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Remix submission for the @outerwilds-events Resonant Echoes Remix, remixing Favorite Moment by @buggbott!
The end of the universe has come, and Solanum is now certain that her journey within it has come to an end. With nothing more to do, she follows a strange signal into the Quantum Moon's polar vortex ... and finds a place – an experience – both familiar and entirely new, holding a few more things for her to identify and explain before whatever remains of her consciousness and will can at last be embraced by oblivion.
This fic presents a sort of connecting sequence, in a way, between Solanum as we last see her on the Quantum Moon and Solanum as we see her in the moment the illustration depicts, full of all sorts of mind-reflecting mind-bending terminal quantum weirdness!
To that end, it shares most (if not all) of the thematic elements, existential mysteries, and forms of certainty and uncertainty that we experience in the ending of the game itself (although there is the key difference of Solanum still being a Nomai, and therefore Being A Nomai™ about what she encounters). Do with this info what you will!