hi! i saw edith through arts's blog and i thought. wow! they seem really cool and maybe have similar vibes to my own project! i should check it out! and i was right this is cool <3 (though different than i expected!)
anyway! how does edith come to the conclusion that she's found her own future self's notebook? does she draw this conclusion from the book alone, it's contents, some other outside clue, or a mix?
Ahhh, hello! I'm so happy you decided to check my OCs out! Thank you! :D
I checked out your blog when I got this ask and also thought, "Woah! Cool OCs!" I will be sending an ask for them :]
Okay, I originally typed a bunch of paragraphs, but I've tried to condense it. (Edit: I failed, haha.)
After some trauma and stress-induced psychosis, Edith has to track every detail of her life in a journal. If not, or if she records symptoms of the psychosis returning, she'll be straight in hospital. Not a good fate when it's 1958!
One day, she picks up her journal from a box under her bed. She doesn't remember this box, but assumes her mother organised her room. The journal looks the same, albeit with a few more scuff marks on the cover.
At first, the contents are normal. However, the entries soon start going beyond the present date. Somehow, she's started cataloguing events that haven't happened yet.
She understandably freaks out and thinks the psychosis is back or she's in a dream. The dream idea breaks when she never wakes up. The psychosis idea gets more complicated when she finds the normal journal she was writing in outside of the box. Now, she has two!
To confirm she's not detaching from reality, she starts carrying the future-time-fuckery journal around the house when it's closed. Her family openly acknowledge its existence, thinking it's the normal book. Then, she hides the future journal somewhere secret while her parents read the normal one. She realises they are two distinct but very real books.
The future journal also contains info she shouldn't know. Rumours, people's secrets, and bubbling tension between people. Some of these people she hasn't really spoken to, or, at least, not in a positive, open way.
She ends up confronting someone on some personal info she knows about them. They call her out on how in the world she knows this, but don't deny it. Using the info she read in the journal, she lies about the signs having been obvious.
There's also stuff like her handwriting and tone matching. This future version of her has included details of her own past that only her family knows. They aren't interested in forging her entries at all. I think the only person who might have a chance of being good at forging it would be Martha (her mother). She'd still fail in the tone aspect.
I should mention that all these things about the messed up journal never make it into the regular one. She leaves details out and makes excuses. Surely, this won't come back to bite her (ha).
Thank you again for taking interest in her! I appreciate it lots :]