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[64th]

[ Cashmere's lounging at home, alone. she's usually pretty content for alone time but it's felt extremely lonely recently. ]

I know a lot of you are like me - where there's no one else from your world here. Just you. It's for the best, honestly. I could be stuck with anyone. But sometimes I miss having people around who really know me. Who understand the things I understand.

So let's get to know each other a little better. What was your family like? Did you have a happy childhood?

[ she pauses, and grins. ] And if give me a really good answer, you can come over and take a nap with me.

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[completelycrazy]

[Newt is even more attention starved than usual lately, so he's pretty indifferent about Cashmere's post until she drops that last bit.]

Hey, I feel you there. I mean, plenty of people around here seem to be from my world? But, like, another version of it. Without the whole alien invasion thing.

[Which is usually the thing that makes his stories about home interesting. His life was pretty boring up until Trespasser's invasion, and he was well past his childhood at that point. Hm... Well, she's not from where he's from at all, so maybe the boring stuff will be interesting?]

Uh, yeah, my childhood was pretty nice. My dad's a piano tuner and he taught me how to play, and we hung out at my uncle's lake house in the summers? He's a musical engineer. We did like fishing and crap, but the stuff I miss most is taking junk apart to build instruments. I was this close to going into engineering because of it. As my primary thing, anyway. I did a couple PhDs on the side.

[A totally normal thing to do.]

Your turn.

[64th]

[ the normal stuff is good. the little details are interesting for someone who never really had normal. ]

Piano? Aren't you full of secret talents? [ she pauses a moment, thinking before she answers. ] My parents were both winemakers, just like their parents. My dad's dad - he really spoiled us. He'd always have grapefruit for me and Gloss even though they were expensive. I was probably his favorite, because I'm named after him. I always got the bigger half. [ she beams, happy with that memory. ] I was a happy kid. Things didn't get complicated until later.

[completelycrazy]

Guess so. I've got my keyboard here. I could play you something sometime.

[He's grinning. Watch yourself, Cashmere. He's all feisty with this event going on.]

Winemakers, huh? That's pretty cool. You should look into making wine here. We can always use more alcohol.

[...]

Wait, Gloss? You've got some interesting names where you're from.

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[unphase]

[the video opens on a fifteen year old girl with an earnest expression on her face and in her tone]

I miss that, too, especially having people who really know me and understand the world I come from. My world is . . . pretty different from most people's.

[she thinks a moment about the questions before she answers]

For most of my life, it was just me and my mom. My parents divorced when I was two and I never really got to know my dad. I spent most of my childhood following mom around on her diplomatic assignments. It let me see a new and interesting planets which was nice, but it seemed like nothing I ever did was good enough for mother. So that was--rough. So I don't know if I was happy during childhood or not.

[64th]

Different planets? How many different planets? What are they like? [ she's excited about the idea, so much so that she almost breezes past over the negative parts. she circles back: ] My mother was very tough on us - me and my brother. She wanted us to be the best.

[unphase]

I'm actually from a different planet. Bgztl. It's in perfect orbital and rotational sync with Earth, but it's in another dimension. And how many worlds...? At least a dozen. Most of them weren't too different, but they had their quirks. Like on Winath, everyone is born a twin. On Cargg, everyone can split into three people. On Titan, everyone can read minds.

[she bites her lip and looks down for a moment] That sounds like my mother. Her parents were diplomats, she was a diplomat, and she expected me to follow in her footsteps. [a pause] Plus, we'd been royalty three hundred years ago. So that kind of leads to high expectations, too.

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[roseofthetyrells]

[in the video, you can see the Sewing Shop in the background. Margaery is sitting in a chair, hands neatly folded in her lap]

I suppose I'm fortunate. There are three others from my world here, so they have some idea of what I've been through and the opposite is true as well.

My family was very close-knit. I had aunts, uncles, and cousins aplenty, though my core family consisted of my mother and father, Loras, my younger brother, and my grandmother, Olenna. Loras and I were very close. I could tell him anything and I'm sure he felt the same about me. [her expression turns a little sad] I lost my mother when I was eight. She had a growth in her breast that only got worse and apparently spread to the rest of her. [she sighs] Mother didn't have much to do with my education--grandmother saw to that--but I remember her being very kind and having eyes the same color as mine. She's also the one who taught me to sew.

