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driftfleet2018-01-20 11:18 am
wolfehawke) wrote in driftfleet2018-01-20 11:18 am
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?]
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?]
action;;
It's certainly a sound theory, but there's no way to tell unless you're willing to manipulate time magic.
However, I will say that I believe that a person's choices may likely stay the same if their previous decisions remained the same. It's possible, but there's little point in discussing the 'what if'. That is a dangerous road to go down that only ends in drunken stupor.
action;;
[Excuse him a sec while he downs his mug and facilitates his own drunken stupor.]
The thing I don't like is this. Varric told me about the terrible time magicked future where everyone was all red lyriumed and Coryface won that he heard about from the Inquisitor and they all decided that couldn't happen so they made it not happen. Which is great. For them. But we know, being here in the fleet, that there's multipile versions of Thedas with different versions of people like Marian and me and Riona and Rowen and Cyril and Leilani so all these different Thedases happened. Are happening.
[He lets that sink in dramatically for a moment.]
So then wouldn't changing time just make another one with other new versions of everyone? I mean, there's evidensh.
[It's a surprisingly astute thought for someone who's swaying just a little bit every time he moves.]
action;;
[ Which, he will admit, had been a bit unfair of him at the time. Still, he doesn't regret his asking it. ]
I simply asked how we met, and their responses were identical. We met in Redcliffe's Chantry and consequently came together into the future that should have never happened. We stopped it, naturally, as I'm sitting right in front of you. Incidentally, that is also how I met my own Inquisitor Lavellan. In all three instances, the same opportunities were overcome and that future was stopped in its tracks.
What I've come to believe is that if there is an Inquisitor involved, they will make the right choices to overcome it. I've yet to see evidence of the opposite.
action;;
[He waves his hand dismissively, though that is a relief.]
What I'm asking is all these Thedases, with all the same things and different things, they all exist all at once. Fenris' Hawke wasn't even a mage, and somehow my - his sister lived but for Marian and I? Bethany died. And for me Fenris died, and Isabela disappeared for years but not for Marian and I don't... There's got to be some sequence of events that's better. There has to be one where everything isn't utter garbage.
[He leans back in the booth, eyes bright with inebriation and frustration in equal measure. Ever since he's learned that there are different versions of Thedas this has rolled around in the back of his mind and he can't keep it all back anymore.]
I don't... I don't want to change everything, I know some things ended up for the better, but...
[He drops his head to his hands.]
It's not possible, I know it's not possible, or even advisable because of all the unforseen consequences but I can't help thinking it could be better...