[That's actually an interesting conundrum, and one that Sherlock immediately finds himself responding to. It's not necessarily a positive, especially if it means that their absences automatically cause a timeline split wherein they are the anomalies, but it does make sense.]
It has potential merit as a theory.
[Probably not what Davesprite wants to hear.]
However, John is being overly dramatic, I was not dying.
[Ah, blessed ability to lie, thank goodness it's come back.]
[In the strangest way, it helps to have it acknowledged as plausible. Time working this way has shaped his existence for over three years now in one way or another, if not for his whole life considering the number of time loops him existing relies upon in the first place. The code and knowledge placed in him as a sprite expects time to work a certain way. And while he can ignore that urge when he wants to, it feels better for it to be taken as given. Like flowing with the current, instead of fighting against it.]
[It doesn't make the thought of being doomed any easier to swallow, but that's been on his mind as a possibility since the day he arrived.]
You sure? You said you're up to a whole day behind him. A lot can happen in that time, and I don't think he had any reason to be dramatic to me when he was busy thinking I wasn't real.
If he is dying then it's by design at Culverton's hands, and John will show up to save him. He knows it, the evidence will be within his cane, Mary is not wrong. Which means that, technically, he's in no real danger.]
Depends on what signs you can look at. I'm going to assume time is pretty linear in your universe, right? So probably not until you guys start dying.
The first time I was in one there were signs earlier and other sources we could check with, basically. The second time it took like three years, and I didn't know anything bad had happened until I showed up and was told about it. I don't know how that relates to your universe or if you were even technically in the same timeline anymore. You lacking memories of Norfinbury makes it harder to figure out, you know? I'm going off best guesses and anecdotes.
Hard to tell. There were only a handful of people still alive where I'm from, and I'm a floating paradox who lived to tell the tale twice over, if you count a future thing that hasn't happened to me yet. Paradox space has stricter purposes than a more linear universe would have too, probably. You're two people out of billions with no time loops to fuck up.
Precisely. The deaths of one or two people out of billions does not prove anything, especially when many hundreds die each day of natural causes that certainly have nothing to do with the flow of time.
[Hmm. Maybe that should comfort him when he looks at it from that angle. He can't tell or know for certain, but...]
It's something I can't keep myself from thinking about even then. Time traveler, you know? I guess we'll see one way or the other at the end of this, if we get the option to go back on our own.
[If he were John then he would say something akin to not giving up hope, or some other such sentimental nonsense. He's not John, and he's not a fool, but he's not quite the man he used to be either.]
And yet you've been a dick to me for less before. Not going to attack it for being unprovable? Not going to say I'm a dumbass for applying something I know doesn't apply the same way to every universe to one where time travelers aren't a thing? I'm not complaining, but you can't blame me for being surprised, dude.
Obviously you are complaining, and it's getting dull. Your attempt to continue to validate your self worth through assurance that your contributions are not wholly useless demeans your overall position.
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It has potential merit as a theory.
[Probably not what Davesprite wants to hear.]
However, John is being overly dramatic, I was not dying.
[Ah, blessed ability to lie, thank goodness it's come back.]
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[It doesn't make the thought of being doomed any easier to swallow, but that's been on his mind as a possibility since the day he arrived.]
You sure? You said you're up to a whole day behind him. A lot can happen in that time, and I don't think he had any reason to be dramatic to me when he was busy thinking I wasn't real.
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[Not even slightly.
If he is dying then it's by design at Culverton's hands, and John will show up to save him. He knows it, the evidence will be within his cane, Mary is not wrong. Which means that, technically, he's in no real danger.]
How would a 'doomed timeline' be identified?
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The first time I was in one there were signs earlier and other sources we could check with, basically. The second time it took like three years, and I didn't know anything bad had happened until I showed up and was told about it. I don't know how that relates to your universe or if you were even technically in the same timeline anymore. You lacking memories of Norfinbury makes it harder to figure out, you know? I'm going off best guesses and anecdotes.
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If the timeline had become doomed, would it cause the deaths of every occupant or only the ones who had caused the 'split'?
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[Hmm. Maybe that should comfort him when he looks at it from that angle. He can't tell or know for certain, but...]
It's something I can't keep myself from thinking about even then. Time traveler, you know? I guess we'll see one way or the other at the end of this, if we get the option to go back on our own.
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If nothing else, your theory should prove useful.
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[It's so out of the ordinary he drops the caps and punctuation without thinking about.]
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[Fixing that for you.]
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So not completely off. Point stands, what happened? You're about the last person I expected to say my theory has merit.
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2 out of 5 stars
your burns need work
anyway if were done ive got travel to do
later holmes