compnetwork | ✵ 001; [text/anonymous]

[A simple anonymous text goes out to the network today. Nothing malicious, honest, just curiosity speaking. For those who know him well, it’s anything but anonymous when they read it. It's a habit of his, after all, and bringing up his identity (or attaching an identity at all) might cause a bit of bias...though asking questions anonymously would subject him to some bias from those browsing the network anyway as well. ~~Shhhh.~~

Ever-curious, ever-wondering. And...a bit ever-tactless, at times. Despite the fact that several people just returned from something quite traumatic, he’s most interested in their thoughts. However, others are certainly welcome too. Nothing wrong with that.]

Though seemingly unpredictable, the power to traverse worlds may contribute to the growth in humanity’s possibilities. But will it lead to man's destruction instead, or...?

[Of course, he may sound a bit detached, but considering his own situation...oh well. Most of the humans here seemed to want to go "home", despite their duties here, and despite the need of their presences here.

And then an apparently illogical topic jump/subject change. Honestly, it’s something he’s been wondering for quite a while now, ever since his arrival. Now that people have experienced more of the proof of existence of multiple worlds, surely this would be a good time to bring it up.]

Hinoto-Ri, I wish to know. What do the worlds you hail from possess that make you desire to return to them so?

[A pause in the typing, as if he just thought of something else.]

Or, for those who have recently returned, another question, if you will. What in this world did you desire while you remained in another?

[...He’s expecting answers like “not going through hell and back”, for the last one. Though given what he’s overheard, he’d pick Hinoto-Ri over wherever they went himself any day. Alcor couldn’t blame them in the least. Humans shouldn't have to needlessly suffer...]

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In my version of events, the one who could steer the course of humanity handed them over to God, and essentially gave them the choice of obeying His law or dying... or having their free will stripped from them.

There are others here from versions where he chose differently.

[Uncomfortably close to home, there. ~~being smt related is suffering~~]

A rather unfair situation, and a difficult choice to make. However, if that is the decision of the one who could guide humanity's future, there is little one can do.

[You could manipulate them, or brainwash them, but if one truly respected their respective protagonists, they would have to honor their freedom of choice nonetheless, yes?]

Alternate timelines.

Aside from plan for the next opportunity for a choice, not really, no.

That seems to be the case.

[Next opportunity for a choice. A choice. Choices are wonderful things, to him. Preserving that freedom...]

The freedom to choose is a wonderful thing. I hope you intend to at least preserve that when the time comes.

That sounds rather troublesome for all involved.

It's my aim to, yes.

And it's really the most trouble for me... since the others don't know a lot of the background information, I think. I could live with their outcomes - one of them was the ideal one for me - so it seems I ended up with the worst one.

I'm glad to hear that.

Do you intend to enlighten them at all?

One of them knows some of it. However, it's impossible for them to grasp all of it, to be honest.

A lack of understanding, or an unwillingness to do so?

A little of both, to be fair, but mostly the first. Some experiences can only truly be understood if they're lived through.

Indeed. And yet, perhaps one would hope others will never have to do so.

[dying over and over sucks, tbh. He wouldn't wish his own fate upon anyone else...especially not the children of possibility who can't quite understand his situation.]

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