In Which Boredom Reigns Supreme

[ceasetoexist]

You know, I tried watching the television today, only to remember just how bad it sucked. Seriously, there's nothing but happy crap on and, I'll tell you, not too interested in that. I'd have gone to the library, but I pretty much read most of the stuff they have in the kids section and there's pretty much little to nothing in any of the other sections friggin' worth anything.

So I was thinking: a lot of you people probably came from some interesting places, or did some interesting things, or know some interesting people, or yada-yada-yada. Basically, I'll cut to the chase: tell me about the places your from or the people you know, cause I'm bored as can be and I'll pretty much take anything as a way to entertain myself. You want a story in return? Fine, I can do that; there's a lot of crazy junk I've seen.

But c'mon. Entertain me. I'm bored here.

[Filtered to Franken Fran]

Hey, you're the crazy doctor or nurse or whatever I talked to a bit on the phone during the Soviet schtick, right? 

There's something I want to ask you.

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[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

Like what?

[Somewhere that's better than a forest this does not compute]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Between space and time. No one can find you there, and you can pretty much go anywhere.

[Dead serious. He doesn't really care if you understand or not. He means it.]

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

Space...and time? What do you mean?

[No, she doesn't have a clue what that means.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

.....

Okay, thing of history itself as a big hallway. Now, usually, you can't do anything but walk up the hallway. You can't turn back, right, because time goes forwards, not back.

Well, my machine allows me to make time go back. And not only that, but I can go into different hallways as well. That'd be space. Meaning that I could go to different worlds than just this one, if I had my Time Distorter.

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

...oh.

So...you can go to the past, then.

[Yeah, that's all she got out of it. She still doesn't really understand what he's talking about.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I can.

And to the future.

And to the present in other worlds.

[He doesn't mind. The obvious pride in his voice shows that he thinks its a chance to show off. And he'll always take that.]

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

...can you change things that already happened in the past?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I can.

But here's the catch; it doesn't necessarily change what's already happened. Let's say I went to someone's world and they asked me to change something in their past. I go and change it. But when I come back, everything had still happened to them as if I hadn't changed it.

Because when I change something, it just creates a time-split, or alternate future. I changed it, but it doesn't affect the initial future; it just creates a different one that splits. Because if I could change what had already happened, it would cause a paradox and create a temporal riptide.

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

...I see.

[She can tell that changing past events wouldn't exactly work in her favour, then. She hoped that it would; perhaps he could help her prevent the death of her people. But it seems like that won't happen anytime soon.]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...Which isn't to say it's impossible.

It's just the chances are highly unlikely, and I've never managed to cause it to successfully happen.

[...This empathy thing is hard. He could tell something was wrong, but he didn't know what; it came from years of reading emotions to run cons. But he really hadn't used it to try and really talk with people.

But he was supposed to be becoming a better person. Or at least visibly, so he could get his yo-yo back from that weird kid. Not like he had to change permanently.]

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

Then...maybe you shouldn't. Bad things could happen, couldn't they...?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Bad things can happen no matter what you do.