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Thoughts on the concept of time and the old guards relationship with it

ohh patrick this is super interesting

andy’s concept of time has changed a lot over the years, she’s over 6,000 years old and time hasn’t meant the same to her consistently over those years. she doesn’t remember a lot of her earlier life, not her family anymore and that is something that comes with time. to her she seems to have accepted it to some extent at least, she’s lived long enough to get to that. she spent thousands of years on her own, i don’t think during that time she had any much concept of time not when she was by herself moving around from place to place. but then found quynh and i think she became much more aware of how much time was passing, she became aware of the years together with her, especially after being alone for so long, or she’s at least aware of how long it’s been, maybe not the years but she understands that it’s been a very long time. and this is only multiplied after lykons death because now there’s an unknown time limit on their immortality and she becomes more aware of the time she has had with the two of them and aware of time passing because she could die any day. however, i don’t think she was that scared of the death after a few hundred years after lykons death because she knows roughly how long shes’s been alive, she knows that if she dies she’s already done so much there’s a sort of acceptance there. and then when quynh is gone, time is all she has to remember her, all she has is her memories of her and she’s suddenly aware of how much time she spent with her and doesn’t know how to feel, to have someone gone after spending thousands of years fighting side by side with them. time is the only concrete thing she has as a reminder of exactly how long it’s been, because to her it feels much longer than it has actually been. like she said, it’s what time has left behind, and to her time has left her behind and taken so much from her already

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booker feels so much of time, if that makes sense. he feels every minute and every second pass, he remembers every moment since he woke up hung from that tree and it’s because he’s never wanted the life he ended up with so he’s conscious of how much time is passing, time he never wanted to have. he loves his immortal family, but he never wanted this life and yet he’s stuck with no choice but to live it despite the numbers of times i think he tried to end it. he feels the days and weeks, but to him it feels like longer, 200 years can so easily feel like 500 and living to 900, much less 6,000 sounds painful and almost impossible despite that he knows it’s not. time to him seems to move so fast yet so slow, he can so easily remember the early days of his new life, like it was yesterday, but it feels like forever ago, like another lifetime and in some ways it was. he’s changed, the world has changed. time is a cruel joke to him, meaningless in a way it only can be to someone who’s immortal but he find himself burdened by it, carrying something most would kill for, yet he’s died for it. it’ll take a while, some self-reflection, less booze and definitely some therapy for him to see time as anything else but a reminder of all he’s left behind

quynh, quynh who has lost 500 years of her life drowning in the ocean, has probably the weirdest relationship with time. she had thousands of years by andys side, felt invincible and then she got to see what having so much time really feels like every time she drowned and every time she woke up with booker’s image in her mind. she may have not realized how much time had passed but once she comes back she’s almost hyperaware of time, but unlike booker who mostly wallows in each passing day, quynh will take her chance to enjoy the time she was given back now that she’s free of the iron maiden and free to be with her family and her love again. time is precious to her now and she doesn’t want to waste any time she may have left, especially now that andy is mortal

joe and nicky are probably well aware of time, not in an exact way but they know it’s been a long time. they remember the time they met, they remember what the world was like. time to them is a gift, they’ve been given their soulmates and all this time to enjoy each other, it’s not something they will take for granted in any sense. they’ve been in love for over 900 years, and it’s certainly felt that long but in a way that they only want more, whatever the universe will give them they will take it as long as they have each other. not to mention how real time became once andy told them about lykon, he died before joe and nicky so the only way for them to know was when andy told them (or quynh but i think it was andy). so they make the most of every moment because after thinking they would live forever they know now that this life isn’t permanent and there’s no warning when it will end either, enjoying the ones they can and helping out where they are needed

another note about nicky is that time to him is a way to repent and make up for what he has done in the past. it probably took him decades to fully shake himself of his former beliefs but they’re always in the back of his mind, not as something he still remotely believes in but as a reminder of the person he was and the person he wants to be. so this time, this gift he has, this life he was given, to him is a way to help and he is grateful for it (also i’m talking about his belief in converting and killing people over the ideals of christianity not his faith as a whole - i still think he holds some faith but i am not the person to discuss that)

and nile who probably has the most “normal” concept of time. she’s been immortal for what? like a week? her immortality hasn’t really set in and no matter the ways in which she dies and has died, and no matter the utter and complete proof she has in the rest of the guard, she isn’t going to feel the immortality, not until maybe a few decades down the line and she’ll look at herself in the mirror and see herself just as young as the day she died. in the present time, she’s only been alive for what 27 (?) years, she feels the years pass just as we do, feeling like they’re going a bit faster every year. to her time is elusive, she hasn’t grasped yet what it means to really live beyond your years. she’s made some kind of peace with the idea, but she hasn’t live long enough to really see time as anything but no matter how much she prepares herself for the future. she probably feels weird about time now, knowing she has so much of it but knowing her life can’t be spent the way she would’ve liked to spend it as an immortal because there are dangers, some you run from and some you save others from. so slowly her relationship with time will change, but right now i think it remains something mysterious to her

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