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[digthefuzz]

This is the final resting place of many threads...

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[adifferentangle]

San Fransokyo. San Francisco suffered a really bad earthquake decades ago, most of the Japanese immigrants helped rebuild it with architecture techniques to help it withstand any further ones. So they renamed it San Fransokyo to honor the Japanese that helped.

[digthefuzz]

Whoa! Now that is news to me... but, that sounds totally cool!

[adifferentangle]

I don't think a lot of us are from the same sort of world at this point... [Rubbing at the back of his neck.] We don't exactly have girls that are robots or guys that are really birds.

[digthefuzz]

Girls that are roots... guys who are birds...? [He stares blankly as he tries to take that in.]

Who the heck have you been talking to?!

[adifferentangle]

Just...Labrys? She's the one that met the bird-guy. Though she has blue hair and red eyes so I kind of believe the once-a-robot bit for her...

[digthefuzz]

Huh. I guess that's not the weirdest thing I ever heard... [He rubs at his chin.] Technology is getting pretty out-of-sight... and there's still mutations and everything.

[adifferentangle]

Our robots aren't even that advanced and I'm at least two or three decades ahead of her. [Frowning and lifting an eyebrow.] Mutations?

[digthefuzz]

...Okay, now that's just confusing. [He scratches at his head uncertainly.]

But yeah. You know, you've heard about mutants, right?

[adifferentangle]

You can say that again. We don't have mutants in my world aside from the ones man-made. Like purple squirrels or blue lobsters.

[digthefuzz]

Whoa. It sounds like things are really different where you're from.... [San Fransokyo, robots, purple squirrels...]

And the only ones I know about are... made men. [He tries poorly to wordplay Hiro's own statement.]

[adifferentangle]

"Made men"? [Confused expression is on his face.] You mean men that are mutants?

[digthefuzz]

Um... Right, yeah. That! People who are... you know, born that way.

[adifferentangle]

I mean, I guess it could happen, something out of Fred's comics. There's plenty of chemicals still floating around that could alter DNA. [Looking up at Kurt.] Why?

[digthefuzz]

['Fred's Comics'? Sounds like the name of a comic store. And it sounds like things are really different where he's from...]

Well, that's the way things have been in the world for me. Normal humans and mutants, living together. [His tone seems to imply that this isn't exactly a peaceful coexistence.]

[adifferentangle]

I take it it's had a few bumps in the road? Though folks do have a thing against those that are different than them.

[digthefuzz]

That's putting it lightly! There's a whole lot of controversy from it. So a lot of mutants try to stay hidden...

[adifferentangle]

Do you think there will be a day where that won't be necessary? Anytime soon, I mean?

[digthefuzz]

...I don't think that's likely. It's too complicated...

[adifferentangle]

Sounds to me like the only ones making it complicated are those that don't want to live together.