Post-event Text Message Catch-all Deal

[callbacks]

[Dave's not going to be super social for about a week apart from making sure all his friends are more or less intact, but he won't be ignoring his phone, either. He just doesn't really want to go out of his way to talk to anyone. If anybody wants to get a hold of him, the best way would obviously be to leave a text here.

If anyone wants to talk to him some other way, that's fine, too, actually! Good luck tracking him down IRL, though, if that's what you're after. He's got his time powers back and he's abusing them even more than usual.]

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[Text Message to Aradia, after things have settled a bit]

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hey
are you ok

[maiditoutalive]

did i kill her

[callbacks]

no
i talked to her earlier
shes alright

do you want to talk about it

[maiditoutalive]

i dont know
i dont even know what to say
ive made a huge mistake

[callbacks]

everyone was kind of fucking crazy
so its not really your fault

[maiditoutalive]

yes it is
if its not my fault then whose fault is it
im the one who did it

[callbacks]

if we all held each other responsible for things we did while dui
thats doing shit under the islandfluence btw
no one would ever get out of the drunk tank
or whatever that would be called in this case
sometimes things are nobodys fault
shit happens
isnt that like
the time player motto

[maiditoutalive]

statements like that are more reassuring when you are the one saying them
and not the one they are being said to
now i understand why karkat is never reassured
shit doesnt happen like that
dave it wasnt
i was wrong
i thought i knew what i was doing and that it was right and i was wrong

[callbacks]

uh
well yeah but seriously you were a little bit weird this time
pretty sure that wasnt all you

[maiditoutalive]

you can say crazy
its ok

[callbacks]

i wasnt going to
vriska was crazy
gamzees always crazy
you were just kind of
weird??
like super focused on the what will be will be thing

[maiditoutalive]

i hate that thing
that thing has been haunting me my whole life
dave when you did something
when you went back to change something or push events a certain way
for whatever reason
did you do it because you wanted to or because you knew you had to

1/?

[callbacks]

because i

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4/5

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sort of
depended on the thing
but i think

Done

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i had to because i wanted to

[maiditoutalive]

haha
thats a very dave thing to say
it wasnt like that for me
you had terezi to tell you what you needed to do
and your sessions was so short really
you were all always going to make your way all the way through it
and only one doomed timeline!
its pretty amazing really when you think about it
do you know how many doomed timeline clones i had

[callbacks]

karkats mentioned it a couple times
what was it like

[maiditoutalive]

by the end we had a thousand copies of me
i took the orders of dead selves
past selves
future selves
knowing that i didnt have any other choice in the matter but to consciously contribute to outcomes and that i had to listen to what they said
every second there was something that had to happen or had to not happen that i had to be on alert for
thousands of ways we went wrong that had to be corrected
memos i wrote to myself letting us know just exactly how doomed we were going to be when we got there
one big sickening setup and i played myself like a chump getting played by fate until i finally said i wouldnt do it anymore
but in truth that was supposed to be the end of it i think
i revived and havent had to pull anybodys strings since
not even my own