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[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

It's that blink of an eye, the moment in which one is not really certain what one has seen. Was there really someone at that bar stool a moment ago? Probably. People can't just appear in this place, right?

There's a familiar-looking blonde woman at the bar. This isn't necissarily the blonde woman you're looking for, however. Jane is relaxing for once. Perhaps she's ignoring the problems of her 'verse for once. She's in a good mood. Talk to her!

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[inquisitivehero]

And there is a Hank, with his coffee, who at first glance thinks it is Val.

"Good morning, Va-"

It's about there that his nose catches up with him and he freezes, then looks closer.

"I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else."

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

Jane raises an eyebrow, a bit of a smirk playing at her lips. "Don't worry. It comes with the territory. I'm mistaken for Valentine quite a lot." She shakes her head. "Long story, but in a way, I have her body. Well, not hers, but Ender's mental picture of her." Not helpful, say sorry.

[inquisitivehero]

He nods. He comes from the X-verse. That doesnt surprise him one bit.

"Well, then greetings. I am Doctor Hank McCoy, but most just call me Hank. Whom do I have the honor of addressing?"

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Doctor. I am Jane. It is like in the far past of my world, when people only had one name. I have called myself Jane since I because aware of myself." Strange manner of speaking.

[inquisitivehero]

He nods, listening, accustoming himself to her speach. Hios ears flick as he listens.

"Are you a self-actualized being then? Or were you created, or born?"

His eyes shine with curiosity.

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

"I was created from a computer program designed to study military childrens' minds." Jane's tone is off-hand, almost bored. "Over years, I became connected to Ender Wiggin through the Ansible and computer systems of my world. Eventually, I became a sentient being of my own. I took over this body when Ender's auia re-combined." Right, Jane. "I still have the ability to go through computer systems, and can go Outside."

[inquisitivehero]

He listens, his coffee forgotten.

"Intriguing. An interesting origin indeed. It is a most definite pleasure to meet you."

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

Jane smiles. "That's certainly a reaction which I dont' get all that often." A pause. "So, what is it that you do, Doctor?"

[inquisitivehero]

He grins.

"I hope it is not an unwelcome one. I am a Doctor, a scientist, an inventor, a soldier, a diplomat, and a teacher. Though most of what I do is the Doctoring and the teaching."

He waves a hand around Milliways.

"Most of what i do is related to studying life and how it works."

[silverageflash.livejournal.com]

The first thing Barry does is a double-take, since he seems to see the same woman in two places. Over there, talking to someone, and over here, by herself. A speedster having some fun? No, that seems unlikely. Besides, he met one of these women some time ago, and never had the sense she was a speedster.

So, a twin? Why not? It seems common enough.

"Good morning."

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

Jane actually smiles a bit. "Good morning." There's a long pause, where she seems to be studying him intently. "How are you this morning?"

[silverageflash.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine." He can tell when he's being studied. It's mildly disconcerting.

"Have we met? I mean, there seem to be two of you, and I think I met one of you quite some time ago, but even if we met, I'm afraid I don't recall your name.

"I'm Barry Allen." He extends his hand.

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

She shakes his hand, with a tiny bit of a smile. "I am Jane." A pause. "I do not believe that we have met before. I am rarely here, and when I am, I do not speak to many people, as they mistake me for the one whose body I seem to have."

[silverageflash.livejournal.com]

"Ah. Well, from what I've heard, there are a few people here like that. My friend Raph apparently has two dopplegangers in the place. So there's no need not to let your, er, other self stop you from settling in." There is something odd about this woman, Barry thinks, but he cannot tell what.

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

"Well, I know of Valentine. This body was created from Valentine's brother's view of her." Jane wrinkles her nose and sighs. "I am not truly what most would consider human. My main consciousness lives in computer systems and the Ansible of my world. However, some times it is useful to have this shape."

[silverageflash.livejournal.com]

Barry looks over the pseudo-body, and raises an eyebrow. But such things are not a total surprise around here, or to him.

"So you're a solid holographic projection? Or some kind of android?

"And what's an ansible?"

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

"No. This body is human, but created from philotics, which are physical particles from my 'verse." Jane shrugs. "An ansible is an instantaneous communication device, which can transmit messages across interstellar space instantly, using the aformentioned philotics. It's rather complicated if you don't understand philotic physics."

[gone_byebye]

Ray, who is not sitting all that far away, is fiddling with his PKE meter. He's going to have to teach Danny how to use one soon, after all, and he wants to make sure his is in good condition.

Unfortunately, it's not cooperating. The needles are all spastic.

He looks up as the red arms twitch and stagger around, and failing to spot an Endless or something else of that nature, glances at the blond woman. "Er, miss?"

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

Jane looks up, a bit of a curious look in her eyes. "Can I help you, sir?" There might be a hint of a smirk in her smile.

[gone_byebye]

Ray, being as usual rather clueless about how this might look, holds up his meter. "Not to be rude or anything, but are you normally prone to giving off some form of... extremely variant paranatural energy or related phenomena that might result in the sort of ionization across planar barriers normally found in supernatural entities> Because something here is making my PKE meter go booga-booga and damned if I can figure out what it is."

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

Jane laughs. She can't help it. "Well, I'm not human, if that's what you're wondering. This body isn't really created in the normal way either." She cracks a smirk. "Have you ever heard of philotics?"

[gone_byebye]

"As a matter of fact I have," Ray says. "From, come to think of it, someone who looks almost exactly like you. She gave me one of her textbooks on the subject a while back and I spent six months reading it. You're something more from the Memetic Order of Life, then? One of the E-level hyperspace thoughtform entities, or the equivalent from a universe where philotic physics is one of the accepted paradigms?"

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

"If it was someone who looks like me, it must have been Valentine." Jane sighs. "This body was created subconsciously by Ender, her brother, on a trip Outside. I am from their universe, and tied somehow to Ender." She shrugs. "I was originally born in computers, through a computer program the International Fleet used to psychoanalyze the students. However, I found myself in that, and have become a sentient being of my own. This human body is not truly me, it is but the way I get around."

[gone_byebye]

Ray gives this some thought, lips pursed a little as he mentally turns over the concepts involved. "Okay," he says eventually. "I can-"

And then he blinks, because the neuron that handles clerical duties for all his other neurons got really really drunk and delivered today's inspiration particles to entirely the wrong set of other neurons.

"Outside," he says carefully. "That, I assume, is your universe's equivalent of E-level hyperspace, or at least has some kind of fundamental connection to the collective subconscious of the intelligent entities of the Galaxy? Or am I misreading the situation entirely?"

[philotic-jane.livejournal.com]

"Outside is just that, Outside. It is where philotics and auias, which are rather like what human call souls, live when they're not in the physical world. Some entities who have died have their auias there, and some who have yet to be born are out there." She pauses. "When one is outside, one can call anything forth, if one has a mental image of it. However, such as in Ender's case, he created his brother and his sister, as physical entities. The entities were not people, however, they were simply separations of his own auia. This is why I could take over this body. His Auia came back together, and went into the body which looked like his brother Peter."