w5 curfew: take me to spurch i'll twerk like a rat at the shrine of your shirts

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[teenrebellion]

Ehhh. And I thought you were from Tokyo, too.

It's the entertainment district in Shinjuku? Concerts, bars, host clubs and love hotels everywhere you look?

[frotag]

. . .

You mean Kamurocho?

[teenrebellion]

It's Kabukicho where I'm from.

[inquired]

[ ohhh this is like charles and the whole riverlands but not crestlands thing.... ]

[frotag]

Is... is this what they call the Mandela effect?

[teenrebellion]

Could just be different versions of the same world. There's already a bunch of us from different Earths, why not different Tokyos, too?

[ HE GUESSES. ]

[drymonster]

It's Kabukicho for me too... but I also live in the Akatsuka ward that I'm pretty sure doesn't exist for any of you.

[teenrebellion]

[ glances ]

Nope. Definitely not in my Tokyo.

[drymonster]

Yeah, I would have been really surprised if it did.

[teenrebellion]

They do make places up a lot in anime, don't they?

[drymonster]

[ nods ]

Though a lot of times they make up locations that are amalgamations of real life places, too.

[ that's what theirs is. ]

[teenrebellion]

[ damn... meta... ]

Huh. I never really watched a ton of anime, so I guess I never noticed.

[drymonster]

Yeah! It's like that in a lot of video games too. Like, any time there's an urban fishing minigame, it's the Ichigaya Fish Center.

[teenrebellion]

Seriously...? I never noticed that, either. I'll have to Aki- [ wait

shakes his head. ]

I'll look for a game when I get home. I want to see that for myself.

[frotag]

Man, that's still wild to me...the fact that there are things that are only slightly different between places like ours is just harder to grasp, I dunno how else to say it. Like, I can buy completely different worlds, but alternate Tokyos is too much!

[teenrebellion]

It's weird, right? Like everything you know, but a little to the left.

[frotag]

Yeah, like—

[ bruh it's too late for me to actually type stuff out and for you to think about fact checking but ichiban describes some well-known and easily recognizable landmarks and attractions in kamurocho that kazuki might recognize as matching up 1:1 to kabukicho. the games are extremely accurate to rl, apparently! ]

—All of that sound right to you?

[teenrebellion]

[ help me. one good thing is that his concert hall is in the heart of kabukicho so he's there all the time. he knows it very well. ]

...Yeah, no, that's Kabukicho to a T. I bet if we pulled them both up in the sim room it'd look the same.

[frotag]

Dude, crazy shit, right? Never thought I'd bond with someone over an alternate version of my hometown...

[teenrebellion]

Seriously. I knew there'd be other versions, but not like this. I wonder if we should ask Shoma and Date about their Tokyo, too... Like, what else could be different?

[frotag]

Date...? [ . . . ] Oh, Mizu-chan! Right, hehe.

[teenrebellion]

Mm. I've heard a little about it, and it sounds... weirdly similar to mine in ways that it probably shouldn't, for a different version of the city? But they're from a different part of Tokyo, so maybe that has something to do with it, too.

[frotag]

. . . Aw man, if we really are from different Earths, I guess those island vacation getaway offers are off the table.

[teenrebellion]

I don't know about that. Shoma was saying that if they've got a way to bring us all here from different versions of the same place, then there's got to be a way to let us visit after, which makes sense to me.