thefarshore | (no subject)

Posted: June 8th
From: Asclepius

Something I've found myself quite interested in over the last few weeks has been a question of...well, I suppose our existence.

Pardon me if this question has been asked before, I haven't seen it. I'd appreciate a summary of that particular conversation, if it has happened before.

Now, as a bit of background--I am from...a fairly significant amount of time in the future. I state that vaguely because there are rules against discussing it, we accidentally time travel often enough that there's protocol in place. But I feel fairly confident after my research that I am also in what I would consider a parallel universe. Those are also fairly well-documented in my time. (I must say this is far more pleasant than the last one I was in.)

Anyway. If all that is the case, I have to wonder: why do the divisions of god and shinki fall as they do? Whatever power brought us here evidently can reach through time and both physical and metaphorical space. Infinite realities mean infinite possibilities that in one or the other reality, we are either alive or dead.

Please keep all specific instances and examples private if you wish to give them. I don't want this discussion to be the cause of harm to anyone.

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I think it might be at random. Or by chance.

For some of us, we don't just show up here once. I've been told that I was here as a shinki for awhile before I disappeared. I don't remember anything about that time. And now I'm a god.

Try explaining that.

Unfortunately, that seems like the best explanation.

Well, there are a few potential reasons for that. Nothing that can be said with much certainty of course.

First, obviously there's the possibility of your being drawn from earlier in your timeline, therefore whatever brought you here as a shinki hasn't happened yet.

Then, there's the possibility of you not being from the same reality. An alternate one just a step to the left, for instance. So you don't recall because it wasn't truly you the last time you were here, but a counterpart from one of the infinite number of parallel realities.

Third, and I don't like this one very much at all, whatever power brings us here has the ability to manipulate the memories of gods as well.

Edited 2017-01-30 13:36 (UTC)

Well, I don't really like the idea that if I return home I'll die soon. So I think I prefer the second option.

[Especially since the things he's heard about the other Riku don't exactly make him like the guy.]

So you're saying that even us gods could be dead but had our memories altered like the shinki?

I can't discount any possibilities without proof, I'm afraid that's just not how my mind works.

It's a curse.

Unfortunately, proof seems to be something we're all rather short on.

I definitely get the feeling that the answers we're given are the only ones we're supposed to have.

Everything else is conjecture until we can find some proof.

And that doesn't seem like it's happening any time soon.

And that, I'm not particularly fond of. Withholding information is never a good tactic. I can only hope that the reason no one knows is that truly no one knows.

Which is problematic, but not malicious.