When you realize that there's a giant plothole in the story that you've been writing for over a year and that plothole stretches all the way back to the earliest chapters... · 11:27pm Feb 7th, 2019
So, y'know Timothy from Pony-Me, right?
Yeah, he supposedly entered the simulation as a toddler, but the problem with that is that in order to match his description relative to Lisa, he'd actually be roughly around 11 years old by the time he enters, thus bumping his age post-simulation to his early 20s, reducing the age gap with Lisa by nearly half a decade.
Yup.
Okay.
This is fine.
All it took was one stray thought from last night, followed by a rough timeline of events leading up to the beginning of the story, to tear apart the existing canon.
Welp.
Also, if he really was the age that he's depicted as being in the story, and actually joined the simulation as a toddler, then that means that he'd have to be born after the deaths of his and Lisa's parents.
Oops.
At least I left myself the freedom to leave his age up for interpretation since I never directly stated anyone's age. He could be 11 when he joined, or he could be 12. Maybe 9. Who knows?
Maybe his has Retrograde-Amnesia
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Nah. It's just something I didn't notice up until now.
well....could have been worse. Bigger blunders have definitely been made before
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Yup. I'm just glad that the way I designed the story allows me to keep things vague enough to allow for things like this to still work out in the end.
Intentional vagueness FTW
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Good save.
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It's already been patched after I drew up a more obvious timeline to stick in with my story plans.
I have a theory, that Tim Tom Toby over here is actually 86, but has the Benjamin Button Disease