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Arcainum
I write stories about pony superheroes and cruel and unusual tragedies and pony superheroes who suffer cruel and unusual tragedies. I'm currently looking both fine and OK.
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I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT PART!!!
1097412 my hate and love for you are at once to their furthest possible extremes =(
But how did she acquire the plutonium!?
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From Pluto
Seriously though... harsh.
But it says complete...
....man, I really can't argue with Future Twilight's actions here, as harsh as they are.
What just happened?
THOSE IMPLICATIONS!
1097452 I
1097859 hate
1097924 you.
Actually, D, you're cool. You edited. You're a NICE PERSON <3
Twilight doesn't die because she's there to stab herself.
Rough. That was pretty brutal.
Please keep writing, I'll keep reading!
You just wrote the ending.
Now you need to go back and write all the chaos that leads up to it.
1097932 l2paradox =/
Seems like something out of an episode of "The Twilight Zone."
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I did not intend for that pun.
iCame.
This is why we can't have nice things (Read: time travel)
This is beautifully written and needs no further continuation. I loved it!
0/5 needs more implications
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I'm pretty sure the story is about how future Twilight killed her present self in order to stop her from altering the future. Even if that means that future Twilight ceases existing.
I really need to stop reading time travel fics. I like them, but I always come out of it with a headache.
I'm just no good with paradoxes. That doesn't sound right... Paradoxi? Paradoxen? ugh... 
Even the word is confusing.
Why are characters from the future always so cagey about the details. Was it seriously easier to kill her than to explain exactly what went wrong?
I'm assuming all those other times she gave that same extremely vague warning.
The paradoxes this story creates are limitless. If this isn't the first time Twilight has travel back in time and she said " You never listen" meaning there are multiple Twilights to begin with and each time failing to convince each one. If this Twilight doesn't remember Future Twilight coming back, it means there are several universes and each time Future Twilight travels back, she is in a different one each time. WTF did I just write?
I don't get it, although I do get the distinct feeling that this has been done before in this exact form, lack of build-up, lack of purpose and lack of feeling included; the relentlessly flat prose I might call still Perrier, but in this context - that very slight bit of anticipation coming up, that 'how is he going to make this concept work' - it feels more like I've jumped thirstily at a bottle of Perrier in the fridge, brought it up to my lips and gulped it down and then found it to be milk gone bad.
(True story. I threw up in the sink, which in this metaphor is me typing out this comment.)
In truth, it feels like another story with the names switched out and a slight reference to the stagnancy of eternal rule thrown in. As much as I have a deep, unabiding platonic love for and a pure intellectual admiration of you, Arcainum, I can't say that there's a single good thing about this.
I'm sorry.
I'm sincerely, absolutely sorry.
ps plz don't hate me
So who really wrote it? Or is everything actually as it seems this time?
This was cool. Good job.
To avoid paradoxes hurting my head, I shall assume the "Many Worlds Theory". Every time something happens in the time-stream, a different world is created to house that time continuum and avoid creating paradoxes.
This feels like an unrelated cutscene. A part of a bigger whole that could make this have some sense.
Why wasn't Celestia present during such an important occasion? Does the spell create an alternative universe each time Twilight enters it (which is suggested by the "I tried so many times" line)? Does it make sense from the POV of future Twilight to attempt something several times, receive the same outcome and then try something different and expect it to work?
Time travel is a fascinating thing, but I feel the grounds for it here aren't laid out very well. Written nicely, but too short for anything else than "a nice piece of writing".
So, if future Twilight killed past/present self, then that means she wouldn't be around later in order to kill herself, and that won't keep a stable timeline and then the world would go boom. So, really, future Twilight just exploded the world and unraveled the universe in order for the future to not be like that.
Just some things I learned from Dr. Who!
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If I recall correctly, I believe the entire UNIVERSE would 'go boom'. It would cause a rip in very fabric of reality.
Dude, you've been putting out some Dark stories lately. I suppose it's to even out all the fun and fluff of your earlier stuff?
Either way, a quick, mind-bending experience here. Though I have to wonder...
... did anything REALLY change?
Arcainum was going to post more chapters, but his future self came back and told him not to.
