video ϟ

[brainiest]

[ The video comes on and Hermione settles a few pieces of notepaper before she speak. ]

Hello, everyone. I know it's been a long time but I've finally finished writing up all my notes about Asgard and everyone's worlds. I know it doesn't quite cover all the worlds that have been introduced here but it's a start! If you'd like to add anything then, please, let me know as soon as you're able.

[ She smiles, softly, expression bright. She's very proud of herself, really, and more than glad that she's finally able to contribute something solid and real to Asgard. She's finally able to put all her research together and actually show it to her friends and acquaintances and, maybe, actually help them in the long run. ]

It's a digital file, so I think you should all be able to access it using your bracelets. If you have any problems then, please, let me know and I'll do whatever I can to help.

[ LINKED: Hermione's guide and notes on the City of Asgard. ]

Otherwise, how is everyone? Things have been quieter than usual, which I think is a good thing, so I hope that means well for you all. 

[ She pauses, pursing her lips, before she shakes her head and sighs just before the feed turns off. ]

Comments

permavideo;

[sufferably]

Thanks, for that. It's real useful. ( and better than the bits and pieces of half-explanations he's gotten about some things in passing.

he pauses, then asks, curiously: ) How do you know worlds are different, and not just as different points in time or something?

[brainiest]

You're welcome. [ She's perked up at that, for certain; she's just glad she could help.

As for the other part, well... ] I don't know for certain, apart from the differences in things like magic and technology. I just wanted to make some kind of reference for all of our homelands even if they're just different chronologically.

[sufferably]

Guess the technicalities aren't too important in any case. If people are from the same universe but two different planets, and they don't know it, then they'll function as two different worlds. ( he says that questioningly, like he's thinking it out as he goes. )

[brainiest]

That's how I see it. Even if we're from the same place - England, or earth, perhaps - there's a chance we're from parallel versions of that place where the magics and technology, even the races and the people, are all completely different. [ She pauses, thinking, tilting her head for a moment. ] I like to think of Asgard's worlds as something like veins in the human body. There's the center, the heart, which would be Asgard, but there's a dozen different routes - the worlds.

[sufferably]

England, huh. ( he almost smiles, at that, because her methodological approach already reminded him of carol. )

Millions, if you get down to the minutiae. And that's not counting arteries.

Earth seems pretty constant, but I know a species or two who'd say we're just a bit jumped up. Like to think everything's about us, even inter-realm wars.

[brainiest]

Yes, that's where I'm from. [ She brightens a little, pleased that someone, at least, understands her ideas and wants to actually discuss them. ]

I think that can be said for quite a few races, though. It is a little self-obsessed of us to think that, somehow, we're the only constant, especially when some realms don't have werewolves or vampires or the like.

[sufferably]

I'm from the UF-- ah, America. Georgia. ( not that country lines mean much, but. )

I'd probably have been inclined to say most realms, a month ago. But there's also no telling if humans from one Earth are identical to those in another.

[brainiest]

So we're from the same planet, at least? [ She grins. ]

It's really impossible to know. It's even harder for the people from my 'world' seeing as our whole society - the wizarding society - is a secret from people without magic.

[sufferably]

Seems like it.

So someone from your world could end up here and not know it, if they're not... magical. ( yeah that's still weird. )

[brainiest]

Exactly. They could be from the exact same world as me, the same time and place in England, but they'd have no idea unless they were related to someone with magic. Otherwise it would have been kept secret from them.

[sufferably]

I'm not really seeing the logic of that, to be honest. Why's it a secret?

[brainiest]

It started as a means of protection. Witches and wizards were being prosecuted for having magic and eventually it was decided going into hiding was safer than leaving people at risk of being burned alive.

[ She sighs, thinking. ]

I'm not sure if it's still appropriate in society now, but it's almost convention for us.

[sufferably]

You're talking about Middle Ages stuff, right? Burning people at the stake?

( history was pretty universally awful, he has long since decided. now he just shrugs, though. )

Well I'm sure if y'all have survived so far, you've got the right of it.

we could totally burn people on meat cuts ask will graham

[brainiest]

That's right. The Salem witch trials in America and the burning and drowning in England.

[ She nods her head, looking pensive. ]

It hasn't done us a world of good, though. There's still a lot of prejudice against people that were born to non-magical parents that we're only just starting to overcome.

this was not the southern bbq i expected

[sufferably]

The whole world was like that at one point-- not just between magical people and not. In my world, in the 1990s, there were huge wars over genetics and how you were born, what you were. It was a disaster.

But we got over it, eventually.

a whole new meaning to meatloaf surprise

[brainiest]

That sounds similar to what was going on in the magical community. Thankfully, it seems like people are developing a better understanding of things and overcoming their prejudices.

screams quietly

[sufferably]

If humanity can get its act together, it can actually accomplish a lot.

I'm hoping the same's true of this place.

oops!!

[brainiest]

I hope so. We've been able to fight in battles and persevere and do good here, so I can only hope that continues.

[sufferably]

As long as people aren't stupid about it. ( he's not sure how much faith he has in that. )

I'm Doctor McCoy, by the way. Guess I could tell you a bit about my world, if you wanna add it to the list.

[brainiest]

Most people seem to be doing alright on that front, honestly. [ There are a few exceptions, but...

And that is definitely one way to perk Hermione up. ] Yes, please! Anything you feel comfortable sharing.

[sufferably]

Hm. ( he pauses, thinks about how to start. )

Well, the year was 2260 before I got here. There's no magic, but lots of technology beyond what you see around here, or from what I've heard from other people. No vampire or werewolves, but we've made contact with dozens of alien species.

[brainiest]

Oh, wow.

[ 2260. That's almost three hundred years after her own time - which is probably why his technology is far more advanced. Understandable. ]

What kind of alien species, if that's not too rude to ask? Does your world - or, I suppose, time - have space and time travel like the Doctor's?

[sufferably]

There were four planets who came into contact, after the initial stages. Vulcan, Andoria, Betazed and Earth. All those species are mostly humanoid, though they've got different physiologies and abilities-- Vulcans are telepaths, Betazoids are empaths. Since then, we've explored further and come into contact with countless others. Some are friendlier than others.

We've got space travel-- commercial and exploratory. We've... experienced time travel. But it isn't normal, we don't have active access to it. And I, for one, don't want it.

[brainiest]

So it's almost like the different continents on Earth, then, to make a crude comparison? Each continent has, say, a different language and society - and it's the same for the different races and plants that you've encountered?

[ Okay, she's getting this. It's amazing and daunting all at the same time. ]

Space travel is normal, even commercial, but time travel is often an accident more than anything else?

[sufferably]

Yeah, that's one way of looking at it. There's lots of diversity within each planet, but that's the easiest way to ID people. Federation species or not, then what planet, then more specific than that if you've got the time.

( uhura would probably be able to explain this all better. )

I don't know if you can even say "often." I've only heard of it happening one time. Maybe one and a half.