Comments | leon_dormant: Mission Report #17

leon_dormant

Mission Report #17

Oct 02, 2009 10:15

[voice]It had to happen the way that it happened ( Read more... )

today fml, pre-broken for your convenience, child of fate, .cursed, can't sleep time compression will eat me

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withonestone October 2 2009, 18:15:16 UTC

Agonizing over the choices one has made solves little.

leon_dormant October 2 2009, 18:20:09 UTC

I know that. It's just... been bothering me lately.

withonestone October 2 2009, 18:38:03 UTC

How so?

leon_dormant October 2 2009, 18:57:07 UTC

The curse last weekend brought it all back up again. I haven't been able to get it out of my head.

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adamantined October 2 2009, 18:50:01 UTC

Nothing is that absolute. You can't and shouldn't change the past, but you can always help change the future. That's what's important.

leon_dormant October 2 2009, 19:22:57 UTC

I'm not so sure it's not already all set in stone. Predetermined.

But maybe that's just taking the easy way out. If it's all predestined, then that means it wasn't my fault, and nothing I do or don't do will have any effect on what's going to happen. I don't want that kind of responsibility.

Guess I don't really have a choice about it, though.

adamantined October 2 2009, 19:54:14 UTC

I don't think anyone does, and honestly, I kind of find that comforting. Maybe you can't change what's already happened, for whatever reason, but knowing that you can change what will happen?

No, it's not easy, but it's worth it. You've always got the choice to effect the outcome of something.

leon_dormant October 2 2009, 20:01:08 UTC

Then the only thing left is figuring out how.

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cal_sitter October 2 2009, 19:18:36 UTC

Is that really what it takes to keep you going every day?

leon_dormant October 2 2009, 19:27:45 UTC

Most of the time I can get by without thinking about it. It's easier that way.

cal_sitter October 2 2009, 19:54:17 UTC

When you do think about it, do you never think of an alternative?

leon_dormant October 2 2009, 19:59:06 UTC

What, between "my life had to suck or the world would have ended" and "it didn't have to suck, it just did"? Not a lot of middle ground there.

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anti_buttons October 2 2009, 21:17:41 UTC

I refuse to believe in destiny.

But, whatever helps you sleep at night.

leon_dormant October 2 2009, 21:38:25 UTC

It's just kind of hard to argue with a time loop.

anti_buttons October 2 2009, 23:33:27 UTC

I would imagine so.

[voice] kazeno_youni October 2 2009, 21:23:03 UTC

That's right. The wheels of fate have chosen that fate for us. But all that matters is that the mission was a success, which I assume it was.

[voice] leon_dormant October 2 2009, 21:47:11 UTC

Yeah, probably. The sorceress will still rise sometime in the future, but we've already defeated her, so...

[voice] kazeno_youni October 2 2009, 22:27:09 UTC

Will rise again? Is she that strong?

[voice] leon_dormant October 2 2009, 22:52:55 UTC

It's not that. The sorceress comes from the future. We defeated her in the future, but she'll still fight SeeD in the future before we defeat her.

...or something like that. It's a little complicated.

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