driftfleet | Do pigeons have feelings?

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?]

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-- The first option sounds like a helluva temptation. But I rather suspect it'll never be so easy.

[ peggy presses her lips together -- weighing her thoughts -- before explaining: ]

I come from a time some seventy years before a lot of people from my world. It stands to reason I've thought about this very problem a lot.

If it were easy everyone would fix their mistakes.

[He finishes his drink and waves for another off camera before coming back to it.]

But its hard to do even that when even your mistakes have some good effect if you think about it, right? I mean, some don't, but some do for other people even if its as simple as showing up late so someone else gets the opportunity for whatever you were late for.

Unless your mistakes are so well documented that you know damn well they do more harm than good. Then again, we don't all have the benefit of the long view.

You don't know, though. Not unless another version of you showed up here with different choices and things turned out better and they told you. We've got a unique viewpoint here, some of us.

Not another version of me, no. But other version of other people I've cared about -- they've turned up. And they've told me so very much.

If they know what the world is like with your different decisions then you could make a guess at changes, but if its the same it's still hard to know.

[He leans his chin on his hand, exhaling forcefully enough to ruffle his bangs.]

I don't know. It's too complicated, but I think I would still try and change some things even without knowing exactly if it would be better. People living has to be better, generally. Good people, anyway.

Do pigeons have feelings?

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