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[thewertsearch]

GC: YOU 4SK3D WH4T 1T M34NS TO B3 TH3 S33R OF M1ND [...] GC: 1F YOU S33 WH4TS 1N YOUR M1ND CL34RLY 4ND UND3RST4ND TH3 POW3R YOUR THOUGHTS H4V3 GC: TH3N YOU UND3RST4ND R34L1TY WH1L3 3V3RYON3 3LS3 1S RUNN1NG 4ROUND CONFUS3D 4ND 4NGRY 4ND UPS3T

I was hoping that Terezi would start expositing on her own Title. Unlike the kids, she's had a full-length session of Sgrub to grow into her understanding of her own role, so she's able to speak with some authority on what it means. Let's see what she has to say.

GC: B3C4US3 TH3Y TH1NK R34L1TY 1S SOM3TH1NG H4PP3N1NG TO TH3M GC: R4TH3R TH4N SOM3TH1NG TH3Y 4R3 M4K1NG 3V3RY MOM3NT W1TH 3V3RY THOUGHT

This is, of course, completely literal. We've just seen Dave spawn an entire timeline from his thoughts, and it's possible that all divergent timelines spawn from people's decisions.

Through her understanding of Mind, Terezi essentially conjured Green-Suited Dave - and in doing so, demonstrated that her powers have real, physical consequences. They might not be as flashy as John's, but they're a lot more flexible.

GC: 1 4M NOT PSYCH1C, BUT 1 H4V3 TH3 S1GHT S33RS 4R3 M34NT TO H4V3 GC: 1T W4S MY ROL3 TO H4V3 1T

This seems to confirm that Terezi's intuition is, in fact, informed by her Title abilities. She doesn't have troll psionics, but she does have some sort of 'sight' granted by her Aspect. I assume this sight is what allows her to smell people's personalities and detect lies.

GC: FOR MY 3N3M13S, 1 W4S M34NT TO BR1NG 4BOUT TH3 1NH3R3NT R3TR1BUT1ON FLOW1NG FROM TH3 R34L1TY M4D3 BY TH31R OWN 3V1L THOUGHTS

Terezi has a prodigious understanding of the way people think. According to her, this means that she's meant to be a master manipulator, turning her enemies' thoughts and desires against them. I'm not entirely convinced that a class called the 'Seer' is intended to be used this way, but it's worked out pretty well for her so far.

Note also that she doesn't question the base assumption that her enemies are evil. To this trainee legislacerator, anyone who stands against her is evil by definition. This isn't the first time we've seen this attitude from her, as she also used it to justify the murders she committed as a Scourge Sister.

[bladekindeyewear]

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What the fuck, are those the trees from the new planet? Is Terezi dreaming or high?

HER HONORABLE TEREZI: P3RM1SS1ON GR4NT3D, PROC33D

No comment I can make other than how fun this already is.

Legislacerator: Proceed.

TEREZI: TH3 N1GHT OF TH3 CR1M3, YOU W3R3 1N MY C4V3 W3R3 YOU NOT?

Huh?

Accused: Dodge the question.

I saw the mustache before, but with this whinging expression... why does she look like she's trying to look like Jake? I mean she's a Mind player, so façades, but then using OTHERS' unique characteristics is a Heart thing-- no I should stop reading too much into this yet.

HHT: Grow tired of these SH3N4N1G4NS.

HER HONORABLE TEREZI: 4NSW3R TH3 QU3ST1ON!

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TEREZI THE ACCUSED: SO WH4T 1F 1 W4S? 1 H4D 3V3RY R1GHT TO B3 TH3R3

Well, yeah. Right?

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OH YOU GOOFY FUCKING GOOBER SO THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON

I have always loved Terezi so much you folks, you have no goddamn idea, I am SO loving her being done with her Act 6 slump and back in peak Terezi form

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TEREZI: ON3 COULD H4RDLY BL4M3 YOU 1F YOU W3R3 F33L1NG 4 L1TTL3 P3CK1SH, 4 SM1DG3 F4M1SH3D, JUST 4 T1NY B1T R4V3NOUS

She ate another weird thing, sure-- why does she care enough this time to put on a play for herself about it?

