themainframe | ✬ 001; video [during the morning of the 6th!]

They say this place is both the Real World and the Digital World-- but I'm wondering what exactly constitutes the "Real World" in this place.

[A loaded statement for a first post, but Hope's got a lot of questions and little answers.]

One would assume it's the world we come from, but it's very obviously not from the looks of this place. I spent my first couple of days searching and researching, though the scripts are unfamiliar to me, thus I'm unable to read the texts at all.

I'm not a philosophical person by any means [actually it was one subject he had trouble wrapping his head around back in school] so I apologize for all the deep thinking. I just have a lot of questions that have no answers-- which I imagine is the norm when arriving here.

My name is Hope Estheim, by the way. Good morning.

You need to stop thinking too much.

[The speaker of that particular line is nowhere to be found, but Hope looks down, somewhere at his feet, and well. His partner is off-screen, obviously.]

I like thinking, actually.

Threaded | Flat

In this instance, I agree with whatever your partner is down here.

Thinking too hard really doesn't help you much, here. Might even make things more confusing.

[ Roze pops up on screen, all pink hair and shark smiles, green eyes aglow with curiosity. ]

Hell~o new guy! I'd roll out the welcome mat but its been suggested that my constant enthusiasm is unwarranted and even obnoxious so I'll refrain and just say:

How do you do, sweet Prince?

[ That white-toothed smile got even wider, if such a thing were possible. Wider, and significantly more vulpine. ]

Not sure how much help I can be in regards to this but I'll give it my best shot.

Every world is real to the people in it. Don't get your head all tangled up in existential questions and shit. Just focus on a layer-cake. Or some other tasty treat you can think of that has multiple layers. Or better yet, think about lots of sheets of fabric. Yeah.

There's lots of different worlds, all of them've got their own color and pattern, but they all matter and they all exist. Why and where is irrelevant.

There's some major badness going around that can affect every world. This place here is like a threaded needle, poking through every layer of fabric in space and time. The virus, or bad ju-ju as I call it, is taking the needle and jabbing through all over the place, causin' knots and bunches and tears all over the place.

Which is a damned shame because everything was lookin' pretty good. The universe is well accessorized.

But now this bad ju-ju comes along and shits on the wedding dress. We're the tiny little tailors come along to fix everything and salvage the mess. You follow?

The worlds are all real, they just usually overlap instead of intersect. This place is where everything intersects. And if we don't fix it, pretty soon there's gonna be a lot more wires crossed and shit's gonna go south.

Does uh...that help at all?

I mean it makes sense to me, but everything always sounds better in your own head.

I'm not sure how much help I'll be for you, but I can certainly try my hardest to help you, Hope!

It appears that in this world, there is something that is called "electricity." I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the concept, but from what I've been able to gather, many things created by electricity, such as these moving pictures and our voices, are considered... digital.

If what was created by electricity is considered digital, then what is real must be anything that is made by other things, usually kept separate, but according to the message we received upon our arrival, the separation is beginning to fail.

[Wow, this guy seems really smart... And he seems to like thinking about confusing stuff, too. Guilmon hadn't even considered the "Real World" aspects of the place before now, so at first he sort of stares into the camera, scratching his cheek with his claws. Hmm...

He's got nothin'.]

Mm, well, there's lots of Real Worlds out there, and Guilmon's pretty sure there's a lot of different Digital Worlds, since this one works differently than the Digital World Guilmon went to before. Guilmon did see parts of Shinjuku, though.

[So maybe part of his world is mixed in! Hm.]

Maybe the "Real World" this place got mixed up with is the one connected to this Digital World. I don't know. Thinking about that stuff is hard!

Yeah, umm... calling the "Real World" that is kinda silly. I mean, it's not like the Digimon came from a pretend world or anything like that!

[ She pauses for a moment, thinking it over. ]

I... well, if you don't recognize the "Real World" part of this place as your world, then I guess the world you're from isn't Earth, is it?

[So he looks somewhat familiar, but if Cam didn't have suspicions before, the name completely tips him off. That Digimon doesn't sound like Bravera, but he doesn't really register that.]

Hope? You-- holy crap, you're back. And...older.

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