Time travel and paradoxes go together like peanut butter and jelly. You can’t have time travel without the mind-numbing questions of “what happens if you kill your grandfather before your father is born?” “if she gave me the watch and then I went back in time to give it to her then where did the watch come from?” and “what if I die before I was born?”
Since the universe hates these questions as much as we do, it came up with a solution. Those affected by paradoxes are placed in Limbo where they wait to be born into the new timeline.
Sometimes the line between the mortal realms and Limbo can blur giving us a peek into the pocket dimension. This is where we get stories about ghosts.
The process of rebirth is a long one. The prisoners of Limbo are usually reborn as animals, sometimes as a cloned human. With such a slow and long waitlist, sometimes the prisoners get…unruly and become wraiths. If enough wraiths pool their energy they can affect the physical world. It’s usually small, think poltergeists, but sometimes there’s enough to cause disasters, like a bridge collapse. To combat these wraiths the Mothman Corps was created.
Eventually, the computer age entered the picture. Now, prisoners could be reborn as machines. They started out as “ghosts in the machine,” strange glitches or weird coincidences that make it seem like the computer was alive—in a way it was. As progress marched on, the prisoners could be reborn in advanced programs and become artificial intelligences then came robot bodies and the age of androids.
However, the Limbo line still moved slower than a teenage sloth who just woke up on a school day.
Finally, Heaven intervened. Or at least the human storybook version of it.
Those in Limbo couldn’t enter the Afterlife because how can you have died if you never lived, so they would be reborn.
Heaven cutout the middleman, so to speak, and placed the souls of the prisoners into “robotic” angel bodies. They were now part of the current timeline and still “mortal.” And with the unlimited resources of Heaven, the line could move a little faster. There was still the whole Judgement thing, can’t have evil souls in super-advanced Heavenly-crafted machinery wandering around now can we.
As an added bonus, these robo-angels could interact with the physical world a little more, which was a double-edged sword. Sure there were more miracles but a new CAPTCHA system was introduced to test if you were an angel or not. Now whenever you logged into your account or ordered something you had to prove you weren’t a robot and you weren’t an angel. Why they thought angels would run a gift card scam is beyond me.
Although, they do show up in people’s direct messages now and then.
Until the next wormhole…thanks for reading!
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