xenonym | time travel texting.

time travel texting.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

I don't remember.

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

shit.

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

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

[ 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.

No, I'm still here.

Myung, this isn't funny.

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?

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. ]

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

i know you've noticed. you know me better than anyone else, and you're very observant.

i didn't think i would, either. but i asked, and you said yes. we've - we've been doing well. we don't fight a lot, mainly because of you.

we are. and you're doing excellent. we're both doing the best we can, and she's happy. you're a great dad.

I really know you the best? Of everyone?

We've never had a fight here, I don't think. You're so patient with me. You know, you just came back and I thought about it. How I want to be with only you, forever. I guess it's probably too soon to feel that, but I do. I don't think it'll be hard to say yes when you ask.

It's hard to even imagine it. Being someone's parent. But I like the thought.

yeah, of course you do. you're my one, you're my person. you know everything about me, even the stuff i wouldn't tell ten, or junsu, or minsu.

usually you know how to defuse them before i get too worked up. but we have this one topic we try to avoid because it always ends up in an argument. we never go to bed angry, though.

i just came back? is that - is there when you are? after i come back from that stupid tour?

she's wonderful, too. very bright.

That's a nice thing to read. Your one. I want to be that person. You're that person to me. The one who's most precious to me.

What topic? I'm glad we work it out. That sounds like us. Because you're patient with me.

Was it stupid, really? I know it was hard, but wasn't it good that you went? Even if it was hard.

Shes's like you then.

you know you're already that for me, right? you don't doubt that, do you? i came back from the tour because i realized that you were the love of my life, and i couldn't live without you. you must know that already, don't you?

oh, babe, you're just as patient. i get very worked up over you using other people's powers to help them out, even though it hurts you, like kwang's power. but you're just as stubborn as i am about it.

nowadays, it feels quite stupid, like i should have known really, but i think back then, i needed the experience, i needed that moment of realization.

she's like you, too. all wide eyed innocence and cuteness. although nowadays you use that look to your advantage, you're no innocent baby deer anymore

I think so. I'm starting to. It's not that I've ever doubted your feelings. It's just taking me some time to understand I'm the person they're directed at. To know me.

Do you really not like me doing that? But it helps people and it really doesn't bother me to do it.

If it was good for you in the end, I'm glad it happened. I'm sorry it hurt. It still hurts a little, but we're trying to figure out what comes next together and that's the important thing, right?

I'm an innocent baby deer?

it is. it's all for you. i love you so much.

i hate it. i hate that you're accepting that it hurts, like your own feelings don't matter.

you are like an innocent baby deer sometimes. not always. not when you decide to interrupt a rehearsal to ride me while i'm still sitting on the bench, but... there's still so much innocence to you. it's insanely attractive.

I love you a lot, Myung. You help me see there's things about me that are lovable.

I guess there's some things that are going to be really hard for me to learn.

Do I do that a lot? [ Oh no, curiosity strikes. ] What else do I do?

I'm starting to understand now that you find that part of me appealing.

everything about you is lovable.

you're still learning it now...

oh, i've already given you so many spoilers. there are some things you'll have to find out for yourself.

what, the innocence? yeah, it's appealing. you see the world in such bright colors, and everything is interesting to you. and you want to learn everything about everything, it's so amazing.

I feel like there's some magic that lets you see more of me than anyone else. A better me.

Do you think I'm being stubborn?

That's fair. I'm really curious, but it'll be more exciting if I find out on my own.

Does it make you want to learn things too? I always wondered how it made you feel. Because I know you make me feel more. More of everything.

could it be that you open up to me more than you do anyone else? i'm privileged, i get to see all of you.

you're 100% stubborn. but i also understand that you want to help, any way you can. i just hate that you think other people matter more than you do, because nobody matters more to me than you, and nana.

your innocence, your approach to things, it makes me want to be better, and yeah, it makes me want to learn, and teach, and it makes it easier to experience things without feeling disenchanted with the world. you make it exciting again.

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