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I lied I’m not going back to sleep cause I keep having thoughts-

But here’s the thing- the solace I’ve started to come to in all this and I kind of think it might have been the point Burnie was trying to make though I obviously can’t know for sure.

Everything after 13 is just simulations. Both timelines are canon and non-canon at the same time. The entire thematic point of the ending of 13 is that we don’t know what happens next- so turning everything post 13 into simulations was the perfect way to say “this is where the story ends, these are just a few of an infinite number of possibilities of what could happen next. These are the final thoughts of an AI sacrificing his life for the people he loves. But we’ll never be able to know for sure. Maybe it’s the shisno trilogy, maybe it’s restoration, maybe it’s your fanfic. But at the end all you have is your faith in these characters. Ain’t that a bitch.”

Maybe I’m just drinking that copium juice but this is the one way I’ve found that I think I can reconcile with this series ending. And if this is what Burnie intended then I’m grateful, I always said they should’ve just stopped at 13 cause that was the entire point… with this tho we still have the beauty of that thematic ending as well as a few possibilities to chew on and expand. And I can be at peace with that.