The Hint-O-Matic confirmed that we're dead, though I take the machine with a grain of salt.
The lanterns clearly impact our manifestation here but as the spirits are keen to point out, what is death to a dead thing.
I remember my own death and so do many others here. But I've had memories planted in me before. It wouldn't be my first experience with seamless manipulation.
More notably in my opinion is that people in Beacon have different memories of one another, some who recall outliving others and are unable to reconcile these differences with people from home. This suggests not simply parallel universes but also universes with multiple differing timelines.
So I suppose if you're asking for my opinion with all of that in mind, I would say: I think that were are duplicates of ourselves copied from one particular moment. Like a photograph. Or three-dimensionally, a clone.
(Universes with multiple differing timelines is something we can talk about another day.)
[ peter remembers his death, too — although the difference between the two of them is that he's died before. (hashtag superherolife, hashtag itscomplicated). he knows people who have died and been brought to life and he's joked before about how, in his line of work, death isn't really something that sticks. in his more morose moments, he's wished that it would. in his happier moments, he's been glad it hasn't. ]
Clones are apparently the closest and easiest comparison. I'd suspected it for a while, based on the degradation of bodies in relation to deaths and revivals. I know it opens the door to an existential crisis, but depending on how that's perceived by the spirits, whether they know about it or not, and ditto the magic 8-ball the Night Market has, it repositions the question of alive vs. dead.
Apparently we come through the portal as souls. The Doc has equipment that scans the souls and the printer set up at her lab that prints out a relevant lantern to house each one. The candles are the equivalent to a battery for the body.
[ some of it's obvious — that the candles represent life isn't exactly news, but strongly suspecting and having confirmation are two different things. ]
Brings a whole new meaning to getting snuffed out, right?
I'm going to momentarily pause the news that we've been 3d printed and instead ask- do the lanterns come with a light in them innately? Or are they placed there? And where do we print from if we arrive here via the ferry?
Because right now my best guess is the Helix Station or a yet undiscovered equivalent.
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The lanterns clearly impact our manifestation here but as the spirits are keen to point out, what is death to a dead thing.
I remember my own death and so do many others here. But I've had memories planted in me before. It wouldn't be my first experience with seamless manipulation.
More notably in my opinion is that people in Beacon have different memories of one another, some who recall outliving others and are unable to reconcile these differences with people from home. This suggests not simply parallel universes but also universes with multiple differing timelines.
So I suppose if you're asking for my opinion with all of that in mind, I would say: I think that were are duplicates of ourselves copied from one particular moment. Like a photograph. Or three-dimensionally, a clone.
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(Universes with multiple differing timelines is something we can talk about another day.)
[ peter remembers his death, too — although the difference between the two of them is that he's died before. (hashtag superherolife, hashtag itscomplicated). he knows people who have died and been brought to life and he's joked before about how, in his line of work, death isn't really something that sticks. in his more morose moments, he's wished that it would. in his happier moments, he's been glad it hasn't. ]
Clones are apparently the closest and easiest comparison. I'd suspected it for a while, based on the degradation of bodies in relation to deaths and revivals. I know it opens the door to an existential crisis, but depending on how that's perceived by the spirits, whether they know about it or not, and ditto the magic 8-ball the Night Market has, it repositions the question of alive vs. dead.
Apparently we come through the portal as souls. The Doc has equipment that scans the souls and the printer set up at her lab that prints out a relevant lantern to house each one. The candles are the equivalent to a battery for the body.
[ some of it's obvious — that the candles represent life isn't exactly news, but strongly suspecting and having confirmation are two different things. ]
Brings a whole new meaning to getting snuffed out, right?
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Because right now my best guess is the Helix Station or a yet undiscovered equivalent.