? Why would this place not bring her back? That would just be cruel!
[Clearly Varian was not the only one grasping at straws].
I guess. I mean, my world...time? Pro-probably time just isn't like that. There are different things to proritise. Though I guess the Court can be like that sometimes? That's full of rich people who don't have anything better to do than be petty and weird, though.
[He would not, but all his friends back home are adults except for like... two ten-year-old girls. So he'd get it. ]
Exactly! She's just...running late is all.
[This is the last time he's going to be optimistic for at least a month. ]
I think you're onto something. In my world, or at least in the place where I live, how you relate to your peers is a big deal, and that means its in your best interest to be as normal as you can. For several reasons, I'm not, so I've never really felt like I fit it until I stumbled onto the Boiling Isles and met Eda.
[Yet another thing she was grateful to Eda for, besides the shelter and Eda being all around one of Luz's favorite people].
That has to be it! I mean, she didn't even say goodbye like some of the people who did leave have, that would be messed up, right?
Oh. Well... I guess I can understand that. I definitely never really felt like I fit in back home the way I have here. Sometimes, you find where you belong somewhere you never really expected.
Yeah, see? And if she went through the door, then she has to be here.
I felt that way here too, actually. Sometimes I feel like my life was way too boring compared to some, but I began to realize boring also means, to some extent, "safe." And that's not a thing a lot of people could say about their own worlds.
[Even Luz understood she had it relatively good on Earth compared to some of the dystopias others had to deal with. She did her best to stay in her lane].
You know, I don't think I've ever met anyone brought into Deerington who had boring lives. I don't know if it'll be the same here, but still...
[The number of people brought in who had some wild, dangerous aspect to their lives was large. He guesses that's probably for the best. People might not survive what the town did to them otherwise.]
Well... she knew she had to go to it, right? Everyone knew that.
[Worry is starting to slip into his tone, he's not good at hope. ]
Maybe not boring, but what happens in their worlds definitely have varying degrees.
[She was sure she wouldn't have been brought here had she not had her whole experience in the Boiling Isles. Earth was no prize, but her life there, despite ups and downs? They were more or less manageable compared to others].
I...I don't know. I didn't see her for awhile sometimes. Varian, she wouldn't wake up, would she? She'd...forget everything.
Varying degrees of dangerous and terrifying, you mean.
[As Luz continues to talk, more worry starts to leech into Varian's expression. He doesn't know Margot very well, but he knows she means the absolute world to Luz, and that's what matters here. He absolutely doesn't want Luz to be hurt, and losing Margot would do that. She's lost so many people here. She doesn't need to lose any more. ]
I... I honestly don't know what would happen. Maybe she'd end up going back home which...I know is very much not a good place for her to be. [Luz explained that much to him. He reaches out to grasp her shoulder gently.] I don't know what'll happen. But... let's try not to think about the worst-case scenario just yet, okay? She...might be here, still.
[Always, always implied. The trauma never really seemed to have an end].
No, it won't. She loses everything back home. She'll still exist, but she won't be HER.
[And Luz knew, saying that aloud, that it was very likely that did happen, that Margot's time was up and that her found family initially coming Deerington were gone, save for Owlbert. Luz looked down a moment, then took a deep breath, trying to compose herself].
You might be right! I mean, no point in dwelling on the worst! Besides, if Robyn and her wolf friend are here, Margot should be too, right?
[Margot would just be... a wolf. No mind of her own. It's a fate worse than death. Varian really feels for her- she doesn't deserve that. But if she didn't make it out of the dream...it was likely that's exactly what happened to her.
Varian's trying his best to be optimistic for Luz's sake, but this really doesn't come naturally to him. ]
There you go! We'll just have to wait and see, there's time yet.
[That was the problem: Luz wanted to believe that Margot was here, that she was OK. But she figured the first thing Margot would do is try to find her, and there was no sign of her yet, not even with two wolf girls in tow.
Luz swallowed].
I-if she'd not, which is hopefully not the case, I don't...I can't see myself feeling too happy for a few days. I really want to believe she came back, and she deserves to. I won't even be able to pretend I'm fine.
[There were a lot of things Luz could fake, but after everything that happened, acting happy would feel like a slap in the face to Margot].
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[Luz would never claim she lived anywhere close to a perfect world on Earth, for many reasons].
I'm practically having one, I just mask it with how irritated I am I was almost eaten by crabs and that I started out my adventures all nude! I'm actually pretty amazed at what I'm seeing so far, and I really want to try and understand all of it!
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[Spoilers: it's the dinosaurs. Okay, he'll grin in her direction.]
Well, I've got to give you props for keeping it convincingly together while everything else goes absolutely crazy around you. Good job! And yeah, me too. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. I'm just...adjusting.
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[Boy, if people didn't think dinosaurs were descended from birds before...]
I mean, I was grumpy for a few hours, but I was lucky: I remembered things pretty quickly. I can't fault some people who were separated from their things, or their closest friends. I'm still looking for Margot, honestly.
[She still wasn't quite ready for the reality that Margot wasn't here, so here was hoping].
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[It's not HARD you guys.]
That's good. Having something to focus on. We can keep an eye out for her and make sure she's okay. She might have got out on a different part of the beach.
[They can pretend she's still here for now. ]
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[Really, they were thwarted by their own hubris if you think about it].
I just found the staff, so I'm going to try and see if I can find her somewhere in all this mess. Can't fly too high though: don't know what's up in the sky in this new world, but I CAN say there seems to be some crazy stuff in the distance.
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[How tragic.]
Yeah, I think it's smart to play it safe. [Uh oh.] ...How crazy are we talking about?
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[In other words, test things out, GRADUALLY bring dinosaurs into existence by seeing how they respond to the environment, things like that will make it so there's less likely a possibility of another break out. Also, less treating dinosaurs like some kind of commodity].
