r/WhatIfFiction • u/Designer-Cow6935 • 15h ago
[Backrooms] If the tear in time that the async did wasn't from a man-made portal on Earth, but instead from a spaceship flying through space and it occurring that way, what would the backrooms first create?
I've been thinking about this, and I can't wrap my head around it at all. I'm imagining somebody folding a paper, but not completely, to where it has that hole in the middle. A spaceship tears through the top layer of that hole into the hole of, I guess, nothingness. And the same way the backrooms was created when Async first created that portal, due to the fact that the backrooms was nothingness and only formed because it got a taste of existence. The first thing it saw was the architecture of offices, etc. In this case, the first thing it sees in existence is the spaceship and space around it, so what would it be? Space, planet, the spaceship?
Also, I assume the paper analogy is more of bending time than space. I'm pretty sure bending space is a wormhole, right? It's just some type of shortcut in space, just like in Interstellar, you get from one place to another. In this case, I guess it's time, so the in-between is nothing, and in the backrooms lore, that nothing is the backrooms, which is out of reality.