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sharkneto · 11 months
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God, one day I'm going to finish my Five And Allison Talk Post-S3 fic. I go back and just look at it every few weeks. Wish someone would finish it (me, I'm the someone).
Snip because maybe getting more of it out in the world will kickstart something for me. A continuation of the snip shared HERE --
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Softer, Allison says, “I still don’t understand why you voted against it. It doesn’t make any sense. You spend your whole life fighting the apocalypse to just give up?”
Five knocks back the rest of his drink and considers the empty glass. He then stands to cross the room to pour himself another. She watches him. It’s not until he’s finishing the pour that he says, “It seemed like the better option.”
“In what world, Five?”
“In the one where, when we do follow Dad’s special little plan, it ends with me dying alone in the basement of the Commission as a one-armed centenarian.”
She swallows. In the harried few days before the end in Oblivion, a few details about Five meeting himself yet again and then watching him die had made it to her. She hadn’t given them much stock around everything else going on.
“He told me to not save the world,” Five continues. “And the only scenario I can think of that ends with me in a box in the basement of the Commission for a hundred years is one where you’re all dead. Again. And if that’s the situation, I’d rather be dead with you. I’m not doing that again, not if it was never going to work.” He swallows thickly before continuing, “Assuming that version of me thought like me, I figured that’s what his warning was. Add in that it was Dad’s plan and into a fucked alternate dimension… The math seemed bad.” He splays his hands, the dark alcohol sloshing in his glass.
Allison stares at him.
She should have paid more attention to those passing comments about Five meeting himself.
She blinks before shaking her head. “I don’t know what to say to that.”
He shrugs. “You asked.”
Slowly, she says, “So… your math wasn’t actually about saving the world or stopping anything. It was just… how you’d rather die?”
“That’s a rather inelegant way to put it but… yes.”
Allison studies her brother’s young face, working to slot this into her understanding of how everything went down at the Hotel. This whole time, she’d been assuming—what? That Five gave up? That he’d hated their dad more than he loved them? That he cared about her less than the others to have thrown away her life and happiness for a few good hours with the rest of them?
Instead, he was facing what he assumed was a no-win scenario that only he made it out of. The world already gone, and whatever they chose the rest of them would go too. The only difference was whether or not he was still standing on the other side of it.
And he voted to not be. He voted to be done.
It brings her to a single conclusion: “That’s so selfish.”
His expression twists, incredulous and hurt as her words sink in. “Excuse me?”
“It worked, Five. We’re here, right now, with everyone. It worked. And it almost didn’t because you voted to stay. Because you wanted to give up.”
“That’s not how time works, Allison.”
“We ended up in Oblivion anyway! And that worked, in a messy way, but it worked. If you’d just agreed to go to begin with, we wouldn’t have lost Luther. Or Klaus!”
“As I seem to recall, I wasn’t the only one who voted no! I was just lucky enough to be the deciding vote. And it’s probably because I voted no that it worked!"
Allison lets out a noisy sigh. “Explain that to me, how that makes any sense.”
“Because if I hadn’t talked to my future self and watched him die pathetic and alone, I would have voted yes. A chance to fix everything? Hit the undo, reset it all? Of course I want that! But easy fixes—”
“Easy!?”
“—easy fixes like that always have a catch! And if I hadn’t known what this one’s catch was, that it outweighed its solution, I would have gone for it.”
“So you voting no and then still doing it anyway changed that how?”
“Ripples, Allison.” He sighs. “Me voting yes would have meant we all marched in right then and probably were either killed by the guardians or got used up by the machine, even more than we were anyway. Think about it. We didn’t march straight in, so what happened instead? The kugelblitz advanced to our toes. Dad killed Luther. Dad left Klaus behind and he died, too, or, at least went to his Void or whatever he calls it. Which meant we had eyes on Dad when Klaus popped back. We had a ghost form of Luther to stop the last guardian, all his strength with none of his vulnerabilities of having a physical form.”
“Are you saying it’s a good thing now that Luther and Klaus died?”
“Obviously not! That’s no one’s ideal way for that to have worked! But it’s those differences that are what’s important, what skewed things to make us end up here instead of me back there.”
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lovelenivy · 5 months
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mouse bites™
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opportunityarose · 6 months
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heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point
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kellykline · 1 year
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bringing an actor back for the finale of a tv show they havent been on in years is so funny. imagine if they made you go back to the starbucks you worked at in high school to make one last latte because theyre blowing up the building tomorrow.
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incoherentchanting · 10 months
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i think about this scene a lot and every time it’s so fucking funny
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marthammasters · 4 months
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May yr new year have more malpractice and homoeroticism than ever 🍾🫂
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hamrikaa · 2 months
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'"You're a Fox," Andrew said, like it was that simple, and maybe it was.'
I could've added a lot more details to this and it's not 100% accurate to the book, but I had to stop myself or this would've taken me another week to finish lmao
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spiderpunkist · 1 year
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pov ur about to become a victim of medical malpractice
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operose-art · 3 months
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"In eight years on the run, Neil had been through sixteen countries and twenty-two name."
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sneckoil · 9 days
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rizz so bad it's good
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realgansey · 16 days
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“He needed to know what Nathaniel was saying in this historic moment.”
Meanwhile Neil
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pawberri · 7 months
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Slarpg but it’s an unlocalized ps2 game you watched the ova of on youtube in parts
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sweetpastillas · 1 year
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totally real umbrella academy merchandise
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desire-mona · 1 month
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house in 2024 bc i see ppl post this
- chase makes "lol americans experience gun violence" jokes
- cameron engages in online discourse and starts a lot of arguments with "as a doctor..."
- foreman uses 4chan but just to sit in shock at the things he sees on there
- house is a mod and frequent poster on r/newjersey of all things. only wilson knows, not because house keeps it a secret, but because its so weirdly out of character that nobody would ever bring it up
- wilson sends reels of edgy standup comedians to house on instagram
- cuddy frequents gentle parenting forums, occasionally uses tactics on house
- taub used to run a food review channel on youtube but stopped when people called his videos "mukbangs"
- thirteen introduces herself with her name and pronouns, everyone makes a joke about this at least once
- kutner is a hamilton fan
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opportunityarose · 6 months
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obssessed with them
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