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Originally Posted by Xandax  The epilogue was not actually the future though, but some sort of illusionary scenario.
And if Alvin died somewhere along the line, there'd be no Grandmaster as he is the product of Alvin, and thus there'd be nobody there to steal the mutagens, and thus there'd be no one to kill Alvin, and thus the Grandmaster would exists anyway and the mutagens would be stolen and .....
The Grandfather paradox  |
Alvin and the GrandMaster existed side by side, in the present. That is more than the grandfather paradox, because this is the same person. Yes, if Alvin is killed, the grandmaster could not exist, you are right. Everything is written, everything is predetermined, there is no free will, only destiny and fate etc. etc. Well, that means nobody is really responsible for the non-human pogroms or the climate change. And there is no real choice.
Who existed first (chicken or egg)? Maybe Alvin was born in the past, teleported into the present for a few years (a future for him), then back into the past and kept living there until he became the GrandMaster? Maybe he was born in the present, then teleported into the future for a brief moment, then teleported back into the present, then into the past. He stayed in the past and became the GrandMaster. Btw, I take offense that after I tried so hard to teach him all good things, and gave him an opportunity to share quarters with that beautiful, wearing a barely-there dress red-head, he took his vow of celibacy...
