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[hsalf]

There's been some talk, I've noticed, over the network for the past few days. Mainly about how people have changed and aren't acting as "themselves." I investigated into this and uncovered past messages I've posted onto this server, under my name, and yet not with my face.

Another version of myself, from a different timeline, and I have taken his place. He seemed to know far more than I do as well, likely due to being ahead of his timeline in comparison to my own. I've only time traveled a couple times, but he seems to be something of a veteran.

[And, what Eobard Thawne won't mention, is that this version of him was plagued with certain particularities that he doesn't have. Things he doesn't know if he quite wants.]

Timelines have been mismatched. I'm not the man from those past feeds, despite the matching of names, and I am sure I will never be him. And yet... I wonder if there are some who would prefer things the way they are now. To not "go back" to what seems to be "normal".

It may seem foolish to some of you, but I wonder what will happen to me should things be fixed. Will I vanish away, a remnant destroyed? Will I be sent back to where I belong, while my counterpart is restored? It's the kind of question that might be hard for people to ponder if they see time through a linear lens.

I think those of us who were affected by whatever caused this should take this into consideration. Do you even want to go back to who you used to be? To be changed into another version of yourself that may be completely... wrong, the way you see it? I can't say I'm fond of the idea.

[ooc: for RNT, Eobard's change is that he never came to hate the Flash. Still a sociopath, but his obsessive need for revenge never manifested.]

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[trigeminalheadache]

[ She knows that face, and even though she'd only seen it the one time, she would never forget it. After they sent him back to his time, she thought she'd never see this face again.

That she wouldn't have to see it ever again. ]

And what about those of us who know how things are supposed to be?

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[foreshadower]

Do you have a plan, for making it permanent, yet, my friend?

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[glowsferatu]

I understand your feeling. I've seen similar recordings from the iteration of myself who resides in this timeline, and she's...cold. As if her heart had been locked away long ago, and she can't remember where she'd left the key. I can't imagine what could have happened, to make her like that.

And yet, I cannot dismiss the possibility that hers was the correct timeline, that perhaps things proceeded incorrectly in mine. Paradox space can be so particular about such things.

The only thing of which I am certain is that...where I am now, here on this Earth, the timeline has diverged from what I remember. I've been around long enough to know how things were, and how I fit into them. Much as I regret that I must be reverted to her, I don't...fit into this world the way I remember.

Things are different. The people around me are different. Perhaps that is all her fault.

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[harrisonwells]

[There have been several things this week that haven't added up. His conversation with Caitlin had gotten him thinking, and the oddly specific experiments on gravity and sound-dampening he and Jesse had found. This message seems to confirm that there's something strange going on.

Out of curiosity, Harrison had checked those past feeds too, under this name, and found the face in question had been, well. His. That had been enough of a surprise that he feels almost obligated to answer. The helmet is gone, no uniform, just civilian clothes.]

If we've been affected as you claim, and multiversal theorems hold true—which they do—it's possible our other selves have taken our place in the worlds we're from.

[He can only hope that the other Harrison Wells is doing what he can to help Central City.]

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[garrick]

[ Chin in hand, reading glasses on, not so impressed expression worn. Hunter has been reading back through his own stuff.]

I would rather not vanish because someone else's existence overwrites mine. Maybe we will just wake up back home.

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[hostage]

I don't. I don't wanna go back. I don't even know what "going back" means. I've always been like this, and all of the sudden, everybody's telling me I haven't.

But it's pretty fucking obvious nobody gives a shit about what I think.

[akito]

As long as it doesn't impact everyone else from my world, I don't have a preference one way or another.

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[catchacold]

[He paid attention to the other conversations on this post, particularly Caitlin's. He's talked to Zoom!Barry, talked to a few other sudden speedsters, tried to get a feel for what is happening.

Harrison Wells aka Eobard Thawne now. Yet another thing to wrap his head around.]

It doesn't seem as if any of this is up to choice.

Or do you have an idea on how to keep the current status quo, when nobody even knows why it changed?

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[tardily]

I know some people who want me to be back to the way they know me as. But I think this version of me is just fine.

Hello, Eobard. We should talk. [ is that a good thing or a bad thing what a fabulous question. but eobard might want to be worried about that smile. ]