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[makes_the_toys]

"You have GOT to be kidding me."

Standing in the open doorway, Cisco stares at the bar shaking his head.

With a sigh he tosses his toolbelt onto a bench beside the doorway and steps through into Milliways, letting the door close behind him.

His annoyance at what he had to go through to get here evaporates quickly, and when he takes a seat at the counter he’s all smiles.

"Hi, Bar. Remember me?"

That is absolutely not a squeal of delight when Bar produces a napkin with a cheerful greeting and a mug of Butterbeer to go along with it, anyone who hears one is clearly just imagining things.

Taking a drink, he turns on his stool to observe the bar at large, wondering just what exactly he can get into this time.

[ooc: link leads to a short oom.]

Comments

[alec_swamp]

"Your questions...they seem to indicate something of a science background." If not an entirely well rounded one. "What do you do for a living?"

[makes_the_toys]

"Yeah, I'm a mechanical engineer," he says proudly. "I work for S.T.A.R. Labs in Central City."

[alec_swamp]

"Ahhh." Much is explained. "I don't think I knew anyone at that branch. The botany research was in...let me see if I remember...Atlanta, maybe. Central City...I think the only named I know from there are the McGees. And that's really third or fourth hand, and from a long time ago." The scientific community isn't small, but the people on the cutting edge - which used to includes Alec and Linda Holland - tend to at least know each other.

[makes_the_toys]

"Dr. McGee? Yeah, she's pretty cool, over at Mercury Labs," Cisco replies with a nod. "I considered trying for a job there, but then Dr. Wells recruited me"

[alec_swamp]

He wonders if the Dr. McGee he knows of changed labs, or if Cisco is just from a different reality.

"I don't think I know of a Dr. Wells."

[makes_the_toys]

"For real?" Cisco asks, surprised, and possibly a touch insulted. "Dr. Harrison Wells? Man is like a mad genius, I mean, he founded S.T.A.R. Labs."

[alec_swamp]

Much becomes clear.

"In your reality, but not mine. I seem to recall a Garrison Slate doing so in my reality, some years back.

"Has someone explains that aspect of the Bar to you?"

[makes_the_toys]

"Huh, that's weird," Cisco says with a slight frown.

He thinks about it a moment, then nods. "Yeah, sort of. Like, I get there are people here from different versions of my world. I guess you're one of them."

[alec_swamp]

"There is, from what I know, an infinity of realities, each just a bit different than the next." He can't explain it, though. Physics and cosmology are not his forte, after all.

[makes_the_toys]

"Mirror, mirror," Cisco breathes, then louder, "So then I could potentially run into my self here, sporting a goatee and fancy duds."

[alec_swamp]

"I suppose it's possible. But I don't know if that has ever happened." When he has run into alternate versions of people, the versions he knew were never there. "I wouldn't worry about it."

[makes_the_toys]

"Oh, I'm no worried, I think it'd be awesome," Cisco says, grinning.

He hesitates a moment later, then allows, "Unless of course other me is actually evil. That would kind of suck."

[alec_swamp]

"Meeting another self is not that impressive. And an other self can be difficult without being evil." He can't say for sure, but he thinks that his other self, the previous version of the Swamp Thing, is making a mess of things for him.

[makes_the_toys]

"What? Of course it would be impressive. I don't know about where you're from, but doppelgangers aren't really a thing in my world unless we're talking Elvis impersonators."

Maybe it's not a big deal here when the universe is ending right outside of the window, but Cisco would still be stoked about it.

"Besides that, I'm awesome. Ergo, double me would be doubly-awesome."

[alec_swamp]

"I won't try to explain how I know my doppelganger...call it insider knowledge. But it's fair to say that even if you are, er, awesome, you might not like yourself as much as you expected to." Clearly, Cisco has a very healthy ego. Maybe too much soon.

[makes_the_toys]

"Maybe," he says, not really convinced he won't, but there's no point arguing about it.

[alec_swamp]

"Well, such matters are academic at the moment." No, no point in debating this.

[ooc: fade?]

[makes_the_toys]

[ooc: That works for me. Thanks for the thread!]