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TEREZI: HOW HUNGRY WOULD YOU S4Y YOU W3R3? TEREZI THE ACCUSED: 1 DON'T KNOW, PR3TTY HUNGR- TEREZI: HUNGRY 3NOUGH...

Legislacerator: ACCUSE.

TEREZI: TO 34T 4 HORS3?

what the fuck is even going on here

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TH1S 1S STUP1D. L3T'S TRY SOM3TH1NG 3LS3.

Hahahahahahaha :D

Damn she looks really disappointed though, those natural troll bags under her eyes really overemphasize the sadness.

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omfg she's going noir the stupidity is INCREASING

TEREZI: TH3 D3LTR1TUS N1GHTS 4R3 4N UNFORG1V1NG M1STR3SS TEREZI: 4ND TH3 D4YS 4R3N'T MUCH B3TT3R TEREZI: W1TH 4NY LUCK YOU'D F1ND YOURS3LF ON TH3 BLUNT 3ND OF 4 SH4RP C4N3 TEREZI: BUT L4DY LUCK H4S L3FT TH3 BU1LD1NG 4FT3R RUNN1NG UP 4 T4B SH3 COULDN'T P4Y

They're really having fun with this aren't they, I love that

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TEREZI: 4ND BROTH3R,

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noiry coin flip sn4tch

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TEREZI: 1'M H3R3 TO COLL3CT

Hehehehe

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Aw fuck, wait, she's doing a running diary for her friends and/or Vriska of what's been going on. That's sad. :( (And slipping in meta commentary appreciated, don't think I didn't notice.)

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TEREZI: 1 KNOW HOW 1T LOOKS TEREZI: YOU'D B3 4 L1TTL3 ST1R CR4ZY TOO 1F TH3 ONLY P3OPL3 4ROUND W3R3 TH3 TWO MOST 1NSUFF3R4BL3 P3OPL3 1N TH3 UN1V3RS3 TEREZI: 1 THOUGHT 1 WAS H4VING FUN 4T F1RST TEREZI: 1T W4S K1ND OF 1NT3R3ST1NG B31NG 4 P4RT OF SOM3TH1NG B1GG3R TH4N MYS3LF

Yeah, she ran away from everyone and everything just to try and get a change of pace for endlessly hoping for a life together with Vriska, or to get away from everyone else's weird troubles, or to run away from herself even further. But that rarely gets you anywhere constructive, and she chose some batshit crazy bedfellows in Dirk and his creepily-incestuously-hypnotized ecto-daughter.

TEREZI: OR M4YBE TH4T'S SOM3TH1NG 1 S41D TO D1STR4CT MYS3LF FROM WH4T 1 H4D TO DO TEREZI: WH1CH 1S ST1LL UNCL34R TO M3 4T TH1S PO1NT TEREZI: SOM3 S33R I TURN3D OUT TO B3 TEREZI: 1 CAN T3LL WH4T I N33D TO B3 DO1NG, BUT NOT 3X4CTLY WH3R3 1T'S L34D1NG

Wait, this is implying that she really DID have a purpose here, somewhere. That there's something her Seer of Mind senses told her that she had to be here to get accomplished for some broader purpose she can't exactly put her finger on, much like a Seer of Light might.

And honestly, that tracks! Especially given she's a Seer of MIND, and possibly one of the only ones around who's still under Dirk's storywriting sway who might be able to subtly break Rose out from under the forced-reassurance hypnosis Dirk keeps using his storywriting, Prince of Heart powers to suppress her doubts and personality with, forcing Rose to essentially overembrace her role in guiding creation instead of balancing it with morality or love for her friends, convincing her that this is all important enough to ignore all of those things... On some level Terezi knows that's happening, so why IS she here? To wait for the right moment to strike? Or is she here because Dirk is manipulating her through the narrative into THINKING she has to be here in order to fulfill some later purpose that HE has in mind...?

