Proving You're the Genuine You: A Twisted Encounter with Your Evil Twin

In a bizarre scenario, you find yourself in front of the person you love, holding a gun to their head. Facing a cloned version of yourself who shares your memories and physical appearance, how do you prove your authenticity?

Uniquely Identifying Yourself

With the evil clone of yourself now pointing a gun at your significant other, the situation is tense. How can you convince them that you are the real you? Here are a few strategies:

Shared Knowledge and Experience

There will be questions or experiences that only the real you and your significant other know. This is a critical moment to leverage this shared bond. Ask your loved one to pose a question or recount a specific moment that only the two of you know about.

Example: A Personal Affirmation

‘I love you too.’ She always says those three words, even from the very first day of our friendship. And every time I say ‘I love you too’ because we do love each other. But not everyone and their best friends say that. So that’s how she would know it’s me.

Financial Juxtaposition

The evil clone, armed with your memories but lacking your daily interactions, would be more likely to behave irrationally. There are times when you might be owed money or when you’ve borrowed money. Refer to this for a quick proof of existence:

‘Here’s that ten bucks I owe you.’ My evil twin would be yelling at the person to shoot me, and is evil so doesn’t want to give back money and anyway, he doesn’t know I borrowed the money in the first place.

Mental vs. Physical Clones

The evil clone may share your physical appearance but your decisions and memories are not entirely replicable. Here’s a scenario to help distinguish between you and your evil twin:

Example: A Known Fact

“Okay which one of you is the real Marshall? Tell me or I shoot!”
“Just let us go. It’s not like the evil one is gonna do anything.”
“Yeah we both have the same reasons for attacking you when your back is turned.”
“Yeah just because one of us is an evil clone doesn’t mean one of us is more dangerous than the other.”
“But the evil one could betray us when we are not looking.”
“And there is an exactly the same chance the real one would do it as well.”

Given that the evil clone is an exact physical copy, it would behave similarly to the real you in most scenarios. However, mental and emotional differences can help distinguish authenticity. Mental clones might not remember specific experiences or have different emotional responses.

Physical Cloning Limitations

Assuming the evil clone is a carbon copy of your body, it might not share all of your characteristics, such as tattoos or scars. If the evil clone is a 55-year-old human, it would be far easier to spot the real you as you might have distinctive physical features or scars that set you apart:

Example: A Known Fact

“Mom’s husband is a narcissistic bag of dicks that managed to get himself through off of helping brother and brother-in-law build Mom’s cabin through complete and total ineptitude. There’s a reason why the universal reaction to him stepping on a rake and getting himself concussed was ‘Good.’”

Moreover, the global reaction to such a situation would draw attention. An adult clone of a 55-year-old would not likely be set against an infant clone. The real you could mention this fact to highlight the inauthentic nature of the evil clone.

Conclusion

In a world where technology permits not just physical cloning but also mental duplication, proving your identity rests on shared knowledge, unique behaviors, and physical characteristics. Use these strategies to convince the person holding the gun that you are indeed the genuine you.