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If no one minds, I'm just venting a little and proposing a theory. Feel free to skip this.

The implications of having a 'canon' extend far beyond the strangeness of being fictional in another world. The community often adheres to the canon in various ways.

For example, when something is 'meant to happen' and the community blocks worldhop access, it never does so when someone is past the events in their canon, or the event doesn't occur within it. If I was threatened by a community member, as I have been in the past, I would be perfectly able to get outside aid, because this is a foreign threat. If I were still going through the story, and my death was told there, the likelihood is that no one could fix it.

Another comment is that when people lose access, they often lose their memories - more than that, they lose their memories to a certain point, and that point is somewhere within the canon. If they've been here for years and grown, the next time they come here they'll be young again. Things like 'Akako Koizumi and Hakuba Saguru are not dating' and 'Issei Ryudo is a human being' can change back even if memories aren't lost. It's as if all changes are necessarily reset.

Finally, when Stein lost his memories of William, he was still in the same place. If William had lost his memories - he would have disappeared entirely, because he was in the wrong place. If Diarmuid loses his access and his memories he will disappear as well, and the next time we find a Diarmuid to grace our community with his presence, he will be in a time point during the war.

For all that it is chaotic in nature, the community can also stick tightly to what is called our fates. People always begin here from a predetermined point, and without interference, in any universe they will end at a determined point as well.

I despise fate. I would rather my life and death not be something I uselessly rail against.

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...For what it's worth, I believe we were meant to cross paths one way or another.

Do you really think so?

I do. And if I'm wrong, it hardly matters. Whether fated or not, we're here now.

That's true. Whatever might have been intended for me, I want to stay with you... all my life.

I certainly wouldn't mind that. I can think of nowhere else I would rather go.

...Diarmuid, I've been thinking of something...

Hm? Is there something wrong?

[He takes a deep breath to steady himself.]

Are you sure you want to stay with me for that long?

Where else would I ever go?

...Diarmuid. I want to ask you to marry me.

Forgive me, Ryudo-dono, I think I heard you incorrectly.

I, I don't have a ring or anything, I wanted something that you would like and I don't even know how this was done in your day... A-and I know it isn't much of an occasion, but I just, nothing would ever be special enough for you, and this babbling is making it all worse isn't it.

But you...I don't...can monks even do that?

Japanese monks do.

I...is this really acceptable, in this particular era? Preferences and taste didn't matter much, I do admit, but one was more often than not expected to marry a woman in my time.

It's under debate in different parts of the world. Acceptable, absolutely. Legally, in Japan, no. Legally, in Japan, you don't exist, so forget legal.

...I suppose that is true, I'd forgotten that part.

Besides, we can always have the ceremony in a different world.

Ceremony--n-now wait a moment, do you really want to make this into a particularly considerably large and noticeable affair?

Not considerably, but I'd like to have something.

By the way, you never said yes.

I thought my acceptance went without saying.

I'd like to hear it.

Yes, I will without question marry you.

But I don't do very well at weddings.

We don't have to have a ceremony if you don't want to.

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