[FFML] Shipping question

[The Wanderer]

On 2021-04-18 at 10:59, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> If a guy and a lady are in love, such that their story is clearly written
> as shipping them...
> 
> ...and then the guy gets his mind scrambled (or more precisely,
> unscrambled) and turns out to have been a sleeper agent...
> 
> ...and then the lady is killed by her younger sister, who has been in love
> with and woke up the sleeper agent...
> 
> ...is this still considered the same ship if written by someone named
> Theseus?

To quote something shared a while back in a Discord where I hang out:

>> Let's say that you have two fictional characters, one each of a
>> pair of sets of twins. These two characters are placed by fans into
>> a relationship. At some point, the fans decide that the second
>> character should break up with the first and begin dating their
>> twin; then, the fans decide that the twin should break up with the
>> second character and begin dating the second character's twin. Is
>> it still the same relationship?
>> 
>> This uncertainty is known as the Ship of Theseus.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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