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caughtinanetwork2012-09-27 08:57 pm
negativecapability) wrote in caughtinanetwork2012-09-27 08:57 pm
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[The first history books Raf had checked out were those from worlds that clearly weren't Earth, and he still has a stack of them to his side, detailing all sorts of crazy stuff that he's only willing to believe might actually be the case because he's already seen some crazy things in his time in Vatheon. Even the history books about Earth, though, don't show the same world he knows, for the most part. There were worlds where war had engulfed nearly the entire Earth: in 2074 or 1914.
It's interesting, and it's particularly interesting for Raf, who had at one point been working on his PhD in the subject of alternate histories. And since his image has already been on the SFCs now, there's no particular point in paranoia, or even well-justified caution.]
If you could change one point in your distant history, what would you change? What about if you could change one thing that happened during your life? Your parent's life?
For myself...I don't know. The world's a very complicated place -- while it would be easy enough for me to say that I would choose for the Ottoman Consulate in Seattle not to be blown up, or Micky O'Brian not to be shot, even if those events weren't replaced with something there would be ripples beyond them. What do you think would be worth those ripples?
It's interesting, and it's particularly interesting for Raf, who had at one point been working on his PhD in the subject of alternate histories. And since his image has already been on the SFCs now, there's no particular point in paranoia, or even well-justified caution.]
If you could change one point in your distant history, what would you change? What about if you could change one thing that happened during your life? Your parent's life?
For myself...I don't know. The world's a very complicated place -- while it would be easy enough for me to say that I would choose for the Ottoman Consulate in Seattle not to be blown up, or Micky O'Brian not to be shot, even if those events weren't replaced with something there would be ripples beyond them. What do you think would be worth those ripples?