The excelschians in Excelschiaverse are all pretty much the same. They’re
like AI assistants, except that they can only be seen by the person to which
they are assigned. The form spontaneously, to about half the population of
Earth, and there appears to be no common link amongst the people who are
chosen. No evidence has suggested that some kind of higher being is
responsible for this in any way. Some see it as proof of a God, but it’s all
just circumstantial. Those who study them have not come to any definitive
conclusions. All they have found is that if someone were to hypothetically
exchange their excelschian with someone else’s, nothing would change. It
would still be able to transform itself into whatever shape the human
wanted, it would still look human, and it would still not be able to
interact with the real world. There are a couple exceptions to the rules. In
one case, an excelschian appeared to develop some kind of personality, and
personal agency. It started considering itself to be an independent being,
and believed that it had the same rights as any corporeal individual would
have. Unfortunately for it, and its physical human, there was no way to
prove this either way. Only the human could see his excelschian, and while
he made every attempt to fight for her rights, it was impossible. The human
could have been lying, and no one would know. And even if the right
authorities agreed to grant the excelschian her natural rights, what would
that mean? How would that play out? She still wouldn’t be able to
communicate with other people, and she couldn’t get a job, or contribute to
society. All she could do was ask her human to let her make her own choices,
which he did happily, and that’s as good as it ever got for the both of
them. They even later fell in love.
There was another exceptional case, where the excelschian did not have
trouble with people seeing him. Quite the opposite. Overtime, people around
the human to which he was assigned started being able to see him, but only
those who did not have their own excelschians. He didn’t develop his own
personality, but he did end up with the compulsion to help everyone who was
able to see him. He wasn’t exposed to just anyone who happened to pass by,
but it was still a lot of people. So he began to serve as a sort of
community excelschian, but this started causing problems. Who deserved him
the most? Who decided what questions he answered, and when. It became so
confusing that the original human had to run off to the other side of the
country, and never come out of her apartment. The last major exception
involves a human who found herself capable of seeing any and every
excelschian. The world became a crowded place as she watched others ask
their questions, and heard the answers. They didn’t answer
her questions, which she tried as an experiment, but that was fine.
The real problem was that it was difficult for her to move around in the
world, because though she still couldn’t touch the excelschians, she never
lost her instinct to give them space, and walk around, as she would do for
anybody. She too had to run away from civilization, though not quite to the
same degree. She just had to make sure she wasn’t around too many people who
had excelschians. She actually tried to join a community of
non-excelschianed humans on the edge of town, but those were pretty
exclusive, and always at least a little racist, so they rejected her
applications. These exceptions were not heralds of the future, or changes to
the status quo. They were just different, and the chances of them happening
were never zero.
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