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[It's assumed that Draco is around somewhere despite not being on camera immediately, judging by the fact that when the feed starts travelers are greeted with a nice view of a bedroom wall absolutely covered in diagrams, charts, graphs, drawings and notes. Literally every square inch of the wall above the bed is covered in paper marked with random colored pens. It's assumed the rest of the room is set the same way. In the background, anyone listening can hear a coffee maker brewing a new pot.

War's never been one of Draco's favorite things, but the battles in Asgard have made him think of his home world and the situation he's in. He hates thinking about it, but he's started dissecting everything he knows…hence some of the charts that are overlaying some older charts. When Draco begins to speak, he's still out of the line of vision, if only because he can't exactly face the city just yet.]

…I know this man at home who's trying to, more or less, recreate the entire world. A perfect world where everyone's exactly the same and everyone who's considered less than worthy is punished severely if they're not outright killed immediately. [This is bad. This is a bad idea to be bringing this up, but Draco's full of bad ideas and bad decisions lately.] Actually, his favorite method is to torture them severely before sparing them and then murdering them with a flick of the wrist.

But the thing is, despite the fact he's more or less a slit-nosed homicidal freak, he has a large following. Many follow him out of fear, but there are just as many who follow out of loyalty. There are many people who actually, genuinely believe our world will be better if we follow his plan for destruction and reconstruction. It's messy and violent, and yet they go along with it anyway. Funny how that works, isn't it? One has to wonder why. [It's probably for the best that Voldemort's not around to hear that one of his servants is basically disregarding everything he's been taught. But after his last conversation with Jade? Maybe he really doesn't have to be constantly fearing for his life...maybe just every other day.

Let's get to the point, shall we? His hand appears in the frame of video and he's pinning a fresh piece of paper to the wall above the bed. He soon takes out a pen and in a neat, elegant scrawl writes something on the top of the page.

The art of persuasion and manipulation

His hand hovers in midair for a moment before he withdraws it.]

What is the fine line between persuading people and manipulating them? And, as a bonus question, what is the fine line between safety and fear? Sometimes I have to wonder if the rulers of this world aren't any different, what with having to do their bidding without even asking us. And yet we do it anyway because we're told it's better this way. [He knows it's a stretch, but it's still a valid point in his opinion.] As you can see, I've plenty of room on the paper so give me something worth writing.

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It would make it a lot easier, I think.

It's not exactly an easy spell to throw off. It's possible, but it takes a lot of willpower. [That is to say, he's still not quite buying it, Doc.]

Of course it takes willpower. Everything does.

...let me ask you something. How common is telepathy in your version of the world?

Decently common.

So you'd wager one out of every five people? Every ten?

Well...

I was talking about species across the universe. Humans can have some capability of it, but another species needs to actually... start it.

...I think you should explain to me exactly how the universe works, because you've mostly just shattered every idea of it I've ever had.

You're not the first.

Why don't you start with telling me those ideas? Some of them might be right, in which case there's no point in repeating them.

The worlds have to be connected, right? By some invisible string. And each world is a parallel, isn't it? Or are all of the worlds really that different?

Oh, trust me, they're not parallel. Can't be. I don't think... No, they're too different, and it doesn't mesh up. But I would say that, yes, they're definitely connected.

Are any of them parallel though, or is it really that every single planet in the universe is unique to itself? Think about the worlds these people come from. There are several that set on "Earth" but different versions of Earth. Does that mean that none of them are the true Earth but instead by-products of Earth that have been manipulated to the liking of its inhabitants?

Parallel universes do exist, but they're made from possibilities, from a person's choice that's made different in another reality and thus spins off into a world that would differ greatly from the one we know. For example. Because, you see, everything that can happen, will happen.

But they're still inside the natural rules of all the worlds in that universe. The ones here are too different. They're alternate, not parallel.

Edited 2012-12-21 15:53 (UTC)

And every time a new possibility's made, every time a new choice is chosen, an alternate universe is created?

Yes, exactly.

But that means that the universes are endless.

Yes. It does.

Or. Well. Every new choice is pushing it, I suppose; sometimes time is just rewritten, but if the result is so different it doesn't fit into the original universe, you get a parallel one.

They are still endless.

I'll just...have to keep that in mind. Thanks for that.

You're welcome.

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