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[boldandresolute]

[When the feed clicked on, it was showing an image of Liquid sitting on what appeared to be the edge of a building.  It was evening, and the sun was in just the right place so that the sky behind him was lit with red and orange, and made his hair blaze like a golden halo around his head.]

[It was all very dramatic and it probably wasn't coincidental

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[tiercelet]

Changing the future isn't that easy. Even if you know what's going to happen.

[Video] gdit I can spell really

[boldandresolute]

I don't expect it to be. But I'm very good at making difficult things happen.

[Video] happens to all of us~

[tiercelet]

[He's torn. While he's been so very cautious about the future since the crystal cave, learning how Arthur dies has only renewed the desire to change things. He can understand Liquid's determination very well.]

It'll be confusing. You think you're changing something, but it turns out you created the future you didn't want by trying to change it. That's something that can happen.

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[boldandresolute]

That is probably good advice.

I am, however, going to fuck things up so thoroughly that I can see any possible way that it will loop back to keep things the same. Well... perhaps someone else will be building the giant robot this time around, but the important part is that it won't be me and it won't be Hal.

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[meatysoviet]

You're human, you have no one's rules to follow but your own.

If you dislike so much then see no reason in letting future come to pass.

You were given such luxury. You should use it.

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[boldandresolute]

I lived my life believing in my destiny. It seems strange to stand against it now, but I fully intend to. I just want to know how much cosmic shit I'm going to be stirring up by doing so.

[text]

[meatysoviet]

Destiny?

Is no such thing. There are cycles, events that happen repeatedly no matter of time period, but destiny is not something I have seen before.

Still, perhaps there is- enough of you humans believe it, so must be something that drives belief.

All I have seen 'destiny' bring is slaughter.

[video]

[vulpesvivus]

...Please get off the roof.

[video]

[boldandresolute]

...I like it up here.

[video]

[vulpesvivus]

James, I'm not helping you when you fall off and break something.

[Except he would.]

[video]

[boldandresolute]

Don't be ridiculous, this building isn't tall enough for me to break something.

[used_fireblast]

Changing the future isn't easy, from what I've heard. Dangerous, too. Universe-ending dangerous.

[He had it explained to him once, by someone a lot smarter than he is.]

You can't change what happens, really. But you can change the circumstances, if you're careful. Kind of like Back To The Future, only with less classic rock.

[boldandresolute]

I'm willing to take that risk.

[If the world tried to end over it, he would damn well put it back together.]

How much can the circumstances be changed? And how do you know what can be changed and what can't be?

[used_fireblast]

Uh, lesse...

[And going with the example that was given to him.]

Say someone knew your car was going to get stolen. They can't prevent it cause that'd be a paradox and Michael J Fox would start fading from existence. But if they warn you to park in a well-lit garage somewhere instead of on the street, it gets broken into instead of taken in a carjacking. The theft still happens, but no one's got a bullet in their head and you don't need to go back to the old west to save a mad scientist.

[boldandresolute]

I've already been told exactly what is going to happen, though. So the whole subtle suggestion part has kind of been thrown out of the window from the start.

Let's take this metaphor of yours and make it a little more like my situation. Let's say that the car is a giant bipedal nuclear deathtank, and I'm the person who's supposed to commandeer it to take over the world. What you're telling me is that if I decide to not commandeer the tank and, in fact, prevent its creator from ever making it in the first place, Michael J Fox will disappear.

[Video]

[freezetheskies]

Something in your world, I suppose. I was able to return home with my memories of this place and what I learned here intact, but it made no difference there.

[Video]

[boldandresolute]

Nothing new, then. I think my world is practically used to me breaking shit in it at this point.

[Video]

[freezetheskies]

At least you'll have experience when it comes to that, then. I doubt it's going to be easy to change things.

[Video]

[boldandresolute]

My life has never been easy, and I don't expect that to be any different now.