Editing Incarnation (section)

==Notable Incarnations==
*[[Conquest|Conquest of Toronto]]
*[[Hungry Choir]]
*[[List of Incarnations]]
*Monique Pope, Incarnation of Time<ref name="mpi">Time happens but we experience it in different ways and that experience of time is something that can be managed, fudged, bent, or broken. The daily grind, how time flies when you're having fun, the punchclock of work, the trains running on time, the moments you're in the zone and everything seems to slow down, the eras and phases of society, deadlines, and saved time, all are subtle but important. This punctuation and fluctuation of time forms a big part of the background fabric of society and how society holds up, or doesn't, and how society changes or holds onto things.<br>
Time is very much an enabler and supporter of other forces. Someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time (or the opposite) for Fate is critical. Death can't do its work if people don't run out of time. Nature can't work if the seasons and cycles don't happen.<br>
:Monique Pope hit the ground running, was an industrious and obedient child, and did everything she was told. She excelled at her homework, pleased her teachers, did her chores, and helped raise her younger siblings. It got to be a lot when she was a teen, but she managed to balance school, her boyfriend, friends, a part time job and helping to care for her siblings after her mom got sick. In the rush and everything, she didn't find the time to buy condoms, decided to risk it, and nine months later, two months after graduation, she had her first kid.<br>
:Monique gave it her best, she carried on, and juggled husband, kids, classes, friends, and her job, where she rose to the rank of middle management before she had a brain aneurysm and died. Death came to act as psychopomp and deliver her to her destination, and she asked for a moment to take in the stillness and quiet before whatever came next. Death gave her that moment, leaving her in custody of another figure she hadn't realized was in the background, while doing its rounds, promising to return. And that figure, Time, offered her a deal. More moments. An extended one. The current Father Time was getting stale and losing touch, and the schedule dictated it was due to pass on the mantle. So Monique became Time, and would remain Time forever, though she might later be sublimated by others as she passed on the mantle, fresher perspectives taking the reins, but with her and her memories there as part of the greater entity.<br>
:As Time, she meets with other Incarnations on the regular, to coordinate and keep them organized, with an eye on society as it goes through its measured, time-punctuated paces. Fate focuses on key events, the order of things, and weaves together a narrative, but Monique as Time has an eye on rhythms, what comes past the end of a snipped thread, and how various people will adjust and change in their patterns and schedules in reaction to that difference. A flap of a butterfly's wing can lead to a change in an era, and Time keeps an eye out, to manage that.<br>
:When not working with Incarnations, Monique will do her own business with Time. On the rare occasion, every few years, someone will go and practice something and muck with time itself, altering history, but mostly it's about keeping track and adjusting the numbers on how fast the days seem to go by and how everything fits together in the moment-by-moment sense. Just as often, she helps other Incarnations keep numbers balanced, with micro-adjustments across the board.<br>
:In the guise of Time herself, outside of those duties and contributions, she'll use the opportunity afforded her to adjust things in a way that comes from her, from Monique Pope, and she spends of herself to do it. At least in her area where she manages Time, more people find time away from homework to be with dying parents. More teenagers find they have the extra few minutes in their detours to go see a boyfriend or girlfriend to buy a condom, averting a life change. Some find their commutes in a busy work week faster than expected, and catch a child's recital they would've missed, or find the time to throw the ball with their kid and talk about something important. All of these things ripple out and have consequences, time not a line but waves that rise and fall, sometimes tranquil, sometimes fleeting, sometimes violent.<br>
:Standout among those things she does and gives to people, are moments. She puts her emphasis on that in particular, spending what she's earned doing her job to give them out where she sees fit, so people might have a moment of quiet or a moment away from the hustle and bustle of it all before they die, instead of after. - [https://www.old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/y3a2vo Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

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