#emc2

sorry if this is weirdly specific or just irrelevant, i am a bio major who is rereading mc escher and got curious :-)

If memory serves I believe that I wrote it as the ancestors of both species were present at the same time and in the canon timeline we got regular homo sapiens and in mce you have psychovirales in the present instead. Though they'd have been very close and intermingled as species (in the same way that we have neanderthal dna).

You could argue evolutionarily that perhaps psychovirales traits were too costly or not as effective in the main timeline and fell out of the gene pool. Alternately, the behaviour of their species were just less successful in the main timeline, likely due to how they act. The psychovirales humans are *strong* and great pack creatures but they've got downsides with that, like your soulmate dying being so devastating. The canon human kids are unsettled a fair few times by the psychovirales humans, after all!

Given that soulmarks work with other species as disparate as trolls it'd make sense for psychovirales soulmarks to show up on their other hominid cousin species, but I'm not gonna say that they're actually just one of those species themselves.

In the canon timeline I think psychovirales would have had to have faded out as a population before modern humans were around, otherwise they'd have shown up in oral records.

As for when psychovirales evolved the marks i think that'd be really interesting because it'd be so hard to tell when it started from an archeological record. But, given that you're already dealing with the magic-y nature of it, there'd definitely be a benefit to the confirmation part of the mark at least. That'd be really easily carried on genetically given that it's finding your *soulmate*, and from there selecting for easier to understand marks is pretty straightforward.

Carolina Crown - E = mc^2 stimboard (remake)

dirk goes to murder bro while dave and rose exorcise and destroy cal both leaving the other alive and still capableof hurting them

its also very interesting how different they are

same idea but different ages, and now dave has 2 soulmates nice funny that its him and not sollux

but it changes so much

poor john ow

poor hal yikes

poor everyone jesus

wait i was reading the comments tfym gamzee got cal

momlonde and bro are horrible in different ways and care about each other enough to both make the abuse potentially lighter in some parts and so much worse in others oh no

it does seem a lot like at least some if not all of the kids are going to have different classes, someone pointed out that dave seems to be leaning towards being a rogue and i personally think rose doesnt seem as passive as a seer usually implies and i think karkat might be a mage? bard dirk?(hope not) its been a while since i read imma bit rusty on the plot

i love both emc2 and 22sl because we know everything but we also know nothing its so fun i am in pain :D