Exactly what it sounds like. If you can retcon the events of a story, you can also perpetuate the same.
And it's a well-known fact that Paradox Space makes plenty of room within the bounds of narrative Reality for the dead to leave their marks. Dream Bubbles, resurrections, brain ghosts, and so on. Simple material 'death' doesn't mean anything. Not really.
John, though...
I'm sorry to say that John will never affect anything of narrative relevance again.
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And it's a well-known fact that Paradox Space makes plenty of room within the bounds of narrative Reality for the dead to leave their marks. Dream Bubbles, resurrections, brain ghosts, and so on. Simple material 'death' doesn't mean anything. Not really.
John, though...
I'm sorry to say that John will never affect anything of narrative relevance again.