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alchemyaliceAuthor: Alchemy Alice
Artist: Ellegen
Pairing: pre-Arthur/Cobb
Word Count: ~26,000
Genre: Action, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Artist: Ellegen
Pairing: pre-Arthur/Cobb
Word Count: ~26,000
Genre: Action, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Dominic Cobb is dreaming.
But he is also writing.
This is a story about waking up.
Prologue: Words || Part One: Inception || Part Two: Mr. Charles || Part Three: Extraction
Part Four: Catharsis || Epilogue: Words, Again
Fanmix || Art Masterpost || Author’s Notes and Acknowledgements || Time Stamp: A symbol of all the days
But he is also writing.
This is a story about waking up.
Prologue: Words || Part One: Inception || Part Two: Mr. Charles || Part Three: Extraction
Part Four: Catharsis || Epilogue: Words, Again
Fanmix || Art Masterpost || Author’s Notes and Acknowledgements || Time Stamp: A symbol of all the days
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Date: 29 Jan 2011 15:22 (UTC)OMG OMG OMG *BOUNCES*
SO EXCITED NOW. 8D
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Date: 29 Jan 2011 15:56 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Jan 2011 16:09 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Jan 2011 17:19 (UTC)And now I'm going to read it.
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Date: 30 Jan 2011 01:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 Jul 2011 14:43 (UTC)and no matter how i twist it, it seems like they fail to wake cobb from his dream and instead get sucked in his world.
i'm kinda torn with this (my) conclusion cuz i'm not really picky on the 'where' of arthur and cobb reality as long as they are happy AND together BUT poor miles and cobb's children :(
i could pretend that this is indeed happy ending but there's unexplained inconsistency with ariadne...
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Date: 7 Jul 2011 20:57 (UTC)As to your idea, who says it's Cobb's world at all? He's not the one writing the dream, and neither, it seems, is Ariadne. They exist because they're written. Or maybe they're written, because they exist. He may have taken control of the story at some point, but that doesn't mean he doesn't wake up from it along with anyone else :)
The inconsistency of Ariadne can somewhat be explained by the embedded cipher, if you translated it. I probably didn't write it well enough to express it, but she's sort of like Schrodinger's Cat to me--both real and a dream at the same time.
Or maybe I've just made it all too complicated to be unraveled. That was a hazard going in, so if I have failed, ah well. I'm glad you enjoyed it despite itself! :D
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Date: 8 Jul 2011 22:03 (UTC)the time stamp does adhered to this quite clearly but in that case, so are we... afterall, i'm inclined to agree with cobb when he says, “I believe,” Cobb cuts in quietly, “that reality is what you make of it. but that would leave everything vague and makes them merely fictional characters on book (granted, they ARE! :p) and i'm trying to think of them as "real". as in, this is a story of someone i know but not-really-know? like when we read article about a celebrity or something? god, do i even makes sense here? o.O
ugh, just ignore me. i'm trying to organize my thoughts here but.... *headesk* hazards of having linear thoughts, i guess ^^;;
anyway, i tried spotting the hidden texts (the one in red, yeah?) but failed monumentally as i couldn't makes head or tail out of it. maybe i missed a few text? or just plain doing it wrong? the only one that turn out to be readable is from Part 3 which got me "threestatE" and even that is arguable to be right
oh well, i'll just enjoy the one that I understand :D
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Date: 10 Jul 2011 12:08 (UTC)You almost got the code right--the hardest part is gathering all of the red letters in the right order throughout the chapters, but after that you can enter them into the code breaker that I link to in Part Two, I believe. It will, again, translate into a paradox.
In any case, thank you for reading and thinking about it and enjoying it :D