But anyway it just starts counting backwards from that number back down to zero This repeats so many times, through such a staggering amount of time— longer than the entire lifespan of multiple universes—that it eventually forgets everything it knows except the named numbers
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It forgets its own name, its origins, the existence of anything that ever existed outside the endless void Eventually thinking of itself as a being whose entire purpose for existence is to count the sequence of named numbers up and down, infinitely
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In reality it was, very unusually, a being not totally dissimilar from a character who gets the Old Man Consequences ending in FNAF World (which I did not know of at the time It was a divine being of some kind that viewed the universe as an irl human might view World of Warcraft
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More like a game dev playing a game as they were designing it, a member of a committee The rules of the universe, which were mutually agreed upon, had to be followed as part of the rules of admission, basically the ToS of the universe One of these rules was Time
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This divine being—implied to be literally one of the gods of mythology—was basically a griefer, a troll It took possession of a mortal vessel and used it to do villainous, if badass, shit, spread havoc and all that, a real heel Kinda SPNish but I like interrogating possession
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The specifics of what _happened_ aren't really important but basically it got defeated by being lured into possessing a mortal vessel and trapped in a bottomless pit Like imagine it as a wizard spell "Summon Bottomless Pit" It got kicked in and that decisively removed him
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Anyway like FNAF world where the character "goes too deep into the code" and gets stuck in this vector graphics nightmare, this thing gets stuck in a lacuna much longer-lasting than the universe Like being trapped deep in the code of City of Heroes long after the game shut down
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It proceeds to forget it's a god, that it came from something deeper and more complex than its current premises, forgets it's possessing a human being—comes to think of everything it is as itself The human's own psyche having quickly collapsed under the weight of eternity
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My prose didn't do a good job of conveying it but that was the whole point This idea that in the storytelling trope of divine or demonic possession, given infinite time, there would come to be no distinction between the possessor and the possessed The player would become the PC
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This godly alien being is encaged in this vessel with this human soul for so long that that soul becomes its own Dualism can't survive the weight of eternity
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The idea of a Time Abyss is very powerful, and even that isn't really talking about "eternity", just big numbers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
That thing I talked about one time about the old vampire laughing at the idea of humans thinking they understand time when they think a paltry lifespan of 70 years is so much to live through
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