Dartz Wrote:And a response to whatever message Noah sends:Thanks to Yuku playing silly buggers with forum access, I couldn't get on until now... so here's the message. Or, rather, the messages.
To: "Jet Jaguar" (jet@survival-shot.fen)
From: "Noah Scott" (big-cheese@stellvia.fen)
Subject: An email that may be of interest to you
Hello, Jet. I don't know whether you've met my sysadmin, Takami Sakuragi. She's very good at what she does, and one of the things she does is detect patterns. Real patterns – she has a filter against apophenia. She told me what she figured out about a post that she gave a 97% probability came from you folks.
Please find attached an email that I just sent to everyone I can think of who might want to barge in and help you. We respect your desire to handle this on your own. The best thing we can do for the boy right now is to stay out of his life and not treat him like a sideshow freak. But the best thing you folks can do for him right now is be friends with him. Miyuri thinks Anika would be the best person for him to befriend, out of everyone you have there.
If you decide you want outside help with this, all you need to do is ask and we'll come flying. But until then, StellviaCorp will stay out of your way.
Noah Scott
Proud parent, happy husband, and President of Stellvia Corporation. In that order.
ATTACHMENT
To: "Gina Rhodes" (red-rider@roughriders.fen
CC: "Ben Rhodes" (black-rider@roughriders.fen)
From: "Noah Scott" (big-cheese@stellvia.fen)
Subject: I expect you've seen THAT post by now
I won't insult your intelligence by saying which post, or where. I also expect a few of you have also figured out where it came from.
Most of the StellviaCorp higher-ups (read: the adults in the Scott family who are still resident on-station) have had a meeting about this. We see a couple of matters here that do not require our immediate attention, because the people involved don't want our immediate attention – they want to solve this one themselves. When he's ready to deal with the fact that he's a lookalike of a known fictional character, then we can help him come to terms with being thrust into this crazy world. But until then, I strongly suggest we follow the guiding principle of the Fenspace Convention and butt the hell out of this until they ask us to help. Then, and only then, do we volunteer to get the kid some professional help. Or even some knowledgeable-amateur help; everybody receiving this email is either a lookalike or living with one or more lookalikes, so we have practical experience that most professionals lack.
And he'll need that help. Everything he's sure of is wrong, and everyone he meets who he thinks he knows has changed. (Especially Gina, who left her old persona behind years ago and now has an adopted daughter – I can't begin to imagine how he'll handle that.) But that's for later. The problem that we have to address is how to keep well-wishers and curious people from overwhelming the poor boy. We aren't the only ones who can run the same origin analysis that Takami ran as a matter of course – it'll just take most people longer, if they can do it at all. And I'm stumped here. Any ideas, anyone?
Noah Scott
Proud parent, happy husband, and President of Stellvia Corporation. In that order.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012