video: un; makes.it.count

[everyrosehasits]

[Rose sits calmly on a boulder in the back yard, trees and flowers surrounding her already showing the signs of autumn. she looks more solemn than usual, but that's because she's been thinking things over carefully]

Even with...all of this [she waves a hand around as if encompassing all of Trench and its peculiarities] how many of us want to stay? Because we like it here better than home, because we don't have a home to go to, any reason really.

I'm curious.

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video: un: vi

[faceblocks]

[vi raises her hand as if to say guilty as charged but not feeling very guilty about it.]

I don't know what I'd be going home to.

[or who.]

[everyrosehasits]

[she smiles a little sadly at Vi]

I know how that feels. I'd...left an old life behind before coming here. It would be just as sensible to start a new life here as anywhere else. Especially since I'd be penniless at home.

voice // un: littlewitch

[thatsmymagic]

[ Akko can't actually see right now - something about the month has taken her sight, but that doesn't stop her from making use of the unique connection between Sleeper blood and the Omnis to browse the network while she's bored. In other words, this video auto-plays as she "scrolls" past it and it catches her attention. ]

Yeah! I think I want to stay. Even though it's dangerous here sometimes and I do miss my friends back home, I've already made friends here that I'd be sad to leave behind. Plus, I just get this feeling that I'm meant to stay, you know?

[everyrosehasits]

[she sounds sweet. she also sounds young. she's been wrong about that before, but she's taking this young woman's statement very seriously]

So do I. I get that feeling. Did you...not have much left for you back home, too? Or if I may, is it entirely a personal choice?

video; un: joker

[stealhearted]

I want to go home eventually. But it's like... an extended horrifying vacation where you're confronted with your own existential terror.

[ He pauses for a beat, and then --]

Which actually isn't that different from home? So I don't mind being here. [ Plus, you know, unfinished business that's only available here in Trench... but that's another bag of problems. ]

[private]

[everyrosehasits]

[slowly] Existential terror. I know something of that.

Not minding is almost as good as staying. As for myself, I want to stay. All of my friends are here. My chosen family. This place in its own bizarre way has made itself my home.

But...if I may? What is your existential terror? Mine is returning to a class and a marriage I'll detest, if that helps at all.

Video; UN: Filledwithsunshine

[onebadapple]

I don't know that I have much of a choice as I am dead back home. So this can only be my home now.

[everyrosehasits]

[at Snow's confession that she's dead back home, Rose feels her heart constrict painfully]

But you're here now. You're safe. And if anyone tried to hurt you, I'd do my best to stop them.

[Video] username: secondtolast

[icanhearscreams]

[He sighs and flips on the video.]

I don't have any way to go home. I mean... I'm dead at home. I guess I could go home if I found a way, but... I don't know.

I gave up my life to save it. I don't have any reason to return.

[everyrosehasits]

I'm sorry. It sounds as though you had to go through some terrible things. But, this place can be a second start. I have to believe that it can. And I want to believe it for you, too.

Do you...like it here?

video; un: jk21a

[hearuthinking]

I somehow got back home not too long ago. Came right back here.

[everyrosehasits]

[warmly] Well, I must say that I'm glad you're back, even if it's for purely selfish reasons. You're my friend. If you were gone for keeps, I'd miss you terribly.

Was home...better than here?

[Video][UN:A_Wesker013]

[subject_013]

[She'll find the polite Dr. Winters currently at a library carrel in the Archive, a laptop open in sight, flanked by stacks of books, a small brown weasel Omen curled beside it, holding what looks like a photograph in its paws.]

I'm in an odd spot: I have my work here, which keeps my hands full - thankfully, the Sleepers give Blood Ministers like myself plenty of work, with all the squabbles we'd had. And I have reasons to believe that my place in my world of origin has permanently faded away.

However... [A slight tilt of the head toward the Omen] I've felt the call of the sea, ever since someone returned to it, who mattered much to my companion Cypher and I.

[everyrosehasits]

[she looks a bit alarmed] Faded away? May I ask...how so?

I must confess that I feel the draw of the sea on occasion, but those I'd want to go back to are all dead. And I'm terribly sorry for your loss. It's...difficult when those we care for go back into the sea.

video; un: clarke

[romancekiller]

I want to but there's not much waiting for me back home either.

[everyrosehasits]

I know the feeling. Those I loved back home are all dead, so there's little reason to go back. I'd rather be here and have dear friends than go back to a world where there's only me. Is it much the same for you?

un: GoldenFlowers, video

[the_obedient_servant]

Speaking honestly, I'm not sure if any of us can go home.

Our options appear to be to remain here or return to the ocean in the stupor that comes with going from a fully sapient creature to a squid. We might feel as if we were back home, and we might regain memories of home, but I'm not sure we are the same people technically speaking.

[Chara hums, thoughtful. Dipper explained the way that he felt incompatible with his role in his home story, and while Chara's story was more... malleable about how much meta awareness one could get away with, it's still true that the people as they are very likely can't return to change the course of their stories.]

