time travel texting.

[hapertas]

THE BIG FAT TIME TRAVEL TEXTING MEME.

How does it work?
- You post your top-level as usual.
- People reply, but the catch is, magical shenanigans intervene and poof! You're getting a text from someone you know, but it's 3 years too early or 10 years too late! What spoilers will you learn? Will you accidentally reveal some of your own?
- You can use this to explore forward-dated scenarios or have characters interact before they "met," or at least before one of them knows they met.
- When you reply, notate in the header when your character's tagging from.

Comments

[osmic]

i think about it.

but i sleep more soundly

[gunflowers]

You don’t regret it, though. I regret it. Our circumstances are different, i think.

Do you feel less human?

[osmic]

they are

i dont know. im not human in the first place. but i wanted to be as human as i could be... now it feels like i cant ever be that

[gunflowers]

is that a bad thing? just be you. not really human, but with all these feelings and thoughts and things that make you the person you are, and that we all love. who cares if you're not 'human', what the hell does it mean in this place anyway

[osmic]

i just meant.

fae are... humans are better. fae dont care about other kinds but their own. they have fun with other peoples lives. thats what i dont want to be

[gunflowers]

have you ever done that?

[osmic]

i used to think the way they did. i never sought out my own humans to mess with, but... i used to agree it didnt matter if a fae had their fun with them and ruined them.

[gunflowers]

you've not done that here. as far as i can tell, you've not been that way since you met dash. probably before that, even, right, you've lived a long time. what matters is now, making amends, making things better.

isn't that what you've told me before? that, and that the voices in your head are feeding you lies.

[osmic]

before dash. i met someone. a human. and he changed my mind

theres only one voice

[gunflowers]

that's what matters, i think. the fact that your mind was changed.

your own, right?

[osmic]

i guess.

no. i think it likes to disguise itself as my voice. but it isnt mine

[gunflowers]

do you know whose it is?

[osmic]

yes. the faerie queen's. my mother's

[gunflowers]

shit, I didn’t know you -

You’re royalty

[osmic]

no

no im not. i want nothing to do with it.

[gunflowers]

that doesn't mean you're not. but hey, i promise, i won't ever make it a thing. i get it.

[osmic]

im not. i deserted for a reason.

im seen as a traitor, not royalty. and thats what i want to live as

[gunflowers]

we have more in common than i thought

[osmic]

yes, we do

[gunflowers]

...thank you, for telling me.

[osmic]

thank you for listening