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[element_wizard]

[Alec looks like he's about to say something when a ball comes out of nowhere and smacks him soundly in the head. He clutches his head and glares up at something.]

Oh gods! I can't believe you did that you obnoxious git!

[Sighing he continues bouncing the ball up and down in his hands.]

Time travel sucks sometimes, you know? Especially when your future self abuses it.

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[watsonyourmind]

Time travel? Seriously?

Re: voice;

[element_wizard]

Well. Not time travel persay in this instance.

Sort of.

Um.

voice;

[watsonyourmind]

It's okay if you just missed a catch, you know.

Re: voice;

[element_wizard]

No. I didn't.

My future self threw it through time.

Because he's a git.

We've talked before.

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[watsonyourmind]

Isn't that against the laws of time? I bet it is. If time really does have laws.

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[element_wizard]

Well, it really depends on who you talk to. Generally speaking it is, because of things like the grandfather paradox and reoccartive causality loops, then things like accidentally causing tears in the fabric of reality, but sometimes it's okay according to some folks depending on who is doing the traveling. Time Lords have been known to cross their own time stream without too much problem, but it's generally frowned upon. Of course, often times they're talking to different regeneration of themselves so there's a bit of confusion on if they're talking to the same person or not. Sure they've got the same memories but their genetic make up is different.

Now for me in particular, I can't ever meet myself in the same physical space so I've never actually seen my future self. Our - my - particular power set does allow him to occasionally overtake my body and use it as his, though I can't do it to him. So we've "met" in a sort of in between space. A meeting of the minds, as it were. Or just leaving notes in the temporal time stream.

The problem is really that neither of us tend to stick to any one particular reality or time period. We just kinda bounce around indiscriminately, so our lives aren't very linear.

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[watsonyourmind]

[ ... that was a lot of information, Alec. ]

Right. Okay. Was that basically, the exception proves the rule?

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[element_wizard]

[Sorry. He gets a bit Tl;DR when he starts talking about this sort of theory.]

Erm. Basically, yeah. If you want to get simple about it.

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[watsonyourmind]

And you use your time travel powers to prank yourself.

Re: voice;

[element_wizard]

Um.

Yes.

voice;

[watsonyourmind]

You do get bored easily.

Re: voice;

[element_wizard]

It has been mentioned to me that I do have the attention span of a gnat.

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[genkigoth]

Who did what now?

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[element_wizard]

[sigh.]

My future self. The person I will become several... many ... lots... you know, I'm not exactly sure how much older he is than me. There's quite a bit of years though. He looks like he's in his late forties.

[And Alec looks like he's in his mid twenties.]

So, I guess twice as old as I am now?

Um. Anyway. At some point in the future I will have gone back in the past to about a month ago and throw a ball through time to knock myself - that is the me talking to you now - in the head.