Double voicetest!

[mirrorofme]

Interesting.

Or at the very least, amusing.

Certainly not something we've experienced before.

Although we might experience such phenomena in the future.

Or we might have already. Time is fairly meaningless on our part.

It does seem to fly by though when these sorts of things are happening. In a matter of speaking.

It probably requires-

Further testing. A shame we are without our laboratory.

Comments

[yuureiressha]

...

[Not saying anything, simply staring, sometimes glancing back and forth between them as they talk.]

[mirrorofme]

[And they stare back at him after they finish.

There's a beat of silence.]

Is he going to just stand there?

As opposed to what? Dancing?

[yuureiressha]

Ah, I apologize! ... I didn't mean to stare—

I just, never actually heard other people talk that way. It was like standing on the outside and looking in on a place you've never stepped out of.

[seesthebattlefield]

[Well, he's rather used to the know-it-all spiel, but this form of it is on a whole new level.]

I've missed something, haven't I?

[mirrorofme]

Probably.

One does tend to miss things when they're not looked at.

One also tends to miss the point if they don't pay attention.

Just what exactly did you miss?

[seesthebattlefield]

Don't suppose you're about to tell me?

[Wait- No, no don't answer that. He regrets the question before he even finishes asking. John strokes his chin, trying to deduce what seems so off.]

Okay, so you two... Um. Siblings?

[eau_de_gravy]

Time flies when you're having fun! [No Jon baby, that's not what they were talking about.]

[mirrorofme]

[jon no run while you still can]

I don't think that is scientifically sound.

It's more a metaphor than nothing.

Or simple fact. And another fact, we seem to be joined by an automaton.

[eau_de_gravy]

...You sound like Six does sometimes, when he gets talking about science and stuff.

[That would require common sense, which sadly this robut does not have in spades.]

[mirrorofme]

Six?

Sounds like a name.

Of a number. Your friend must be quite interested in science if he talks like us.

[eau_de_gravy]

Well, Peter Walter VI technically, but everyone calls him Six! And of course he's into science, he's a Walter, that's like what they do!

[mirrorofme]

Peter Walter the sixth.

Is that a familiar name?

If there's a sixth of anything it should be familiar. Was he your creator?

[eau_de_gravy]

Well, I dunno how familiar it is here... this place isn't my world so no one really knows about the family company or anything.

Pappy made me, not Six! Six is like... my great grandnephew or something! Colonel Peter Walter I made me, an' my brother an' sister, an then he had the twins so we got human brothers too!

[Peering at the two he was talking to.]

...You two are like twins but... really twinny. Twinnier than normal twins are, even the ones that look alike and finish each other's sentences and everything.

[mirrorofme]

Twinny.

Is that a word?

I sincerely hope not.

Well, the robot isn't wrong in any sense. In the plainest of terms, we are twins.

If you want to get simple about it. The truth is more complicated.

[eau_de_gravy]

Nu-uh. Twins are still different people even if they're that alike.

You two are the same. Just... different. But not in the way that people are different from other people.

[The Jon lives and breathes an alarmingly simplistic form of complicated.]

i hope i'm not too late because i couldn't resist

[commercant]

Splendid! Splendid!

[ It's a fat guy in a cat mask.

Or... maybe wearing a skinned cat's face.

He's okay with either interpretation. ]

Unless my powers of observation have regretfully failed, you must be two people after my own heart!