Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-30557941-20161121015835

(I was going to put this in the Writer's Workshop, but based on my reading of the rules there it would need to be at least in draft form.  If I misunderstood, please feel free to move it there.)

(Also apologize for spelling or grammar problems.  Having trouble with my spellchecker at the momenet.)

Okay, I have an idea for a Pasta, but I'm having trouble deciding on the appropriate POV character. My original character would have effectively been a negative self-insert of my more annoying traits (basically, a character who rambles on and never gets to the point). However, I realized that the character I'm imagining would be interested in explaining to the reader how interdimensional travel works, but would have no interest in explaining how he, personally, learned about interdimensional travel. That leaves me not with a story, but with a lecture.

My second instinct was to give the POV to another character. So, I decided that the aforementioned character showed up on his brother's doorstep, and we saw things from his brother's perspective (yes, heavy Rick and Morty influence). The problem with this is, I feel like the mundane brother would likely not bother to properly record the traveller's seemingly-insane rantings, and so the reader is left without a sufficient explanation for what is going on.

Also, with the rules I planned to establish the brother would become equally crazy if he ever travelled between worlds, so either I'm right back where I started, or the story is Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, and the idea of "my brother claims he can hope between universes, and has some weird pictures" makes the mundane explanation more believable in the age of photoshop.

Now, here are the basic rules I planned to establish, please let me know the best way to frame this information (the main horror is supposed to be from the implications):

-interdimensional travel is like card counting. People imagine that it requires vast knowledge and mathematical skills, but once you learn to do a few simply tricks in your head and change your perspective, suddenly it's a simple matter. It's like teaching a two-dimensional creature to look up. Once you've seen the alternate universes, they're actually quite obvious in day-to-day life.

-Dimensions are not solid. Through osmosis time continually shifts between them. Most of us don't notice this. If a key event in my life slips from my universe to another one, I forget it, and so does everyone else. So, your memory is consistent with the memories of those around you.

-Likewise, humans are not constant. I planned to directly use an analogy to photons in the story. We're sort of like particulars, momentarily having a solid existence. But, we also exist over many alternate universes, with various versions of ourself, and each version is constantly being remixed through the aformentioened osmosis.

-Interdimensional travellers, however, become more aware of the shifts. Memories of events not true in the universe they're currently occupying fade a bit, but are still there. The longer they're in a universe, the more they take on traits of that universe. So, after a short time they can kinda fake being from that universe, but they still often face confusion from conflicting memories.

-Over time interdimensional travellers become jaded, as  they eventually remember thousands of years of memories, and become increasingly unstable.

I was going to have a key event be the traveller making a casual reference to his brother raping him. It freaked the brother (if he was the POV character out) not only because it didn't happen, but because his brother seemed completely unbothered by it, like it wasn't even the most horrifying thing he'd seen by a long shot.

So, if you wanted to present this information to a reader, how would you frame it? 