Memories

[asonoficeandfire]

Who: YOU
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: All of day 196

[ Need a distraction from every day life and trauma games? How about an awesome new memory instead? What could possibly go wrong?

Time to roulette and hope you don't get more trauma with your trauma. ]

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Finally! A time traveler.

[Checks off something in a notebook]

I was missing that on my bingo card.

[time5kip]

Does it count like this? You missed the actual time traveling memory — you know, to the future. Backward's only half of it.

I'll play it back for you for 300 points.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Sorry. Saving up for a spa, but nice try. Besides.

[And snaps the notebook close]

Returning to your origin point safe and sound - isn't that more impressive than getting lost somewhere in space and time?

[time5kip]

I'll grant you that the end result is much more desirable - but considering I figured out the specifics of time travel on my own, I'd say I have a right to consider both feats impressive. You know, for people like you, at any rate.

[ that last part is 100% meant to be an insult ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[If it was about any other topic, he would be insulted. But for this one - he definitely looks intrigued]

How'd you do it without equipment to keep your consciousness from dispersing?

[time5kip]

Ah, if only I had a memory that showed the process.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[He sees what you did there]

300 points, you said?

[time5kip]

[ he did not actually expect it to work ]

I feel like this is a terrible business decision, but I'll take just the 100 for the broadcast. Help me with a live sometime down the line and we'll be even for the rest. That way we both earn more.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Sends him 100 points. Valour gets a notif! Without Intensity ever touching his phone]

Double bingo. A time traveler and someone with business sense.

Very well. I agree to your terms.

[time5kip]

Good. You're in charge of figuring out how we can combine our live requirements.

[ a deal's a deal, so. He's going to replay this memory for him. It doesn't actually EXPLAIN the specifics of time travel, so it only really shows him doing it - but it's certainly featured more compared to the memory he took now. From this memory it's clear he's not using any external devices, and only his own powers. He's basically altering the fabric of reality both with space and time travel. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Did he just...?]

I didn't know there was fine print to this deal.

[But he watches the memory and looks vaguely annoyed that ah, yes. Of course. Magic. His least favorite subject in the history of ever.]

I see.

So you yourself are able to warp space-time. Or more appropriately -- were able to warp space-time.

[time5kip]

I never said it was technology-based. Or that I'd put any amount of work into our joint efforts.

Though I did end up working for an organization that was tasked with preserving the timeline, so I assume they had other methods of time traveling.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Preserving? How did it get fucked up in the first place?

[time5kip]

Your guess is as good as mine on that front. Something exciting to look forward to next time.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

At least your memories are exciting. You could be like that poor schmuck who only gets memories of riding airplanes and picking his class schedule.

I bet the fans are using him for self-inserts.

[time5kip]

I really don't want to know what the fans are using any of us for. Judging by some of the material floating around during fanmail, it can't be good.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Establishing their brand, of course. Just like the rest of us.

Or vicariously living through as they live their tortured, greying lives.

[time5kip]

Either of, huh.

All this incredibly interesting talk aside, I am admittedly curious as to why you were interested in time traveling to begin with. Are you honestly just notating any type of oddity you come across?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Is time travel so different than travel though space? You're just moving through a different axis of dimension.

And the latter I am most definitely interested in. Since that solves the living in a glass cage problem.

Interesting they would pick up someone with your abilities. Seems like they're making a potential enemy out of someone I wouldn't be on the wrong side of.

[time5kip]

[ There's a sigh at that first part though honestly he sounds more annoyed at himself than anything else ]

Well, you know. That's exactly what I thought and it got me stuck in the future for forty years, so. Looks like it's not that simple, after all.

That said. Who knows, maybe I'm surprisingly docile.

[ he manages to say that with a straight face but it's like, 100% obvious he's not ]