Chrome Car

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## Mirror World (aka The Chrome Car)

The **Mirror World** (or as it is more commonly said, the **Chrome Car**) is a train car that appears in the episode "The Chrome Car."

## Appearance

The car is a room full of mirrors in random geometric shapes which are randomly replaced with new random shapes. The floor is also one giant mirror.

## Reflections

These reflections in these mirrors are actually sentient beings that are bound to reflect the prime world counterparts for their entire existence. They are unable to break contact with a reflective surface while in the prime world, and are presumably meant to be confined to the chrome car after entering the prime car. This is something Tulip circumvents with her reflection through the use of her swiss army knife or if they wear special suits that cover their bodies (particularly white masks and gloves on their faces and hands), which allow them to leave and enter the mirror world at their leisure at ease, to the point that they can "teleport" between reflective surfaces such as Mirrors, Reflectives screens on cellphones, sunglasses, and water. However, the suits are susceptible to tearing.

Any reflections that deviate from this path are known as "Slivers" or "Cracked Reflections."

The appearance of reflections are similar to the prime but their body is made of metal and their appearance is backwards, like a "reflection on a mirror". Because of their metal bodies, their physical strength is and their endurance to pain is stronger. Their weight is heavier because of their metal bodies which would cause them to sink in water. However, if they make contact with a sander, or anything that can sand or grind metal, they feel pain and start bleeding a metal substance similar to blood, like metallic blood.

## Properties

It is unknown whether the Chrome Car can make reflections self aware, or if it simply gives them the ability to move independent of their prime (the owner of the reflection). However Tulip's reflection seems to have all of the memories of her time reflecting Tulip throughout her life, suggesting it to be the latter. When Tulip leaves the train, she still doesn't have a reflection.

This room's door is opened by the reflection and the prime, switching realms to both open the door at the same time. The switching is a method of allowing the slivers to break the barrier between the prime world and the mirror world.

The reflections don't have another reflection, but they are their own reflection.

## Recycling Reflections

Once a Prime dies, the Mirror Police make the reflection choose between two options;

* Have their memories erased and reflect a new prime
* Keep their memories but become a mirror officer to protect and enforce the barrier

## Law Enforcement

The Mirror Police are enforcers of this barrier who hunt slivers. As in their eyes, the reflections have no purpose other than reflecting their prime. Punishment for a sliver who doesn't turn themselves in or refuses to serve their purpose of reflecting their prime's existence is being polished down into a pile of nothing, as a result: death.

## Trivia

* The Mirror World is similar and shares the same name as the Mirror World from the 2002 *tokusatsu* program, *Kamen Rider Ryuki*.
* The layout of the mirror world contradicts itself so the only way to solve the problem is to say that the shapes random are replaced with new ones.

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