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Tw: are there any warnings? there are no warnings, except everybody’s really tired

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In all honesty, Thomas wasn't feeling that great. The day prior, he hadn't even been able to get out of bed. He hadn't cared when Joan had called and asked why he wasn't at the office. He hadn't cared when he realized he hadn't showered. He just . . . didn't care. About anything.

Initially, he blamed Virgil for his apathy. Maybe the Side had been sick—Virgil had seemed to be under the weather lately. That couldn't be right, though. He certainly felt anxious, but not for any particular reason.

Then, out of nowhere tonight, he started sobbing. Something strange was going on inside his head, and he needed to know what. He hadn't felt incredibly creative these past few days—or, weeks?—, so maybe something was up with Roman.

Thomas dried his tears and stood in the middle of the living room. He didn't often summon the Sides—normally they popped up on their own or summoned each other. He knew how to do it, though. He gestured in the direction of Roman's corner and mimed yanking him up. Nothing happened.

Roman felt the pull, but wouldn't answer it. No one could force Creativity out of the Imagination. He . . . he wasn't presentable, anyhow. Thomas couldn't see him like . . . like this.

“Roman?” Thomas tried. “Princey?” Nothing.

It wasn't the first time, he realized. Roman had failed to appear when his dignity was injured. He shrugged, then recalled how apathetic he'd been feeling, then his sudden burst of emotion. Perhaps something was wrong with Patton.

Thomas mimicked the summoning action in the direction of the blinds.

Patton was curled up in bed with a cup of hot chocolate. Logan sat on the chair beside his bed, talking about theories and occasionally running breathing exercises with him. It was . . . nice. Comforting. Comforting enough that he forgot to rise up when he felt the pull.

Nothing. No Roman, and now no Patton. Thomas was beginning to feel anxious about this—perhaps Virgil could be summoned.

Deceit was tending his garden in the Imagination, attempting to calm himself enough to get back to sleep. He felt the pull behind his navel and briefly wondered why Thomas would be summoning him. Then he remembered that he had redirected all of Virgil's summons to himself, as he was currently playing the part of Virgil. He didn't feel like being him right now. Thomas would be fine.

That couldn't be right. Thomas tried again; nothing. His last hope was someone who he hoped could explain this.

Logan cut off in the middle of a word as he felt the summons. Patton gave him a curious look, to which he tiredly rubbed his eyes and said, “Excuse me, Patton. I'll return as soon as I can.”

Logan rose up, a cup of tea cradled in his hands. “Salutations, Thomas. How may I assist?”

“Logan what the heck is going on?!”

“I'm afraid I need you to be a bit more specific than that.”

Unbelievable. How could he not know? Thomas pointed wordlessly at the spots where his Sides normally stood.

Logan shifted uncomfortably. “Ah. I suppose you've attempted to summon the other Sides.”

“Where are they?! I've been feeling awful for weeks! Yesterday I couldn't even make myself get out of bed!”

“Thomas—”

“No!” He was not going to be placated! “Why haven't I been able to create? Why couldn't I get out of bed yesterday? Why did I start sobbing out of nowhere tonight? Why are you so calm?!”

“Thomas. Listen.”

Thomas stopped ranting, still heated. He let himself listen to Logan, who looked unimaginably tired. Logan took a long sip of his tea, then vanished the drink with a wave of his hand.

“The other Sides are currently unwell. Recall the video we created on negative thinking?”

Thomas nodded.

Logan continued wearily. “Roman and Patton were not capable of making an appearance, due to Roman being, er, out of sorts and Patton caring for him. This is a similar situation.”

Thomas furrowed his brow. His anger had disappeared as quickly as it had come. “I didn't do anything that hurt them, did I?”

“Oh no, this is in no way your fault,” Logan was quick to reassure. “They are simply out of commission for the time being.”

“Oh.” That made sense, Thomas supposed. He remembered his uncaring attitude that had finally broken tonight. It might have been Patton ill with a fever, now recovering.

“Do you need me for any further issues?”

“I don't think so.” It was probably for the best. Logan looked like he was about to collapse. As he sank out, he spoke.

“Please go to bed as soon as possible. We all need to sleep.”

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Crazy, I know. 

The reason I ask is because it seems (at least to me) given how they showed Barry realizing who Savitar was, one of the things that came to his mind was his future self saying that he created a bunch of time remnants to defeat Savitar but he killed almost all of them. 

So the ‘Savitar’ that we know is a time remnant that future Barry created in order to defeat the Savitar that kills Iris. A time remnant that has all of Barry’s horrible memories but none of the constant love and support from Iris and Joe that our Barry has. 

If the timeline was linear then that means that on May 23, 2017 Savitar kills Iris. Barry goes out of his mind with grief and pushes everyone away while simultaneously trying to find a way to defeat Savitar. He creates time remnants but that’s a failure and almost all of them die. Finally, years after Iris death he finds a scientist that figures out how to trap Savitar in the Speed Force. Future Barry gets his justice but he’s broken beyond repair. Meanwhile, present Barry travels back in time and creates Flashpoint which screws up time so much so that it gives Savitar the means in which to escape. And he does, he plans his escape perfectly...right in time to kill Iris. 

