Linear lines: what does and doesn’t matter

[narcasse]

Building on this and this. Triggered by this by nekonexus.


If an entity (let’s call him Vlad) doesn’t exist in a timeline, has never existed and will never, within reason, exist then it doesn’t matter where else he might be crossing over from. It doesn’t matter if he may be related to another entity (let’s call him Radu, for argument’s sake) or if he’s similar enough to Radu’s Vlad to fill the quantum slot. As long as Vlad has never existed and will never exist, if Radu wants to open a planar portal and pull Vlad through; he can do so without worrying about time-disruption consequence because he’s not touching on the linear progression of his quantum world at all. Similarly, it’s nothing to do with kinks in the chain of logical progression because Vlad’s logical conclusion in the chain has nothing to do with Radu’s reality. If it happens; it happens and nothing else is terribly affected by it.

It’s only when you have supplanting issues with a previous version (which we’ll call Orpherus) replacing the current version (we’ll call him Dietrich) that problems arise because Orpherus does exist historically and by putting him in Dietrich’s place, you’ve just attempted to fold linear time. Not only that, because you’re trying to put Orpherus into a Dietrich-shaped slot; reality will reject him as not actually being the best fit. Vlad almost fitting isn’t the same because he doesn’t and he’s not meant to in the first place.

Which also explains Eris’ thread because Discord is dipping into hundreds and thousands of shifting reality lines, while Hephaestus has to work within the constraints of those established lines if he’s going to inspire anything. Order and Chaos; balanced. Necessity; the mother of invention after all hence the established framework and Discord; containing all possibilities, therefore tweaking the framework accordingly.


And of course I am and am not talking about my point directly as per usual. ^_~

Comments

[alucards-bane.livejournal.com]

I see...I imagine that I will. I dissected a pig heart once, and that's the only dissection I managed to stomach.

I think all that they're allowed to dissect now are frogs, maybe not even that anymore if PETA got involved. Creating TNT legally must be freaking fun. <3

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

There was a skinned frog in formaldehyde in one of the cupboards that we always used to admire quite lovingly. Creating TNT on the other hand is much more fun if your lab partner isn’t a complete nit so you don’t have to keep making sure that he’s keeping the ice-bath at the correct temperature to prevent you blowing the entire building up.

[alucards-bane.livejournal.com]

I can't stand the smell of formaldehyde...but love to look at things preserved in it for some reason. Maybe I'll get to dissect something...like a flower. Flowers have no smelly innards.

XDD God, we'd be dead at my college then to be sure. ...all my lab partners have been nitwits. We're supposed to freeze water this week in lab by boiling it. I so can't fucking wait to see that.