TEREZI: 1 US3D TO LOV3 1NV3ST1G4T1NG TH1S SORT OF TH1NG, N4V1G4TING TH3 L1M1T4T1ONS OF MY POW3RS TEREZI: NOT TH4T 1T 1SN'T FUN 4NYMOR3, 1 JUST... TEREZI: 1 JUST TH1NK 1'M 1N 4 RUT

Yes, we know you're in a rut... but investigating WHAT with your powers?

Whose mind(s) are you trying to figure out? Which future consequences of decisions are you attempting to anticipate??

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TEREZI: 1'M SUPPOS3D TO B3 4N 1MP4RT14L JUDG3 FOR TH1S 1NS4N3LY UN3TH1C4L CONT3ST OF TH31RS TEREZI: 4 ROL3 1 PROB4BLY WOULD H4V3 B33N STOK3D 4BOUT B3FOR3 3V3RYTH1NG W3NT WRONG TEREZI: M4YB3 WRONG 1SN'T TH3 R1GHT WORD TEREZI: 3V3RYTH1NG H4S JUST SP1R4L3D COMPL3T3LY OUT OF CONTROL! TH3Y W4NT TO P1T TH31R SP3C13S 4G41NST 34CH OTH3R 1N 4 N3W S3SS1ON OF SGRUB TEREZI: OR SBURB, WH4T3V3R TEREZI: ...

You never had a hope of controlling, judging or moderating them in the first place. Because from the very start, Dirk has been unyielding in refusing to RELINQUISH control, in refusing to allow anyone to doubt his plans or things not to go his way. Didn't Andrew (or Terezi or someone) point out in a conversation with Dirk that he had hoped Rose would serve as a moderating influence to his natural destructiveness, but BECAUSE he was using that same destructiveness to manipulate Rose and smooth out all her doubts and apprehensions, making her completely okay with playing God here without questioning the ethics of their actions, SHE'S the one going even more out of control than him? There's no way that he'd let Terezi interfere with his overall goal either... that goal is controlling HIM, rather than the other way around. As Ultimate Dirk, Dirk has YOKED himself to his worst nature, and any doubts he has as an individual are being overridden by his broader consciousness's insistence on being important and doing the most important things. On being a Storywriter and a Prince of Heart, even when it hurts people.

Also, pitting their species against each other serves very well as a way for them to have started/created the contest of Sburb and the original shape of the game in the first place, as I've said before, creating the originating session that formed the propagation method that seeded all of Paradox Space--

G'LUYRB, OF PORTENTS MOST GRIM: glurb

--Oh, well here we go. Rose's "species" is just the origin of the fucking Horrorterrors isn't it. Is Dirk going to make the Carapacians? I'm getting ahead of myself, let's have a look at the little guy Rose gave this cute Gl'bgolyb-like nickname.

Aw fuck I just saw the Vriska-x-Terezi childhood kismesis photo background on Terezi's phone before I clicked the next link, that's depressing.

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YUUUUUP. ROSE LALONDE IS STRAIGHT UP MAKING THE FIRST HORRORTERRORS that will eventually become the REST of the Horrorterrors.

Woohoo! The seed session of all Sburb sessions that ever existed in Paradox Space is almost off to the races!

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Terezi doesn't seem to think she's done a good job of keeping these two crazy assholes under control. XD

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K1CK!

TEREZI: D1SGUST1NG!!

