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[hewwo.
daan fortunately doesn't get the 'absolutely panicked guy' experience people had with mathis yesterday... but he is still too shy to approach. if daan feels like he's being watched--
it's because he is. mathis is bad at hiding his fascination, openly staring from some distance away.]
daan fortunately doesn't get the 'absolutely panicked guy' experience people had with mathis yesterday... but he is still too shy to approach. if daan feels like he's being watched--
it's because he is. mathis is bad at hiding his fascination, openly staring from some distance away.]
[ It's fine it would've done a weird panicked guy feedback loop.
Unfortunately he's become well-familiar with the sensation of being stared at lately, so he feels something is off. Glancing around a bit tensely until he sees Mathis. ]
...
Mathis, isn't it? If I remember right from the bulletin.
Unfortunately he's become well-familiar with the sensation of being stared at lately, so he feels something is off. Glancing around a bit tensely until he sees Mathis. ]
...
Mathis, isn't it? If I remember right from the bulletin.
Y-yes, that's me...
[he's so upfront about having read this stuff already, waow. mathis is still kind of staring.]
Um, and you were... Monsieur Daan?
[he's so upfront about having read this stuff already, waow. mathis is still kind of staring.]
Um, and you were... Monsieur Daan?
O-oh... I'm sorry if I was staring-! It's just...
[he fidgets with the fabric of his waistcoat.]
I've never... seen anyone your age before...
[he fidgets with the fabric of his waistcoat.]
I've never... seen anyone your age before...
The paper said you were... twenty-eight... um, was that wrong-?
[earnest...
this is unfortunately very genuine]
[earnest...
this is unfortunately very genuine]
Y-yes... I've never seen anyone from outside my country.
[extremely secluded.]
So I've never known anyone who could... age past twenty-three.
[extremely secluded.]
So I've never known anyone who could... age past twenty-three.
No, we... we haven't found a way to cure the curse...
[daan is going to get jumpscared so hard by the state of this country probably.]
Only ways around it.
[daan is going to get jumpscared so hard by the state of this country probably.]
Only ways around it.
W-well, um... everyone in Arpéchéle dies to the curse by the time they turn twenty-three. A... a long time ago, someone from another country landed there with a few books from the outside world, and our scientists started using that knowledge to try to cure it, but they... weren't successful.
Then, another scientist who was born later continued their research on genetics, and managed to... find a way to create a backup of a person's genes and memory, and clone them after they died. B-but even a Reliver's body can't live past another twenty-three years, and... they'll always have the same body they did when they were backed up... so even if they can live for more than twenty-three years, they never age.
[after a second:]
I-it's supposed to be secret from everyone else, but nobody here seems to be from the same place we are, s-so I think... it's okay...
[how do you even keep a secret that is so intrinsically tied to the way everyone at home lives their life anyway come on]
Then, another scientist who was born later continued their research on genetics, and managed to... find a way to create a backup of a person's genes and memory, and clone them after they died. B-but even a Reliver's body can't live past another twenty-three years, and... they'll always have the same body they did when they were backed up... so even if they can live for more than twenty-three years, they never age.
[after a second:]
I-it's supposed to be secret from everyone else, but nobody here seems to be from the same place we are, s-so I think... it's okay...
[how do you even keep a secret that is so intrinsically tied to the way everyone at home lives their life anyway come on]
[ Tfw he had a long geography conversation with Lucas but he didn't actually say Arpéchéle out loud so he can't clock him from this name BUT he can actually figure out they're related from everything else he just said. Mostly the random foreigner.
Still, he assumed Lucas's place was more like... well, not so advanced as to talk about genetics, basically. ]
...
I'm sorry, what?
[ WHAT? GENETIC BODYSNATCHERS COUNTRY??? THAT IS INSANE! ]
Still, he assumed Lucas's place was more like... well, not so advanced as to talk about genetics, basically. ]
...
I'm sorry, what?
[ WHAT? GENETIC BODYSNATCHERS COUNTRY??? THAT IS INSANE! ]
Um... I-I don't know which part I should try to clarify...?
[help him out here daan]
[help him out here daan]
[ He thought he'd already been through so much but this island sounds even more and he doesn't know how that's possible. ]
Erm... so you're from a remote nation that is cursed so that no man can live beyond twenty-three... and you create copies of yourself to achieve longevity until you can stop it?
How long has this been going on?
Erm... so you're from a remote nation that is cursed so that no man can live beyond twenty-three... and you create copies of yourself to achieve longevity until you can stop it?
How long has this been going on?
It's been... some time now. I think the oldest Relivers must have lived for around... eighty years?
[something like that?]
Relivers can only ever look like the age they were when they were backed up, though, so... it's difficult to tell how long any given person has lived.
[something like that?]
Relivers can only ever look like the age they were when they were backed up, though, so... it's difficult to tell how long any given person has lived.
Huh-? Family dynamics...? O-of course there are, Relivers aren't unable to have children... and people who don't become Relivers have families, too.
[it's just that, you know, if you don't get cloned you're probably going to die when your child is a toddler.]
Our situation would be much worse, if Monsieur Scien had never developed the technology for it.
[it's just that, you know, if you don't get cloned you're probably going to die when your child is a toddler.]
Our situation would be much worse, if Monsieur Scien had never developed the technology for it.
Edited 2024-06-09 06:22 (UTC)
It just seems like the age for parenthood would be very young.
[ And yeah the fact that you'd probably die while your kid's still a child and that's something that makes him subtly sad. ]
Is "curse" just how you call it, or is it literal? It's not a biological cause?
[ And yeah the fact that you'd probably die while your kid's still a child and that's something that makes him subtly sad. ]
Is "curse" just how you call it, or is it literal? It's not a biological cause?
We... we don't know. They say Arpéchéle is... "a land loved by Death".
[but this is why they invented cloning before figuring this shit out, genuinely who fucking knows.]
[but this is why they invented cloning before figuring this shit out, genuinely who fucking knows.]
No one knows what happened to the Drifter... so I-I think it's possible the curse took him, too...? But maybe he just settled somewhere out of the public eye...
[he'd like to think that's the case, that someone with a naturally longer lifespan got to live it out.]
[he'd like to think that's the case, that someone with a naturally longer lifespan got to live it out.]
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