[Didn't he just say he didn't want to get into it? But Enoch wouldn't know what the Ultimate Riddle is, either. Davesprite shifts where he sits, a small motion, but hard to read.]
Even if there's objectively one timeline for the way things have to go, the way that timeline was shaped was still by the decisions of the people in it. My friend got tricked into dying, I spent months leveling up and learning about the game, I went back in time and saved him, then I turned myself into a sprite—the thing I am now. The timeline had to go that way or he'd have stayed dead and not been able to go onto do the stuff that made our team exist in the first place. But do you think I just did it because I had to? That I even knew dick about how time works when I started out? I'm the one who chose it.
The Ultimate Riddle is this whole question of like, how much is free will and how much is left to fate? But it's both. Time has to go the way it goes, but it wouldn't go that way without you being you. That's it.
[It doesn't get into the real meat of doomed timelines, but talking about them isn't something he wants to do at all with Enoch. Not when he's so set on being sad and sympathetic about it; not when the weight of that pity feels like a burden to carry for him. There's times he can take it, but when it's about the decisions he had to make, it's too much.]
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Even if there's objectively one timeline for the way things have to go, the way that timeline was shaped was still by the decisions of the people in it. My friend got tricked into dying, I spent months leveling up and learning about the game, I went back in time and saved him, then I turned myself into a sprite—the thing I am now. The timeline had to go that way or he'd have stayed dead and not been able to go onto do the stuff that made our team exist in the first place. But do you think I just did it because I had to? That I even knew dick about how time works when I started out? I'm the one who chose it.
The Ultimate Riddle is this whole question of like, how much is free will and how much is left to fate? But it's both. Time has to go the way it goes, but it wouldn't go that way without you being you. That's it.
[It doesn't get into the real meat of doomed timelines, but talking about them isn't something he wants to do at all with Enoch. Not when he's so set on being sad and sympathetic about it; not when the weight of that pity feels like a burden to carry for him. There's times he can take it, but when it's about the decisions he had to make, it's too much.]