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[continuum_of_drs]

[Video]

The video feed opens on a closeup of a grinning face. The camera wobbles a bit as the owner of said face sets up the PDA and steps back.

"'Allo!" He says brightly. "I'm the Doctor." A brisk sigh. "Right, I've taken a position as an Enforcer here at Confuto Ordinatio--brilliant name, by the way--so I'll be keeping an eye on all your realities from now on." The grin fades and his left eyebrow raises slightly. "Believe me when I say I don't miss a thing." And just like that the grin is back. "Looking forward to working with you all!"

What've you all got to say to that, CO?

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[high_on_daylight]

"The Doctor."

The woman on the other end of the video screen... Well, 'woman' would be generous. While her mode of dress - right now, at least - is elegant, she can't be a day over ten years old. The accent is most definitely British, though, and she sounds distinctly mature for her age.

"You do realize how creepy that sounds, right? A name like 'The Doctor', I mean?"

[continuum_of_drs]

"What? D'AAOUUWH, S'not creepy at all. I mean... Besides, I've had it for centuries."

Okay, yes, he's a little thrown--nobody has ever told him his moniker was creepy before.

[high_on_daylight]

"... Centuries, you say? An immortal, then. Good to have another around here. Very practical when things start getting tricky."

She pauses.

"Ah, where are my manners? I am High Councilor Evangeline A. K. McDowell."

[continuum_of_drs]

"Close enough to, at any rate," the Doctor answers. He scratches his head a bit self-consciously and his hair ends up even more ridiculous and sticky-uppy, if such a thing is possible.

"'Allo, High Councillor," he adds. He's a friendly one, at lest.

[high_on_daylight]

"... Hrm. Very interesting.

I guess I should go ahead and explain. You've been introduced to the basics, the plurality of universes and each one's respective flow of time, already, correct?"

[continuum_of_drs]

"AOWH, pfff, learned that when I was in school," he answers blithely. "No, the tricky bit is going to be remembering who goes where. Why's everyone so similar-looking, here eh? Not--that I'm saying all humans look alike, 'cos I'm not.."

[high_on_daylight]

"... I dare not ask what kind of classified-unaware world teaches the full realm of complex metaphysics involved. The good news is, catching worlds of origination isn't as hard as it seems."

The girl paused.

"Mind, humanity is all too similar in the vast majority of such worlds. I must admit, it is rather disappointing."

[continuum_of_drs]

"'Classified-unaware world?'" he echoes. That's one that doesn't quite parse, yet.

[micro_icarus]

Doctor of what?

[continuum_of_drs]

This, however, is a reaction to his title that he's heard rather a lot.

"Rather a lot of things, really." He ruffles his hair with one hand, making it stick up even more wildly. "I started with Temporal Physics, let's go with that, for now."

[micro_icarus]

"Temporal physics...time travel?"

[continuum_of_drs]

"Yep!" A beat. "Time travel, dimensional engineering--oh, no, don't tell me, 'so such thing,' right?"

He sounds like he'd be sort of hurt if you believed that, Ed.

[micro_icarus]

He rolled his eyes, "After all the things I've seen at this job, I'd have to have a very stubborn brand of stupidity to say that."

[continuum_of_drs]

"Ah, good, you have no idea how hard it is to explain it to people who think it isn't real..."

He's had several hundred years' experience doing just that.

[micro_icarus]

"A scientist believes only what he can see and prove for himself, and the portals to our homeworlds can send us forwards and backwards in time, so..."

He shrugged, "Anyways, I'm Edward Elric. Or if you want to go by titles, I guess I'd be The Alchemist."

[continuum_of_drs]

Alchemy. Oh, no. Still, he can't be all that bad, he knows what temporal physics is.

"Oh, yeah?" he asks, peering a little closer at the screen. "What sort of alchemy?"

[former_endboss]

Don't miss a thing? Hmm, well that's unfortunate. I'll have to warn Spicia that her underground operations are going to be shut down.

[continuum_of_drs]

"Depends, dunnit? What's she doing?"

[former_endboss]

"Oh, she's a black market contact back home. Officially, she's a pharmacist, or a sweet merchant, but her real ambition is to control all illicit activities. To have a finger in every pie, and all the power flowing through her hands. It's quite a heady dream for anyone, particularly a young woman." The girl flipped her hair back behind her ear, eyes momentarily flicking away from the screen. "I expect someone like you would understand something of the appeal that such activities can have."

