Do pigeons have feelings?

[wolfehawke]

Who: Adalwolfe Hawke
Broadcast: Yes, video
Action: Yes, Malum or Tourist.
When: In the wee hours of the morning, during drift week

Stop me if you've heard this one.

[Hello fleet, it's a very drunk Adalwolfe Hawke on your feed tonight. Which is weird because usually he doesn't make drunk posts, but hey it's been a hard wee- no, mont-... year? No, not long enough.

Life. It's been a hard life. And sometimes that catches up with him, so hooray alcohol and existential 2am thoughts.]

But, right, so, some people in the fleet are from earlier that other people in the fleet from the same versh.. version of the same world, right? So then would them changing someone when they get back - or if I guess 'cause who knows - would them changing a big thing then change that thing for the people here from later there? If say... Idunno, I was from before all the stuff and decided not to go to Kirkwall, would other stuff have happened instead of my stuff? Would that change all the... the stuff?

[Maker he needs Varric or Carver to translate his drunkspeech. He's not so far gone that he can't tell he's making the least amount of sense.]

Or if-if... I dunno if I should say that nevermind, but you all get my point, right? Is it set in stone? Or is it like... all these different Thedaseses that everyone is from, they just get made when something else changed so it still happened but the other thing happened too, somehow? Uh.

[He frowns into his mug. These are very murky, complicated thoughts. Clearly he needs to wash them off with more alcohol.]

Were we meant to do things or do things just happen even if we don't do anything? You get what I'm trying to say, right?

[Someone? Anyone?]

Comments

voice;

[wolfehawke]

Wars are bad.

[It's a revelation.]

So you like the future you've got and don't want to change the past? What happened that they want to change it?

voice;

[helmsplitter]

[Right. He forgot how drunk humans act sometimes. It's been awhile since he's had to deal with them since leaving the Citadel.]

I dunno what the future's like t'be honest. But I guess some huge catastrophe happened.

Thing is, you can't go changin' the past 'cause you never know what that'll change in the future.

voice;

[wolfehawke]

Depends on if you're from that future though, right? I know what messed up a thing so changing it could be considerably better.

voice;

[helmsplitter]

You sure about that?

[He's heard this argument from so many swords before. What if they saved their master from dying? What if they helped someone escape a terrible fate? What could go wrong?

The complete destruction of the timeline. People not being born, people not dying when they were supposed to - a lot could go wrong. The keibiishi showed up to destroy them if any of them stayed in the wrong time for too long.]

Just 'cause you prevent one big disaster, it doesn't mean another one won't come along to take its place. Time doesn't like bein' messed with.

[wolfehawke]

Some disasters are better than others, and time is just a thing. A concept. It doesn't get to like anything.

[You're super negative, buddy.]