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Recap / Welcome To Night Vale Ep 92 If He Had Lived

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"Which came first – the chicken, the egg... or airplanes?"

Tropes present in this episode include:

  • The Ageless: John and Jackie Kennedy become this in Cecil's story.
  • Alternate History: Its Alternate History Week in Night Vale! The Night Vale Historical Society chooses a submission to make into the new history of Night Vale. Cecil's attempt at writing an alternate history story is based on JFK's assassination, being titled 'What If He Had Lived?'. Eventually it becomes clear that Cecil really means 'What If He Had Lived Forever?'.
Stories written by other townsfolk include:
The winning submission was an alternate history where the Beatrix Lowman Memorial Meditation Zone, the building of which drained huge amounts of money from the rest of city government, was never built. It will now be destroyed to match the new history, thus wasting a ridiculous amount of money.
  • Apocalypse How: The end of the universe in Cecil's story involves the universe reaching a point of perfect balance, therefore halting all change and progress forever.
  • Stepford Smiler: Something about living in an Alternate History destroys Jackie Kennedy's ability to feel emotion, but she keeps putting on the performance of being a happy loving wife.

Today’s proverb: Writing rules - One: write a lot. Two: read a lot. Three: if someone tells you not to use adverbs or some other Elmore Leonard thing, swiftly kick them.

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