Hehehehe

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TEREZI: 4HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TEREZI: 1 H4V3 H4D 1T W1TH 4LL TH3S3 WR3TCH3D L1TTL3 CR34TUR3S TEREZI: L4LOND3 JUST L34V3S TH3M WH3R3V3R WH3N SH3'S DON3 W1TH TH3M TEREZI: YOU WOULD NOT B3L13V3 TH3 NONS3NS3 1 H4V3 TO 3NDUR3 ON TH3 D41LY! TEREZI: 1 US3D TO LOV3 NONS3NS3! TEREZI: 1 US3D TO LOV3-

Yeah this is nonsense with serious potential consequences beyond even the level YOU'RE used to. And when you enjoyed this sort of thing more it was before you'd understood consequences better and developed a better conscience from the lessons you learned around the end of Act 5.

Oh, Dirk is bypassing her ignoring his pesterchum messages with a narrative link override, makes ominous enough sense (and/or he's using the Command Console from the ship to command-talk to her since she's good at parsing that) :

I'm going to need to interrupt you for a moment.

TT: You're laying in the dirt again. After all that time we spent alchemizing all of those fun little costumes for you.

The idea that they're spending some of their free time alchemizing Terezi some roleplaying outfits is a little cute.

TT: Looks like you aren't answering me, which I'm fine with. TT: This is only a formality. TT: I'm gonna send you the finalized version of my species. As the impartial judge, it's only fair that you're afforded a preview of the winning team. TT: I could easily forgo the permission settings of your device but as a token of good faith I've decided not to.

Dirk Strider dipping in to his Doc Scratch offshoot personality's mannerisms more than ever, lately, which only makes sense.

-- timaeusTestified [TT] sent a file SATYR_final2.bro -- GC: WH4T THE FUCK 1S 4 DOT BRO F1L3

Ooh, a Satyr race, that sounds like it's going to be fitting for him (and has hooves). But that also doesn't fit the pattern (YET) of the origin of all Sburb sessions like I theorized... we just heard about Rose "leaving her junk everywhere" when creating all that experimental life, so is it possible that the Horrorterrors weren't born from her chosen race for this contest, whatever it ends up being, but rather from the FAILED experiments she left everywhere that ended up making their way out from the session into the Furthest Ring and multiplying?? :O

TT: I've already installed the appropriate observation app onto your device to save us both some time. I've also set you up with admin access to the session's terminal. You're welcome for that, by the way. GC: 1 S33 TT: Do you?

Pff, more blind jokes.

Alright I ought to have lunch now, but I should at least try to get to the end of the pages that were released on 10/08/23 before the end of the day before I leave things for another day to pace myself, so expect another post later today. We're leaving my first glimpse at Dirk's new Satyr race until after I've had lunch and a break, then!

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Terezi: H4V1NG 4DHD 1S SO STUP1D BC YOU'LL B3 L1K3 "1'M GONN4 ST4RT TH1S T4SK 4T 3" 4ND TH3N 3 ROLLS 4ROUND 4ND TH3 3X3CUT1V3 DYSFUNCT1ON DO3SN'T M4G1C4LLY D1S4PP34R L1K3 YOU TOLD 1T TO

[lsdqueer]

♾️ P1NN3D POST ! !

ASK M3 FOR MY PRONOUNS. D3F4ULT TO HE/HIM

SC3N3COR1C, K4ND1G3ND3R, W3BCOR1C

G4YB1AN, TUR1G1RL, L3SBOY, TAK3N

SOM3 SORT OF " HUM4N "

LSDQUEER, 1F TH4T W4SN'T CL34R

N4M3S: LSD, LSDQ, ACID, MORBID

> DNI: 1 DON'T C4R3 FOR DN1S FUCK 4ROUND 4ND F1ND OUT

4NY OTH3R 1NFO 1SN'T YOUR BUS1N3SS ! !

[prtty-scn-boy]

do3s any1 els3 h4v3 the typ3 of 4dhd wh3re th3y juzt sc4v3ng3 4round th3ir room wh3n th3yre b0red bc th4tz l1t3rally l1k3 all 1 d1d 2day

(does anyone else have the type of adhd where they just scavenge around their room when they're bored because that's literally like all I did today)

[404errr0r]

OUT OF EVERYONE BESIDES THE HOST IN THIS SYSTEM I MIGHT JUST BE THE MOST DEVELOPED. THE MOST PERSON.

