Heya! It's the same anon who asked about Bart Allen the other day. Thank you for answering my ask! But yee please post snippets of those chapters they sound awesome I am so deprived of Bart content, especially on AO3. Maybe one from the fic about the philosophy of secrets? It sounds awesome!!
Sure! Thank you and sorry I'm a bit late getting back to you.
Bart tries not to talk about the future. Well, or maybe it should be the past for him.
Tenses and chronology are the first things to go when messing with time travel. Itâs just asking for a headache, honestly.
Itâs not like itâs a secret.
Secrets are things that matter, that have effects. That future, Bartâs past, is never going to happen. He made sure of it. So, by extension, it doesnât have effects. It has quite literally no matter left, even at the molecular level.Â
Just because it did happen--for Bart, to Bart--doesnât mean it has to matter for anyone else.
And, yeah, he does get that other people here donât necessarily think like that. People here in the past (present) get to do things like care without consequence and just because things mattered for Bart then means they can matter to other people now.
Bart gets that. Really, he does.
It justâŚhe kinda doesnât, too. In Bartâs world (old world), things didnât work like that. Which means, consequently, Bart doesnât really work like that. And some of the things people bother with caring about--especially when it comes to Bart--just really seem like too much of a hassle.
Besides, itâs kinda depressing for them anyway.
So, Bart tries not to talk about the future.
The Rogues listen anyway.