So you heard about some of us disappearing last week and ending up in other places, right? Me, Alex, Blanca and Shiro in one place, and then Chiron, Won, Xie Lian and Ochako in the other. I asked the leaders and they said it sounded a lot like we ended up in a memory of some kind.
Won's group found a report. It sounded like it was written by one of the leaders because it talks about us, and how we're adjusting to everything. And how they took off their mask for someone that was from the same place they were. None of it was really bad, but it sounded like someone who was comfortable.
[first and foremost.] But...when we were trapped in that memory, we fought a monster that said some things to us.
It was like..."Do you believe you can change destiny? Time has already been written. There's nothing you can do, is there? Except try, try again. But you'll never make it."
It was weird because it didn't fit in with the rest of what we'd experienced in that place. And when I struck its sword, time froze around us. And then it said "not yet. But remember, this is your last chance."
I wanted to know if you had any things about it, knowing what we know about the memories and nova. Plus the part where even this place is a memory of a world where the nova's been disturbed.
[ she... just kind of blinks for a second, before her face cracks into a wry sort of smile. ]
Wow, it sounds like someone's been crazy busy since the last time we talked. [ she'll reach out to give him a pat on the shoulder... except. shockie :( ] —Ow! Sorry, I keep forgetting about that...
[ that aside, it looks like it's time for her to go into thinky mode... ]
Could it be that your groups were reliving the memories of the Leaders themselves? They supposedly lost theirs to stop it from happening to us, after all... and if the voice you heard is supposed to imply that their motivation is to change the future...
[ ... sora will get a pulse of apprehension as she trails off. ]
[alyssa gets a cycle of sora being very pleased with himself! and then also very surprised and a slight yelp with the shock.]
I am over that rule. [let him touch people!! but his expression melts back into his own thinky mode as he waits.]
I think...maybe? I don't know about the Leaders, but they're definitely memories. I talked to one of them and they said that's what it sounded like, but when I described it nothing clicked. Could've just been it wasn't theirs, or could've been it really was a mix of stuff they can't identify.
[...he tilts his head.] What do you think about that? Changing things like that.
[ she almost instinctively tries to pat him again, but she catches herself this time! mood af, sora, have some annoyance... ]
Well... maybe I misspoke, because that would assume they even knew about the future to begin with.
[ she tilts her head, contemplative. ]
If you have no way of knowing what to expect, then you could see anything you do as affecting the future, couldn't you? Unless you mean to change the past in order to affect the present, in hopes of a better reality than the one you know—in other words, the future of the past.
[...you know what truly hate that he followed that.]
The last one. I'm thinking about that. Did you hear that places like this and like the space station are just memories that were already affected by the flow of nova being disturbed? Maybe the Realm is taking us there just to show us what could happen and what has happened in order to change what will happen by fixing things that already happened...?
[ i ABHOR the fact that they're vibing on this while we are crying ooc ]
Where I'm from, that sort of thing would be considered a paradox—when something that didn't originally exist in a certain time period starts to affect things there. That in turn causes history itself to start collapsing until the anomaly is resolved, thereby restoring order to the timeline. [ ... ] It sort of sounds like like what we're doing with the nova, right?
I haven't really asked our leaders about that part either. I was mostly trying to figure out what it was we were seeing. Guess I forgot that part. [but...hm.]
But you don't think it was a coincidence either to hear something like that.
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I do have to wonder, though... what exactly is the Realm, anyway? If all the other places it's connected to are memories... are we just in one big memory ourselves, too?
I've wondered that. Like the Memory of all memories. If this is the center, and it's the place where all memories come from, it could explain why it reacts to us and the things we're thinking.
The Leaders don't seem to think it's sentient at all, but that doesn't make a lot of sense when it definitely has its own rules and ideas.
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Oh yeah? This is quite literally my area of expertise. Go on, I'm listening.
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Won's group found a report. It sounded like it was written by one of the leaders because it talks about us, and how we're adjusting to everything. And how they took off their mask for someone that was from the same place they were. None of it was really bad, but it sounded like someone who was comfortable.
[first and foremost.] But...when we were trapped in that memory, we fought a monster that said some things to us.
It was like..."Do you believe you can change destiny? Time has already been written. There's nothing you can do, is there? Except try, try again. But you'll never make it."
It was weird because it didn't fit in with the rest of what we'd experienced in that place. And when I struck its sword, time froze around us. And then it said "not yet. But remember, this is your last chance."
I wanted to know if you had any things about it, knowing what we know about the memories and nova. Plus the part where even this place is a memory of a world where the nova's been disturbed.
[....yup.]
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Wow, it sounds like someone's been crazy busy since the last time we talked. [ she'll reach out to give him a pat on the shoulder... except. shockie :( ] —Ow! Sorry, I keep forgetting about that...
[ that aside, it looks like it's time for her to go into thinky mode... ]
Could it be that your groups were reliving the memories of the Leaders themselves? They supposedly lost theirs to stop it from happening to us, after all... and if the voice you heard is supposed to imply that their motivation is to change the future...
[ ... sora will get a pulse of apprehension as she trails off. ]
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I am over that rule. [let him touch people!! but his expression melts back into his own thinky mode as he waits.]
I think...maybe? I don't know about the Leaders, but they're definitely memories. I talked to one of them and they said that's what it sounded like, but when I described it nothing clicked. Could've just been it wasn't theirs, or could've been it really was a mix of stuff they can't identify.
[...he tilts his head.] What do you think about that? Changing things like that.
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Well... maybe I misspoke, because that would assume they even knew about the future to begin with.
[ she tilts her head, contemplative. ]
If you have no way of knowing what to expect, then you could see anything you do as affecting the future, couldn't you? Unless you mean to change the past in order to affect the present, in hopes of a better reality than the one you know—in other words, the future of the past.
[ i fucking hate time travel ]
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The last one. I'm thinking about that. Did you hear that places like this and like the space station are just memories that were already affected by the flow of nova being disturbed? Maybe the Realm is taking us there just to show us what could happen and what has happened in order to change what will happen by fixing things that already happened...?
...that's really kind of confusing though.
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Where I'm from, that sort of thing would be considered a paradox—when something that didn't originally exist in a certain time period starts to affect things there. That in turn causes history itself to start collapsing until the anomaly is resolved, thereby restoring order to the timeline. [ ... ] It sort of sounds like like what we're doing with the nova, right?
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Yeah...but then you have to ask if there's any way you can do all of that without the timeline collapsing. Can't we find something else to hold it up?
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But you don't think it was a coincidence either to hear something like that.
this got eaten too and i only noticed when i was clearing tabs that there was a tag here im crying
no its fine andie just hates me :pensive:
The Leaders don't seem to think it's sentient at all, but that doesn't make a lot of sense when it definitely has its own rules and ideas.