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(Spoilers) Grandfather Paradox and Multiverse Memory.

posted 9 years ago by miek07
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Gradfather Paradox?
The Gradfather paradox basically states that if you traveled back in time and killed your parent (or grand parent) before you were conceived you were not to be born. If Elizabeth was not born, then how is she able to drown Booker at the baptism?

Also, how is it that Booker has memories at the Baptism when he is drowned there? Did he suddenly retain memories of his multiverse self at that moment prior to drowning? And if that is the case, then the drowning wouldn't be necessary because if All instances of him drowning resulting in no Comstocks, then all instances of the baptism could have been prevented without him dying.

[–] bobbykanae 9 years ago

It's not time travel, the universes are infinite and Comstock keep's reaching into a universe 20 years behind "his own universe". It's called "Bioshock Infinite" because Comstock's keep reaching into another Universe to steal his own child which has created an infinite loop of this happening over and over again.

As for the baptism, it's not entirely literal, the Lighthouse sends him to an untethered universe that is more like "Heaven" that is outside the Multiverse (like Paris in the DLC) than it is a real place. And it's not "all instances" at the baptism, it's representative of all the Bookers who will ever reach here and kill themselves so they can't create new ones.

All in all it's almost futile - because there will always be Booker's becoming Comstock's, because the universe itself is infinite.

It's a sad story. But Booker and Elizabeth are human and try to pay for their transgressions, as futile as it is.