[That's a depressing backstory! And also explains a lot. Thancred's just gonna down this drink. But he will not have any more! He has to... try to be functional.]
And I take it you've done your share of unsavoury things to fix it?
I was recruited by the Temps Commission, an organization that lives outside of time and is takes with monitoring time and space. They ensure that everything that needs to happens, well. Happens.
Including the end of the world.
As their agents I killed countless people, either because they would have altered the course of history, or simply because their death would prevent changes on the timeline. So as you've already guessed, I've done my share of unsavory things.
Working for the Commission allowed me to get out of the apocalypse, and I used the time I spent working with them to perfect my formula to get back time to my siblings. I knew if I could travel back I could stop the apocalypse.
So when I managed, I broke my contract, and since the end of the world is supposed to happen, I'm on their kill list.
I'm sure you can guess why I dislike the idea of just accepting things as they are. I have the power to save not just my family but billions of people.
Not only do I understand why, but I would agree with you. One may not be able to make a perfect life, but that sort of end is precisely what I and my comrades have spent our lives trying to avert. I have no fondness for any sense of preordained fate, as I hope you realise.
[There's a difference between a hopeless fate and trudging on through hardships, he thinks. But he also understands morality is relative to some degree no matter how you slice it.]
I'm glad you at least agree on that. Although if you recall, I did mention no living being except for me and cockroaches survived the apocalypse. As things stand I have no idea why the Commission wants to keep the timeline intact, and I'm not discounting the possibility that billions of years after that, new species might have evolved from that shitshow.
The Commission itself is in possession of technology far above what normal people have. Apparently they would have been able to make a new body for me to fix this mistake.
[ a pause, then he adds— ]
I grew up normally in the Apocalypse, but I miscalculated when I traveled back in time. That's why I look like a thirteen year old boy. But I am fifty-eight.
Either way. Like you say. This is exactly why I sympathize with Emet-Selch, and his kind.
[ at that there's a sigh and he finishes the rest of his drink in one go ]
But I understand your point of view. It's just unfortunate.
I see... Well, you're not the first person I've met whose form belies their age. I do apologize for assuming otherwise.
[Look, he can be polite and stuff! Really!]
Unfortunate, our situation surely is. But it's only a fool who thinks they could never have sympathy for their enemy. All people act on some kind of reason, after all.
I never claimed all reason was sound reason. Only that men are not inclined to see themselves as gleeful villains. Everyone has a justification, "boredom" being one such excuse. Understanding those reasons is key to dealing with them.
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[That's a depressing backstory! And also explains a lot. Thancred's just gonna down this drink. But he will not have any more! He has to... try to be functional.]
And I take it you've done your share of unsavoury things to fix it?
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Including the end of the world.
As their agents I killed countless people, either because they would have altered the course of history, or simply because their death would prevent changes on the timeline. So as you've already guessed, I've done my share of unsavory things.
Working for the Commission allowed me to get out of the apocalypse, and I used the time I spent working with them to perfect my formula to get back time to my siblings. I knew if I could travel back I could stop the apocalypse.
So when I managed, I broke my contract, and since the end of the world is supposed to happen, I'm on their kill list.
I'm sure you can guess why I dislike the idea of just accepting things as they are. I have the power to save not just my family but billions of people.
Re: 267 night
[There's a difference between a hopeless fate and trudging on through hardships, he thinks. But he also understands morality is relative to some degree no matter how you slice it.]
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The Commission itself is in possession of technology far above what normal people have. Apparently they would have been able to make a new body for me to fix this mistake.
[ a pause, then he adds— ]
I grew up normally in the Apocalypse, but I miscalculated when I traveled back in time. That's why I look like a thirteen year old boy. But I am fifty-eight.
Either way. Like you say. This is exactly why I sympathize with Emet-Selch, and his kind.
[ at that there's a sigh and he finishes the rest of his drink in one go ]
But I understand your point of view. It's just unfortunate.
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[Look, he can be polite and stuff! Really!]
Unfortunate, our situation surely is. But it's only a fool who thinks they could never have sympathy for their enemy. All people act on some kind of reason, after all.
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No, sometimes it's really just because. People generally just go about their daily lives, sometimes they're just bored.
I suppose you are still young after all.
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At the end of the day it hardly matters.