5th New Dream

[its_decided]

[Written]

Everypony...

...how would you feel if you got to know what your future would be like and you realized that it'll never come true?

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[And long after the question, Nozomi's busy just being so melancholy. A teacher. She was a teacher. She had her friends, she knew more friends, other girls who bore the name "Pretty Cure" and the worst of all was that she fell in love.

But, that wasn't her. She was like the other Twilight Sparkle, just a program from Mayfield. She'd never experience that at all. And that's what is hurting her right now.]

...I miss everyone...

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[magicalrealist]

That's a possibility that has already been considered, discussed and put to the side until it can be proven or disproven. Now please stop giving existential crises multiple layers; one layer is bad enough on its own.

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[morganknight]

[Huh. He had not known that was possible up until this moment.]

Well, you interrupted before I could get to my next point, which was: what does it matter? As interesting as the search for ultimate philosophical truth is on an intellectual level... what does it really matter? Everything could be true. Everything probably is true.

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[magicalrealist]

It matters when your beliefs and memories are directly ripped from someone else's, when you want to go in that same direction, but it's impossible to do so when you're not that person. It's wanting to go one way and having to go another.

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[morganknight]

The only difference between you and everybody else is that you've thought very seriously about the possibility that you're just a copy... that you believe it. If you didn't believe it, it wouldn't be impossible, would it?

[written]

[magicalrealist]

I don't have to believe I'm just a copy; I know I'm just a copy. Whether or not I believe it doesn't matter.

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[morganknight]

Belief defines reality.

That's why it matters to ask, what if everyone is a copy? It doesn't change anything for anyone if that's true, because they don't know it's true. They go on with their lives. You believe it, and you believe it matters, so it does.

Look at it this way: Say you believe, with all your heart, that you can never go one mile down the road that leads out of town or you'll drop over dead. It doesn't matter whether that's true or not, because you'll never try.

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[magicalrealist]

So you're saying I'll never get anywhere as long as I believe I'm a clone?

[written]

[morganknight]

Oh no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that if you believe being a clone limits you, then you are limited by being a clone.

[written]

[magicalrealist]

(It's a while before Twilight responds.)

...Faith really is a powerful thing, isn't it?

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[morganknight]

Belief defines reality. Metaphorically and literally.

[written]

[magicalrealist]

It can define you are, too.

I'm sorry I came on so strongly; it's a sensitive issue for me.

[written]

[morganknight]

Nothing to apologize for. The question of who and what you are... there's nothing more personal than that.

If it's not prying too much, though... how do you know you're a clone?

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[magicalrealist]

Because of a town called Mayfield. It was a virtual town and everyone brought there was also virtual. Because the higher-ups couldn't bring the original versions to the town, they made digital clones of the ones they tried to bring in. That's what Nozomi and I are.

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[morganknight]

Okay, but -- and I'm sorry, I'm not trying to offend your or anything, I just want to understand -- why do you believe this?

[written]

[magicalrealist]

Because it's the truth. It's not just because they told us we're clones in a digital plane; it's because we were in a digital plane and we couldn't have been there unless we were created to live there.

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[morganknight]

To be fair, I know a couple of people who could have gone to a digital plane despite not being created to live there, but... that's not the point. How did you know it was a digital plane?

[written]

[its_decided]

Oh, Twilight, I'm sorry...!

[written]

[magicalrealist]

Don't apologize; it's not your fault. You're just...going through the same problem I did when I first arrived.

[written]

[its_decided]

I am? I... mmm, I... guess I am.

[written]

[magicalrealist]

I know it's a difficult situation with no easy way out, but with patience and the right support, I know you can make it through this.

[written]

[its_decided]

Thanks, Twilight. Really.

I do want to find a way out, though. Not just from our problems now, but from everything.

[written]

[magicalrealist]

With patience and the right support, I think you can.

[written]

[its_decided]

Then, it's decided! That's what I'm gonna do!

Not just you, not just me, not just Ako or any singular person. I'm gonna help everyone! No matter what, I'll do my best and go beyond who I am, one way or another!

[Oh, Twilight, you should see the determination on Nozomi's face now!]

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[magicalrealist]

(Twilight can practically feel it coming from Nozomi's writing.)

That's the spirit! Just remember that while you're helping everyone, everyone's ready to help you, too. You're not alone, Nozomi; none of us are.

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[morganknight]

Ha, sorry for getting so sidetracked, but I hope what I was talking about with Twilight gives you some help too!