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[heroforhobby]

I just found out today that this place has more than one continent. [He's been here for a few months now, so this is kind of sad.] That's kind of weird, isn't it? I wonder what happened to make it break up like that.

Guess I'm curious to know, though, 'cause I've been kinda bored today: anyone else's world different like that? Or anyone else's look like mine? Here. It's like this...

[He takes a moment to scratch out something, yes, you get to watch him doodle in a notebook he found nearby (sorry, Genos), and holds up this masterpiece. He even drew waves on it to help you get the full picture.]

So...?

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[leonized]

Mine doesn't look like yours, but it's still different from here.

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[homerunning]

Earthquakes, dude. Maybe meteors, too.

Basically, when the world throws a little temper tantrum? Land splits.


...Gotta say mine looks pretty identical to this one--I THINK.

[He hasn't looked too closely at the maps at the school he works at, though, so who knows.]

[heroforhobby]

Yeah?

[nolongerasleep]

There's multiple continents, but not the same shapes and sizes. There's also a white moon and a black moon, not just a white moon. The stars also are very different. [Of course she's not going to mention right off that the black moon is actually a sleeping planet sized monster and the white moon used to be a lush planet full of life that said monster consumed.]

[heroforhobby]

It must be a temperamental or weak Earth, 'cause mine sure isn't breaking up with every earthquake.

[heroforhobby]

How can you even see a black moon?

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[dualismum]

Do you happen to know Genos-san? He is from a world with only one continent as well.

[ in any case ]

In this Earth and mine, even before humans existed there was a super-continent only, Pangaea. Scientists say that thanks to Earth's tectonics plates, which are always moving, they broke Pangaea part and caused the pieces of land to drift away from each other, creating the several continents.

[nolongerasleep]

You can see it by what it conceals. There is always a round place in the sky with no stars and what stars it covers change over time.

[heroforhobby]

Ah, Genos? [Interest piques.] Yeah, he lives with me.

But still, it's weird. I think our world is about as old as here but tectonic whatevers haven't messed it up.

[heroforhobby]

Ah, like an eclipse?

[dualismum]

[ he hums ] You two are the only people I know whose Earth is like that, I admit. It's probably rare.

Maybe the tectonics plates work differently in your world. It depends a lot on how Earth is formed, density, size, proximity to sun and such.

[heroforhobby]

I dunno all that, Genos probably has that info in his head. But my Earth seems pretty much the same except for that. Even the moon.

[dualismum]

Moon...? [ why was there a need to mention the moon? ANYWAY ]

I think differences like this are not so weird. After all, we are talking about parallel universes; something has to be different.

[heroforhobby]

[Sorry, he picked up on that moon thing.]

There no moon where you're from?

[dualismum]

..Yes, there is. Also a sun and seven or eight more planets. [ depending on how much you love Pluto as a planet ]

[homerunning]

Maybe. Or like, all the earth's land just condensed into one super continent back at your place, so it can take a punch.

But hey, we get things called overseas vacations out of it. So it's not all bad.

[nolongerasleep]

Yes, very much like that. It's so normal to us that we don't even think to ask something like that, we can just point out where it is.

[heroforhobby]

[He snaps his fingers, liking that answer.] That makes sense! Like tea compacted into balls definitely can take a blow compared to loose leaf tea.

But we can go overseas, too, y'know.

[heroforhobby]

Can you see it during the day? That'd be creepy.

[heroforhobby]

Then why'd you sound surprised for?

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[thegriffinofdeath]

The world I come from, Ashan, is similar to your...drawing...there. At least, it's mainly the one continent, with a few islands ringing the edges.

Nothing like the way this world is, at least.

[nolongerasleep]

Usually the light drowns it out, but it can be visible sometimes just like the moon here can be. To us it's not creepy to see it, but that could be due to the foreboding tales of it falling from the sky. Silly tales to scare children into behaving, of course.

[Except not entirely, but the way she says it makes it seem like she's not lying. It's just that "falling from the sky" is just the tale's way of explaining the sheer destruction that would happen if that thing was woken up like a certain idiot wants to do.]

[dualismum]

You just randomly mentioned while talking about Earth.

[scrap_metal]

[ Sensei you only noticed it now? This was like one of the first thing that confirmed without any doubt that this is a parallel world. But hey, Genos won't voice that. He will just stare at the message, sigh internally, and move on. Saitama is after all a great man, few flaws here and there won't change that ]

It has something to do with tectonic plate shifting. Given which, I do wonder if we might have one day similar happening in our world. Probably not during our life time, but it is probable that our continent start to fragment one day.

A huge catastrophe, like impact of a meteor could trigger reactions leading to that.

[ To note down: sensei is probably what keeps the continent in one place... WAITAMOMENT ]

...sensei, is that a page from my notebook?

[heroforhobby]

...It's NOT creepy to see it despite being told as kids it could fall from the sky at any moment??