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[darkforce]

[it's a question that had come from a time long before this jump. one born from his very arrival; exacerbated by those weeks spent alone in the ship. he needs answers, and he knows that he should be looking to the other jedi for them. but obi-wan isn't an option now. not while he's still dealing with the truths he's learned most recently. quinlan, a master, and still too unapproachable for him. the same again for lucien, a complete stranger. and then there's luke.

no, this is the way it has to go because there is no other option. it's one time where he needs to look beyond the will of the force. he needs to find advice.]

This ship is capable of bringing together those from different dimensions, as we are all aware. But so too is it capable of gathering those from different moments in time.

What do you do, then, if you hear tales of your own future? What if you learn that you will one day go against all that you believe?

[don't worry sw nerds, he isn't talking vader-level issues. more fathering a child-level rule breaking. a child that he isn't around to raise himself.]

Do you take what you have learned as a single, unchangeable future, or do you set all you have learned aside?

Is it even possible to ignore an accomplishment that you know shouldn't have taken place?


[and then, a second post. one unlinked to the first and filtered directly to a single person.]


[locked to luke skywalker]

[despite starting the message, there's a long pause at first. a moment to try and build himself up to it. the force had told him, han had confirmed it. but he still needed to hear it from the one person- the only person -who he knows he can trust completely about this. about their connection.]

I need to hear it from you. I need you to tell me who I am.

[he needs the truth]

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[xwing]

[ he could change it to video. he should-- it would probably be more personal, or at least as personal as it can be across the comm devices. he can't, though, not right now. he's too shaken, too uncertain. acknowledging it like this-- how is it going to change them?

it takes him a long time to finally respond, and when he does, he's quiet, subdued and solemn. ]

.. My father's name was Anakin Skywalker. You.

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[darkforce]

[it's the answer he'd been waiting for; to hear it coming from luke himself. from his son, future or not. but even now, even after yet another confirmation, it still throws him completely. it explains so much and yet it feels so strange. the idea of a jedi having a child, a family. it isn't unheard of, but humans are far from endangered. he wouldn't have been allowed.

he lets out a slow breath, drawing on the force itself to give him strength. to keep him from cutting off there and withdrawing once again. the last time, when he'd been facing his issues with obi-wan's time difference, he'd disappeared in to the depths of the ship. it's an option he doesn't have anymore, despite the urge being there. the urge to hide away and ignore the truth laid out to simply.]

I didn't raise you. [he knows that. he just doesn't know why.]

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[xwing]

[ a quick, indrawn breath. this is a bad idea. this will lead to some very ugly truths, and luke can't do this to him. he doesn't want him to have to know what he becomes. not while he's still so young, before bitterness and hate.

on the other end of the line, luke buries his face in his hands, eyes closing as he listens to the silence between them. at last, though, he speaks up again, voice a murmur. ]

.. No. I was raised by my aunt and uncle. Beru and Owen Lars. It's-- not just me, though. I have a twin, a sister. Leia. She was raised on Alderaan. [ a brief pause, suddenly missing her fiercely. he'd always wondered at the strange connection they shared-- now, at least, he understands what it is. ] We.. didn't know one another for most of our lives. We've only just discovered that we're twins.

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[transwarped]

Aye, now space and time are subjects which easily become a wee bit complicated. One man's future oft isn't another's, though they started at roughly the same point.

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[darkforce]

So you believe it is wiser to consider that future an alternate one?

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[transwarped]

Always a possibility, innit. But not one I fancy that's likely to be comin' true in these parts. We're all on a brave new course here, aye?

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[redhotsummers]

As someone who's heard about some seriously messed up shit that might go down in the future...

..or one version of the future--

[Including him being dead, or in an insane asylum]

--you got to live your own life. Fuck fate, destiny.

Don't let other people dictate what you're supposed to grow up to be.

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[darkforce]

You choose to ignore it then? Is that because it is a future you are unhappy with or because you truly believe it isn't one you are meant to live?

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[redhotsummers]

I can't...I'd be lying if I said I ignore it. It's hard to just forget what people have told you.

But--

[He shrugs.]

I can't live my life based on a future that may or may not happen. There are alternate universes, diverging timelines everywhere.

I just try to keep it from defining me.

The version of you they know, might not be you.

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[thebreakingwave]

I've spent a long time, maybe too long, thinking about that problem.

I've told myself that whether or not there's a single, fixed future or we've the chance to change it, I can't sit idly by.

At the same time, since I'm the one from the 'future', I can't force what I know on people that don't want to listen.

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[darkforce]

What if those from your past were to ask? Would you tell them every detail, no matter how bad they may be?

[logicunlocked]

I tell you what, I've had a while to think about things like that, and I've decided I just have to carry on. You let those things get in and they'll tie you up in knots.

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[darkforce]

It isn't always that simple. If the proof of your future actions is so clearly on display to you here, how to you set that aside?

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[backwardscompatible]

I'd take it under advisement, if I were you. [By which she means that when faced with a similar dilemma when she was younger, that's what she did.]

Your future isn't set in stone, but there may well be a good reason why you chose it to begin with. The trick is to find out whether it was worth it or not.

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[darkforce]

From what I have been told, I will never learn the outcome of my actions. How am I meant to discover whether my reasoning's were correct or not?

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[lostwarmth]

The moment you learn about it, that future will never happen anyway.

[ so no need to fuss about it. ]

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[darkforce]

According to those who have returned to this ship, any knowledge gained here is forgotten upon our return to our homes.

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[magewarden]

[ Daylen can't ignore this. It is the root of his own personal problems, what keeps him awake at night. People from other versions of his history, people from his future. How do you handle such things? How can one be sure? ]

I have met people who I know, who were a part of my life, who have come from what I suppose you refer to as a 'different dimension'. A different version of history, where things were different.

They did not even know who I was.

When people come from my future, then, how am I to know for sure that is my future? Does it take into consideration my being here? Will that change things?

I find it disconcerting to think of, but I find I can't not think of it. I have been told I am to save my homeland, but what if the knowledge causes me to second guess myself? What if being here changes me?

I do not know what is the right course of action, but I know I cannot ignore what I have been told.

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[darkforce]

There are people here from the same universes, but from different moments in time. None of them are aware of the others disappearances during their own pasts. And none who have returned here have stated that their absences were noted. Nor that they remembered the Tranquility in their own worlds.

If this time here is all you will have to retain that knowledge, what can you do with it? If you cannot change your path in your own world, what use is knowing any of it?

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[jurisimpudent]

Those tales are complete nonsense and should be ignored.

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[darkforce]

How can you be so certain?

[cargojet]

The future can be changed if you know how, but whether it should--well that's a different question. Maybe what happens needs to happen. My future isn't so bright either; I've met enough people from it to know that I can't do anything to stop it.

The best thing you can do, given those circumstances, is to try to be a better person while you can still actually do something about it.

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[darkforce]

I'm not sure I want to change that future, even if I were capable of it.

What are you doing to be a better person here?

voice, private;

[leaps]

I've heard stories about my future. Or about a future that was mine, in another reality.

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[darkforce]

Before you arrived here?