Regardless, even if it is possible, I have no interest in returning to my world. There's nothing to return to anymore.

[everyrosehasits]

Ugh, I hadn't even thought of the squids. Which was rather foolish of me, seeing as how many seem to be going back into the sea. I could never allow that of myself.

I suppose I'm fortunate. I don't think I have any memories left in my world. Everything seemed...very final, if that makes sense?

[she'd escaped Cal, Jack was dead, she'd already decided to flee when she found herself here as a squid, panicking because she thought she was back in the North Atlantic]

I am in...rather the same situation. I was going to have to start life anew before, why not do it here?

voice; un: greenwitch

[psychopepsquad]

There's no home for me to go back to.

This is the only life I've got left and I'm not too sure how to feel about it.

[everyrosehasits]

[sadly] That seems as though a common theme. Many of us seem to have no choice.

Because of the Pthumerians and the madness they can bring? Or another reason? [a pause] I'm sorry, that's terribly personal to ask.

( VOICE; UN: BOMBSHELL )

[opheliac]

... If I do want to go home, it's to fulfill my old man's dream.

[everyrosehasits]

[gently] Yes? If it's not terribly personal, may I ask his dream?

Video; un: darkness

[survivalthroughhate]

I am never leaving if I can help it. My life is already ten times better than it would have been had I remained in my own galaxy. My brother is here, my husband is here, and all my friends and family are here. I have no reason to want to return to the hellhole that makes up my galaxy.

[everyrosehasits]

Neither do I. There's nothing for me there and yet, I have so much more here. Friends, a family, a--a girl I think I love and would do anything for.

But to have both your husband and your brother! No one could say a word against you staying.

video | un: K

[obeir]

[ Normally K might not openly share his thoughts with strangers over the public network like this, but the topic strikes a cord in him, given how much he's been thinking on similar things lately. It's been very lonely losing virtually all of the people he's closest to. ]

Returning to my universe of origin will be a death sentence. [ If the visions of the future he'd received multiple glimpses of throughout his time in Deerington are accurate, that is. He's reasonably certain they are, because some of them have already come to pass. And even discounting the visions, the life expectancy of an android blade runner is not high to begin with. ]

And I'm uncertain how to reach the universe my partner was returned to... So this place is likely all I have, now.

[everyrosehasits]

Oh my goodness, [Rose breathes softly. she can't imagine what he's possibly going through and words of comfort seem cheap in comparison]

...that's the worst kind of needing to stay. Because either way, you'd end up fucked. Perhaps...it's best to choose not to choose and stay? If so, I am much in the same situation and know how unfair it is.

video; un: d.larusso

[miyagimagic]

Well.. From what I've heard, it seems that some people don't have a whole lot to go back to, yeah.

[ There's a sympathetic expression on Daniel's face as he says it. Even though that's not what his own circumstances are like at all, he can understand how difficult that thought must be. How hard it must be, to come from those sorts of circumstances at all. ]

But some people also have incredibly pressing situations going on back home they'd rather return back to as quickly as possible. [ Like Daniel himself - though he doesn't mention that part just yet. Not because he's trying to be secretive or anything, but mostly because he doesn't just want to make this all about himself.

Instead he moves on, gently, to: ]

.. how about you? Why are you thinking about this..? [ She's definitely got to fall into the camp of either extremes if it came up enough in her mind for Rose to ask everyone like this. ]

[everyrosehasits]

Yes. So am I seeing. It seems as though my sentiment is a common one, far more so that I imagined.

[what would she go back to? Jack is dead and gone, her family believes her dead and that's how she'd keep it. so why go back?]

Yes, that sentiment is also a common one. It seems as though this place has an odd habit of plucking us out of moments where we're at a crossroads. And it replaces the crossroads with one of its own: go back to what one knew or stay here forever. If possible.

[she smiles, appreciating his gentility] I want to stay. I've made a life here, one I want to protect and keep. Truly, there's nothing to go home to.

Video; UN Lothrat

[ezra_of_lothal]

I miss my family who aren't here. But I'd already chosen to leave them, to keep them safe, and I'm fairly certain I was about to die. So-

But also, I don't think we physically can go back. Because of the squid thing.

[He shrugs.]

Here and now. That's what I try to focus on.

[everyrosehasits]

That's very brave of you, to leave behind a family you loved. Especially given, well. The givens.

You're likely right. Goodness knows I'd prefer to avoid that.

As do I. It's just...interesting. How one place can have so many different meanings to so many people.

Video: UN: ClickClickBloom

[onekindsoul]

Honestly. From my last memories of home I don't think there's much left for me back there personally.

So I kind of built a new one here. It's... Actually not all that different from home at face value either. We had a monster infestation problem there too.

[everyrosehasits]

I can relate to that feeling, believe me. It's unpleasant, but sometimes necessary.

[and she grins] Yes, that would help you feel at home, though perhaps not in the nicest of ways. But you enjoy your new life here, even including the monsters?