IM STILL FIGURING OUT WH4T IT IS TO B3. INH3R3NTLY, I H4V3 4 VI3W OF MYS3LF TH4T S4YS I 4M TOO ROUGH, H4RSH 4ND M34N TO B3 4ROUND P3OPL3.

IT FEELS LIKE EVERY TIME I EVEN GO NEAR SOMEONE I WILL BREAK THEM. AND IN RETURN EVERYTHING MY FRIENDS DO FEELS LIKE AN ACT OF AGGRESSION TOWARDS ME.

IM JUST CLUMSILY FUMBLING AROUND, WALKING ON EGGSHELLS, ALL WHILE CONSTANTLY ON THE DEFENSE TO PROTECT MYSELF AND THE REST OF THE SYSTEM. TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THEY HATE ME SO MUCH BECAUSE OF THE PERCIEVED AGGRESSION THAT I CANT TELL FUCKING EXISTS OR NOT

SOM3TIM3S IT F33LS LIK3 IF I JUST L4SH3D OUT 4T 3V3RYON3 TH3S3 PROBL3MS WOULD B3 SOLV3D. I GU3SS TH3Y WOULD BUT TH3N ID B3 LON3LY 4ND I R34LLY WOULD B3 4 B4D P3RSON.

I DONT KNOW WHERE I WAS GOING HERE, I JUST WANTED TO GET OFF MY CHEST THE STRUGGLES OF LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE STUCK DEALING WITH THE AFTEREFFECTS OF TRAUMA.

[homestuck-quotes-sometimes]

GC: K4RK4T, PL34S3 GC: DONT PR3T3ND YOU D1DNT 3NJOY GO1NG 4ROUND K1LL1NG TH1NGS GC: 4ND TH4T YOU WOULDNT 3NJOY K1LL1NG 4 WHOL3 LOT MOR3 GC: PR4NC1NG 4ROUND W1TH YOUR L1TTL3 S1CKL3 B31NG 4LL 4DOR4BL3 CG: YEAH RIGHT. CG: MORE LIKE... CG: ADORABLOODTHIRSTY. CG: I'M PRANCING AROUND BEING THAT, OK? GC: >:]

[ghost-opal]

CW: blood/violence/death mention

EB: man, I wonder what it'll be like when we finally meet up! GC: Y34H S4M3 H3R3 GC: 1M GONN4 K1LL YOU ON SM3LL EB: umm GC: H3H3 JUST K1DD1NG EB: oh lol EB: it can be hard to tell with you! :B GC: Y34H GC: S3R1OUSLY THOUGH, 1 C4NT W41T TO H34R MY BL4D3 P3N3TR4T3 YOUR BR1TTL3 R1BC4GE GC: GR1ND1NG SLOWLY 4T TH3 BON3S UNT1L TH3Y BR34K THROUGH 4ND THRUST 1NTO TH31R D3ST1N4T1ON EB: uh EB: you're getting kind of overly descriptive lol GC: 1 C4NT W41T TO SM3LL TH3 1RON 1N YOUR BLOOD W4FT1NG UP FROM THE BL4D3S M4NGL3D 3NTRY PO1NT EB: i am feeling mildly unsettled by these messages GC: K1DD1NG! OH MY GOD 3GB3RT C4NT YOU T4K3 4 JOK3? GC: 1M JUST K1DD1NG >;] EB: oh ok lol EB: you're really funny, Terezi :) GC: 1M GONN4 K1LL YOU SO BRUT4LLY YOU WONT 3V3N B3 4BL3 TO CRY FOR H3LP GC: YOULL FL41L YOUR US3L3SS L1MBS 4ROUND TO NO 4V41L WH1L3 1 ST4ND OV3R YOU GC: YOUR C4NDY 4PPL3 BLOOD W1LL SO4K 1NTO TH3 FLOOR 4ND DRY UP ONC3 YOUR3 DR41N3D OF BR34TH GC: 1M K1DD1NG!!!! >:D EB: hahahaha! this is too good! EB: you're really fun to talk to Terezi. brb! GC: SM3LL Y4 L4T3R

