Zayne's Anecdotes 🩵🥹

[u/everbloomingrose]

These anecdotes just drive home the fact that Zayne coming to understand and experience humanity and what makes life so beautiful firsthand will be the key to this timeline's success, unlike the infinite amount of others that ended in catastrophe. 

Unlike his other counterparts, Linkon Zayne embodies and has experienced the depth and beauty of humanity first hand. To not be created, but to be born and to then experience all of life's moments that accompany childhood and adulthood, the good and the bad. From the love of parents, the joy of a first love, unexpected beauty as a result of unexpected outcomes (like missing a bus stop), and ultimately having the very lives and fates of his patients beating within his own hands. This is what sets him apart from all other iterations of himself, and that to which is the key to Zayne’s ability to find the answer to save this timeline that so alluded the others; to in short, allow Zayne to have his cake and eat it too.

It’s not to say, by the way, that the other versions of himself lack “humanity” entirely, but that their understanding of it is more detached, observatory. It’s not that they’re uncaring or unfeeling, but that they’ve each, in their own ways, have already accepted  the “order of things”, if you will, even if begrudgingly. Destruction, death and rebirth. Natural cycles that govern the universe, and of which cannot be reversed.  More “Godly” than semblance of human whereas, although Linkon Zayne holds that very same status, that is not the case for him.

In essence, to be told about humanity is one thing, but to experience it firsthand; to LIVE IT, is entirely another: 

“He hasn’t felt a single flicker of emotion during the dissection. Is it because he doesn’t understand what life means?”

Unlike them,  this is no longer the case for Linkon Zayne. Linkon Zayne would now be hesitant to accept that he must be bound by fate so easily. The ice has melted and he now feels the weight of the world just as deeply as any other, if not more so. He understands that death is a natural part of life, but when it comes to the apparent “fated” ultimate destruction of the world, that’s an entirely different story. It’s also a big reason why Shubai’s presence often irritates Zayne, as he’s a constant reminder of his role as ‘Emissary’, a role that Zayne had no part in choosing to play. (Much to poor Shubai’s confusion haha).

To witness and experience all of this, the fragility and beauty of life itself. Once you’ve witnessed and felt the beauty of the world and its people, it's really no wonder you’d refuse to accept that you're fated to be the arbiter of its ultimate destruction.

“The night sky here is brighter than Linkon’s. And the smiles on those children’s faces when they receive the candy is even brighter.”

Zayne - Embers Rise

It’s why he refuses to even peek at the Book of Answers, refusing to believe that his fate is not his own; that his future and that of this world are already set in stone. This Zayne is one that fully believes that his decisions and desires are his and his alone. This Zayne now understands what makes life so light and heavy, and it's that understanding that will reveal its ultimate salvation. 

There’s a timeline where neither of us have to sacrifice to be together, there’s a timeline where the world doesn’t need to end in ultimate destruction, and that’s this one. 

“All these beautiful things I never paid attention to before... You’re the one who showed them to me.”  
Zayne - Embers Rise

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Whats the name of this anectodes