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[notasaviour]

[...He'd picked his username when they pulled him here because superheroes and people on the internet have one thing in common: secret identities. He'd also kind of assumed there wouldn't be any actual Avengers here. So he'd given them his wiki-editing handle, and he maybe regrets it a lot now, but at least he can make this post without his real name attached, or he probably wouldn't make it at all.]

Just a question, but if you knew someone here could tell you about your future... would you ask them about it? Would you want to know, or not? Would it make a difference if they seemed pretty uncomfortable about it?

[He's not sure he does want to know, honestly. But at the same time, Billy is being just a little weird about it, and maybe knowing would be better, in case he lets it slip later anyway. He just can't decide.]

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[clobbers]

Maybe it can.

But there's a line in Jurassic Park that's always stuck with me: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

Changing the future could affect more lives than just our own.

( She won't say that she's seen the truth of that firsthand, but she has. It haunts the friend of hers who'd done it in the first place, and it haunts her, too. )

[notasaviour]

Would that still apply even if you know the future is going to hurt a lot of people?

[He... maybe never really thought about that with Nate, but then he doesn't think there's much way changing Nate's future could make things worse. Kang's hurt a lot of people.]

[clobbers]

Sometimes changing the future, making the choice to do it and others when you decide what to change can hurt a lot of people, too. In ways you wouldn't even have figured.

( She remembers, the look on Barry's face when he'd explained the barebones of what he called Flashpoint to everyone. And how everyone had looked at him differently once the truth was out there.

It wasn't good. )

[notasaviour]

But if you already know a whole lot of people are going to get hurt anyway, isn't it better to try and avoid that?

[He has a friend, and he knows who that friend might grow up to be, if they can't change it. How can it be any worse?]