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[ The video flickers on with Yuri sitting in what looks like a nurse's office, in the bed. She's dressed in a pair of pink pajamas. Something seems a little bit different about her, somehow. Not wrong, or bad, just.. different. She's got her laptop on her knees and she smiles to the community. ]

Everything turned out okay, you can turn off your worried frowns before you get wrinkles. I have to go see everyone else off in a little bit, but I've got a bit of time right now so I figured I'd let everyone know I was okay. Did I miss anything important?

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It's not a game, we're just all dead. I destroyed the system that was acting as God here, that's that. We can afterlive in freedom now. [ She pauses. ] Well, I will. Anyone new who shows up, too... I guess I should probably help them while I'm still here.

2ound2 cool, then.
ii'm glad you're happy about...whatever you ju2t 2aiid.
2o you're a gho2t?

No, I'm dead. Physically existing in an afterlife. If I were a ghost, I'd be in my world of the living. Totally solid and everything, too.

oh, okay, niifty.
ii thiink we have a thiing liike that, two.
but ii haven't actually gotten there, yet.
2poiiler2~~

Spoilers? Do you have someone from the future of your world on the community? I use to have a friend like that. He's actually in the future now though.

yeah, quiite a few 2omeone2.
ii try not two me22 my2elf up two badly.
ii'm pretty 2ure iif ii do 2omethiing ii'm not 2uppo2ed two do, iit'll re2ult iin even more death2 than are already prede2tiined two occur.

If you screw things up by changing it, though, then no one knows what's going to happen right? It could get horrible, but it could also get better.

apparently where ii come from, iit doe2n't work liike that.
iif ii deviiate from the alpha tiimeliine, everyone iin my tiimeliine wiill diie.
the alpha tiimeliine ii2 the only true tiimeliine that can be allowed two exii2t.

or 2ome kiind of 2iimiilar hoofbea2t2hiit.

That sounds stupider than stupid if you ask me. That kind of idea is just like saying "We can't make anything better even if we try" so you don't have a reason to try. At least, that's what it sounds like. I don't know your world or its rules, obviously, but I can't help but think like that since I've got someone's "absolute" fate that I want to change.

ii know iit'2 completely fucked up and 2tupiid, but iit'2 not 2ome rule that 2omeone made up!
iit'2 a law of nature, okay?
ii can't ju2t change graviity becau2e ii don't liike iit - and beliieve me, ii don't liike thii2.
but ii al2o don't want two kiill all my friiend2.

So why not have everyone from the future and the different timelines you know tell you their stories and figure out what you can do to stop that?

becau2e there are hundred2 of doomed tiimeliine2.
and tho2e are ju2t the one2 we've already created.
hundred2 of dead friiend2.

So only the one where a couple of them die has a happy ending?

that'2 2uppo2ed two be the iidea.
a few people dyiing ii2 better than all of u2 dyiing.

So how did you find out all of that timeline stuff? It sounds a lot like the crap Scratch says or like the fragments Battler told me about.

2omeone ii tru2t explaiined iit two me.

Good luck with that. Even if someone you trust says something like that... I think it'd still be better to write your own destiny. Even if it gets screwed up. Once something's in the past, it's done. I don't think the future is ever written in stone though, even if you say one thing leads to another no matter what. But to each their own. Not my world, I can't really say anything about it even if I don't think that's something I could ever agree with.

[ And an important question- ] What's your name, by the way?

two be hone2t, ii feel the 2ame way.
except there are thiing2 about the future that ii know are goiing two happen becau2e ii've 2een iit my2elf.
ii'm a prophet, you 2ee.
2o even though ii try to change thiing2 and ii want thiing2 two work out, ii know they won't.
oh well.

uh, riight.
my name'2 2ollux captor.
you?

Can you prophecize things outside of your world or just inside? [ Because that sounds like it wouldn't be a fun gift to have, at least to her. ]

Yuri Nakamura. Yuri or Yurippe are both fine.

2o far, only 2tuff dealiing wiith my own world ha2 come two me.
but ii can hear the dead of other world2 iif ii travel.

niice two meet you, yy.

No traveling required for this dead girl at least.

YY?

y0u're pa2t the 2ell-by date.
i actually hear the v0ice2 0f the 200n-tw0-die.

yeah.
y0u've g0t THREE y name2, but i pared it d0wn tw0 tw0.

At least I don't smell like it. So you know when someone's about to die? You're kind of like a shinigami.

Three? I've only got two. Yuri and Yurippe. It works out either way.

nah, nothiing that u2eful.
ii can't really prediict the future wiith any accuracy iin term2 of tiimiing, or iin any way that miight allow me two try two prevent 2omeone'2 fate.
ii get vague vii2iion2 that don't really help me iin any way, and cau2e me daiily mii2ery.
and iit'2 hard two dii2tiinguii2h one voiice iin the general noii2e.
what'2 a 2hiiniigamii?

oh yeah, two.
the fiir2t one confu2ed me, ii thought yurii wa2 a 2hort form of a longer name.
even better!

That just sounds like a pain in the ass more than anything useful. A shinigami is a Japanese mythological being that guides the dead from one world to the next. I'm pretty sure they're not real, being dead and all.

The longer one is the nickname, weirdly.

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