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Twelfth Flake [video]

I looked at the date today, and I thought it would be fitting to bring up something I've been wondering for a while.

[It's been a while since Elsa got contemplative over the network. Thankfully, Elsa doesn't look all that upset or nervous, so it's nothing serious!]

Years pass here, and we all age. This is my second birthday in Johto; according to the calendar, I should be twenty-three today.

But that's only compared to how time passes here. What about back home? If we return home after spending years here, do we return as we were when we were first brought here? Or do we just... return to our land older, as we are now? I can't imagine how that might change things in our worlds, even if we have no memories of this place when we go home.

[... Okay yeah it did get kind of deep.]

It's curious, isn't it? Especially when one's taken from a date that doesn't match the date here when they first arrive.

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Well, I guess I can offer some info since this has actually happened to me!

[He taps his chin, thinking back a bit.]

I was here almost two years, but when I went back home, it was like no time passed at all. I spent six months back home before coming back, so...

[Oh, this is suddenly getting complicated.]

Ya know...I'm not sure if those six months just got added on to the almost two years or if I came back with a clean slate, age-wise. Does...that make any sense?

Yes, I knew about how time doesn't pass at home. Is it odd that that information actually makes sense? All things considered, I mean...

But everything else... that's where it gets a little fuzzy.

[The way Elsa's eyebrows raise, that last bit... doesn't make much sense, nope.]

I suppose... physically, they did. It's hard to change such things as your body growing, even if it's only a very insignificant amount, don't you think?

Hah, yeah, it's pretty weird to realize how much the weird things seem like common knowledge and normal, the longer you stay here. Believe me, it took me a loooong time to get desensitized to just...Pokemon powers in general, I guess.

[That's probably a whole different conversation though. Oh, the oddities of the PokeWorld!

Oh whoops, looks like he lost her with that one...though honestly, he very likely lost himself with that explanation.]

That's true, I guess. But the hard part is...it's kinda hard to imagine turning twenty-three= [He pauses for a split second. Wow, he really said his age aloud.] Then going back to twenty-two...then back to almost twenty-four? It's like I have a have separate, older body frozen in time here while I'm back home!

[He's really not making this any easier to wrap ones head around, is he.]

Believe it or not, that was one of the things I Had a rather easy time getting used to. Now their way of breeding, on the other hand...

[A shudder. She still doesn't understand that, and she's not sure she wants to.]

Separate... bodies. Do you think that's possible?

Oh man, I feel you there... But I'm pretty sure even the Breeders don't understand how the hell that works.

[No one will ever understand- Seriously, Skitty and Wailord?

As for Elsa's question, he just shrugs.]

It's not like Doppelgangers are a totally crazy concept. This wouldn't be that exactly, though...but it wouldn't be a clone situation either. I guess you'd just think of it as being in two places at once, but you can only control one body at a time.

From what my Breeder friends have said, and my own brief experience, the eggs just... sort of appearing makes even less sense.

[She's not sure if that makes things better or worse, but it certainly makes thinking too hard about it a bit impossible.]

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