[ggallowsccalibrator]

yo terezi how did you figure out how to smell/taste through a computer screen? and more importantly can you show me how to do it too >:]

1T’S NOT 4 "F34T OF T3CHN1C4L M4ST3RY" 4S MUCH 4S 1T 1S… 4 N4TUR4L G1FT. B31NG T3R3Z1 PYROP3 COM3S W1TH C3RT41N 4DV4NT4G3S. >:]

YOU’R3 31TH3R BORN W1TH 1T, OR YOU’LL G3T STUCK T4ST1NG JUST DUST 4ND SCR33N CL34N3R. BUT DON’T G1V3 UP!! M4YB3 YOUR T1M3 TO D3V3LOP SUP3R-T4ST3 POW3RS 1S JUST 4ROUNDS TH3 CORN3R. >:]

[quadrant-horror-stories]

wh4t is a preb4n? i've seen the term thrown 4round 4 bunch

Preban is a term for those who have {8} yet to be banished from alternia or beforus {8}. It is usually used as a short hand {8} for soneone who is a child.

[thewertsearch]

GC: YOU W3R3 STRUTT1NG 4ROUND 1N YOUR D3L1C1OUS K1W1 31GHT B4LL SU1T 4ND RUNN1NG YOUR FR3SH MOUTH 4S USU4L GC: durp yo terezi sup sup gotta beat john gotta beat john GC: hes got a long hood and he does wind, how can i get powers too? [....] GC: [...] 1M L1K3 D4V3 TH4TS GO1NG TO 1NVOLV3 F4C1NG YOUR OWN D34TH GC: 4ND 1M SORRY TO BR34K 1T TO YOU BUT 1 DONT TH1NK YOUR3 R34DY FOR TH4T

Well, at least she gave him fair warning.

Thanks to Vriska, John was able to achieve the god tiers without confronting his mortality. He didn't have to grapple with any of this, and it's possible that he was robbed of some character growth as a result.

That said, I still think Vriska did him a solid. It's just ironic that she thinks she's helping him develop as a hero, when she might be doing the exact opposite.

GC: BUT ONLY 1F YOU PROM1S3 TO TH3 3X4CT T3RMS OF MY 4RR4NG3M3NT, 1N ORD3R TO PROT3CT TH3 1NT3GR1TY OF TH3 T1M3L1N3 >:] TG: the arrangement being the coin flip thing TG: thank god we did that otherwise wed be screwed TG: i probably would have gone back in time and killed my own grandfather oh wait i never had one

lmao

I do wonder if Bro had an adopted family. We know Nanna and Grandpa's background, and Mom was probably the child that Skaianet were apparently raising in their laboratory. (Remember when I thought there was a secret clone of Rose down there?)

Bro, however, is an enigma, even among the Guardians. He has no known relationship with any of the other parents, but was definitely getting foreknowledge of Sburb from somewhere. I'm not even sure I want to know what sort of childhood produces Bro Strider.

GC: 1 TOLD YOU 1 W4S GO1NG TO FL1P 4 CO1N GC: 4ND B3FOR3 1 D1D, YOU H4D TO P1CK 4 S1D3 W1THOUT T3LL1NG M3 GC: GOOD H34DS OR B4D H34DS

Really, the coin is just a rhetorical device. Terezi doesn't need to flip a coin, or even have a coin, because the real flip is happening in Dave's head. His Mind, if you will.