1098436 Then I killed him.
Wow, this was much better than I expected! Nice job!
IMO, Twilight doesn't actually die. Because it was Twilight that killed herself, she still has to exist, and because she stopped the spell from being created, the timeline resets and Twilight "reappears" somewhere else to take the place of the two in the story here.
Man, look at all these people getting caught up in the exact mechanics of time travel, and ignoring the actual point of the story (That last line
)
I like the idea of Future Twilight being forced to kill Past Twilight, but the justification reeks of pop philosophy - the whole "too much good is bad" cliche and all that.
Silly future Twilight.
There is no such thing as 'the right hooves' when it comes to this kind of power.
I really like how little explanation this story needs in order to work.
That was. .. surprisingly well done. Very much like.
Very nice story. For everyone who questions the time paradox, what if we simply assume the spell removes the caster from the flow of a simple linear universe and lets them edit it at will. That way the observed effect is an outside entity (twilight the time traveler) came in and killed twilight. When twilight died her alternate future self continued to exist because if the spell did'nt in some way buffer it's user from the normal time line it would always end in paradox no matter what she did. Now if you'll excuse me i have to burn my notes for a story that would be considered hopelessly derivative of this and nowhere near as good.
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Wait. Wait. ...Wat? WHAT THE FU- *BOOM*
1098248 Well, yes. Look what the Master did. He cause one HECK of a paradox. I just rewatched the episode, the Doc said that the paradox machine around the TARDIS was the only reason why everyone was still alive. Well... more or less. If you don't count death by Toclafane.
Add that with the fact that the... I think they were called wraiths in the episode with Rose and Christopher Eccleson. (9th Doc) then yea, the world wouldn't go boom. It would actually, in fact, be killed by giant wraiths and be ripped apart because of the paradox. But I like the sound the words "go boom" make. So I said go boom.
I like this, short as it is, for all the ways it makes you imagine that Twilight(s) must've changed the past and what the past might have been before she/they did so.
For those saying that Future Twi (FT) couldn't have made multiple trips back without Past Twi (PT) remembering her unless the many-worlds theory is true, in which case FT isn't even trying to save her own universe: What if FT just came back a little earlier each time?
And for those who find FT maddeningly vague: I imagine she's been specific many times already, only to find that PT cheerfully came up with clever work-arounds for the terrible pitfalls FT detailed. Perhaps FT was even reassured the first few times that happened, thinking that she'd succeeded only to return to a future in even greater chaos.
Why wasn't Celestia in the room for such an important meeting? Because FT already fully briefed her on the disaster-in-the-making that she wished to prevent, and how she planned to prevent it. Celestia probably knows her student better than anyone, after all. Her strengths and her weaknesses. Though it broke her heart, Celestia decided to leave FT to her business. "Because I believe in you, Twilight Sparkle."
But wait, if Future!Twilight kills Present!Twilight then Future!Twilight ceases to exist which means she can't go back in time and kill Present!Twilight, which means Present!Twilight becomes Future!Twilight and has to go back in time to kill Present!Twilight which means if Future!Twilight kills Present!Twilight...
...unless you're using the multiverse theory. (Which wouldn't make any sense, as Future!Twilight wouldn't even be helping her own timeline, which seems to be the whole point in going back in time.)
Liked, favorited, and awaiting more.
Some ponies just can't be trusted at the reins of destiny. Sad but true.
Simple but with lots of implications. I like it.
On the other hand, I would definitely consider learning an amnesia-inducing spell before I considered chronal suicide.
...I know it's complete, but if you wanted to expand on this and write an epic story telling all about everything else, I'd totally read it.
Just saying.
“Fine. All I can say is... the right spell in the wrong hooves can make all the difference in the world. Do you think Celestia was always a Princess? That Equestria has always been at peace? That Discord has always existed?”
“We’re the wrong hooves, Twilight. We always were.”
FUTURE TWILIGHT WHAT HAPPENED?! TELL ME!!!!
Even though I knew it was Future-Twilight talking, I couldn't help but read that line about "the right spell in the wrong hooves" in the G-man's voice.
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She tried that several times, apparently. She mentions that no amount of arguing and persuading ever makes past!Twilight listen and heed her warnings.