I realize this is me acknowledging that and then just steamrolling right past, but: have you told him that, by the way? That you don't want to "deal with this"?
But if we run with his incredibly flawed theory: he's got to know that you can't tell him anything, right? That if you WERE a future him, you know that either you do tell him who you are and what happens, or... you don't, and he ends up back here again, in something like a whole two years.
Which would be encouraging for our eventual survival and return(s) home if it wasn't completely wrong. It'd also mean that we weren't successful with whatever plan we had for dealing with the World Eaters, which you'd know if you were ... him.
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But if we run with his incredibly flawed theory: he's got to know that you can't tell him anything, right? That if you WERE a future him, you know that either you do tell him who you are and what happens, or... you don't, and he ends up back here again, in something like a whole two years.
Which would be encouraging for our eventual survival and return(s) home if it wasn't completely wrong. It'd also mean that we weren't successful with whatever plan we had for dealing with the World Eaters, which you'd know if you were ... him.
Even then, we all know time isn't linear so...