"Do you like parties?"

"Yeah! How about you?"

Like. Surely it must be.

"Me too!"

It's absurd to think that his wild idea yesterday caused someone who fit the description to retroactively have always existed, right?

"How about you, Peter?"

Like, that's not even simulationism, that's. That's something else. Right? It can't be.

"Peter?"

Did his idea spawn those movies and TV shows fully formed, and Lucas Yahontov's entire life history, and inserted them into everyone's memories but Peter's?

"Peter?" he calls, walking over and snapping his fingers in front of Peter's face.

"Huh what?"

"Do you like parties?"

"Oh. Yeah. I do. Sorry, I got distracted with my exercises."

"It's okay!"

It is absolutely, 100% a coincidence. He needs to not drive himself into another freakout. His thoughts can't affect the fabric of causality, and if the simulators are taking cues from his brain to instantiate people and histories and knowledge then they should be picking a different target than hot superstars who vlog naked.

...but if he can alter the fabric of causality and/or insert historically consistent facts into the world, what else does he want to do with this power? You know, hypothetically. If that were a thing. Which it's not. But if it were.

Well, obviously, he would like people to be people and not weird automata. So, simulation runners, if that's a thing you can do, chop chop, now would be fine. Ideally just changing the existing people into real people, it'd be sad if it were just impossible to convert his budding friendships into real people, but like, he'll deal if that's the best you can do.

Now would be great, please.

Failing that, he—well. To be honest, if he can never figure out a way to turn other people into real people he is not really sure what he's going to do? He might decide to just move on to the Great Beyond. He's been living under the assumption it's possible, so it'd better be.

So, failing it being an overnight possibility, but if he could alter the fabric of causality, what kinds of things would he want to do that would make this a cool world for other people to live in and stuff? Also himself. It'd be cool if the world he made were cool for him to live in.

Immortality for everyone, probably. Like. Duh.

Might need to have a conversation with the Grim Reaper about that one, actually.

What else.

He has no idea.

He'll. Focus on getting magic and becoming immortal himself first. How about.

It was probably just a coincidence anyway. There's no reason for him to start thinking about that kinda stuff right now. It's fine.

Oh hey he bets it's much easier in reality to get abs than his memories suggest it'd be. Like, it can't take several months of a strict training regimen because Sims don't live that long, so it might just be a few days.

He's gonna look so hot.

Anyway, now he is thoroughly exhausted and he is going to take a shower and sleep. ...which he can probably timeslide over, that way he can be pleasant to the people around him without having to think about it much.

It's morning.