There's a place next to this one, but you can see how different it is from a view. Something about it is dark, like, complicated. It's hard to describe. I couldn't help but get the feeling that I shouldn't be trying to stay in the skies too long. Almost like I might...make something mad.
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[Movie critics? He knows those people exist. For some reason.]
Huh. Did you feel any disorientation? Exhaustion? Fern and Glitch went really deep into Deerington's woods once and they felt that- turning them back to town. It might be the same sort of magical field, keeping people from leaving.
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Honestly, I always really loved the way they captured how intense the dinosaurs were and everything! I always get excited to watch it!
[Maybe less so with that guy that gets eaten while he's on the toilet. Gross. Also, he left the kids to die, not cool].
More like...uneasiness. Like there were people watching and disapproving. I'm really not sure how to describe it, but I know that I didn't want to stay up there too long.
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It was a book first?!! I have talked about this movie to so many people and none of them thought to mention that to me? Me?!!
[Sorry, all talk about the cool special effects is lost due to this brand new information!!]
Oh. Well. That's really spooky. Maybe it's another way of keeping us tied here. I guess we'll have to see how far we can go out before that feeling hits. See what sort of radius we're working with.
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[She also thought it was sexist, but she was not going to go there now].
I think we'll have to move out from here to really find out what's going on around here. You're right. Makes things all the more scary.
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[Sorry, Varian, you were just lucky to live in a Kingdom that doesn't really give a shit about gender norms. ]
Well. We'll see if we can find the others first, Fern and Margot at least- and then see if we can find the house from there. Makes sense we do it as a group, right?
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[Besides, Luz was made fun of for more things than that. It just happened to be the easiest thing to make fun of her for with some people].
Yeah, you're right! A-and who knows, if we don't find them right away, maybe we look later!
[That cold fear of what might be really made Luz nervous, so she was at least giving herself time, and who knew, maybe she was scared for nothing]!
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[People are checking weird and he'll never understand them.]
Sure, it might be that they show up later? I mean, who knows? There's lots of people showing up on the beach, right? At all times.
[He sounds like he's trying to convince himself pretty hard because the thought of showing up here without Fern- or Fern ending up back in Ooo- is too much to deal with right now.]
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[Would he even believe she had no friends back on Earth? Probably not].
Yeah. Yeah, that's probably true, right? Why would this place not bring her back? That would just be cruel!
[Clearly Varian was not the only one grasping at straws].
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[He would not, but all his friends back home are adults except for like... two ten-year-old girls. So he'd get it. ]
Exactly! She's just...running late is all.
[This is the last time he's going to be optimistic for at least a month. ]
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[Yet another thing she was grateful to Eda for, besides the shelter and Eda being all around one of Luz's favorite people].
That has to be it! I mean, she didn't even say goodbye like some of the people who did leave have, that would be messed up, right?
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Yeah, see? And if she went through the door, then she has to be here.
[He's TRYING.]
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[Even Luz understood she had it relatively good on Earth compared to some of the dystopias others had to deal with. She did her best to stay in her lane].
I...I don't know if she did. She stayed in a lot.
[Now Luz was starting to get a little nervous].
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[The number of people brought in who had some wild, dangerous aspect to their lives was large. He guesses that's probably for the best. People might not survive what the town did to them otherwise.]
Well... she knew she had to go to it, right? Everyone knew that.
[Worry is starting to slip into his tone, he's not good at hope. ]
I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE THIS SAD I SWEAR
[She was sure she wouldn't have been brought here had she not had her whole experience in the Boiling Isles. Earth was no prize, but her life there, despite ups and downs? They were more or less manageable compared to others].
I...I don't know. I didn't see her for awhile sometimes. Varian, she wouldn't wake up, would she? She'd...forget everything.
She'd forget me. Us.
IT'S BEAUTIFUL!!
[As Luz continues to talk, more worry starts to leech into Varian's expression. He doesn't know Margot very well, but he knows she means the absolute world to Luz, and that's what matters here. He absolutely doesn't want Luz to be hurt, and losing Margot would do that. She's lost so many people here. She doesn't need to lose any more. ]
I... I honestly don't know what would happen. Maybe she'd end up going back home which...I know is very much not a good place for her to be. [Luz explained that much to him. He reaches out to grasp her shoulder gently.] I don't know what'll happen. But... let's try not to think about the worst-case scenario just yet, okay? She...might be here, still.
Re: IT'S BEAUTIFUL!!
[Always, always implied. The trauma never really seemed to have an end].
No, it won't. She loses everything back home. She'll still exist, but she won't be HER.
[And Luz knew, saying that aloud, that it was very likely that did happen, that Margot's time was up and that her found family initially coming Deerington were gone, save for Owlbert. Luz looked down a moment, then took a deep breath, trying to compose herself].
You might be right! I mean, no point in dwelling on the worst! Besides, if Robyn and her wolf friend are here, Margot should be too, right?
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[Margot would just be... a wolf. No mind of her own. It's a fate worse than death. Varian really feels for her- she doesn't deserve that. But if she didn't make it out of the dream...it was likely that's exactly what happened to her.
Varian's trying his best to be optimistic for Luz's sake, but this really doesn't come naturally to him. ]
There you go! We'll just have to wait and see, there's time yet.
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Luz swallowed].
I-if she'd not, which is hopefully not the case, I don't...I can't see myself feeling too happy for a few days. I really want to believe she came back, and she deserves to. I won't even be able to pretend I'm fine.
[There were a lot of things Luz could fake, but after everything that happened, acting happy would feel like a slap in the face to Margot].
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this Varian icon is the cutest
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Re: an accurate statement!
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