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[moded]

Hey. [For once, Bart isn't beaming or grinning or doing something incredibly insane while addressing the network. Instead, he's actually frowning almost thoughtfully at the camera.] How many people have been in this world as long as they've been somewhere else? I mean-

[He makes a frustrated noise and puffs out his cheeks at the camera.] I lived four months back home, and I've been here for four months too so I've known different versions of the same people as long as I've known the original versions but does that also mean I've known the original versions for eight months not four?

UUUGGGHHH. [And there go his hands to his hair as he tilts his head up in exasperation.] Time travel is so moded.

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[runningstart]

Time travel is moded for you? You're supposed to be the resident expert on it, dude.

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[moded]

Hey. Not an expert just a casual benefiter of the whole time jump theory.

[Because he's still sticking to that story apparently. Some habits are hard to break.]

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[lyingheart]

If you don't remember it back home, then it only matters while you're here, in a sense. So it's eight months, not just four, as long as you're here. When that time folds back in on itself, it's four again.

If they're people from different times in the same place you're all from, you still know them, even if it's in different... points of time. Collectively, it's eight months.

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[moded]

yeah but most of the people i know didnt know me yet and are five years younger and way different and then theres a totally different version of one like from a different universe but kind of the same but kind of different?

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[yatagarasu]

"Moded"?

[Yeah, way to make Kay's head spin there, Bart.]

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[moded]

Sooo moded. Completely on mode feeling it one hundred- oh. [It clicks, suddenly, that she's talking about the slang.] It means bad. Worst thing you could possibly think of kind of bad.

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[aviate]

[There's not a lot Hal knows about Bart. When Bart first came to the past Hal had just started playing supervillain as Parallax and shortly after he came back to life, Bart died. But this is still a Flash and more importantly this is Barry's descendent.

He's not aged up to an adult and he's wearing the Impulse costume which either says he's from the past or this is an differing universes thing.]

I-Impulse?!

[Have one surprised GL because Hal was an idiot who introduced himself as GL and can't take that back now.

And reigning back his surprise to try and help answer his questions.]

...I guess it'd depend on if you both remember?

[He drags a hand down his face and mutters 'can't believe this'.]

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[moded]

[Bart, at least, can recognize Hal's uniform. Even if he's never really met Green Lanterns. At least not in full. He's seen them around the Watchtower since the Reach left and the Lanterns could come back to Earth, but there hasn't really been too much time for him to get to know the Leaguers who were away.

So, he just grins and cocks his hand in a half-wave half-salute.]

Okay so what if we do and what if we don't I mean what changes does being here not actually count?

[At least this Impulse actually thinks about existential stuff...?]

[animalage]

Hey soooo, since we're from sort of the same time, but not exactly the same time, does that make me the original or version 2.0?

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[moded]

Hmmmmmmmmm. [Bart crosses his arms and ducks his chin down, frowning and making a show of thinking really, really hard about it.] Dunno. I mean you're close enough just a month off sooooo technically future-original from the past-future-present timeline B.1.

[Because now M'gann's on their level and wow this whole timeline thing is getting mixed up.]

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[performance]

[ Comm reads Robin, Robin reads deadpan. ]

Maybe you should make a chart.

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[moded]

That's what I said! I mean I was gonna when I first got here but what kinda chart would it be I thought tree with different branches and colors but Blue says we'd run out of colors if we did it by time but I dunno we could just do different shades for people within a few months of each other like me and Miss M and BB and you and the rest of the Team and what about time travelers do we get two colors 'cause I think there's just two of us but I dunno the universe Blue and the others come from seems like a lot of moded stuff happens.

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[dragony]

Do you mean, you've only lived in that place for four months, before you were brought here, or that you've only been alive for four months, before your arrival?

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[moded]

Only lived there four months spent thirteen years somewhere else but I mean things really started four months ago so that's kinda what counts.

[shuckit]

About three or four weeks back home, three months here.

[the part back home is more with a "that he can remember" addendum ]

[moded]

So at what point does back home mean more of back where I was before? Cause I mean we could be here for years or just a few more weeks but if we're here longer doesn't this become home?

[Sorry for the sudden philosophical question, Thomas. The kid's just frustrated over this.]

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[theoryandcalculation]

[REI'S GLAD HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO WORRIES ABOUT TIME INCONSISTENCIES.

Although Bart's situation sounds significantly more confusing.]

It's very... moded.

I haven't been here as long as I was in my last world, though. I would think, if it were me, I would just count it as two separate periods of knowing them.

[...Although now he's thinking about his own friends, who are from different timeline points and how long they'd all known each other before coming here and the time differences between home and here and...

Time traveeeeeeeeel!!!]

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[moded]

[Bart actually worries about time and everything related to it a lot. He just, well. He masks it, like he does a lot of things.]

Totally moded. But if you were in your last world as long as this one does it change anything?

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[humanistic]

So what you're really telling us is... you're eight months old.

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[moded]

Hey, there's nothing wrong with being eight months old. [Which he's not, but clearly making sure people don't pass judgment on people like Superboy is way more important than correcting that.]

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[anthropophagite]

You have only lived four months in your world? [ you don't really... look foureight months old... ]

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[moded]

Yeah. I mean only four months in 2016 and that's sort of what counts cause I can't go back where I was from. [And doesn't want to, but that's beside the point.]

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[khajidont]

...has it really only been four months?

[It feels like longer. HOW HAS THIS CHILD WORMED HIMSELF SO DEEP INTO JAIME'S LIFE.]

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[moded]

Four months the big f-o-u-r though it's almost five and dude that's almost half a year so crash! [Definitely missing the point] Though it still feels like I just got here sometimes.

[Which may or may not have to do with having gone home so recently, but. Y'know.]

[acclimatized]

You're eight months old?

[moded]

Dude. There is totally nothing wrong with being eight months old. [Gotta look out for any clone prejudice.

But at this point in his post-]

I just lived somewhere for four months before coming here.

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[foreshadower]

[ Aw, Bart. Look, he's smiling. ]

You know, I think if you think too hard about that sort of thing, you may just give yourself a complex. Does it matter?

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[moded]

It totally matters. I mean- we might go home or we might be here for years and years so what happens if everyone's here longer it'd become kinda like home wouldn't it?

[Let's be honest, he probably already has a complex.]