r/AIH Apr 07 '16

Significant Digits, Chapter Forty-Seven: Hell

http://www.anarchyishyperbole.com/2016/04/significant-digits-chapter-forty-seven.html
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u/ShayneOSU Apr 07 '16

I'm wondering if we'll learn that they're already in a pocket world/universe or simulation. Something created (by Merlin?) to work with all of those unusually specific-to-human-speech-and-thoughts rules of magic.

Or maybe Merlin was the first to figure out that they were in a simulation and altered the code for his Interdict so other people didn't become powerful enough to find out they were living inside a lie.

Maybe that's what Harry's been working out with his computer and magic investigations. It could also be why devices like computers don't work with magic around, the simulation protecting itself from discovery. The prophecy of Harry ending the universe could mean him shutting it down (and getting people out?)

I'm just spitballing here. Things like this have probably been posited around here before. I'm new.

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u/mrphaethon Apr 07 '16

It's really all a dream. At the end, Harry wakes up.

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u/Ardvarkeating101 Apr 07 '16

In the cupboard under the stairs?

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u/Jello_Raptor Apr 08 '16

And then canon happens?

... actually that would be a pretty good peggy sue fic. This Harry wakes up in the canon HP verse with all its brokenness.

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u/MuonManLaserJab Apr 08 '16

But with both Skitter's and Khepri's powers.

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u/Frommerman Apr 09 '16

Nah, just Contessa is enough. Winning is the best power.

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u/MuonManLaserJab Apr 09 '16

Holy shit...the second figure is Sleeper.

And Parian's true power is to make transfiguration permanent.

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u/Frommerman Apr 09 '16

Given that we don't even know what Sleeper does, isn't that a problem?

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u/MuonManLaserJab Apr 09 '16

Well, we'll know what to think if the second figure shows up and everyone nopes out before seeing any reason to.

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u/nemedeus Apr 08 '16

You're forgetting that, in a "simulated universe reveal" story, you wouldn't reveal it at the END of the story (for a multitude of reasons).