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[ambitiousblond]

[Keeping this audio for now- he's not the previous iteration of him who was here before, he's the older and improved version.

Thank Aurora for that.

But he's going to play it carefully for now, not tip his hand just yet to see what he can find out about whatever trouble his past self was getting into.]

It's a pleasure to be here again- I've been told it's been a few weeks but apparently, time doesn't work the same way. If my math is correct, what has been weeks here has been years for me.

[And there is the whole different timelines/worlds thing but the one reassuring thing is that his alternate self is out there somewhere also making stupid reckless life choices.]

But I'm curious if anyone has experienced anything related to alternate timelines and parallel worlds- bonus points if you've met an alternate version of yourself either from another world or time.

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[sleepfan]

It seems that time is indeed an independent variable between different worlds and Etraya. There are several people here from my world and none of us are from precisely the same time, though for most of us the gaps are far smaller than the gaps between your selves.

[ The exception had been Mercedes, who is no longer here. Linhardt is uncertain what that means - it may mean nothing at all - but he does not think on it too much. The idea that tomorrow he may wake up back in Fodlan is too disconcerting. If Linhardt considers it for more than a moment, his stomach starts twisting itself into knots.]

Can you confirm the existence of such things? I've encountered the idea of 'timelines', but there's nothing concrete in the materials available to me and I do not make a habit of blindly accepting information I cannot verify.

Did you remember Etraya between when you were first taken and now?

[ It's an intriguing idea, on all fronts. Other selves... Linhardt would not mind meeting other versions of himself. The closest he had come were the Linhardts in the mirrors, and aside from one, he did not find them too alarming. He could certainly learn more quickly if he had another self with whom to split the research. ]

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[ambitiousblond]

I didn't know anything about this place back in my own world


[It had taken so much to defeat Sephiroth in one reality but if there are connections between different worlds and timelines then who knows what Sephiroth would be capable of if he could exploit that.

Something he doesn't want to think too hard about, not unless he really has to.]

I don't have direct evidence at the moment other than my own theries of why someone from my world remembers the past differently- events that never happened for me, details that are similar but just off.

[sleepfan]

So either our memories are erased when we leave or that was a different you.

That is precisely the situation that our world is in. We all remember things differently and we do not know why. I have managed to narrow down at what point our memories diverged - or at least a range. So our world seems to be in a position similar to yours. Our divergences are fairly substantial, however. You said yours were minimal?

[ambitiousblond]

The differences seem minimal from what I've learned so far but I'm concerned that those small changes could add up and cause the future to be drastically different.

Or worse, lead to a future where our world is destroyed anyway.


[He has faith in Cloud but he fears if there is one world were Sephiroth wins, that's all it would take if he finds a way to other timelines.]

I haven't been able to pinpoint a single event or single time period where the timelines diverged but I can't help but wonder what that would be now.

[sleepfan]

Yes. Our point of divergence - if it is a single point, I do not know - seems to be several years in the past, and it has compounded to produce very different memories.

Why would your world be destroyed?

Do the same people exist in all versions of the world of which you are aware? That might be a clue.

[ambitiousblond]

If there is one single point or general time where worlds split it would most likely in the past of the one individual whose motivation to destroy our world is consistent between each timeline.

And my concern is that if he succeeds in one timeline it would be only a matter of time before he finds a way to traverse between worlds.

But that's only a theory that I can't confirm yet, not without more evidence from anyone else arriving from my world.