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[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

This is getting ridiculous, I had wanted to make a post of asking whichoutfit to choose, as my current attire is still very bloody and quite frankly I don't think anyone wishes to see that any more. Even if these are work clothes...


However. [Kanaya clears her throat.] This isn't the time for rambling--which I don't do but that's obviously beside the point.

My point is, actually, fate. Some people here are not content to let things be; to interfere in things that are not theirs to interfere in. Is the idea of everything having a fated outcome so distasteful to the members of this community?

I may be mistrustful of Scratch but I know better than to interfere. Some things are meant to happen. Both ill and benevolent. (And I know you'll see this, Scratch. I'm not defending your behavior, okay?)

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[carryarifle.livejournal.com]

Uhh... I don't know if I want to ask, but is something else going on now?

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

Some people have taken it upon themselves to try to anger Doc Scratch because they wish to create a doomed timeline, Jade.

[carryarifle.livejournal.com]

Why would they do something like that? That's what we're trying to stop, isn't it?

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

Because they're acting like a bunch of damned idiots? I don't know why people do stupid things--I wish I did so I could stop them from making complete and utter fools. I know I've said that Scratch is not to be trusted but I never said that people should purposefully antagonize him.

To your second question, yes, that is exactly what we're trying to stop.

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[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Reds and blacks look good on you with you current complexion. Green would bring out the color in your cheeks.

And! I'll interfere in what I want to. And if what I'm trying works out, no one dies and no one gets eaten by paradoxes.

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

I always look good in green and...I have green still left in my cheeks? Oh, dear...

It's probably not going to.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Well, you were greenish last time I saw you?

I'm looking anyway. The smuggy cueball has upped the ante and I'm not giving in to him! If he stops being a pain, gives back Samara and gives some straight answers, then I'll stop.

always video;

[hugmyscythe]

[okay, she's going to you because Doc Scratch is dodging whatever she's asking as usual] Perhaps you can answer my question.

If you were not to

meddle,
or help,
or guidethis timeline,would those that are to die soon

still be fated die at that time?

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

Of course they would be. There is no reason that they wouldn't die.

[hugmyscythe]

Yes, yes. I did mean--

so soon,
so prematurely?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Kefka's being an idiot, but if they want to find a way to change things themselves, they can. It's already happened in some ways; I haven't seen Eridan kill anyone yet.

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

Eridan hasn't killed anyone because it isn't time for that yet. If he is to do it, it will be after Aradia's robot body explodes for no reason. Not everything went sour right away.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

And if he doesn't do it?

Aradia's working on a way to keep from exploding.

[originaldragoon.livejournal.com]

If the fated outcome itself is distasteful, then yes, people will do what they can to change it. It was what I did for a very long time on my own world.

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

Why? If things change, then perhaps that's the way fate truly wanted it to be. How can one tell?

[originaldragoon.livejournal.com]

You cannot. Perhaps 'fate' is not truly real, and we only say things are fated if we want something to happen or to justify our own actions.

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

I used to think there were some things that couldn't be altered. Now I've staked a lot on the chance that the opposite is true.

Why are you so certain that things can't be changed?

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

The timelines would cease to exist if they could be changed.

[loyalbound.livejournal.com]

You'll have to elaborate. What timelines?

[docfoul]

[I'VE TAUGHT YOU WELL, GIRL.]

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

[You Dont Know Me I Do Whatever I Want DOC SCRATCH]

[docfoul]

[Sure you do, sure you do. Juuuust keep telling everyone fighting predestination is pointless!]

[voice]

[clapifyoubullieve]

You mean... the things he's saying about most of us dying? You don't think... that's something we should possibly, you know, uhh, look into, more or less?

[voice]

[exceedingwords.livejournal.com]

We don't wish to make a doomed timeline, Tavros. As sad as it is.

[clapifyoubullieve]

Okay, but, I don't know about all that stuff. I find it, uhh, basically confusing, completely and utterly. Why does there have to be an alpha timeline? What's a doomed timeline?