“There are things you can’t fight. Acts of god; you see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you’re in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win.”
One of those “characters get to read/watch their source material and use it to change the future” fics, except instead of the original show/book/whatever they just get handed a pile of memes, overly specific headcanons, incorrect quotes, and edits and have to try to piece together the plot from that.
Harry Potter: okay I have no idea how we defeat Voldemort, but apparently I survive long enough to give my kid a name everyone is really mad about. I think it’s Albus Severus? Maybe? I can’t actually tell– oh, this one is just a list of everyone who dies in the future! That’s something
*A bunch of Jedi sprawled around the temple with piles of datapads everywhere*
“Okay this is the twelfth joke I’ve seen about Anakin falling to the Dark Side and slaughtering younglings so I think it’s real”
“Careful, remember how many we found that claimed that Jar Jar Binks is the Sith Master? And we concluded that that one was probably a joke.”
“Are we sure? That theorist was pretty convincing”
