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@joe.jones

[malta]

[ because bucky gave him a single feel: ]

My name is Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn al-Kaysani. My mother called me al-Tayyib. You can still call me Joe.

[ or whatever she wants, but now she knows ]

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do you want me to call you joe? it's your name, your call. that's how it should be.

[malta]

I have been called some version of Yusuf for centuries, Joseph is simply the English language equivalent.

If you would like to call me Yusuf, you can, Nicky does still. You met me as Joe, it works the same.

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that's not helpful

if you have no preference, i'll stick to joe for now. see what happens.

[ mostly bc that's what andy calls him, so nile will follow her lead for a little while, see if anything feels more natural along the way. ]

[malta]

You knowing was all I wanted. What you do with that is for you to decide.

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i can't believe after 900 years you don't have a preference

[malta]

My preference is "not Joey".

If you call me Joey I will stop being friends with you.

@glimmer.moon

[sparklequeen]

Hi, I'm Glimmer. Joe said I might be able to talk to you about, uh. Lifespan stuff.

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i feel like he's more of the expert, considering he's a lot older than i am.

but he did say you might be new to the whole longevity thing too.

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jojo?

[malta]

Get out

[sparklequeen]

Yeah. My mom is. Or was, I guess, immortal. And I might be too? At least when I get back to normal? So I've just been stuck thinking about that means for me for a while. And she's not going to be around to have those conversations with me.

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only one of us was the actual right age for that song

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honestly i still haven't really sorted out what it means for me either

it's my reality now, and i'm working up from there. did you always know you were gonna end up like your mom?

[sparklequeen]

I kind of assumed I would, but I never really thought about it. I assumed she'd be around for me to talk to her about it when it started to be important. She wasn't, though.

I'm not even sure that I am! But... I'm wondering now.

[malta]

I'm 33.

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physically

[malta]

[ mentally he is 12 so split the difference ]

Exactly. I'm 33.

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yeah, no real way to tell as long as we're here.

i was killed in action, but then i woke up perfectly fine. took me by surprise, to say the least, so the possibility never dawned on me. it wasn't supposed to be real.

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but you'll still never have the 13 year old girl experience

[malta]

That has nothing to do with age.

[sparklequeen]

I've... never been killed. I just know my mother didn't age.

@sebastien.booker

[livrer]

Nile I have a question

About the dreams

[ Because something has occurred to him and he has to test this theory out. ]

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the dreams here or the dreams at home?

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we don't age either, apparently, but it's more like a healing factor. did joe explain how it works for us?