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[otherflash]

[ After a few hours of failing to fall asleep, Wally gets bored and decides to address the network at some point in the middle of the night. He can get oddly reflective when he's tired. ]

For curiosity's sake, what is everyone's thoughts on time travel? I suppose it's even possible some people here might have experience with it given we come from so many different worlds.

[ He stops to release a loud yawn, before continuing on. ]

I mean, if you knew something in your past was wrong, would you go back to change it and just deal with whatever the consequences are if you could do it? What if someone told you that by going back to save their son it would save thousands of lives?

[ If one was to get the feeling he has found himself in such situations in the past, then they would be correct. ]

Or, would you simply accept things for how they are and move forward no matter how hard that might be?

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[personifications]

[ Isn't that how time works? He stares at the response for a bit, but no there has to be something more so it or he wouldn't be asking, would he? ]

Is that where the interest in changing the past is coming from then?

[otherflash]

[ Oh, there's more. He just isn't sure how much of it he is willing to share at the moment. ]

You could say that.

Though I don't really have an interest in changing things. I've seen the consequences of others doing it.

[personifications]

Sounds a bit complex for idle curiosity, but I've been wrong before.

[otherflash]

As much as I hate it, time travel is unfortunately part of the job back home. Figured I should at least try to understand it better.

[ Along with discussing the ethics behind the potential use of it. ]

[personifications]

[ It's a very good thing the scoff doesn't translate through text. ]

Part of the "job"? People monetized that?

[otherflash]

It's more of a figure of speech. I don't actually get paid doing what I do.

[ He truly believes in the whole helping people is its own reward and all that jazz. ]

It's just you never know when some crazy techno wizard from the future is going to show up and toss you into the time-stream.

[personifications]

Of course, happens all the time.

[ No, it doesn't. He has next to no idea what he's even talking about. But he can't just ask, now can he? ]

Damned wizards.

[otherflash]

[ Wally was hoping to throw the other person for a bit of a loop with that bizarre segue, and judging by the replies, he gets the feeling he succeeded. ]

He's not even a real wizard. Worse yet, he calls himself Abra Kadabra.

[personifications]

Ha fucking ha, mate.

So this is a human interest poll, is that it?

[otherflash]

Something like that, I guess.

I'm not really sure what I was searching for if I'm being honest.