.01. ANOTHER TANGENT UNIVERSE

[tangentdarko]

[VIDEO: Donnie is sitting at his desk, hunched over his computer a little bit and occasionally emphasizing his point with his hands. The technology is a bit beyond his time and he doesn't seem to realize it's a video function.]

What would Dr. Thurman say about this? Frank said the world would end, but it didn't. [His tone is almost whining for a second, then it switches to intellectual and excited.] It was just the end of that parallel.. of the tangent universe. I think this is a new one though. I don't think Grandma Death's book talked about this? [He seems to look around for a moment, then returns his attention to the computer.] I don't really know how closing one would create another..

[A pause, then he's complaining.] I don't want to live through October again.

I don't want this calendar. Someone take it. [A hint of desperation as he glances at the calendar on his wall, to his right; another pause, then back to a neutral tone.]

I hope wherever this is is better than the shithole I lived in before. [He laughs a little, not quite a genuine or sane laugh. Then his tone is falsely amused.] I don't really know how it couldn't be.

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[requiresssacrifice]

[He coughs again, covering his mouth with his hand, then nods. His voice is scratchy and hissier now, thanks to all the coughing.] Just... the plague.

[No big. He drops his hand.]

I always... excelled in my lessons.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Apparently I went farther back in time than I thought if there's vampires and the plague.. [Donnie laughs at the ridiculousness of the situation.]

That's pretty cool that you're a doctor. I would say it's kind of ironic that you have the plague, but I guess the medic would be the most likely person to contract the disease since they're the ones treating the patients that probably contracted the disease in the first place.

[requiresssacrifice]

Unlikely. What year are you from?

Would you believe, I got it from another doctor?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

1988. What year is it here?

That's not very good medical conditions, or really poor sanitation.

[requiresssacrifice]

...that's the year I was born. [WELL, NOW HE FEELS A LITTLE WEIRD.]

It varies.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Well that helps to solidify the parallel universe theory. Did you die? Because I think that if you died, you might have been closing a tangent universe.

[requiresssacrifice]

Hm. A fan of theoretical physics?

Death is a condition of arrival for many inmates, but I-- [He starts to cough and grabs a glass of water that's nearby] don't think I'm dead.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

They aren't really theoretical. I've seen it. But yeah, I am.

How do you know?

[requiresssacrifice]

Elaborate?

Because somebody told me I was still alive in their timeline.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

If you find a wormhole and you have a vessel, you can travel through time. If you change something that's not supposed to be changed from the primary universe then you create a new path or what's called a tangent universe. You can change the way time unravels. Some people will become manipulated living and some will be manipulated dead, but when the portal meets up with the primary universe again, you have to set it right or the world ends. Maybe you were one of the manipulated dead from someone's tangent universe.

I mean, there are other ways to see the future and to change it too without a portal. If you can see the like, the spears that come out of people.. [Donnie disappears from the camera, then comes back with a small, rainbow slinky. He holds one end to his chest and extends the other out in front of him.] It's like this liquid that comes out of people's chests. It shows the way they're supposed to travel according to God's channel because all time is pre-determined.