So! I'm at chapter 30 and I'm just getting a lot of what if's like... What if Connor actually left after that? or what if Evan did pass out from a panic attack? or, even Angstier™, what if Connor left and Evan climbed the tree by himself because the guilt keeps eating at him and he ends up "falling"?
Well see... It didn’t happen so it’s fine. What if’s are constant thing that just kind of happen because human beings are like programmed to thing about the alternate possibilities that could happen even if they didn’t. But, to give you fair game:
-If Connor had actually left, Evan probably would have gone back inside. Maybe he would have called Jared. Maybe he wouldn’t have. Maybe he would have texted him. Maybe he would have called Connor. Maybe he would have texted Zoe. Maybe Connor would have come back within the same night. He needed to cool down, and he would have taken the time to do so before he went back, because as scared as Evan was in that moment, Connor was scared too. As you can see, even with ‘what-ifs’, there are still about a million possibilities. If this were a visual novel, I could write like at least six different things that could have happened here.
-If Evan passed out from a panic attack, he would have woken up and he’d be fine. He was sitting in his room, so like he’s solid.
-Because Reinvention was never written with the intent of being angst p*0*rn like a lot of people seem to love to aim for and instead hurt/comfort where things were able to heal and ultimately feel better, that absolutely would not have happened, but I digress. I’m pretty sure that it would not have happened, especially considering the fact that Evan climbed a tree fifteen chapters before and Connor came over and essentially scolded him for it. That would stick with Evan. It did stick with Evan. Evan can be impulsive and the situation sucks but he knows that Connor cares.
Those are my hot-takes on the what-ifs of Reinvention. I guess this is a Q+A game now. Anyone else have any whack what-if questions?