#emythos

[damaramegido]

Acey, you are a good person with good opinions and I am glad you exist

<3

[k25ff]

my very first thought when I saw the picture of necrobomber was "oh no, she's adorable." exploding zombie power lady should not be that cute. also I need to know where she got her ribcage shirt.

She’s far more affable than anyone with a bodycount as high as hers has any business being.

As for the shirt, I’m sure that’s a hot topic thing.

[k25ff]

so, is the "ask what my power would be?" things still allowed? also, chiasmata is amazing, 10/10 v good comic.

Thanks! And yes, it’s still allowed.

You have never known more power, or less freedom.

The light froze and shattered your mind, and you went wholly mad with senses you had never dreamed of possessing. Your scream caught in your throat as your mind stretched, unfolding into a space you never knew existed. The world blurred, and in a moment, you were standing in your room, watching your past self as the cold light hit… you or them?

Unstuck from time, reality revealed a new direction, perpendicular to every direction you had previously moved in. You can feel the sluggish flow of chronology through your skin, amidst your being, and it takes no more effort to move up or downstream than it does to walk down a street.

The implications of your ability filled your brain with overwhelming hypotheticals. What about paradoxes? Alternate timelines? Monsters from the end of time? As you stewed in anxiety, the air shivered and warped, and you stepped out of time, right before your eyes. You didn’t look any different physically, but the way you carried yourself spoke of confidence and experience.

“You’ll be fine, don’t overthink things. At least, that’s what I told me, last time around.” Your double flashed a grin, winked and vanished back the way they came.

Your timeline is a separate thing, and occasionally you feel trapped by the determinism of already having changed the past. A puppet, traveling along rails, the entirety of time frozen in amber, for you to pick through, but never truly affect. You automatically know which moves to make, when to act in order to preserve the timeline. But it’s not that simple. You can push against the inertia of history, change things around, cause events to not happen. Occasionally a future version (or two, or three) of yourself tells you that an idea you’ve just had is a bad one, and it gets progressively more difficult to actually change the past - bizarre coincidences start to stack up, as probability seems to become set against you. It tends not to be worth bothering, but some of the futures, the possibilities you’ve glimpsed in the slowly shifting morass of causality justify the effort.

Burning your power until the air about you turns blue with the steam rising from your pitted skin, parts of yourself disappearing into near pasts and futures, risking your sanity and coherence for an eventuality that everyone will forget. Was it worth it? Becoming a pawn of a fate you barely understand?

You have never known more power, or less freedom.

[k25ff]

I don't know if this is explained somewhere, but what do the numbers/letters next to the names on the chiasmforum mean? cause I don't know and I haven't seen an explanation.

In the Geneverse, threats (dangerous superhumans, etc) are ranked on a hexadecimal scale from 1-F (with F+ as a higher category for the very worst threats).

The Chiasm Forums use this system as an idiosyncratic means of “ranking” users by number of posts made/number of subfora posted in/etc. Kinda like the “new member/member/well-known member” thing used by forums (Kintsugi has a similar thing for the non-custom user titles).

[damaramegido]

hey, just letting you know you're cool and pretty and fun and have great floofy hair

thank you friend!! <3

[create-love-not-hate]

so, tumblr user emythos is sensible and no-nonsense. it's so refreshing to see that, and i want to let them know that one random internet stranger appreciates them. rock on, em!

Hey @emythos you’re really awesome and deserve some love!

[damaramegido]

beach party?

Beach Party: Have you ever been banned from somewhere?

In 9th grade, this lady at the 7-Eleven near my school tried to get me banned from the store over...something, I don’t even remember the exact situation. She was an ass and I spoke to the manager about it and wasn’t banned, and I’m pretty sure she got fired. :P

[k25ff]

oh hey, happy late chiasmata borth

Thank! It happens quicker every year.