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FAA: we will and have already amassed an army t0 c0nfr0nt the black king FAA: an army c0nsisting 0f 0ur alternate future selves

This is one of the more obvious ways to exploit time travel - but it doesn’t come without risks. When the Felt did this, it generated ‘unstable loops’, whose consequences were apparently deadly.

Aradia has evidently decided that the Shadow Maid Jutsu is worth the risk. She’s probably better at managing time loops than Eggs and Biscuits - and even if it is risky, it’s probably even riskier to come at the Horrorterror King with inadequate firepower. 

FAA: each 0ne rer0uted fr0m a d00med 0ffsh00t 0f the alpha timeline FAA: each given an0ther chance at a c0nstructive influence 0ver the ultimate 0utc0me

This has been a long time coming. 

Homestuck’s time mechanics have always been a little at odds with themselves. Why, I asked, does Aradia seem convinced that events are set in stone, even as we watch Davesprite change the future? How do Prospit’s clouds predict events with any accuracy, if its Players are able to change them?

Here’s our answer. The timeline we’re occupying - the one the narrative is focused on - is special. 

It is possible to branch it - but doing do creates a ‘doomed offshoot’ timeline, which will eventually cease to exist. This explains how fate and prophecy can coexist with multiple futures - the game’s oracles are tuned to the alpha timeline’s version of events. When Homestuck says something ‘has’ to happen, it’s not saying it can’t be changed - it’s saying that changing it will put you in mortal danger. 

But why? Why is this specific set of events baked into reality, at the expense of all the others? The Alpha Timeline isn’t any less paradoxical than its ‘offshoots’ - it depends on them, and they depend on it. 

In my previous post, I mentioned how Homestuck’s ‘fated’ events seemed to benefit specific parties - usually Sgrub, but also Doc Scratch/Lord English. This would imply that the Alpha Timeline isn’t neutral - that the events it mandates serve some entities at the expense of others. 

Now that we know the truth - now that we know about the Alpha Timeline, and its effect on the continuum - the next step is to figure out how to control it. 

FAA: by the way if y0u didn't kn0w already FAA: a future self returning t0 the past fr0m a d00med timeline will always be slated f0r imminent destructi0n herself

This isn’t going to go well for Aradia’s army - and Dave might want to think twice before pulling this trick himself, or we’ll be seeing a lot of ex-Striders.

When a doomed Player is ‘slated for destruction’, do they simply blip out of existence, like the timelines they called home? Are they, perhaps, ‘jinxed’ - destined for a fatal accident, in a similar manner to Futurama’s time duplicates?

Davesprite’s status is now rather unclear. He clearly qualified as a dead-or-doomed ingredient for his Kernelsprite - but did the sprite’s resurrective properties negate his ‘doomed’ status, or not?

Here’s another question - one which might be pertinent, when the kids start to realize just how much Paradox Space has fucked them over:

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