Endgame: This is the Way the World Ends - MACHINE ROOM

[animusmods]

Characters: open to those staying in the machine room
Setting: machine room
Format: any
Summary: The time has come to make decisions about what will happen after everything is over.
Warnings: psychological horror (eventually)

Comments

[attheclocktower]

But if we did that... wouldn't we all forget? Everybody would go home... it'd be like this never happened.

[Xion frowns. She isn't entirely fond of this idea. Or at all, really.]

The Tower hasn't been a bad thing for everyone. If we just were to take that all away, without any choice, wouldn't that be just as bad?

[She folds her hands in her lap. Her voice is quieter as she continues.]

I don't want to lose what I've learned here. What I got here.

[savedbyasong]

I agree with Xion. [He hadn't thought of that, but he should have. If they erased Ruana than this, all of it, never happened.] Leaving people no choice and just erasing years of memories, that is no better than what has been done.

[He doesn't want to forget, he might sleep easier for it but he doesn't want to lose what he gained, what he learned, the memories of his family. It is too big a sacrifice]

[deloreandriver]

No! I mean, that's not what I'm--

[Marty sounds as distressed as the others when the subject of forgetting]

Look, I've done the time travel thing before... every time I went back to the future, I still had my old memories. It was getting kinda bad at one point. I mean. More like make it so she doesn't happen to the universes. We're still outside of those space-times, so we'll remember.

[Flustered, he shakes his head.]

It's kinda hard to explain. Doc's theories don't always make a lot of sense... time travel doesn't make a lot of sense. This... this is way beyond that, way beyond our comprehension. This world was experimenting in stuff that we won't get to for thousands of years! If we even do! If what I read about Zo's abilities are right, you take this place as the context... and what Dax said about him manipulating more abstract concepts... what the hell is abstract to a Tower native? Ruana's been killing off entire universes all by herself, and Dax said Zo's stronger than her. These kind of powers go back to like, like creation myths or something.

[Marty glances over at Diarmuid and Waver, probably looking for encouragement because he sure doesn't look all that confident in his answers.]

A-anyway... we could probably ask Zo to help us keep or forget as we want.

[oathshackledbird]

I think Marty might have the right idea, but the wrong barrier.

[As they have been talking, Diarmuid has been weighing back and forth their ideas and trying to find a way to work them all together. The last thing he wants to do is forget too.]

By the time we can talk to Zo again, Ruana will be dealt with. Spending more time on her will be using time we really need to be using on other things. I think what we need to do is find a different barrier. One that more directly affects what we need affected--the state of the worlds. However, I'm not completely sure myself what barrier would be best to adjust.

[His expression grows contemplative again.]

Death to life? Destroyed to thriving? Future to past? Though, I don't much like that one. It involves some of the same risks that erasing Ruana would...

Not how we remember to how we remember? That is pretty abstract when you get down to it...