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Topic: Am I Going Fucking Insane
Post Date: 11 June 2032 3:41 PM
Original Poster: MattyG_09
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[paparazzi photograph of Lionel Morganrath and Lyra Morganrath]

[photograph of Tobias Flynn smiling and waving at the camera]

Am I having a stroke or do these guys look fucking identical?  Help me out here.


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Haha, I see it!


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Omg triplets!


"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."

- Tempest Act I Scene 2

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...these are just two blond guys with pointy chins.  Aren't the Pendragons from Ireland, anyway?  Sounds like conspiracy theorizing.

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I think handleitmyself was joking, Grim ^^;


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They're from Wales but yeah, come on, it's a coincidence. People look alike sometimes!


"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."

- Tempest Act I Scene 2

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They're blond espers, honestly I think most espers look sort of alike.


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Damn, anti-esper racism.


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...who's that second guy? :o

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That's Peregrine, he's a teleporter.


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He's not like a teleporter teleporter though, right, he's like... an anime flash-step teleporter?  I think hes based out of the US east coast but I could be wrong ^^;

(Also shadowtax I am charmed by the way your signature reads in that post :p c:)


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at this point i would not be remotely surprised if there turned out to be a secret third morganrath twin who was also an esper.  something going on with that family i s2g... statistically incomprehensible

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(Also shadowtax I am charmed by the way your signature reads in that post :p c:)

:p 

something going on with that family i s2g... statistically incomprehensible

It's not that crazy for two siblings to be espers, is it? I mean obviously it usually doesn't happen, but... Plus, their mom is an esper and that makes you more likely to have Esper kids, right?


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Damn, anti-esper racism.

Listen I got nothing against them, I just cannot tell half of them apart. Props to those who can.


The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   
But I have promises to keep,   
And miles to go before I sleep,   
- Robert Frost
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It's not that crazy for two siblings to be espers, is it? I mean obviously it usually doesn't happen, but... Plus, their mom is an esper and that makes you more likely to have Esper kids, right?

there's still less than a 1% chance for the child of an esper to awaken as an esper, conservative estimates put it at .1% chance.  the odds that any two children of the same esper would both awaken are .1%*.1% = literally and not figuratively a one in a million chance.  there are barely a tenth that many espers in the world and many of them don't have kids at all.  statistically incomprehensible.

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(A bit more than "barely a tenth," but in the broad strokes he's not wrong.)

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...but if there's a 1 in a million chance that it'd happen to one esper family and there's 100k esper families in the world doesn't that mean it's only a 1 in 10 chance that it'd happen once?  Or do I not understand probability ^^;


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Huh. Yeah, okay, that's pretty incomprehensible. 

And we're thinking there might be three of them? Or is this more of a multiple identities sitch. 


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There are, very roughly, 160,000 individual espers in the world.  Certainly there are fewer esper families than 100,000.  But Wendy is (we might say) directionally correct: for we laypeople to observe at least one esper with multiple esper children, it is not necessary that any one particular pair of siblings overcome their .001% chance, but only that, among all the esper parents in the world, at least one of them gives birth to two children who later go on to awaken - less likely than not, but not "statistically incomprehensible."


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euclid i am always amazed that you manage to sound smarmier and more pontifical even than me any time we talk :v but you know, point taken, mea culpa.

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And we're thinking there might be three of them? Or is this more of a multiple identities sitch. 

...I just thought it was weird that they have the same face, breh.


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And we're thinking there might be three of them? Or is this more of a multiple identities sitch. 

You gotta admit that "rich esper's rich kid has bizarre and vaguely sketchy hobbies" has much better odds than "four esper family" 😉

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Could be that someone cracked the trick for telling if a human's going to awaken in advance, and had a lab of test tube babies from a willing esper donor created. They only let the ones that would grow up to be espers live. The mom got to keep two, in exchange for letting the lab have the others, who are being experimented upon as we speak to crack the secrets for how to make all humans espers. Peregrine escaped and is now a vigilante esper on the loose, desperate to show the world the horrors he saw in that lab.

... Or, you know. The lighting's playing tricks on us. One of those.


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Have Peregrine and Pendragon jr ever been seen in the same place at the same time?


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I think we're all missing the real big money item here.

[paparazzi photo of Bryce Lynwood standing outside a green dungeon portal, looking a little haggard and running one hand through his hair]

This guy's partner is fucking *hot.*

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Have Peregrine and Pendragon jr ever been seen in the same place at the same time?

It tracks. Peregrine and Pendragon are even anagrams.

EDITED TO ADD: Don't fucking judge me I was so drunk last night.


ingredience

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[Paparazzi photo of Jamie Starr lounging over a picnic table in nothing but a vest and slacks, staring up at a smirking Ly Morganrath]

Damn leave a few for the rest of us


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It tracks. Peregrine and Pendragon are even anagrams.

I'm judging you, burger. I'm judging you so hard.


"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."

- Tempest Act I Scene 2

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I'm judging you, burger. I'm judging you so hard.

I was briefly confused by this and going "what did I do," and then no, turns out I just can't read.

I think therefore I cannot judge my similarly named colleague of the edible variety in the slightest: sometimes words just kinda do be looking like other words!



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Oh this thread is so funny........ I do not think Peregrine and Pendragon II are the same person. <3

sometimes words just kinda do be looking like other words!

It's true! <33


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I do not think Peregrine and Pendragon II are the same person. <3

But could they actually be secret brothers? You never know! It could happen!

Probably won't, but it could!



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Don't be silly, silly <3


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