FIRST THERE WAS NOTHING.

           “ another year, huh, “ she hums, eyeing the clock. evren isn’t one for BIG celebrations, but every year she likes to change things up a bit; why not go out and celebrate new year’s eve in the city?           “ ------------ you got any resolutions for 2016? “

              “ hm, ‘scuse me, but have we met before? “ definitely NOT. evren remembers absolutely EVERYTHING and EVERYONE she’s ever met, and in fourteen billion years, she KNOWS she’s never seen him before. still, there’s no harm in starting casual CONVERSATION, right? 

           “modern science is an amazing thing.” the slip goes unnoticed; that or he doesn’t care enough to pay it any particular attention. they have their secrets, those which they shouldn’t be held accountable to.

                        haha i keep thinking about evren but i have no way to like... cohesively put what i want to say into words? like they’re literally an ANOMALY that just EXISTS in any form they want to take, casually floating through time-space? for evren, there are trillions of timelines that they can access, tangled together, branching off in countless directions. each timeline is a part of a bigger picture, a bigger timeline. 

                        it’s kind of like... knitting a bunch of scarves at once? each row can be considered a timeline in ... lmao the scarf of that particular universe... each scarf has a STRICT pattern that has to be adhered to to be considered complete. evren’s existence in a certain timeline is like placing down a temporal stitch marker. if they do something that causes a skip in the stitches, the row will have to be scrapped and restarted at the marker. 

                        that being said, there are also countless ‘imperfect universes’ that have been created after a skip, all of which evren is able to travel to, however, since their ‘marker’ does not exist in this universe, their existence will have to be ‘renewed’ and those in said universe will not have any recollection of her. timeline hopping in itself takes years, perhaps decades or centuries to build up enough energy for so it is effectively impossible for them to visit the exact parallel point of an alternate time period.

                                ( of course, on a meta/ooc level, evren has not jumped from                                    anywhere unless it’s part of a previously plotted thread? or                                     an actual au/verse. evren acknowledges people as the only                                iteration of that person, again, unless it’s been plotted otherwise. )

                        evren does not have any insight on what the the ‘bigger picture’ looks like. they have traveled the universe and have witnessed advanced technologies first hand, but they do not DARE divulge the secrets of the ‘future’ to any one species or race-- mostly out of bad experiences with temporal skips and timeline destruction. early on in their existence, they believed they were doing a service to the species they contacted by trying to speed up their evolution but instead, they only caused the DESTRUCTION of their timeline.

                “ oh, i’m sorry to bother you but do you, by any chance, know where the nearest BUS station is? “ out of billions of years of EXISTENCE, evren has only spent a HANDFUL of them on earth. the DENSELY populated cities have MORPHED and EVOLVED over time, so quickly that she finds herself getting LOST even in places she’s watched grow from the ground up. 

              in her HUMAN form, the anomaly is very much susceptible to human plights; the flu, chicken pox, allergies-- but ONE thing that evren is never prepared for is the itis... too much EGGNOG can do that to a person, apparently. she’s SLUGGISH in her movements, eyes fluttering; struggling to keep herself awake.