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[dupable.livejournal.com]

Okay, so the City is pretty much part of a pretty regular version of Earth, and I have seen Christmas decorations all over the place so it's pretty safe to assume that it has normal Earth holidays right? Uhm, wait, unless my Earth is the one with weird holidays.

[ Pausing and scrunching up his face thoughtfully. It's like he JUST NOW thought of that possibility and is suddenly boggling over the idea. ]

Are Christmas, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah still normal holidays here? Because I think those are the normal ones where I am from. Also I have never celebrated the Kwanzaa or Hanukkah, so I don't actually know what's normal for them, but I know it involves candles, but... people still get trees to decorate for Christmas, right?

[Rose, Dave and Jade]

This is all relevant because we need to get a Christmas tree before the 25th!

Comments

[dupable]

Which is why we use time travel to be there.

[glowsferatu]

Despite the high likelihood that use of such a method would likely only complicate the point from which such a journey would originate?

[ she doesn't really like time travel it's such a pain to have to think about ]

[dupable]

If the options are a complicated timeline verses bringing friends back? Definitely.

[glowsferatu]

But those are not the only possibilities among the likely outcomes. You neglect to mention the one more certain to occur.

[dupable]

What one?

[glowsferatu]

A more convoluted and unraveled timestream in which these friends are only brought to the same fatal ends despite our intervention.

[dupable]

... But there is a chance they can be saved, right? Even if you don't think it's likely, you can't say for sure it is completely impossible?

[glowsferatu]

Beyond any doubt?

I'm fairly certain that any correction would corrupt the timeline, but there is the slim possibility that my not being an expert on such matters may allow for some question.

[dupable]

Then it's still worth trying!

[glowsferatu]

It would be a waste of time. Aradia or Dave would likely tell you the same, if they would even be inclined to save her.

[dupable]

I will find out from the two of them themselves then.

[glowsferatu]

If they happen to contradict me, I hope you would share that information.

[ maybe she wouldn't mind a little hope ]

[dupable]

[ That's the spirit! ]

I will definitely do that.

[glowsferatu]

[ and with the mood alleviated, she's starting to feel self-conscious about this whole conversation ]

Right, very well. I don't know why I even discussed the topic to begin with.

[dupable]

It's okay, it just means that we have something new to think about when we go home. I am going to go look into this a little now though, I will tell you when I hear something we can do to help everyone that died back in our universes.

[glowsferatu]

That seems even less likely.

Paradox space requires the purging of a previous universe to prepare itself for the gestation of a successor.

[dupable]

Okay, you are doing that thing where you say really cynical stuff instead of trying to fix things. Just let me talk to Aradia and Dave and see what we can come up with.

[glowsferatu]

Cynical, perhaps. But the preparation of the birth Skaia hoped to accomplish was the role I fulfilled within the game. These aren't matters I am fully ignorant of.

But whatever, fine. I don't suppose they lack any excess of time to waste.

[dupable]

Exactly!

So talk to you soon when I figure out how this all works. Later, Kanaya.

[ And he's off! ]