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[notyourfathersosborn]

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[resipiscent]

Yeah, of course. I... didn't necessarily want to tell him all that, though.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

I don't blame you.

When May and I got here, she... kind of let some things slip about my future that I'm not too happy about knowing. Not because It bothered me to learn them, but because I know there's nothing I can do to prevent any of it.

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[resipiscent]

... Yeah. I mean, there's a chance... that things can go differently. Just because someone tells you the future that they know, doesn't mean things are concrete. But I'd be bothered by that, too.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

Yeah, I know. But it's more the helplessness. I can't take this knowledge back with me in the hopes that if things do start to go that way, I can change them.

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[resipiscent]

Mmhmm. I... for me, all that stuff has already happened. So I guess I have the opposite problem.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

Isn't it the same problem though, in a way? You have this knowledge that you could, in theory, pass off to Sora... to help change your timeline for the better... only it wouldn't help either one of you, since he wouldn't remember it when he got back.

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[resipiscent]

Yeah. And I don't know if even if he remembered, would it change my past? Or just his future? If you subscribe to that many-worlds theory, then if Sora changed something, he could branch off into a different timeline than I'm in.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

If he wasn't already.

Did I ever tell you that pretty much all of the people I know of from back home are from a completely different timeline from me?

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[resipiscent]

Really? You didn't. That's... it must be so weird.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

You have no idea.

My grandfather'd been dead for over 10 years back home, for starters.

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[resipiscent]

I figured that would be how you got his name. But then he's here... is he from the past, though, or just a timeline where he didn't die?

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[notyourfathersosborn]

Yeah. I'm named after my grandfather and my father. Norman Harold. But back on topic, yes, he's definitely from a timeline where he didn't die.

[That second time.]

They all seem to be from that one, as far as I can tell.

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[resipiscent]

[He looks thoughtful, then:]

Are you as you are now, in that timeline?

[That might have been tactless.]

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[notyourfathersosborn]

Do you mean am I dead?

No. Far as I can tell, I'm also about 8.

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[resipiscent]

No, I just meant the same as you are now. I mean, if they recognized you, then you're obviously there, in some capacity.

So then, if you're eight, then they're sort of earlier than you are?

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[notyourfathersosborn]

[Shakes his head.]

No, it's definitely different. Certain people from my universe, who would have been born by then don't exist. [*cough*May*cough*] My grandfather's history has been.... heavily altered.

No, it's different altogether.

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[resipiscent]

[He squints. That is so weird.]

Wow. I mean, with the people from my world, one of them had been completely erased from everyone's memory until we got here. But nobody's stories... don't match up like that.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

[Comics!]

I know alternate timelines are possible. A friend of mine's been sent to one where some of the people closest to them were all evil.

But it's one thing to hear about it, and another to experience it.

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[resipiscent]

Yeah. I mean, I can imagine, but I can't... really know.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

[He nods. Exactly.]

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[resipiscent]

Hey, Normie?

[He's quiet for a moment.]

Thanks for getting in touch with me. I really appreciate it. Another friend disappeared around the same time as you did, so...

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[notyourfathersosborn]

Hey... no problem. After what happened with May, and what you went through with Sora, I figured I should check in.

Not that I'm comparing me to your closest friend, but the sentiment stands.

I'm sorry you lost another friend.

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[resipiscent]

... No, it's... he's come back, so... it's not that big of a deal. I just...

[He frowns, unsure how to put this.]

I just didn't know how to feel, you know? It's the same as I feel when I think about Sora and Kairi coming here.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

It's bittersweet.

I get it.

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[resipiscent]

Yeah. Guess I don't really need to tell you that.