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]

i don't know who that is.

[ And boy, does it make him sad to type those words, because there's something about that sight that makes his heart feel weak. ]

[gunflowers]

dash, are you serious right now?

[hapertas]

i wouldn't joke about something like this. i'm really confused, myung.

[gunflowers]

well, so am i. what am i supposed to do? he's right here, dash. he definitely exists.

[hapertas]

ok, there's got to be some explanation. the swamp is doing something weird. but what? did i forget something or...

[gunflowers]

well you must have, because i remember everything since the day he was born

what's the last thing you remember?

[hapertas]

well, the last big thing that happened around here was you coming back from your tour.

[gunflowers]

oh

oh, dash

i've been home for years. dal and i got married. you had a kid.

[hapertas]

what?

ok, i definitely didn't just forget all that. something else is going on.

[gunflowers]

there's jiyun too, but i call her swampette all the time

but. yeah. all that happened. i don't know what's going on.

[hapertas]

is jiyun sage and minsu's baby?

maybe sage or neve or kwang knows what's going on.

[gunflowers]

yeah, she is. she's like... 6 or so. she's a terror

maybe. you should talk to neve

[hapertas]

you love her, don't you?

right. i'm sorry, myung. whatever's happened to me, i'm sorry i worried you.

[gunflowers]

swampette? adore her. she can do whatever she wants, as far as i'm concerned. i'd bury the bodies for her.

no, it's fine, i'm just - i hope it gets sorted out

[hapertas]

you're a good uncle.

me too. i don't like the idea that i could've forgotten this. any of it. i'm scared to ask neve.

[gunflowers]

i try

hey, who knows, maybe it's just a weird glitch in the matrix. it's fine. don't be scared, dash.

[hapertas]

i know you do. i don't even have to see it, but i can picture it perfectly.

i guess it wouldn't be the first time this has happened. something weird, i mean. i'll try to stay calm.

[gunflowers]

okay, good. just go talk to neve. he'll know what to do. i'll take care of minsu in the meantime.

[hapertas]

thank you, myung.

you're good to me. you always have been.

[gunflowers]

no, i haven't. but i try.

[hapertas]

i get to decide that. and i say you have been. i don't know what i'd do without you. it was hard when you were gone.

[gunflowers]

i never felt like i deserved your forgiveness. when you had minsu, i thought maybe showing you how i could care for him would do it.

[hapertas]

oh, myung. i'd take that weight away from you if i could.

[gunflowers]

no, that wouldn't be fair. it's my burden to carry, dash.

you always, always deserve my very best. you've been so good to me when i haven't been the same to you. and honestly, there's little i'd do more eagerly than take care of minsu.

[hapertas]

you've been carrying it an awfully long time.

it's ok to leave it behind now. you can take care of minsu for no reason other than the fact that you love him.