That can still get incredibly complicated, Felicity. [ Sara didn't like it, but it was what her people dealt with on a daily basis, skipping here and there in time, fixing aberrations at their source. Or as close as could be. Or as close to what would make the timeline realign itself as those the aberration had been a mere wrinkle forgotten behind it. ]
The smallest things, that you wouldn't even think are relevant, can have disastrous effects even. The simplest things from missing a meeting, to having a single overzealous conversation on a topic that hadn't been focused on before, can erase relationships and even create people who had never existed before. [ Two in an endless assortment of situations they'd been put through. ]
I'm not saying we need to keep everything from him, but we have to be careful, too, if we want to be able to return to 2017 and have Oliver still be the person he was only days ago for either of us. If he's told too much he never has to live through anything he's done since 2015, or he's Oliver and he tries to change or fix any of the worst parts, and he becomes someone entirely different. We all might.
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The smallest things, that you wouldn't even think are relevant, can have disastrous effects even. The simplest things from missing a meeting, to having a single overzealous conversation on a topic that hadn't been focused on before, can erase relationships and even create people who had never existed before. [ Two in an endless assortment of situations they'd been put through. ]
I'm not saying we need to keep everything from him, but we have to be careful, too, if we want to be able to return to 2017 and have Oliver still be the person he was only days ago for either of us. If he's told too much he never has to live through anything he's done since 2015, or he's Oliver and he tries to change or fix any of the worst parts, and he becomes someone entirely different. We all might.