Event: Consolidation Theory, Part One and Two

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Characters: red-marked characters
Location: ???
Date: Morning & Day 353
Summary: You wake up in a cell.
Warnings: general horror warnings; please note in subject lines for anything specific that comes up

Consolidation Theory OOC Post
Part Two OOC Post

Comments

[thewarningafter]

It's possible. That that's not how it works, anyway--and even if I could, the bigger problem would be that I'd be leaving everyone in my original reality to die.

[fiftheclipse]

Everyone..?

[That's.. not great to think about.

Diana, Sigma, Phi... He hadn't considered any of them, back then. And the way things had happened... Sure, Junpei hadn't caused that explosion himself, but he had been willing to sacrifice anyone necessary. Maybe that made him just as guilty.]

W-well, they're still the same people, though. I mean, mostly. Right? Your friends, family, they wouldn't know the difference when they see you. Probably. So you just gotta pretend everything's normal.

...

I guess it's easier when you don't have that option.

[thewarningafter]

[He's hit a sore spot. Made the guy think about something he hadn't before, and maybe that's unfair when that's just the way time travel works for Junpei and he didn't necessarily have a choice. Stephen's never believed in fairness, though, or in accepting limitations.]

Sure. Easier. But I'd know.

[fiftheclipse]

[It's the other way around. Being able to choose means being stuck with the guilt. He's jealous of Stephen's claim that he can't, and takes that misunderstanding as bragging. It's.. probably better not to stay on that part of the topic, in that case.]

...

You think he could come destroy this world, for us? Maybe we'd all get back home without doing anything.

[thewarningafter]

[It's usually safe to assume Stephen Strange is bragging on some level.]

Only if you want to spend eternity as part of the One with him. Wouldn't recommend it, personally.

[fiftheclipse]

Can't blame you. If I had to be trapped somewhere, I'd at least want the name to be a little cooler than that...

[thewarningafter]

[Stephen chuckles.]

A world outside time. No death, no decay. No escape from the unending torment, either, but there's always got to be some kind of catch.

[fiftheclipse]

Not exactly the best sales pitch, is it?

[thewarningafter]

You'd be surprised what people will go for.