04. [video] (locked from Shuten and Shin)

[yagyu-nasuti.livejournal.com]

[Nasuti seems to be a regular fixture on the network, isn't she? Hopefully she's not getting on your nerves. She's just an inquisitive young lady. Humor her?]

So I heard that some of you have decided to test fate when it comes to the lives of those you know. That's none of my business, really, but I do really want to know...

For those of you that have spared someone a deadly fate, how did it affect your world's history? Did the thing they died for end a different way?

...I guess what I'm wondering...has saving anyone's life caused...negative repercussions?

Comments

[yagyu-nasuti.livejournal.com]

I see. So it is a matter of the event passing in the other, earlier version of the world.

Say you have several instances of your world in touch with the community, each earlier. If you go into the earliest one, make changes, will it somehow affect the other two?

...I guess you can't be too sure, can you.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

That's part of what I was worried about - I wasn't sure if it was really my world, or another that happened to be identical. I did my best to make sure the members of the community from that world never worked out who I was; it wasn't hard, since I looked a lot different at the time.

I know there are people who have prevented incidents that would have ended in another member's death, but as far as I know they've never done that to their own world. Partly because the timeline discrepancy happens so seldom, I think.

[yagyu-nasuti.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I will be able to get any definitive answers, then...it's troubling.

[Locked]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Is yours on your world as well, then?

[Locked]

[yagyu-nasuti.livejournal.com]

[Nasuti lies through her teeth.]

It's a theoretical question.

Re: [Locked]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

[Zel humors her. Rather obviously.]

If you say so. Is the person being saved in the question on the same world as the one who would be doing the saving?

Re: [Locked]

[yagyu-nasuti.livejournal.com]

Same world, different points in time. Yes.

[Locked] WOW that was not the right icon

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Hm. Then my advice would be to think about the possible consequences carefully and consider if they think they can deal with having caused them. And whether they could deal with seeing it happen to someone else but not themselves, as well as whether they could deal with having it happen to themselves.