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Old 2011-06-05, 02:31   Link #203
ijuinkun
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Originally Posted by dnab View Post
At the climax of Surprise it was revealed that (besides the sibling part) (a) Future CAN change, and (b) Mikuru(Big) and Fujiwara are from different/alternate futures. This differs from the typical SciFi time-traveling paradigm of "I can't help do the right thing for the future, because there's could be only one future." Fujiwara's future is predicated on Haruhi losing her power. We know she won't, yet Fujiwara existed.
Given that individual time travelers still appear to have no free will regarding the fulfillment of their own timelines (i.e. they must rely on somebody else for any actions that do not conform to their own history), it appears that any given time traveler is still "anchored" to their own timeline in a sense. Multiple versions can apparently coexist as long as the "present" is not one that precludes any of them (e.g. Fujiwara and Mikuru(big) can coexist up until the point of an event that would inevitably prevent one of them).
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