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[Johnfalcon99977]

He doesn't know what happens in alternate timelines, though. He wouldn't say that if he wasn't entirely certain, which he wouldn't.

Not really. He did say that he knew almost everything. And seeing as only, like, one or two alternate timelines were actually relevant in the grand scheme of things, what reason do you have to doubt his ability to see alternate timelines?

[Darvi]

He explicitly stated it around the same time when alt!Vriska had her showdown with Jack.

I've never much enjoyed navigating the vortices of alternative possibility. The path which alone has my absolute mastery is the alpha timeline, a continuum I define as that which boasts exclusive rights both to my birth and to my death, two circumstantially simultaneous events. Any divergence from this path to my knowing will taper into blackness like rotting roots.

[CJ1145]

Except, Scratch lies. Scratch used our faith in his inability to lie to pull the wool over our eyes, as well as the players'.

Now, if Calliope is NOT Lord English, then my current..

IDE/THEORY: Caliborn created Doc Scratch and deliberately modeled him after his sister, as well as took her colors for his theme, as a mocking way of subjugating her very memory. Nobody'll even think of her by those cues anymore. Now all they see is Scratch, the Felt, and thus Caliborn. He's dominated both their body and their soul. Plus, it builds up all this evidence that maybe, just maybe, she was Lord English all along and not him.

But nope. It's him. It's always been Caliborn, and you goofs bought right into his tricks. This would without a doubt go down as one of the shittiest, most inconsequential red herring twists in all of Homestuck. Exactly as he planned.

[Graknorke]

What?
Scratch has never lied. Not once.

[Darvi]

Excepts, Scratch lies. Scratch used our faith in his inability to lie to pull the wool over our eyes, as well as the players'.

He does twist the truth, but that doesn't make his words any less true. He explicitly said that he has trouble knowing what happens in divergent timelines, presumably because the changes that caused the timelines to split are what he is unable to know. He can deduce them, yes, but that still does mean that he has no immediate way to know.

[Putnam]

Totally has to be a roxy_ebubble in Fortbent now.

Was way ahead of you. Already in.

[CJ1145]

Excepts, Scratch lies. Scratch used our faith in his inability to lie to pull the wool over our eyes, as well as the players'.

He does twist the truth, but that doesn't make his words any less true. He explicitly said that he has trouble knowing what happens in divergent timelines, presumably because the changes that caused the timelines to split are what he is unable to know. He can deduce them, yes, but that still does mean that he has no immediate way to know.

But the terminology he uses suggests that his knowledge tapers off the further a timeline diverges. He never tells at what precise point he loses clarity. He could very well be making use of the fact that in alternate timelines, he has no insight to what happens after he successfully summon English to use the language he uses.

[Darvi]

Fair point.

This still refutes your point, however:

Instances of myself have spawned in countless universes, and my objective is always the same.
I have never once failed to complete this objective, and I never will.

[Putnam]

What?
Scratch has never lied. Not once.

Well, early during the scratch intermission, he sure did imply that "the scratch" was Jack moving to the Troll's universe a lot.

[Darvi]

Lies by omission etc. etc. He doesn't technically lie, he just manipulates people into thinking what he wants them to think.

[Graknorke]

What?
Scratch has never lied. Not once.

Well, early during the scratch intermission, he sure did imply that "the scratch" was Jack moving to the Troll's universe a lot.

Not really, almost straight away in that we get a pesterlog from Karkat telling John that the scratch would happen with needles. All Doc Scratch said was about there being the same Jack Noir who had existed on either side of the scratch, and that Vriska and Rose fought him, one "before" and one "after".

[Putnam]

Omission? It was outright said that the troll session was "this side of the scratch", which is just barely true if you're a weirdo who takes technical definitions as far as possible OH GOD DAMMIT SCRATCH YOU ASSHOLE

[Darvi]

OH GOD DAMMIT SCRATCH YOU ASSHOLE

And here we have a summary of the second half of A5A2.

[Bauglir]

I'm guessing that the different instances of Doc Scratch aren't alt-timeline versions, but alt-universe versions (possibly taking different forms, depending on what the cueball gets alchemized with), all of whom are inevitably successful in the alpha timeline.

[Liber celi]

Semantics warning: isn't zero countless?