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[cyan_maid]

Ring, ring...ring, ring... beep!

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02/07/2022

[uber_marionettist]

Hey. What did you do about it when I first got here and started posting? Besides get mad and take bug photos for some admittedly sick burns. I never did thank you for that idea, did I? My bad.

Anyway.

This question is time-sensitive.

[cyan_maid]

Uh, well, my first instinct was to reach out to you, let you know I was here and able to help, and that you would be okay. Obviously it did not shake out as planned, but we are where we are regardless.
Why, what's up?

[uber_marionettist]

Okay. Yes. I was there for that part.

Maybe this isn't the right question.

Fuck.

Yeah, that was the wrong approach.

You and I, we're used to the multiplicity of selfhood.

There aren't as many Janes as Dirks just because I clogged up the works of reality with my own infinitely replicating, infinitely expanding egoscapes, but if a Jane met a Jane passing through the rye, neither of you would bat an eye, right?

What do I do with someone who has no reason to expect that.

Should I be worried that he's not bothered?

[cyan_maid]

Hm...well, no, I think if I met another version of myself, I would have quite a lot of questions and a fair bit of emotional issues with it, both me and this other me.
That is, if I still know me well enough.
At the very least one of us in the equation would struggle to comprehend the existence of the other, and that would probably be the other Jane, because...I kind of had to innoculate myself against that here?
There really wasn't a choice for me to stick to my stubborn guns, so to speak - things were strange here, they had no explanation, and there might not even be ground to make a path to find the answers. I was lucky I had others from back home here already, willing to catch me if I fell when I tried to step through the clouds.
Huh, I guess that is a roundabout way of somewhat agreeing with your assessment, though. In the general concept of "another Jane", I personally would not be inclined to shut down the possibility.

But then to look at it from that perspective...to not expect there to be any more you but yourself, and then not be bothered when that isn't the case? It almost feels like an oxymoron.
I think...hm.
I think it's important that you acknowledge that's a mindset you're interacting with and forge ahead with your explanation regardless. Whether or not this person is bothered by multiple selves, they still need to know what sort of world they're coming into and that others might reach out to them with expectations.