Jun 19, 2025
To:Orionless
I think the protagonist caused enough "butterfly effects" to the point that the accident would naturally not repeat, but not enough to the point to massively alter how the Other Self spends the remaining three years of his high school life.
So yes, the plus is that the Other Self probably still be alive after six years. In a way, he has time to turn things around in the long run.
I guess the tragedy here is that the Other Self will most likely not have very fond memories of high school, which is ideally supposed to be a "romanticized" time in one's life. So life will go on for him, but he will likely feel miserable whenever he thinks back to the youth that should have been...
... Or maybe not, really. But I like to think that in this story, the Other Self's reputation (in high school) is unsalvageable.
But now that I've considered what you pointed out, I do hope that the Other Self one day finds happiness, even if it won't be perfect.