Aside from that, I suppose it can be said that my childhood was happy. I loved my lessons and grandmother always considered me an apt pupil. I learned all about Westeros--all of the Seven Kingdoms, the Great Houses and their lords, sigils, and mottos, all of the lesser Houses, Westeros' history and fables and songs, and, well. How to charm people and make them like me. It was all very useful, for the goal was making me queen.

[64th]

[ she smiles warmly. ] It must have been nice to have a large family. And I'm sorry about your mother. You were so young.

[ but there's always good and bad, isn't there? life is never fair. ] Our schooling wasn't as different as people might think it would be. Charm was much more important than math or... anything, really. They used to tell us the only way to really get ahead was if people liked you.

[roseofthetyrells]

[she smiles back, equally warm] I loved it. Every month, I keep hoping that Loras will arrive and he'll get his second chance, too, free from the bigotry of Westeros. Here, he'd be able to openly love men and not be ashamed or thrown into a cell for it. And thank you for your condolences. I wish she could have seen me grow up.

[no, it's not. and it has no forgiveness for weakness of any kind] That sounds a lot like the lessons I had. I suppose to most people, it would be strange but growing up, it never seemed that way.

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[killthisparty]

a good way to wake up dead

[ Paranoid? Who's paranoid? And negative? And extremely good at missing the actual main point in people's posts? I have no idea what you're talking about.]

[64th]

what

[killthisparty]

opening ur hideout to whoever

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[am_i_a_monster]

My childhood was happy until it wasn't.

Was yours happy?

[64th]

Same answer, actually. It's probably not uncommon.

[am_i_a_monster]

Is that why you need a sleep partner? To keep nightmares about your childhood away?

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[fogsong]

It's sometimes hard to see that being the only one from your world is for the best. I miss my parents so much that it... I don't know, I think I treat it like death. It's like being in mourning.

[64th]

Mourning. That's a good way to describe it. It's like a loss you never really get closure on.

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[knifecollecting]

You make it sound like you don't get along with a lot of people. [Jo pauses for a moment.]

Would you really not like it if someone from home came?

[64th]

[ Cashmere feigns surprise at that suggestion. ] What? I get along with lots of people from home. I'm well liked. [ she probably doesn't sell that as well as she wants to. ]

There are some people from home who I'd rather not have here. But I'd like to have my brother here. And - [ there's gotta be someone else??? ] other people.

[puzzlingly]

When something really important in your world isn't in others it can be a little isolating. It's like there is an invisible wall between you and the rest. 「He lets that linger for a second then gives a little shrug, there is not much anyone can do about it.」

Ah, to answer your question, I had a nice childhood, as prince and then as king, for a while, I couldn't have asked for more even if I wanted to.

「Ah, he usually doesn't share this with many people, there is no point or no chances to, but she asked and he's willing to share, she's always been nice to him over the network and the truth to be told, he doesn't know much about her either. He might be eager for some attention but it's not that entirely, so far he's been fighting that impulse, as always, it's just a little stronger this time.

He makes a bit of a pause, to think about it, as if he were trying to find something bad about it, it's true that he only was king because his father died way too young, but she doesn't need to know that part. His childhood in general was probably the best anyone here might have had, with little downsides that came with responsibility, but it was good and he will not complain.」

What about yours?

[64th]

Well, I wasn't a princess, but it wasn't terrible. [ she shrugs. ] We had plenty of what we needed. I guess that's all that really matters.

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[inthewar]

Do I have to answer first or can I just come right over for that nap with you?

[ Just a reminder that Damien is, in fact, shameless. ]

[64th]

If you don't come over to cuddle, I'm never speaking to you again.

[ wow they are gross ]

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[drabsolutelynot]

Can I ask what you get out of this information? Knowing these things about strangers?

[Audio]

[64th]

Some people think making small talk is polite.