We don't. Which is why it was so hard for me to answer you. If I could go back earlier than where I had been, it would be nice to try to change some things.But I don't know the consequences that would have on the future, or if I could even change anything at all. Imagine you change one thing and something else is worse.
I suppose my answer is then that I would go back to the council room and... await whatever happened to us there.
Sorry. I knew it was a question without a real answer, but... [ he was curious. it was also his own little test to see how viktor felt in all of what had happened in his world. ] There's a theory called the butterfly effect. It's when a small action happens, but it causes something much bigger to happen and completely change the future, even if they seem unrelated. Even if we went back and changed something small, just to make it better, we don't know if it'd then change something else to make it worse.
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But I don't think going back at least a little before the explosion is a bad idea. Just to give you some breathing room.
[Viktor shifts a bit to glance back at Shoma. He isn't a theoretical science sort of guy, but he understands what it means. He thinks it could very well be true.]
I'm not sure if I want... a few minutes worth of knowing my death is imminent.
[This may or may not be (a truck drives by).]
The council room is in a high Piltover tower. Even if I were to run away... I'm sure most of us inside aren't going to make it. That is just the way of the world sometimes, I guess.
[ for him, he thinks it's possible that maybe going back a few minutes early would at least give him time to devise a plan to escape. but it's also entirely possible the man's already dead, which...isn't great. ]
...then I guess another option is to not go back if it's the end anyway. But it's hard to think about that, too.
[Shoma is really going through it for him for no reason. He is... both surprised, confused, and touched some random kid would be worried about his fate.]
Stay here? I would say I don't think it's nice to leave my partner without half of the Hextech work force, but... if we're both in the room and are going to die anyway. What a sad day for Piltover.
[ sometimes, despite being the way you are, you do care about people who've been nice when it sounds like their fate sucks... ]
That's sort of my point. Not to say you should just give up, but I don't think anyone else would blame a person for wanting more time if that's something they thought they'd want.
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Not interested in changing the past?
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...do we even know if changing the past would give us a future we want?
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We don't. Which is why it was so hard for me to answer you. If I could go back earlier than where I had been, it would be nice to try to change some things.But I don't know the consequences that would have on the future, or if I could even change anything at all. Imagine you change one thing and something else is worse.
I suppose my answer is then that I would go back to the council room and... await whatever happened to us there.
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But I don't think going back at least a little before the explosion is a bad idea. Just to give you some breathing room.
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I'm not sure if I want... a few minutes worth of knowing my death is imminent.
[This may or may not be (a truck drives by).]
The council room is in a high Piltover tower. Even if I were to run away... I'm sure most of us inside aren't going to make it. That is just the way of the world sometimes, I guess.
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...then I guess another option is to not go back if it's the end anyway. But it's hard to think about that, too.
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Stay here? I would say I don't think it's nice to leave my partner without half of the Hextech work force, but... if we're both in the room and are going to die anyway. What a sad day for Piltover.
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That's sort of my point. Not to say you should just give up, but I don't think anyone else would blame a person for wanting more time if that's something they thought they'd want.
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Well... We just found ourselves here, so... I'll keep it in mind. There's quite a bit for us to figure out here first.
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