Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
I am.
The past is a pattern of cells and chemicals. The future happens to someone else. I exist only in this moment, the perfect, eternal now.
I throw a punch, and I have spent my entire life directing my fist forward.
I block a strike, and I am born and die in the act of defense.
I ache, and it is meaningless, for I have never known a time without that pain.
I raise my arms in a victory that knows no beginning or end.
"Scootaloo? Scootaloo!"
I blink, and I remember how time works. Mostly. "Huh-wuh?" I stagger as feelings flood me. Even blood flowing through me feels weird when I've been existing between heartbeats.
"Oh, come on! That was totally magic," says my opponent. I don't know her name, but the dark red and blue leotard marks her as a member of the Crystal Prep MMA team. "She was in a trance, for Sunset's sake!"
"I'm right here," Sunset says from outside of the ring, "and I can confirm that Scootaloo didn't use any prohibited techniques."
Coach Will nods what I still can't help but think of as his weird, knobby head. "As Iron Will was saying, Scootaloo is the winner!"
Sweetie smirked. "Pay up."
Tender Taps groaned as he fished out a few bills. "Why? Why did I think it was a good idea to bet against someone who can see the future?"
"Didn't even need to."
"But that girl had six inches on Scootaloo," said Button Mash.
"Yeah," Sweetie said as she slipped her winnings into her purse as smugly as possible. "But she's Scootaloo. Isn't that right, Rumble?"
"Huh?"
Apple Bloom waved her hand in front of Rumble's face. "You doin' okay there, loverboy?"
He flushed and wiped away the drool. "Yeah. Sure. Fine. When's the next whatever this is, again?"
"She'll probably wear the leotard for you if you ask nicely," said Sweetie.
Rumble said nothing, only reddening further.
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Huh, Scootaloo as a wrestler? And Rumble has the hots for her. Nice job with the opening narration.
I wonder dose living in the moment really give Scoots any real buffs? Or have I missed something?
I could totally see her as a Megaloboxer.
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I thought it was Boxing.
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Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), to be precise.
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I imagine it's kinda like pausing time so you can analyse every detail, or at least not missing anything important.
More of a perfect zen-ness (in a more modern sense), thoughts flowing freely without lingering, action without thought or hesitation.
9005221 Not so much pausing time as experiencing it moment by moment. It's hard to imagine this kind of feeling, because we only consciously perceive 3 dimensions with any degree of accuracy, and this sort of 'time sense' thing the CMC have is 4 dimensional.
I think that the best way to describe this would be to imagine if every percievable individual moment in space and time was a giant photograph, and the whole thing together makes up a movie. Almost everyone and everything in this 'movie' percieve it as they experience it: that is, anything their five senses can pick up, their brains record as a memory. But since they are all inside the movie, they can never get the whole picture.
The CMC get the unique experience of simultaneously being in the movie, but also get to view it in the theatre as an audience member. Their characters witness things just like anyone else, but thier audience member sees things in a different and special way.
In the case of Scootaloo, her audience member gets to view it as any normal audience member would: She sees every moment as it happens across the entire screen. But she only gets that. Her audience member doesn't get to see what has happened or what will happen.
At least, I assume that's how it works. Applying that example to the story, my best guess is that she was in the theatre, watching herself on the screen, moment by moment. And unlike the rest of us, she perfectly knows just how long a moment is, and appreciates them as they happen.
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Closer to 9005370's take than 9005568's, but there are elements of the latter. The perfect, eternal now is a state of such total focus on the present moment that it loops back around to meditative serenity and oneness with the universe. Time falls out of the equation, and Scootaloo knows each inch of space as clearly as if it were an extension of her own body. If she tried to expand her senses too far, it might overwhelm her or lock her in that state for all time, but a martial arts ring she can handle just fine.
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Earth aspects would probably dominate the sport. Your exosuit being as much a partner as a piece of sports equipment is a pretty massive edge.
Ok, that’s getting epically philosophical and I loved it!
Okay, that's Rumble broken for the day, I think!