This does raise a lot of questions, though. I hope there isn't a timeline for every conceivable decision you could make. We've sort of discussed the idea before, but I don't think I've really talked about the subtle horror of a multiverse that works that way.

I mean, if there's a timeline for every possible decision - if everyone is capable of making any choice, at any time - then John will randomly kill his friends, for no reason. There are millions of offshoots where he does this. WV will become a monarchist. Dave will take off his shades.

It goes deeper, too. You can't even meaningfully ask why Dave wears shades, because he doesn't. He's constantly taking them off, because it is possible for him to do so. And if there's a timeline where he never takes them off, it's only because that's a decision he could potentially make.

If timelines branch at every decision, with no restrictions, then every single person in the multiverse is constantly doing things that contradict the core of who they are. In fact, there is no core. Everyone is an indistinguishable robot, constantly making every possible decision, simply because they can.

Homestuck could work like this, but I prefer the Discworld interpretation - I think it's more consistent with the comic's themes of choice. In Night Watch, protagonist Vimes is confronted with this exact question, and we get this exchange:

“But sometimes you can’t help wondering: what would have happened if I’d done something different–” “Like when you killed your wife?” Sweeper was impressed at Vimes’s lack of reaction. “This is a test, right?” “You’re a quick study, Mister Vimes.” “But in some other universe, believe me, I hauled off and punched you one.” Again, Sweeper smiled the annoying little smile that suggested he didn’t believe him. “You haven’t killed your wife,” he said. “Anywhere. There is nowhere, however huge the multiverse is, where Sam Vimes as he is now has murdered Lady Sybil. But the theory is quite clear. It says that if anything could happen without breaking any physical laws, it must happen. But it hasn’t. And yet the “many universe” theory works. Without it, no one would ever be able to make a decision at all.” “So?” “So what people do matters!” said Sweeper. “People invent other laws. What they do is important!

In short, there are some things you would never do, physical laws be damned. It is inconceivable that Vimes would murder his wife, because his current personality is incompatible with that decision. It simply cannot be made to make sense, so it can't spawn a timeline.

Note that this is only true for Vimes 'as he is now'. His moral code doesn't necessarily apply to his alt-selves - or even his younger self, whose code hasn't solidified. Hell, half the book is about making sure Young Vimes develops that code in the first place. There could be an evil John Egbert, but our John can't just arbitrarily turn evil.

So that's how I think it works. There's a timeline for every decision that you'd choose to make, and that subset of decisions will change as you grow. Your development as a person shapes the multiverse, in a very literal way.

[redglaring]

GC: th3 l4z1n3ss of 3v3ryon3 4round m3 1s st4tt1ng to tub off on m3. 1 4LMOST h4d th3 thought of st4y1ng 1n b3d 1nst34d of work1ng.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Terezi: YOU'D B3 4M4Z3D HOW M4NY T1M3S 1'V3 FUCK3D 4ROUND W1THOUT F1ND1NG 4 S1NGL3 TH1NG OUT

[badly-drawn-terezi]

CLOWN1NG 4ROUND >:o] [clowning around]

[fdragon-art]

Day 269 - "M1ND YOUR OWN BUS1N3SS"

CG: 1'V3 B33N 4ROUND TH3 L4WN CHUNK FOR 6 SW33PS NOW

CG: SO 1 KNOW 3X4CTLY HOW MUCH CHUT3 W4ST3 YOU'R3 SP1TT1NG R1GHT NOW, STR1D3R

[fictionkinfessions]

to the r3c3nt m1tun4 !!!!

f1rst of 4ll 1'm so proud of you !!!!

s3cond of 4ll 1 r34lly r34lly m1ss you 4ll the t1m3 so s331ng you 4round ch33r3d m3 up 4 lot !!!!

l4tul4

[translation: to the recent mituna !!!!

first of all i'm so proud of you !!!!

second of all i really really miss you all the time so seeing you around cheered me up a lot !!!!

latula]

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