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== Beckett's Pet Theories == | == Beckett's Pet Theories == | ||
| + | === The Linearity of Time and How It Proves Reality As C-Space === | ||
| + | Most people conceive of time as a linear progression of events - time is a line upon which events can be plotted. But for a line to have units of measure it needs a coordinate system upon which to measure those units, and having a coordinate system upon which this line is graphed in turn gives all kinds of additional ways to look at that progression of units - for example, time may not be a <i>straight</i> line. While anyone inside the flow of time will perceive it as such, in this hypothetical coordinate method of graphing time the progression of events may be curved - it could even mean that time crosses itself, or gets close to doing so. | ||
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| + | Configuration Space is a tool in classical mechanics that is used to define the configuration of a system using "generalised coordinates" - effectively, it reduces all points of variance within a system to various axes upon which coordinates can be measured. A c-space chart for the universe would be an n-th dimensional manifold in which all possibly configurations of the universe - even ones which are fundamentally incompatible with the progression of this particular universe - are capable of being charted. The "timeline" most people are familiar with as a concept effectively becomes a very complex equation describing the point-to-point changes that occur in the universe. | ||
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| + | Any point along this line is a particular configuration of the universe. Timeline curvature may actually bring the event progression of the universe towards a previous configuration state in its own timeline - effectively allowing the line of events to cross itself in a non-time-travel sense. And additionally, "history repeating itself" may literally be a particular kind of wobble in the timeline progression repeating itself at a different set of coordinates; that is to say a repetition of a mathematically measurable pattern. | ||
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=== The Abyss, Time and C-Space === | === The Abyss, Time and C-Space === | ||
| − | + | C-Space is an important concept to bring up, because Supernal magic causes willful deviations in the c-space configuration of the universe - some are small, like nudging forces that already exist, some are large, like bringing wholely new things that didn't exist before into reality. A significant enough deviation is what causes paradox - because you are changing what is effectively the inertia of reality. | |
This theory is both important and relevant because of what it predicts - for example the July 17, 1997 conflict between the Mysterium Time mages and Seer Time mages which caused the birth of the Cult of the Doomsday cult. Most people who are aware of this incident cannot explain it, but the application of c-space can. A significant enough application of Time magic on a particular region of space can deviate its history to a level where its fundamental physical laws become incompatible with any universe approximating the configuration of our own. This directly explains why that location winked out of existence. It also gives us more clues about regions of c-space that do not correspond to anything like our universe - they are either part of, or reside in, the Abyss. | This theory is both important and relevant because of what it predicts - for example the July 17, 1997 conflict between the Mysterium Time mages and Seer Time mages which caused the birth of the Cult of the Doomsday cult. Most people who are aware of this incident cannot explain it, but the application of c-space can. A significant enough application of Time magic on a particular region of space can deviate its history to a level where its fundamental physical laws become incompatible with any universe approximating the configuration of our own. This directly explains why that location winked out of existence. It also gives us more clues about regions of c-space that do not correspond to anything like our universe - they are either part of, or reside in, the Abyss. | ||
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Template:PC Summary Awakening
Born: November 15, 1986
Age: 28
Rank: 1st-Degree Adept
Consilium Titles: Hierarch
Guardian Titles: Neophyte Emissary
Physical Description: Almost always dressed in a t-shirt and hoodie or an open shirt over a t-shirt, Beckett is a paragon of casual attire and laziness.
Nimbus: A dolly zoom/Hitchcock zoom which distorts the viewer’s perspective and makes Beckett appear larger while the background drops away. Simultaneously, the same effect applies to his eyes - they appear larger still and Beckett himself almost seems to drop away.
Guiding Principle: "So my job is manipulation. Here's the thing - you can drop an idea in someone's head, play around with their emotions, trick their senses and generally mislead them but at the end of the day they're still a person with their own needs and desires. The moment that stops being true, you're not manipulating anymore... you're doing something else and that isn't what I do."
About
Beckett is a slightly famous local stage hypnotist. In his spare time he's slowly working on having a fully stocked tass bar at home. His three favourite things are alcohol, women and glib sarcastic remarks.
Beckett would like nothing more than to have an easy life where he doesn't have much to do, but events almost always conspire against him and force him into roles of responsibility (or at least, he thinks so). When relating to mages from other cities Beckett generally assumes a kind of cheery fatalism, just to brighten their day. He's not really that concerned about living under the threat of annihilation at the hands of the Banishers - he's more concerned about whether or not he gets the immediate tasks in front of him sorted, so he can take a break.
