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

[strewn]

Is that someone who came to the house recently? I think I must not have met her.

You did your best to help, so I don't think you need to apologize.

[gunflowers]

baby, are you okay?

[strewn]

I think so. Are you doing all right?

[gunflowers]

you're acting like you don't know who Nana is. So I'm a little concerned...

[strewn]

I'm sorry. I should've come out to introduce myself if someone new came to the house.

[gunflowers]

dal

honey

Namu's our baby girl.

[strewn]

I don't understand.

[gunflowers]

[ get yourself a picture of the three of them that was stored in myung's phone, a family selfie, with namu in between the two of them, all of them grinning happily. ]

are you ill? is it - is the work you've done with adder reversing and you're losing your memories? what's going on?

[strewn]

[ There's a long pause. ]

This can't be right. I didn't forget this. I couldn't have forgotten this.

[gunflowers]

baby, i'm really worried, right now

where are you? do you have a fever? should i ask adder to come back and check in with you?

[strewn]

I feel fine. I don't feel bad at all. Just shocked. I need to sit.

Will Adder be able to help me?

[gunflowers]

well, he gave you your body, so if there's a problem with it, he might be able to

so you. you don't remember namu, at all? you don't remember when she came into the house and you fell in love with her instantly? and that evening when i got home, you both looked at me with huge eyes as you asked me if she could stay with us for a bit, because we had the space, like you thought for some reason i'd say no? i remember like it was yesterday. best day of my life, followed by our wedding day.

[strewn]

I don't remember.

I don't remember any of this. I just got you back, that's all I remember.

[gunflowers]

shit.

where are you? i'll come to you, okay? we can talk this out.

[strewn]

I'm in our room right now. I don't feel that good anymore.

[gunflowers]

[ Myung goes to check, after leaving Nana with Ten.

But nobody’s there. ]

Baby, did you leave? I’m in our room and it’s empty.

[strewn]

No, I'm still here.

Myung, this isn't funny.

[gunflowers]

no, i agree, it really isn't.

[ Myung sends a selfie of himself, in their room (with baby bed and all, even if Namu sleeps with the other kids these days), empty save for himself. If Dal pays attention, he might see a different haircut, and maybe that Myung looks a little older. ]

i'm here, and you're not.

is this - a swamp thing? is she playing with us?

[strewn]

You look handsome.

[ Not that this is the point, but. ]

Look.

[ A picture of Dal this time, in a room that doesn't look the same without the extra bed and the varying decorations and whatnot that they've accumulated together over the years. ]

[gunflowers]

i look tired, but thank you, baby. so do you.

you look... young. beautiful of course, but young. like when we first met.

and the room's missing a lot of things

[strewn]

I should be taking care of things so you can rest.

We did just meet. Sort of. It's only been a few months. How long for you?

It looks nice in your picture. Cozy.

[gunflowers]

no, you already spent so much more time awake than i did when nana was tiny. i'm fine, don't worry

how long? let me think. 8 years, or so?

[strewn]

Sometimes you say that when you're not entirely fine.

That long? I can't even imagine eight years. Or eight months. And we're together. And we have a family.

[gunflowers]

oh, do I now

we are. we got married a while ago. and then hyunki came to the house with nana, she was only a few days old, and she'd lost her parents. so you and i took her in, and she's our baby now. she loves you to hell and back.

[strewn]

You do. You shouldn't think I haven't noticed.

I never thought I could get married, much less to someone I love as much as I love you. I'll look forward to it.

I'm glad she found us. We're taking good care of her, right? I'm not doing a bad job?