Okay I know this probably seems completely impossible at this point, and that most viewers have already come to terms with the idea of Jane being her own person and not Jane-who-used-to-be-Taylor (I personally am okay either way), plus I also have no idea what the showrunners may have said in regards to the Big Reveal and whether they 100% confirmed it was true or not, but I literally woke up wide-eyed after three hours’ sleep with this theory taking up all the space in my brain so maybe just bear with me?

{{SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!}}

Skip over this if you have no beat ME3 and would like to remain spoiler free.

Shit... My mind... is so... broken right now... I remember back in March or April ME3 came out... I was like- Shit! I have a wedding come up I can't pay for this game even though, I really absolutely want to play it! Then I found out my brother bought it as a birthday gift to me but I still would not be able to play it till I got home in June.

Which sucked a whole lot! But then I was over hearing a whole bunch of fan rage about the ending of the game... What THE HELL?! I didn't understand, so over dinner one night with a close friend we discussed what was going on, spoiler free mind you. He pretty much told me the ending disobeyed the idea of multiple endings like all Bioware games have aka best example would be Dragon Age Origins- There had to be multiple endings. I would know I played at least 6 games all the way through and got different endings... Anyways... I was like.... THE HELL?!

So, I behaved and distracted myself with Skyrim for a month or two before the end of April came around... it was near finals and I was going insane! Spoliers don't bother me so, I just went on youtube and watched the ending(S) to find out... at first I watched nonjudgmental and unbiased... I thought it was decent... didn't like that Shepard... 'died' but there was the one scene of breathing which didn't make sense.... and then the ship and being marooned somewhere where ever the fuck... And then the little boy talking to a grandfather about 'The Shepard'... All in all... I thought it was decent, a good end to the series... but could have been better. But Bioware is entitled to end the series however they wish. So, you know... whatever... a lot of amazing storytelling and plot flushed down the drain... meh...

So Things get busy, exams, finals, bachorlette things for my best friend, a wedding, then I'm back home... not really caring about games... but my brother reminds me if I get bored I can always play ME3.... well theres one big major problem... my damn gamertag is being retarded and I also can't access the data on my memory card from his newer xbox... ugh whatever... I just start new character... seems kind of sucky.... but ask I played The plot got better and better as the game went on... I payed attention to a lot of things.... like the kid... the Reapers... the growling.... Like what the hell... Then... You know the dreams with the kid... I questioned a lot of the game. I didn't want to go any further because I wanted to replay from the beginning.

So here I am back to playing ME1 on Noveria.... and paying attention to every detail and every character.... etc... Then went back to reading rumors and theories on the Internets stumbled upon the 'Indoctrination Theory' - If you don't know what I'm referring to please watch this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythY_GkEBck 

Then I checked out this other theory which made me even more sick... This is called 'The Beings of Light Theory' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ascb79jqfo  Which... will at first make you counter think the Indoctrination Theory.... Honestly though I suck more to Indoctrination Theory because I though there was more hard visual evidence then the 'Beings of Light' Theory.

After all this crazyness... Today I was think of my own Theories and trying to bud and build of both the Indoctrination Theory and the Beings of Light Theory... So I went to look up the first 'REAL' conversation with a Reaper. Aka the talk with Sovereign on Virmire. I was just playing close attention to the dialogue and matching it to some of the things from ME3...

Link to conversation with Sovereign, just in case your as curious as I am. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAM8Phnyxi4

Now then before I go any furthur with this rant or whatever... I just want to remind everyone of something the 'Catalyst' aka 'God Child' said. "The Reapers are mine." Which would allude to the idea that the Catalyst created the reapers. The Beings of Light Theory suggest that the Catalyst is a Being of Light... If that is so The Catalyst aka Being of Light created the Reapers to protect Organic life from the 'Devil Machines' which would then allude that the Reapers are not the devil machines but creations fabricated to protect against devil machines....

While listening to what Sovereign back in ME1 he says may things that put down the ideas spewed in the Beings of Light Theory-  Shepard asks Sovereign who created them. Sovereign replies cryptically: "We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite."  BAM right there in ME1 proves that the Reapers were not created at all. To have no Beginning would mean that they had no creators the Beings of Light could not have created them. 

Other things Sovereign that makes it so obvious that they are indeed the Reapers and the Devil Machines: "You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it." "Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays, our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire." "The cycle cannot be broken. The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance. And at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished."

Harbinger says the same things, slightly differently but mostly the same.

What the hell is this post all about? Me ranting my ass off about ME3 and how the ending is very obviously the 'Indoctrination Theory' and not the 'Beings of Light Theory'.

However, I only have one thought that differs from the rest of the group that believes in the Indoctrination Theory... Indoctrination didn't just begin when you were hit with Harbinger at the final battle. Indoctrination probably started somewhere in the second game or even all the way in the beginning when Shepard touched the beacon on Eden Prime. Yes the beacon was of Prothean Technology but don't you think the Reapers came back and did a find sweep? Hell, the had undercover indoctrinated Protheans destroy many of their sleeper pods- out of billions only 'one' survived. Now isnt it possible for them to have say- tampered with the beacons? Touch the beacon, receive message from Protheans, also allow Reapers to make first contact with your mind... The beacon images had strange noises in them... if you ask me... they sounded like Reaper growls in super speed- Indoctrination.  Shepard has been under indoctrination for years...