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[privatechat]

[ Usually, Lennon wouldn't be caught dead looking like this on camera. His hair is a mess from sleep and he's pale, eyes red rimmed and generally looking like a complete wreck. He sniffles and lifts up a pretty mushroom. ]

My ... fae... turned into a mushroom... Does anyone know how to make him turn back?

[ He's going to be so mad at Daeshim later. ]

Please...?

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[privatechat]

I don't know if I believe in soulmates.

[diabolique]

I didn't used to.

[privatechat]

Where he's from he has two lovers... and different versions of them are here too.

If he has a soulmate, I don't think it's me.

[diabolique]

Who says there has to be only one?

[privatechat]

Isn’t that how soulmates work?

[diabolique]

Seems like it would be limiting.

[privatechat]

Really? Most people want to find the one.

[ Lennon isn’t monogamous by any stretch of the imagination but he knows what people mean when they say soulmate typically. ]

[diabolique]

I think it depends on the person. I have the one. But his brother has two.

[privatechat]

Mm... And that doesn't cause problems?

[diabolique]

It seems to work for them.

[privatechat]

I still think maybe I'm really not. They all have met in different worlds, you know? I'm never in their other worlds, just here.

[diabolique]

My soulmate isn't from my world.

[privatechat]

Do you not have one in your world then?

[diabolique]

It's complicated.

The man I'm with here in Nippon is also in my world, but he's from a different version of it, if that makes sense.

[privatechat]

So basically... like Daeshim, Jasper and Baein.

[diabolique]

I suppose?

The Lan Zhan here in Nippon experienced different things than what happened in my world, but he's still the same person as the Lan Zhan from my world. I suppose if one is my soulmate, they both are.

[privatechat]

Daeshim is from a world where he was with both Jasper and Baein in his forest.

Jasper is from a world where Baein is lost to him and I guess he hadn't meant Daeshim yet.

Baein is from a world where he's a prince and Daeshim is his guard and Jasper is his advisor...

They find each other in every world...

I'm not a part of that.

[diabolique]

You are now.

[privatechat]

It's different.

[ And the fear of being replaced at some point is hard to keep down as much as he and Daeshim have worked on it and he's in a way better place with than he was not long ago. ]

[diabolique]

How?

[privatechat]

It's different when people meet in world after world like it's... fate.

I'm just the fluke.

[diabolique]

(( He smiles gently. ))

If you believe in fate, it can't be a fluke.

[privatechat]

If it was fate then wouldn't I be in all those other worlds too?

[diabolique]

Not necessarily.

[privatechat]

How does that make sense?