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kaisou2022-09-15 03:04 pm
fionnuisce) wrote in kaisou2022-09-15 03:04 pm
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Okay, we've well established twice now since I've been here that Zodiac's public relations are abject shit.
I don't know if I can help anyone who might need it after the latest shitshow, but I can try. Attached is a brief summation of my professional opinion on Zodiac's statement on past lives as well as an explanation of parallel timelines as I understand them--the same principle may well not apply in every other universe, for all I know. If you'd prefer not to listen to a mage talk his head off about arcane concepts, then feel free to ignore this; I've included it as a video file for precisely that reason.
Otherwise, the half-baked class of Lord El-Melloi II is in session.
[The attached video displays a man in his late 20s, hair tied back and sunglasses sitting on his head as he lights a cigarette. Anyone around Kaisou University has probably seen him around, or at least heard him coming--the cane isn't very inconspicuous. One might wonder how he's holding the phone a couple feet away with both hands occupied, but the faint glow of a thin wire coming from somewhere around his right wrist might have something to do with that.]
Let me cut straight to the point. 'Is Zodiac's statement plausible?' I'm sorry to say that it is, however- [He stressed that word pointedly, green eyes focused sharply on the camera.] -there may be--no, there absolutely is more to the picture we have yet to see. I recognize that the idea is...alarming, to say the very least. And I don't know if anything I can offer will be of help in that regard. So I want to give clarity the only way I can, and leave myself open to whatever questions are within my ability to answer. Which may not be many, but it's worth a shot.
[He sighed a faint cloud of smoke, thinking for a few seconds before continuing.]
'Those lives or those worlds ended in some fashion', they said. This does not immediately necessitate that one's past life met with a sudden dire end or that the world one remembers was subject to the same. Such is only a possibility, one of countless such paths. In my world, timelines are known to diverge like branches from a tree. [He gestured vaguely with one hand, lit cigarette leaving a thin trail in the air.] I am not a scholar of this specific field, but I make a habit of studying things I probably shouldn't. As such, I only know that sometimes, these branches do necessitate...'pruning' is the term, though that sounds a little too harsh given the subject at hand. But such a thing is only for the most distantly divergent from baseline--that is to say, I would assume that for every one of those exist an unknowable number which yet continue.
All this to say: the statistical probability that the worlds you remember are gone is-- [He paused briefly, a trace of concern on his face before he shook it off in favor of professionalism. (Sorry, Elliot.)] --so small as to be impossible to measure. The probability that the lives you bear memory of ended abruptly or violently...while I see no reason to assume the worst, that is not something I can measure. I have no doubt that countless iterations of me have died or worse; that's down to what kind of people you were or are.
[he is extremely wrong, but he's got the spirit]
...And if I can be perfectly honest, I think that needs to be the priority above all else. To understand one's self is already a daunting task; to reconcile it with the knowledge of who one may have been, I can't even begin to imagine how insurmountable a task that must appear to be. I don't envy any of you, and I can only offer very little in the way of help.
I wish you luck in discovering what you will, strength to contend with whoever you were, and resolve to determine who you are.
I don't know if I can help anyone who might need it after the latest shitshow, but I can try. Attached is a brief summation of my professional opinion on Zodiac's statement on past lives as well as an explanation of parallel timelines as I understand them--the same principle may well not apply in every other universe, for all I know. If you'd prefer not to listen to a mage talk his head off about arcane concepts, then feel free to ignore this; I've included it as a video file for precisely that reason.
Otherwise, the half-baked class of Lord El-Melloi II is in session.
[The attached video displays a man in his late 20s, hair tied back and sunglasses sitting on his head as he lights a cigarette. Anyone around Kaisou University has probably seen him around, or at least heard him coming--the cane isn't very inconspicuous. One might wonder how he's holding the phone a couple feet away with both hands occupied, but the faint glow of a thin wire coming from somewhere around his right wrist might have something to do with that.]
Let me cut straight to the point. 'Is Zodiac's statement plausible?' I'm sorry to say that it is, however- [He stressed that word pointedly, green eyes focused sharply on the camera.] -there may be--no, there absolutely is more to the picture we have yet to see. I recognize that the idea is...alarming, to say the very least. And I don't know if anything I can offer will be of help in that regard. So I want to give clarity the only way I can, and leave myself open to whatever questions are within my ability to answer. Which may not be many, but it's worth a shot.
[He sighed a faint cloud of smoke, thinking for a few seconds before continuing.]
'Those lives or those worlds ended in some fashion', they said. This does not immediately necessitate that one's past life met with a sudden dire end or that the world one remembers was subject to the same. Such is only a possibility, one of countless such paths. In my world, timelines are known to diverge like branches from a tree. [He gestured vaguely with one hand, lit cigarette leaving a thin trail in the air.] I am not a scholar of this specific field, but I make a habit of studying things I probably shouldn't. As such, I only know that sometimes, these branches do necessitate...'pruning' is the term, though that sounds a little too harsh given the subject at hand. But such a thing is only for the most distantly divergent from baseline--that is to say, I would assume that for every one of those exist an unknowable number which yet continue.
All this to say: the statistical probability that the worlds you remember are gone is-- [He paused briefly, a trace of concern on his face before he shook it off in favor of professionalism. (Sorry, Elliot.)] --so small as to be impossible to measure. The probability that the lives you bear memory of ended abruptly or violently...while I see no reason to assume the worst, that is not something I can measure. I have no doubt that countless iterations of me have died or worse; that's down to what kind of people you were or are.
[he is extremely wrong, but he's got the spirit]
...And if I can be perfectly honest, I think that needs to be the priority above all else. To understand one's self is already a daunting task; to reconcile it with the knowledge of who one may have been, I can't even begin to imagine how insurmountable a task that must appear to be. I don't envy any of you, and I can only offer very little in the way of help.
I wish you luck in discovering what you will, strength to contend with whoever you were, and resolve to determine who you are.
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[THAT BAD, HUH...]
Guess that's why he was a metal man. Living weapon and all.
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