The Outrage of the Years - MASTERPOST

[alchemyalice]

Author: Alchemy Alice
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
 

 

Comments

[hime2emeh.livejournal.com]

They exist because they're written. Or maybe they're written, because they exist.
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

[alchemyalice.livejournal.com]

Leaving it vague was kind of what I wanted to go for--their existence should remain paradoxical, because it relies on a consciousness to create it. By that logic, we as readers bring them to life, but we could even go a step back and say, what if we are brought to life by some other, larger consciousness? What if we have been written and read, and only exist because of that? The question of reality is one I wanted to create in the text, but also be relatable to our own existence as readers, to make us doubt our own reality :)

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