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[...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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Depends on what it is, right?

No. There is no need to know.

If future can be predicted with certainity, then you won't be able to change it even if you know what happens.

Wouldn't knowing your future change your future? It sounds like a whole lot of trouble for not a whole lot of reward.

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I suppose that would depend on your preference for spoilers. Personally I am fine knowing or not knowing.

[There was nothing he could do about OFF's plot. It was what it was.]

What about you, my friend?

It's not always a choice. There are people here from the future of several worlds, information can't be held in a void.

[He didn't want to know, but it happened anyway.]

I don't know if anyone else can give you an answer to that, you know. It's kind of a personal decision.

I wouldn't want anyone to hold anything back from me, or feel like they had to keep a secret. But I don't know if I would ask.

I was in a situation where someone could tell me not about my future but about the future of another version of me. Might have been mine, might not have been.

I didn't ask.

[ lois likes being informed and in any other context, she probably would have asked, but — this thing with clark is still so new and it's something she wants to figure out for herself. so she hadn't asked dick to tell her more about her relationship with clark in his world.

of course, jon is a spoiler for what might be in store for the two of them in and of himself, but lois doesn't mind that. ]

i guess it also depends if it's a clairvoyance thing or a mismatched timelines thing.

like i've met some people here who know me in the future, and i don't want them to lie or feel like they gotta hide stuff that's in the past for them.

but if it's something where the person's gotta whip out their crystal ball and go looking, then maybe i wouldn't want to know.
especially if i can't change it. that's just a recipe for angst right there.

[ That username tho. ]

No future is certain.

 Learn your own future and be forever paranoid of what's to come and when, or live your life in ignorant bliss.

That's the two choices you're left with when facing shit like this.

And maybe it's better to know what's coming, but if it isn't something that directly risks your life, then it's better not knowing.

But if your life is in danger, then they'd best fucking tell you. Otherwise they're just fucking dooming you knowingly.

Trying to mess with the future is dangerous. You could cause more harm than good for yourself or others.

Some people here know mine. I haven't asked.

No, I wouldn't.

( She says this, after seeing what a toll changing the past has done to one of her best friends. )

Because then it'd become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

No. I'm alright with the surprise.

We have a seer in my village back home. He'll tell your future, but it's usually so vague you'd never realize it until it actually happened. About the only thing he's ever said that wasn't up for interpretation was the prophecy my brothers and I would become more famous than our father.

[Otherwise, it was all metaphorical stuff. A man would become an eagle, a bear would wed a princess, a man would die when the blind man saw him.]

So I never put a lot of stock in what's going to happen later on. The here and now is more important.

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