Noteworthy Deeds
- His Awakening occurred after his major claim to fame - performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2010
- He was briefly turned part Tick-Tock Man to save the national speakers for each Order from accidentally being subjected to the same effect
- He, Derek Drako and Cuffs saved the universe one time
Rumours
- Beckett can do Mind magic without using supernal magic
- Beckett is fairly irreverent of Pentacle traditionalism, occasionally making light of certain overly formal practices mages sometimes indulge in
- He made the previous Hierarch give him "Master of Bleach" as an official consilium position
- Beckett hates magic
- Untrue, but he REALLY hates people who say he hates magic
- Ever since he stopped manifesting the Tick-Tock Man legacy, Beckett has started coming up with some very radical Supernal theories about the way the universe works, but maybe he's been coming up with more theories than he's been letting on and then hiding them somewhere?
Quotes By
"Sexy cop with a fast car. I'd vote for her."
- - After meeting Cuffs
"If you see something
Say nothing
And drink to forget"
- - Beckett's motto (taken from his favourite t-shirt)
"Hey guys. Hey guys. Hey guys. HEY GUYS!"
*points to the mobile phone in his hand*
"This is currently being tracked by the Banishers. We probably have about five minutes to flee."
- - Beckett having real trouble trying to save people's lives over them arguing with each other
"Pfft, Guardians aren't cops! We're very talented criminals thank you kindly. No wait, that's not quite right - make that secret agents. And the point of secret agents is to work for the powers-that-be to discreetly break the law in other countries."
- - Beckett trying to recruit Sash
"Hrm, so I'm a Scorpio. And under the Chinese astrological calendar I'm a Fire Tiger. That's three separate astrological measures which all say the exact same sexy, independent, leadery thing. Am... am I the Mastigossiah?"
- - Random observation
Quotes About
"BECKETT! HOW DID YOU INFILTRATE THE ENTIRE FRICKEN ARROW?!"
- - Princess Pwnage after a national Adamantine Arrow meeting where the Arrow unanimously told her she should listen to him
"I know you want to give me the book. You're a guardian of the Veil, a good one, and you know that you don't want that book."
- -I. P. Smith, reminding Beckett who he is
"I trust you. You've got to have some professional ethics, right?"
- - Sash, giving Beckett her hand and allowing him into her mind
Conversations
"But you have made me realise that when I become a Space master, I just need a blue box to pick up chicks..."
"Oh, man, you could just show up to generic geekery conventions and be drowning in it. No, bad Mastigos! It is unfair to prey on lonely geeky girls. ...I think.
Actually, they'd probably love that. Carry on."
- - Beckett and Sash at the end of a serious discussion of how quantum mechanics, c-space and temporal theory, vulgar magic, alternate world lines and the Abyss all possibly tie together
"I like my women like I like my coffee..."
"How Beckett? How do you like your women? Black? Strong? A tall flat white? Extra sugar? Painfully hot? Cream? Cheap and nasty? In a plastic cup? Ground up and in your freezer? First thing upon waking up? Delivered by hotel room service? Bought from a street vendor? Go on - how do you like your women?"
"Well I was going to say 'with two shots of Baileys in them' but you've just totally killed the mood."
- - Beckett and Evelynne
Inspirations
"What is WRONG with you Jeffrey?!"
"Well, Shirley, since you have clearly failed to grasp the central insipid metaphor of those Twilight books you devour, let me explain it to you: men are monsters who crave young flesh. The end."
- - Shirley and Jeff, Community S02E01
"This is my job. And people always say you should do the right thing - but sometimes there is no right thing... and then, well then you just have to pick the sin you can live with."
- - Ig Perrish (played by Daniel Radcliffe), Horns
♪ A sheep has left the fold
Hoofbeats go a-trotting, trotting
Up to Heaven bold
At the gates a-knocking, knocking
Sheep in wolfish clothes
Holy jaws are dropping
Up in Heaven's hold
Plant my hooves, my hooks, my books
Once upon a time
Heaven was a tower, tower
Tethered in its pride
Cast us grapes as sour, sour
Thought the ink was dried
But Hellish gardens flowered
Ivy to be climbed
Spread my filth, my wings, my weeds, my weeds ♫
- - Grace for Sale - The Devil's Carnival
♪ I got so sick of being on my own,
Now the Devil won't leave me alone...
It's almost like I've found a friend
Who's in it for the bitter end.
[...]
I've got my heavy heart to hold me down,
Once it falls apart my head's in the clouds.
So I'm taking every chance I've got
Like the man I know I'm not. ♫
- - Turn Off The Lights - Panic! At the Disco
♪ This is gospel for the vagabonds,
Ne'er-do-wells and insufferable bastards
Confessing their apostasies
Led away by imperfect imposters.
Don't try to sleep through the end of the world
And bury me alive
'Cause I won't give up without a fight.
If you love me, let me go. ♫
- - This Is Gospel - Panic! At the Disco