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Second Chance Meme!

Okay, rocks fell, everyone died. Too bad, valiant meatshippers! But the good news is that you've all be reincarnated!

...as baseline humans on modern Earth.

Maybe you're waiting at a coffee shop, and you spot someone out of the corner of your eye that looks strangely familiar. Maybe instead of strangers from universes far apart, you and your close CR are now childhood friends who have always been together. Maybe you meet a former enemy as a friend, or a former friend is now a bitter enemy.

Are you a college student? A high-powered lawyer? A kindhearted schoolteacher?

What would your life have been like had you been born under different circumstances, and you met your fellow crew once again? If you had a second chance? Would you still fall into the same habits, be a victim of the same misfortunes? or would you use the opportunity to be someone completely different?

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Zouichi smiles, just a little. "Aren't midterms coming up soon? I thought most of the professors would be preparing tests or gearing up for grading."

He looks back out at the trees. "Sorry, I don't really know how to talk to poetry students. I was never really into it, myself."

"I hoped that by scheduling my poetry finals for the week before they all lose their minds studying, they'd actually put some effort in." She snorts, clearly unimpressed with the caliber of this semester's crop.

"That's a shame. You have a good eye for form. The senses between visual and oral arts are connected."

He laughs. "I don't know, maybe. But I can't really tell the difference between good poetry and bad. I tried taking a composition class last year, but it looked like it was going to be a semester of listening to people read stories about women running around naked on the beach after a bad breakup."

Zouichi would much rather read someone's sci-fi short story.

"If that was your reaction to it, it was probably bad. How long can people mine the break-up well, anyway?" She shakes her head. "A naked beach? Really? And sadly, that sounds preferable to whichever senior in your art department decides bodily fluids are still edgy for the presentation project."

"Well, they've been doing it for years. Like aren't most songs about breakups or relationships?" Especially songs.

He holds out a hand. "Please don't hold me responsible for what the modern art kids do. I can't understand what's so great about grass growing on an old mattress."

Zouichi's always been more about drawing and painting than, say, sculpture.

She rolls her eyes. "They are, aren't they? It's because you young people do all the writing. Once you've been married for a few decades you start to realize that 'I love every single thing you do' shouldn't apply to babying your manchild through doing his own laundry."

There's a trace of bitterness there. Her marriage hasn't been going so well for a few years now.

"Of course I'm going to hold you responsible. Smart kids like you should be setting the example, not fading into the background."

Zouichi blinks at her. "When you put it that way, I have so much to look forward to. Anyway, I thought most writing was done by 40-somethings and then performed by 20-somethings." Which made it all the more terrifying.

He sighs. "If people with a lot of time and money on their hands want to pay the price of a house for a sink that doesn't work, there's not really much I can do about it. I just like to draw."

"It's all downhill from there, young man," she says, but she's grinning. "Probably all writers just never matured past being 20-somethings."

She taps his sketchpad. "You're good at it. Trust me about that motion capture, though."

He frowns a little. "What do you suggest?"

"Not to take up drawing comic books, mostly."

He gives her a bit of a dry look. "Guess I'll ask my professor about it, then."

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