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[uncurse]

[ For all that Emma tries not to brood, she missed space Christmas and news of Pan's curse has her feeling particularly sentimental. Reflective, even. And the prospect of losing her memories, losing her loved ones, only serves to remind her that sooner or later, they're all trying, in some capacity, to lose the people they've grown to care about aboard the Tranquility. ]

A friend of mine pointed out a while back that not everyone has a home to go back to at this point. Or one worse than what's here, whether that means they're dead or just some other kind of screwed.

[ Strangely, with Dean back now, she has to wonder if he'd say the same again. That staying on the ship, even as it is now, is better than the alternative for some. Getting a read on him is tougher now. It feels like she's missing pieces. ]

What about you? What's your best case scenario for whenever we figure out what the hell's going on here? Do you go home, forget all about it? Backtrack to Arima and set up shop?

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[righteously]

[Dean's finding out pretty quickly that it's easy to lose track of people on a ship like this. There are too few of them in too large a space for him to bump into people as often as he did back in Wonderland, and if he's being honest, he hasn't totally mastered the new phone yet.

As such, he's pretty pleased to see her pop up on the network. He still has a few things to discuss with her- mostly about whether or not she's lost her marbles.]

Best case scenario? Honestly...

[He considers it. He's not proud of what he's about to admit, but since it's Emma, he shoots for honesty.]

Wonderland. We send home whoever wants to go home, we take it back, we open the doors, and we set up shop.

[uncurse]

[ Speak of the Devil, and he shall appear. ]

Think you're the first person I've talked to that's thought so highly of the place. Then again, Jefferson's not the most credible source.

Why? Of all places, why Wonderland? [ It seems easier than asking 'why we?' That thought just leaves a lump in her throat. ]

[overdraws]

i don't think i can go home
and i haven't really thought about it

[uncurse]

I think some of us try hard not to.
Can I ask what's keeping you from going home?

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[lostsoldier]

how was arima?

[ He missed it, what with, y'know, trying to blow up Medbay. Hi. ]

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[uncurse]

Sketchy as hell. You'd love it.

Bad joke.
It was all black market.

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[forgodssake]

my best case scenario is that I'd want to remember this place
I don't think it will be possible but so long as we're keeping to hypotheticals

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[uncurse]

Yeah.
Me too.

[ It's a good thing this is text or there'd be sappy, puppy charming eyes going on. She gets those from her mom. ]

Maybe there is a way, though, and we just don't know about it yet.

[sorrycharles]

suppose we can go back with our memories of the tranquility intact

we will change dozens of timelines for the worse.

there is no ideal ending for us.

the responsible thing to do would be to remain here, in this universe.

[uncurse]

This ship took me away from my son. I don't give a damn about responsible.

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[wiped]

What if what's going on here is something we can beat? Or fix? Shouldn't we do that?

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[uncurse]

Fixing it's probably the only way out. I'd like to think once it's over, we might be able to go home to whatever families we've got.

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[servator]

Hard to say. I don't have anything to go back to. Pretty damn sure. Which means this is about my last chance unless someone dredges up my remains and puts me back together again.

Sorry. Long story.

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[uncurse]

Back together again?
Every explanation for that one I'm coming up with is Humpty Dumpty so I know I'm on the wrong track.

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[lafautedevoltaire]

Even if I wasn't dead, this is still better than the streets of Paris.

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[uncurse]

[ Emma's lived on the streets before. She knows to automatically go to the right interpretation of that. ]

I guess that's one thing this ship has going for it. You never have to wonder where your next meal's coming from.

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[familybusiness]

Even if things are screwed up where we're from, I'd think that most people would want to make it back there.

When you say they're dead, though, are we talking ghosts or did this place bring them back?

[uncurse]

They're tangible, so I don't know if ghosts would be the right word.

I never had the chance to look into it much. I was only sure it was the case for one guy, and he's. He's gone.

[hedoniste]

I went home from here, once. It was just like it never happened. On both sides, almost; a decade and a half of my life just the space of another jump, here, and I didn't really remember the first time around until I'd been back a while, which did make things awkward.

[uncurse]

Wait, you didn't remember the ship when you got back here? How'd that happen?

[blackmagus]

There's nothing for me back where I'm from.

[Which, really, can't be called home. Fortescue has her family home, unless the bank's seized it, but can't go back to it without being black-bagged by her own government. And the only guy who might be missing her is just better off without her, really. Cash deserves better.]

Where's Arima?

[uncurse]

I'd take nothing over this nightmare.

It was a mining colony turned black market that we stopped off at during jump 30.

[gimp]

Nothin good, that's for shuck sure.
Home's a place a lot like this, minus the bloody space.
But I don't know if I'd stay, either.
Got too many people at home, y'know?

[uncurse]

Yeah, I know the feeling.

Home's one crisis after another, but at least it's home.

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[axeyou]

My best case scenario is getting to put an axe in the face of whoever brought us here.

Thanks for asking.

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[uncurse]

I was going more for after that. Assuming we manage it.

[skjalf]

I would not wish to set foot in England alone. It would either be with the man I love at my side, or we would find a world far-flung from this place to settle.

Either way, I would not be alone if I might help it.

( or without him. for better or for worse. )

[uncurse]

The man you love ... so you met someone here? Who's from another world than you are?

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[culver]

I do not know. My home was not really the best place.

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[uncurse]

Seems like there's a lot of that going around. More than I expected.

[klutziness]

i'd totally go home
i don't think i'd want to forget though
memories are nice even if that's all they are

[uncurse]

Me too, you know? Even if I couldn't see the people I've met here again. I'd at least want to remember who they were and what they meant to me.

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[capsize]

[ is "any scenario with you is the best case scenario" too much??? probably.

there's no question as to what prompted deep thoughts on the network, but frankly, he'd rather she was thinking about it and talking about it than belligerently ignoring it. ]

I propose a trade — I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours.

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[uncurse]

[ Her expression starts out dryly unimpressed by the phrasing—"I'll show you mine if you show me yours," really?—but the topic is too serious for her to keep up the rebuff for long. Instead, her eyes soften, and she scratches at her eyebrow with her thumbnail, shrugging one shoulder. ]

I just wanna get back to Henry. [ And her family. And Storybrooke. It feels more like her home than anything else has with how she misses it, despite the long string of crises. ] But when we do go home, I … I don't wanna forget what happened here, or the people we've met. Even if we never see them again, I don't want to lose this.

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[technologist]

[ oh, it's you. ]

I didn't think I could go back. But things turn out alright, apparently, so I guess going back's the answer. Even if it's sometimes worse, it's still home.

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[uncurse]

I'm pretty much the same. It's not great, but it's home. Though, the more I think about it, the more it feels like we'd be leaving behind here.

[voice]

[forpoland]

Returning home I suppose, would be a lovely idea. But where ever I end, I only wish that my friends are all reunited once more.

[voice]

[uncurse]

Are some of your friends trapped here but not others?

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[brassbucket]

I'm needed back home, if only for a little while longer.

[ No best-case, but, then, that's going to be harder on others than on himself. Maybe. ]

[uncurse]

Only a little while longer? What's that mean?

[syreni]

I for one want to go home. All my family's there.

[uncurse]

Seems like fewer people than you'd think are similarly inclined.