animus_network | ☿ // 008; [text]

There is a concept in my world known as 'Second Magic'. The details of it are not common knowledge, nor is it widely used or explored at all by more than one individual. What is known is its definition in the broadest sense: 'the operation of parallel worlds'.

In short, parallel worlds where I come from are confirmed fact. And while I am not a scholar of Second Magic itself, now I find myself seriously considering the subject. Personally, I don't believe things are predetermined...and yet now I find myself wondering. Even if we restore everything to the way it was, what is the probability any of us live in a timeline that will end well? Mathematically, the odds are astronomical.

I don't know what I hoped to accomplish by communicating this. Maybe I'm so fucking tired I'm just going to ramble incoherently about magical theory until I officially go insane. Of course, maybe I already have gone insane. I might not be able to tell anymore.

On the slim chance anyone decides to come looking for me, I'll be in the laboratory. Exhaustion or not, I have work that needs to be done.

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...Good enough for my purposes.

[Really needs to get Waver that book.]

I'm at least used to that explanation.

If you meant "why do we look identical," the answer involves a lot of the reasons why trying to figure out causality in prophecies is stupid.

[Which came first, the stupid or the redhead? We'll never know.]

...I'll pretend that made sense too. But then again, 'total coincidence' would sound much stranger.

It's a question of whether I look the way I do because I resemble the form he took two thousand years ago, or whether he took that form because he had access to the future and knew what I would look like.

[The tone says that he's actually spent time thinking about this.]

...I see.

[Not even batting an eye at that. Fuck it, at this point Waver would believe just about any magical nonsense.]

I think we'll be better off entertaining paradoxes as little as possible, don't you?

Or I suppose we could just ask him.

[Yeah like hell that's happening.]

Yes, let's just invite headaches and hours of arguing about magical technicalities. No thank you.

Speak for yourself. It usually ends in moral arguments on my end.

[As for the headaches, well, that's a long story.]

Never mind that for now, how does your world even function? Don't take this personally, but the more I hear about it I find myself led to think the majority must be absolutely insane.

Like carefully conducted herds of sheep.

[Coming right out and saying it.]

Keep in mind, most people only are told the good parts of the Score, and it's much more vague than he shall be born of royal blood with hair of red, and he shall be called the light of the sacred flame. Probably about half of the Order of Lorelei's power comes from just allowing people to see what they want to see and turning that confirmation into belief.

[That was some Orwellian bullshit on a global scale, Waver noted. He might have to discuss the concept in detail with Jade at some point.]

That's the most disturbing yet asinine concept I've ever heard. And I have heard some incredibly stupid shit in my time.

The other half of the power comes from quietly disposing of anything that goes against it.

[Definitely Orwellian. Someone get Asch a copy of 1984.]

Although in the technical sense Auldrant was composed of two large monarchies and several other city states, it was a theocracy in effect. The Order could nudge the average ruler into doing whatever they pleased and did so frequently throughout history.

Oh, let's bring aristocracy into it, as if I didn't have enough to be irritated about here.

[Waver. Please.]

[ . . . ]

...I should be offended, but I can't even bother.

It's incredibly hypocritical of me to say as much, if that helps.

It's not like I'm going to claim it's an ideal system either. I come from a couple centuries of inbred royal lines - if I tried listing the tyrants in the family we could be here for an hour.

[Just in case the earlier comment about royal blood and hair of red didn't clue you in, Waver.]

[COMPLETELY ROLLING WITH IT. What the hell is wrong with these two.]

Bloodshed and the like is nothing out of the ordinary when one has who knows how many noble families running around practically unchecked. It all tends to be horribly inefficient, if you ask me.

[They're living in the Tower. Things stop surprising you at like, the six month point.]

Actually, Auldrant had the Order to do most of the bloodletting for them. The most recent war was practically demanded by the church and I imagine there are plenty of others in history that are the same.

Don't even get me started talking about our version of the Church. I'm starting to think we could be here for weeks complaining about our respective worlds, couldn't we?

...Probably. I haven't even touched on replicas yet.

And I could go on about how the Association is bullshit until I pass out from lack of breath.

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how do you work fonons. how do you work isofons /without/ the phrase magical homophones

/nasubabbles for eighty million hours

see I understand most of fonon shit AND nasubabble. I just can't words it when dunk

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