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[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

*A certain being is sitting with his back against the well, reading a book with a plain red cover. He's humming tonelessly to himself as he flips pages and in general he seems exceedingly bored. A better distraction than the interminable tome would be welcomed.*

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[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

No, although they might stab you with a fork if you tried to eat their food. Some of them would stab you with a knife for reasons far pettier.

But then that's true for many people I've never touched as well. Down in the dark where even death can be fixed, stabbing is more of an irritant than anything.

[dee_lorean81]

To be fair, I might stab somebody with a fork if they tried to eat my food. Though only after I'd told 'em "no" a couple of times.

[she nods] I can believe it. You take away the consequences for something, and suddenly all sorts of people are gonna be doing it.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Probably not as hard, but touché.

They no longer have any reason not to, after all. By definition. It's amazing, the things that people secretly desire. You name it and hordes will want it.

[dee_lorean81]

[she grins] Depends on how many times I said "no."

Amazing and kinda creepy. Though maybe that's just me not starting out as a human. [then she makes a face] On the other hand -- or wheel -- if you told me I could run over Biff Tannen, no consequences. . .

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

I take it that he's not a friend of yours. *He sounds amused.* And his name is terrible.

[dee_lorean81]

[she huffs] A terrible name to go with a terrible person. Him and his family have been harassing Dad and Marty's family for literal decades. And Biff personally stole me once and created like the worst possible alternate timeline.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

I'm certain that there are worse. I'd hate to see the actually worst possible timeline.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee twists her face up] Me too -- it's probably one where everything is dead and dark and cold. . . [she shivers and shakes her head] But Biff gave it his best try. He turned Hill Valley into a hive of scum and villainy and toxic waste. Completely destroyed the place.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Not a very pleasant person, then. I've met that sort. Some have even been on my side, at least in theory.

[dee_lorean81]

I don't think you'd want Biff on your side. Not only is he a jerk and a creep, he's also kinda dumb. Dumb enough to be annoying, anyway. He can't get a saying right to save his life. I mean, you can see what's wrong with 'make like a tree and get out of here,' right? Even if you don't know the actual joke?

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Trees aren't exactly fast, are they? But he's your enemy, and having a stupid enemy is better than a smart one.

[dee_lorean81]

Not in my experience -- the expression is supposed to be "make like a tree and leave." [she nods, making a face] But yeah, that's fair enough. He caused enough problems being dumb. I don't want to think about what he could have done if he'd been smarter.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

That version does indeed work much better.

Really, though, having access to time travel sounds dangerous in general. Not that there aren't events I would like to erase.

[dee_lorean81]

[nods wisely] Yeah, it is dangerous -- and I'm staying that as a time machine. Second time I was used, Marty accidentally drove me into the 1950s and almost erased himself and his siblings from existence.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Precisely the sort of issue I was imagining. Few people would truly wish to have never been born.

[dee_lorean81]

Marty definitely didn't. He especially didn't want his own mom hitting on him. Apparently she thought he was cuter than his dad. He managed to fix it, buuuut. . .kind of thing that scars a guy.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

That would be rather unnerving, yes. Although I can still think of worse things.

[dee_lorean81]

Unnerving and painful -- apparently being erased from existence hurts like hell. [she tilts her head] Well, I guess you could -- you kind of specialize in worse thoughts, don't ya?

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Yes, I suppose it would.

I specialize in hunger and dark water and vengeance and self-destruction. Not exactly happy thoughts.

[dee_lorean81]

I would think erasing yourself from existence would fall under the latter. Though as far as I know, none of your followers can go back in time and accidentally cause their mothers to get crushes on them.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Even in the Neath time rarely works that strangely. Perhaps in Irem?

[dee_lorean81]

Heh, well, I'm sure everybody's grateful for that. . .that's the place that's from the future, right? But sort of kind of exists down there already?

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Yes, it will be. Or possibly was.

[dee_lorean81]

Or maybe will have been?

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Something of the sort, at any rate.