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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[parodeity]

in that universe yes
ok im gonna like
give you the chance to walk away from this text rn
im going to say some stupid shit and you can choose not to read it
about how it works
because explaining anything about home is like
"im saying all these words
and they are stupid fucking words
and yet they are the truth"

!!! stupid warning !!!
anyway
to the best of my understanding
someone made some sort of illadvised agreement w the horrorterrors
which are like tentacle sky monsters
to spit out these dream bubble things
which are made up of like the memories and feelings of millions of dead teenaged players
(not promiscuous players tho some probs were
ppl who played the game)
and populated by ghosts
from zillions of timelines that went doomed
i dont know if it "collects" them so much as you just like
end up there
if you die
and you cant come back
but also you can die a second time
once youre a ghost i mean
because to my understanding some asshole was going around like
killing all the ghosts
for some reason?
im not clear on why
probably because life is stupid

[doitrockapella]

[I remember bragging about how I stole the talent of a virtuoso violinist, she almost types in response to his stupid warning, and after a second nearly follows it up with I remember stealing every single television signal in the world at once and I don't know how I could possibly, and then she proceeds to think better of both thoughts and just sits a while, chewing at her lip before figuring out an actual response instead.]

So death, in what you're remembering, isn't precisely the end of an overall existence. Just of an initial set of circumstances.

...That seems eerily relevant to what Retrospec claims to be doing with us, doesn't it?

[parodeity]

[ dave would, hilariously, accept both those things completely at face value because he remembers homestuck so why not. ]

yes
thats why i think i probably have something of an easier time going sure yeah that sounds legit
honestly
i cant help thinking of all this as another scratch
post scratch i mean
a universal reset

[doitrockapella]

A scratch. As in "scratch out and start over"?

But you said "another". So you remember the universe already resetting once?

[parodeity]

yeah ours like ended so we had to hard reset it to try to do better the 2nd time around

id apologize for saying that sentence but you know what eh

[doitrockapella]

You mulliganed a universe.

...Did it work?

[parodeity]

initially no but then there was like another rendition of that involving more time travel
and im pretty sure that one took

[doitrockapella]

There were MULTIPLE resets of the same universe?

[parodeity]

yeah but the second time was more a rewrite?

[doitrockapella]

What's the difference between a rewrite and a reset?

[parodeity]

a scratch is a universal reset mechanism that changes a single parameter
in this case the arrival times of important ppl to earth
the rewrite i mentioned involved someone else
going along the timeline and offering advice that changed shit
rewriting what happened after
as i understand it

[doitrockapella]

...Ah. So a scratch makes you start from scratch. A rewrite edits things to make them go in a different direction than they would've otherwise.

[parodeity]

you got it in one
anyway
my point was i think that i cant help but consider this a scratch
or rather a post scratch

[doitrockapella]

And you think the single parameter they changed is that...what? The thing that would've put us on the path to who we used to be, changed into whatever put us on the path to who we are now?

[parodeity]

its less the exact mechanics and more
the aftermath
a world where we became entirely different people but still the same
the dave post scratch was and was not me

[doitrockapella]

Same nature, different nurture, then?

[parodeity]

yeah
the original post scratch dave presumably raised himself
in the wilds of new york or smth
well i mean he started out in texas
but i imagine he moved to the big apple
bc of misconceptions about what would be found there
ie apples

[doitrockapella]

...Now I can't tell if you're making fun of me or not. Did he move there from Dallas, the capital of Texas?

[parodeity]

houston
and no apparently he did go to new york?
i dont remember this but i remember the talk i had with the post scratch version of my guardian
who like was into details about me
since i was a historical figure
because of ridiculous time shit
so i know what the dude was like secondhand and can guesstimate why he did the things he did
by virtue of being me?

[doitrockapella]

So you heard about yourself, secondhand, from the point of view of someone who idolized you, who had previously been someone who was your caretaker in this universe but wasn't in the other one.

...Did I get that right?

[parodeity]

yep

honestly it sounds just as stupid written down like that as it does in my head so a+

[doitrockapella]

Your other life was really something else, Dave.

[parodeity]

yeah
i didnt even tell you about the time i let some crocodiles put me in a pot of soup and throw onions and shit in
for
some godforsaken reason i didnt understand even back then