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This causes the ghosts of all those beings to form around the same spot, and if the imprints of post-living consciousnesses are too similar to each other to parse out, they will merge forming a ghost that had 2 or more living counterparts. Sometimes multiple ghosts will form, but there will be less ghosts then beings who died. This is more likely if the living beings had similar thought patterns upon death and very similar life experiences.

While cross-species merging is very rare, it can happen if there's a lot of members of one species and they overpower the imprint of the other species.

Animals with very big and complex brains like humans tend to resist merging and retain more of themselves in cross-species merging with animals that have smaller brains.

So, assuming that Wulf doesn't choose to look like a wolf because he's a furry, he may be the ghost of some guy plus the ghost of that guy's many dogs. Maybe he was a dog breeder, owned a pet store, or just had a lot of dogs.

In order to result in Wulf, the man and his dogs would all need to die at the same time in the same way.

He may have a dog sledder, so hypothermia or getting lost were a risk, but since he doesn't have an ice core that's probably not how he died.

Neutral Moresnet was a territory between Belgium and Germany that in 1908 made Esperanto one of it's official languages. It was annexed by Germany in WWI, given to Belgium and renamed Kelmis, then annexed again in WWII, then given back to Belgium. In WWI the territory was mostly untouched during the annexation, so if Wulf is from there and died during an invasion, WWII is the best option.

He may have died trying to flee soldiers with his dogs and puppies.

Makes sense. Especially with Wulf having animal instincts

Tbh I think his form also relates to his death. I feel like he was killed being mauled by wolves while trying to run.

The fic anon is talking about

Danny’s not going to call the cops

Danny isn’t going to call the cops, nor are his coworkers. The police’s track record when it comes to minorities isn’t great, even if Danny is not visibly part of the minorities he falls into.

They also all know from a cursory check of Dick’s Wikipedia page that Dick used to be a cop, so from their perspective odds are the cops will only make the problem worse. Stalkers feel entitled to their targets and will lash out if their target attempts to deny the stalker access.

Their strategy is to keep quiet and hope it all dies out once they leave Gotham. Danny could leave early but he really wants to present and if he did there wouldn’t be a story.

If someone did call the cops

The officer who got the call would be very confused. They tell Jim Gordon, who calls Dick and Steph to ask about it. The police think it must all be a misunderstanding and don’t take it that seriously.

Depending on how entitled Dick and Steph are feeling, they may start going after him more and even go after his coworkers. It’s fine. They don’t want to hurt him or anything. They just want to talk to him!

If they instead realize the error of their ways, they may go after him more because they’re trying to apologize to him. They’ll have the wherewithal to realize they shouldn’t approach him as civilians and try to approach him as vigilantes. They plan to tell him they’ll take care of the stalking, so he doesn’t have to worry about it.

The problem is by that point Danny has already gotten a call from Wes about the Waynes and knows the Waynes are Gotham’s vigilantes, so he’ll be avoiding them too.

Would the newspapers help?

They would probably want to get Danny or someone from NASA to comment on it, and they would be asked not to publish until Danny is out of Gotham.

Would social media punish Dick and Steph?

Sure! Just make sure to give credit, and give me a few days to get some post-publishing editing out of my system before recording it. Should be good in 72 hours.

Whenever I'm reminded of my own work by comments or asks, I usually reread it (very enjoyable since I write things I want to read), but I inevitably find grammar errors or word choices I no longer agree with and edit it. "What's a Circle?" is no exception, and I've already edited it a bit to make it flow better.

But I've been flip-flopping on whether I should update Sky's last line from "Triangles haven’t been invented yet" to "Circles haven’t been invented yet." On one hand, Sky is more flabbergasted by triangles not being invented yet than circles. On the other hand, making the line about circles would be more relevant to the title of the fic, make the story go full circle, if you get what I mean. Which do you think is better?

And there's this line.

“Yeah, things started being made of triangles recently, but after rendering they end up looking like squares,” said Four.

-Faer

I wrote it *check the date created on the document* 2 years ago. I think it was around the time that Atla was getting a renaissance because the animated show was on Netflix. It's about a man and a woman who are regulars at the Pao Family Tea House, the first tea shop Iroh and Zuko worked at in Ba Sing Sei.

They speculate about the origin of Iroh Mushi and Zuko Li and how they ended up here when they're clearly ethnically Fire Nation based on their eye color. Their theory is very plausible with the information they have. Only dialogue is written, with letters to denote who's talking.

This snippet is about half of it.

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“Tea here is so good. Tea in the lower Ring has been sorely lacking until Mushi started here.” w

“Yes, his son Li is such a nice boy, too.” m

“Oh no, Li isn’t his son, he’s his nephew.” w

“Hmm, where are his parents then?” m

“Well, his parents probably… didn’t make it here. Refugees. You know how it is.” w

“Oh. Oh dear. …Do… do you think maybe it has something to do with Li’s scar?” m

“It seems likely. It was probably from a firebender.” w

“Hmm, actually speaking of firebenders, don’t you think that Li kind of looks like one? I mean, he doesn’t look like he was from the earth kingdom.” m

“Well that may be true…” w

“Shh! He’s coming.” m

“Here is your tea sir and ma’am.” z

“…” w

“…Well, those are definitely fire nation yellow eyes.” m

“Is it just me, or does his scar look like a palm?” w

“You think so?” m

“Yes. It looks like some firebender had a flame in their hand, and pressed it against his face, and just… held it there.” w

“Oh my, that sounds awful, why would—oh. Oh no.” m

“What is it?” w

“If I’m right, Li isn’t from the Fire Nation. But… I think his father is. Maybe a soldier got a little handsy while raiding a village and, well, Li is unfortunate enough to take after his father. Or his mother. It could be his mother, but if it was, he’d probably be in the Fire Nation and not here.” m

“You think his father did that to him?” w

“Instead of leaving his bastard child running around looking like him? He was probably trying to kill poor Li, and his mother didn’t survive” m

“And now her brother is the only family he has left.”  w

“Exactly.” m

“…” w

“Actually, that theory doesn’t make sense. Because Mushi also looks of Fire Nation origin. Never mind.” M

“Oh no, that actually also works.” W

“Really?” m

“Yes. Think about it. A fire nation soldier found out about his bastard child. He goes to the mother’s house, kills her, and is going to kill her son by burning his face. How does Li survive? The only way that makes sense is if someone was there to stop him, like, say, a fellow soldier. His brother even. Mushi sees Li, realizes that’s his brother’s son, and stops his brother from killing the boy. He deserts the army in disgust and decides to raise poor Li himself.” w

“You know that actually sounds plausible. Maybe we should ask…” m

“Oh no. I doubt they’re comfortable talking about it. I wouldn’t want to intrude.” w

This could be incredibly angsty and terrible for Wulf or hilarious.

I don't remember how well Wulf understands English. Let's assume his understanding is poor, Spectra's understanding of Esperanto is zero, and that Spectra doesn't know that Wulf isn't fluent in English.

Wulf may know Spectra by reputation and knows that she's trying to make him feel bad. He pays attention to her tone and guesses what facial expressions he should be using based on that. He only speaks in dog noises and whimpers to not let her know he doesn't understand a word she's saying.

From my wip file for A Fishing Rod in Hand is Worth 2 in System Memory

“Princess, the Four Sword must remain where it is. That was the decree of generations past and will continue to be the decree for future generations,” said a shrine maiden whose name Link did not know. She was dressed in blue.

“I had seen a great evil in Hyrule’s future. I need the sword or Hyrule will fall to ruin.”