So, at the end of the game we learn that Booker and Comstock are the same person, just from different realities as a result of one major decision - whether or not to go through with the baptism. Get baptised = become Comstock, dont get baptised = stay as Booker. For every reality in which Booker declines the baptism, there is a tangential split universe that occurs in which he accepts it, meaning that no matter the "choice", both Booker and Comstock will come into existence Elizabeth's plan is to eliminate Comstock from all realities by making it so he was never born in the first place, i.e kill Booker before he can make this fateful decision. Here is my question - if Booker changes it so the never makes the decision, then why doesn't THIS choice create a universe in which he chooses NOT to drown? The whole idea seems to be that for every 50/50 option that ever exists, there exists two realities in which each respective choice is picked. Why isn't there a reality that exists where Booker decides not to drown?
Maybe there only now exists two universes in which A) he chooses to drown and never becomes Comstock or B) he refuses baptism and becomes Booker and has Anna and never sells her to Comstock. That is certainly what the post credits scene implies, but I just dont get how this MAJOR choice doesnt create an opposite reality of it's own. Is it because at this point Booker is existing outside of time and space as we know it, in the place where the Sea of Doors is? Is it because Elizabeth is an anomaly that can control space and time? Or is it because there is usually no such thing as free will, only predetermined paths, but Booker breaks free of this and makes a REAL choice that is free predetermination? A lot of this is me thinking out loud, trying to get it straight in my head. Let me know what you guys think. Also, I LOVED the game, and I love that a video game is actually making me think this much.
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