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Matthew Murdock | Daredevil ([personal profile] blessmefather) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2019-05-13 06:33 pm
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URGENT [video]

[ The video shows Matt sitting at the desk at his home office with a dead serious expression on his face. ]

I came face to face with Vanderweele, a young Vanderweele, from the time of Retrospec's founding. We might have a chance to change history for the better.

[ If that doesn't get your attention, what will? ]

Vanderweele was willing to listen when I told him about his plans to build a utopia, that in the future his ways have not yielded the type of results he wants and that unreality is still a threat. He explained his vision, he wants to assure the survival and growth of the human race, nothing wrong with that goal but as we all know he was willing to resort to betraying the other founders and experimenting on aliens to get it. Look into Halliday's work if you've forgotten what I'm talking about.

So I offered him an alternative and he was willing to listen.

Each of the dead worlds had its own share of technology and research. I proposed that instead of running all those terrible experiments on innocent victims he should instead search for the answer to humanity's well being in the collected knowledge of the dead worlds. I know for a fact my own world alone could provide a lifetime worth of information.

There is of course a catch. The only way to get access to that information is to nurture the seeds of the dead worlds so they have access to the higher layers of reality. In other words, put people through the Retrospec program.

[ He holds up a book. ]

This is a book from my other world. I intend to give it to Vanderweele and the other founders as proof that the seeds can bring back information.

Consent has been a concern I've had since I first joined the network. I've witnessed people grow and gain happiness from their experience but I have also seen people suffer greatly. That's why I specifically told him that they should seek out Seeds who would volunteer to regain their old memories and bodies. People like Wendy, who would be willing to join the cause to stop unreality.

Vanderweele told me he will seriously reconsider his research approach if we provide proof that there are Seeds who would volunteer. So I'm asking who here would be willing to add their name to that list?

And yes, I realize Vanderweele is not that trustworthy but he wasn't lying when he said he'd reconsider. I think he fears for the future of the human race and providing an alternative path will at least spare a few lives. If we can get all the Founders to agree on a company policy and direction that takes Seeds' consent into mind we have a chance to get Retrospec to see us as people from the beginning instead of test subjects.

Please respond as soon as possible. I realize time travel will allow me to return the results the next second after I left but the more we wait in the present the more risk there is something will interfere.
hauntedsavior: (omnipresent endless knot)

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[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2019-05-18 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[hey there. Anna's voice sounds more contemplative than she ever really has in public, not that the person she's talking to has any context for it. the sound is coming from a bit of a distance, like her phone's sitting on her bed and she's just talking to the room in front of her on her end of the call.]

I can't deny that Retrospec changed my life for the better. Turning more and more into A2 gave me a purpose. It gave me something to do with my life, something to... fight for. When I didn't know I had any fight left in me. When I found out that we were all born to be part of this, it just made everything I'd been through until then seem worth it.

[there's a long pause.]

But what happens to all of us if that changes? Do we stop being born for this? Do I stop being... who I am? Is there even going to be a place worth living in afterwards? Something worth living for?

[and a shorter one. there's the sound of heavy footfalls on a too-thin carpet.]

I can't sign up for that. I can't take a risk that big.
hauntedsavior: (the voice of sympathy)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2019-05-23 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
No, trust me, dude, I'm on board with stopping Vanderweele however I can. It's... because of all the timeline shit that I walked away from wanting to kill him.

The thing that gets me is that if something changes, we won't know. It'll just. [sigh. for show. she doesn't have lungs anymore.] It will always have been that way. So we won't know that things used to be any different. Like with your friend. So if this thing is big enough to cause actual problems for Vanderweele...

[another pause.]

I guess it won't matter if we lose all of this. Because we won't know the difference.
hauntedsavior: (the solution is wrong)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2019-05-28 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[she could say a lot of things about her thoughts on Vanderweele. the type of person he is. but the further she goes down that rabbit hole, the more the needle is going to swing back towards wanting to kill him. she already knows that. so she keeps herself quiet on that front for now.]

I found a city under siege from demons that didn't look like they belonged there. A modern day city, even though he sent me back to the 13th century. Wendy was there.

I think it's what Recollé used to be. And what they're trying to rebuild here. I don't think it'll get us much, but it's definitely there.