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r/adventuretime • … • u/LittlestWarrior

What if the multiverse is digital/virtual?

While watching "A Glitch is a Glitch" with my boyfriend, I had a thought: is the multiverse digital?

In the aforementioned episode, the Ice King somehow installs a virus in the code of the universe, which nearly gobbles up the code for everything. You could just say it's a silly one-off--not canon, just a silly guest animator episode. I'm taking it too seriously, right? Wrong. This is an egg.

Next, consider the fact that Prismo made Fionna and Cake's world using a laptop. Consider he also uses a laptop with an editing timeline to edit the events of Farmworld. Consider he uses a tv remote to view different universes. This is milk.

Next, consider the Scarab, and how he uses capture devices similar to pokeballs; he turns his victims into little pixel art figures inside the capture eggs. In Pokemon (anime and games), the pokeballs turn pokemon into data for storage. Given the pixel art representation, I believe this could be similar. This is flour.

Finally--and thanks to my pookie for reminding me of this--the Cosmic Owl. In the episode titled, "Hoots", the Cosmic Owl uses a screen-like device for choosing a dream to appear in. It shows the multiverse, and he uses a dream token to select the universe and dream he is about to enter. This is butter.

Remember Prismo's laptop? I don't think the technology is an abstraction to help us mortals understand the gods. No, what if that's how the multiverse is actually set up? Remember the previous points: the glitch, the laptop and remote, the Scarab's eggs, and the Cosmic Owl's dream screen. Let these points percolate in your mind, let it act as a leavener for the theory to rise in your mind.

The universe is digital. Enjoy your cake.

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