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Written by ReyDay, conceptualized by everyone who ever was, is, and will be
This page references/is inspired by the following works:
Introduction -> Object 54
Famine -> RED
Death -> Level 800.1
War -> Project Physeter
Conquest -> Echo of Creation
End? -> Confusion and clarity sharing a few words somewhere between life and death
Critics/Reviewers:
Spectre48
LiminalDoctor
Abdallah Amr
Red-eyes Dragoon
| Page Type | Articles |
|---|---|
| Author Page | ReyDay |
| Levels | Level 988 - “Belphegor’s Nightmare” |
| Unnumbered Levels | Death’s Door, The Celestial Cathedral(translated) |
| Sub-Layers | Level 800.1 |
| Entities | Coming Soon! |
| Unnumbered Entities | Coming Soon! |
| Objects | Object 48 - “Liquid Pain”, Object 33 - “RoboPets”, Object 64 - "Whisperers", Object 5-FR - “Anemophosis”(translated) |
| Phenomena | Phenomenon 28 - “Mourning Nothing In Particular” |
| Tales | The Echo of Creation, Five Years Since You Went Missing, Knight’s Gambit, INFINITY, For Christmas(translated) |
| Groups | Ariane Circle(translated), The Black Knights(owned) |
| POIs | Nyx(translated) |
| Canons | Black Knights(owned) |
| Joke Pages | Coming Soon! |
| Tech | Enchanted Forest Theme, Music Theme, Deep Sea Theme, Tesseract Theme, Ariane Circle Theme(translated) |
| Guides/Essays | Coming Soon! |
| Art | Diana Evelynn, Fia, Tess Welcome Banner |
Offsets
Offset 0
Name: Introduction
Offset 1
Name: Famine
Offset 2
Name: Death
Offset 3
Name: War
Offset 4
Name: Conquest
Offset 5
Name: End?
So… That’s it?
Yeah? What did you expect? Some miracle to come completely out of left field and everyone to get their happily ever after?
Well, yeah. Kinda. I don’t know; that’s just such a lame ending to a story.
Well, don’t blame me. I’m not exactly the one who made this; I don’t control it.
What? Isn’t this your page?
Yes, but I didn’t create these stories. They’re based on true events, every word.
That’s impossible. The Backrooms aren’t real, and you know that.
I’m not talking about the Backrooms, I’m talking about our universe. Earth. Our society. Every single story I just told you is simply a replica of everything that came before. Even this conversation isn’t original.
But those are all made-up stories, and they’re all about the Backrooms.
Correct, but remember, I’m not the only one this point applies to. Every single story that I replicated was a replica of something else, and those are replicas of other things that came before them, and so on and so forth forever.
So what are you saying? That we should all just give up on creativity because every idea has already been done before?
Not at all. Quite the contrary, actually. Continuing to adapt and reimagine these ideas is the only way that they’ll be remembered. Everything is lost to time eventually; it is only those that continue to adapt and change that will live in the memory of the future generations.
I guess. I just feel like there’s some kind of better ending other than, well, that.
That’s the thing about infinity, though, isn’t it? There is no end. It just keeps going, looping on forever and ever into oblivion, and even then, it won’t stop.
Well, yeah, but I was hoping for some kind of answer.
An answer to what?
Everything. All of this. The issue of unoriginality.
I’m not a prophet. I couldn’t possibly have all the answers of the universe even if I wanted them.
Well yeah, I know that. I was just holding out hope for some sliver of a miracle that would allow for humanity to escape the past.
But that’s exactly why they failed. Every single story that you heard was about someone who so desperately wanted to escape the confines of the past that they forgot exactly why their predecessors failed in the first place. They were so fixated on the idea of new that they allowed themselves to repeat the old. Change isn’t impossible, but it is only those who embrace the unoriginal and accept the past and build from it that will be able to create the change that they desire.
And how do I know that you’re right?
You don’t. Again, I don’t hold all the answers. The best we can do is hypothesize and try it, and then repeat every time it fails, each time improving on the last iteration.
I suppose that makes sense. I just… I don’t know, I can’t help but feel a bit hopeless about this situation. Even if I can still expand on the ideas of the past, what’s stopping me from failing to make it actually different?
But that’s the beauty of it: it’ll be different no matter what. Because you’re you. The beauty of art is that it can be interpreted in a million different ways; thousands and thousands of different versions of a singular piece of art exist simply because humans are the ones who observe it. It’s like how there are infinitely many combinations of decimals between the numbers 1 and 2, even in the smallest of cases, there will still be a difference. Because your unique view of the world dictates how and what you create.
Even with all of those stories, they aren’t perfect replicas of the things that came before them. They have things that differentiate them from their predecessors. Sure, when you look at it from a birds-eye view, the general premise is near identical, but when you take a closer look, you can see how the details have shifted, how the stories are changing.
So, as long as there is humanity…
There will be infinity.
Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it; you know what it is. It's a wave.
And then it crashes in the shore, and it's gone.
But the water is still there.
— Chidi Anigone, The Good Place