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

[hapertas]

our son. neve, i'm so confused. i swear i'm not kidding around here, i don't know what's happening.

[osmic]

where are you? are you hurt? whats the last thing you remember?

[hapertas]

i feel fine. i woke up this morning, i worked on the hat i'm making...

i only left our room once and then just came right back after breakfast. i feel fine. except for not recognizing our son.

well, now i feel sort of sick to my stomach.

[osmic]

dont, its... we can figure this out

maybe its a curse or a spell. you dont recognize him but do you remember him, and everything having to do with him

[hapertas]

that has to be it. some magic.

i don't remember us having a child. i don't remember how it happened. i thought you were talking about minsu and sage's baby.

[osmic]

[ GONNA IGNORE HOW PAINFUL IT IS TO READ "I DON'T REMEMBER US HAVING A CHILD". ]

how old is their baby

[hapertas]

not born yet. sage is still pregnant. neve, what's going on?

[osmic]

i might be from your future

[hapertas]

wait.

that means...

[osmic]

yes.

[hapertas]

oh my god. we have a child? you and me.

we're parents.

that's our son? how old is he? how... how did we meet him? we named him after minsu, that's so perfect!

my head's going a thousand miles a second.

[osmic]

yeah. we do. i... we did it the natural way. thats our son. he's 10 months old

we named him after you. and minsu.

you get naming privileges on the next one

[hapertas]

he's so beautiful. we did good, didn't we? wow.

i can't believe this. i don't even know what to say, really. i didn't know, i mean, i didn't want to assume anything. i guess i hoped...

are we going to try again? you want to?

[osmic]

we did. we did really good

it took a while. im sorry you had to wait so long

yes. i do

[hapertas]

you did good! you're brave.

don't apologize, ok? i would wait a thousand years if i knew was waiting with you.

and i want to, right? that feels weird to ask.

[osmic]

you made me brave

i would never make you wait that long

yeah. you said it first

[hapertas]

does that mean i was able to share some of the courage you gave me?

i know. that's another reason i wouldn't mind waiting. you're always there for me. you never let me down.

i did? really? i sound... better. am i better now? i hope so, for you and for our son.

[osmic]

you were

we both are. we worked really hard to get here

[hapertas]

i'm glad. i'm really, really glad.

and so happy! neve, we have a child. that's the most amazing thing i've ever heard!

we love him so much, right? so much. i can't stop looking at his picture now.

[osmic]

he's everything to us.

do you want... do you want to see more?

[hapertas]

before i do, i have to ask you something.

[osmic]

okay

[hapertas]

i can't remember this happened later. i'll have to forget.

[osmic]

right

you think it might cause problems?

[hapertas]

it feels like it wouldn't be right. it's not that i'm unhappy knowing now! it's...

a treasure. it's special.

but i have to get there the way i did before, if that makes sense.