[continuum_of_drs]

The Doctor's affable grin vanishes for a moment and he gazes into the middle distance. "Yeah, yeah, I think I can."

After all, it's a very fine line between criminal and revolutionary.

[former_endboss]

"Ahh, then you understand that I understand that you've got one of two things. A dark and mysterious past, or a horribly embarrassing name." She paused and raised one eyebrow slightly. "I'm not terribly interested in knowing which is the correct answer."

[continuum_of_drs]

"Good, because I'm not terribly interested in giving it," he answers casually, with a shrug, the smile never wavering.

[former_endboss]

"...It's the embarrassing one, I would stake money on that though." She smirks right back, confident that she's gotten at least a half-way decent dig in there at him.

[continuum_of_drs]

"You can think that, if you want."

The world will never know.

[former_endboss]

"Well, this has been a pleasant diversion, but I really should be getting back to work." As she turns to go something might be briefly visible in the background-is that a white-haired girl in a tube?

[forgivethemtheirpain]

It's nice to meet you! *waves* My name is Nanami Lucia. You seem used to this sort of thing already.

[continuum_of_drs]

He grins brightly. "'Allo, Nanami Lucia! Well, I don't want to boast, but, yeah, I'm a bit used to it."

[forgivethemtheirpain]

Eh? Everybody just calls me Lucia, so you can, too. That sounds great! So many people get confused when they first get here...

[continuum_of_drs]

"Okay. Lucia. Naaaah, takes more than bureaucracy to confuse me." A beat. "Usually. So. What d'you do here?"

[forgivethemtheirpain]

It depends on the day...

[continuum_of_drs]

The Doctor finds this amusing. "Oh, I hear you."

[mach_n_roll]

"Hey, cool! Another Enforcer!" Comes a bright, snappy reply through the PDA. As the video feed turns on, he'll discover the owner of the voice is a spiky blue... something... that's grinning widely into the camera.

"What's up, Doc? You look like you're used to this stuff already. Heheh, most new guys take fifteen minutes just to get the video feed to work."

[continuum_of_drs]

"Pfff, AOUWH, well, it's not the most common of technology, but it's no Osirian dimensional relay either."

Here he stops, blinks, and leans closer to the screen, grinning. "You're a Moebian Hedgehog! Oh, you are magnificent!"

[mach_n_roll]

"Pfft, well I did write the book on cool but I wouldn't call myself magnifi--whoa, hold up, you KNOW what I am?" He says, grinding gears as he shifted from veiled vanity to genuine surprise.

[continuum_of_drs]

"'Course I do, but I've never seen one in person before."

[mach_n_roll]

He chuckles. "Just to warn ya, I'm not your average hedgehog, either. The name's Sonic, and I'm an Enforcer here too!"

[continuum_of_drs]

"'Allo, Sonic. Good name--I like sonic things."

[mach_n_roll]

"HA! We're gonna get along juuuust fine then! They also call me the Fastest Thing Alive. There ain't a speed limit yet that I haven't broken!"

[continuum_of_drs]

"What about, oh, 299,792,458 metres per second?"

[mach_n_roll]

"Speed a' light?" Wow, he figured that one out pretty fast.

"Oh man. You and my Uncle would get along. Okay. TECHNICALLY, no, because I know NOTHING goes faster than light..." He says it with the weight of a belabored point. "but the Light Dash warps me past the coils in a string of rings so fast that I'm going pretty much the speed of light, even though I'm only going a couple thousand an hour."

[continuum_of_drs]

Well, he's seen the physics, or what passes for it, on Sonic's homeworld, and figures anyone who deals with that kind of velocity is going to have to have a few basics down.

"This is going to bother me for years if I don't ask--how d'you compensate for air friction?"

[mach_n_roll]

"Hard to explain..." He mutters, looking up thoughtfully. "Tell you the truth, I never really thought about it before! See, m' able to carry some of the air with me. Sort of a... high-pressure shield that takes a lot of the heat n' stuff."

So those big fluffy drag-inducing spikes of his actually make him FASTER?

"Heh, you're talking like you've seen somma my work before!"

[continuum_of_drs]

"Ohhh, a kind of air buffering," he fairly squeebles. "Brilliant!"

The next question makes him scratch his scalp self-consciously. Hair goes floof until it almost rival's Sonic's own for spikiness. "Aowh, well, maybe not you, personally. Just put it together, sort of thing."

Here I am FINALLY noticing that they're roomed together.

[grandtheftmecha]

"Just The Doctor?" She shrugs. "Well whatever. Katina Tarask, Enforcer as well."