Cold:
A young human lives in the information age. As soon as she can form her own thoughts she seeks out a way to escape her reality, and over time she grows an itching dissatisfaction with the present. She believes that the future is approaching too slowly for any real change to occur within her lifetime, so time travel is the only thing that truly interests her. As she matures she tries other more attainable methods of escaping reality, but when substances and virtual existences start to lose effectiveness she realizes she has to leave this time altogether to truly be happy.

20 30:
The only thing she hates more than the present is the past, so she sets her sights on the future. She has long since accepted that true time travel will never exist, so her interest has shifted to suspended animation. She is constantly pouring through scientific journals and google results looking for studies and startups involving any form of human stasis. After a decade of research in the year 2030 she finds her first truly promising lead, and after months of bugging them over email she is finally accepted to be the subject of a long term suspended animation project at a reputable laboratory. In light of the planet and its societies decaying more rapidly than usual, the researchers plan to put a volunteer in stasis to be made into the first ever human time capsule. This living vessel would be capable of carrying on unique qualitative information about the humans of the present into a future that might very well see all other forms of data destroyed. She knows she should care more about leaving her family, but the possibility of seeing a future where the potential of humanity is realized overpowers her desire to carry anything from her time period with her. After informing her confused relatives about her decision and saying her goodbyes she completes the necessary tests and is soon sealed in a stasis chamber within a secure underground bunker set to return to the surface in 3020 years.

Planetside:
Finally 3020 years have passed. She arrives at the surface in the midst of a sprawling encumenopilis unlike anything she has ever known. She is immediately greeted by a welcoming party, and they tell her that since she was put into stasis a massive world war occurred, destroying most of the earth and its inhabitants. In the wake of this tragedy most of the remaining humans have consolidated resources and knowledge to become a highly advanced spacefaring civilization, which has come into contact with the greater galactic community composed of various intelligent species from different worlds. She is immediately taken to the central xenopological institution of this society where she shares her story, and she is in turn updated on current technological advancements made possible by interspecies collaboration that allow their society to function on such a massive scale.

Clone Love:
She quickly becomes the 5050s equivalent of a celebrity, and is brought into the scientific fold and given all modern amenities. The most essential of these is a clone body stored in her living quarters which she can transfer her consciousness to if her current body is ever to malfunction. With the instant insertion of an implant the clone is constantly remotely updated with a current copy of her mind, so if she is to die before she can transfer her true consciousness the clone can awake and take her place in society. At first she doesn’t see how this could be preferable to just dying, but she soon comes to learn that as a result of constant war and a nihilistic galactic perspective this society sees life as a utilitarian and ephemeral thing, having accepted that cross-star teleportation (the only method for reaching distant planets) essentially creates a new identical version of you and kills the old. This method of travel is ubiquitous in galactic society to the point that the average lifespan of most travelers is only technically a few years or less each incarnation. She refuses to use this teleportation technology and is frustrated by the fact that she's the only one so shaken by this bleak paradigm, and fantasizes of illegally booting up her clone to have someone to relate to, in an act known as doubling. Doubling is strictly prohibited by galactic society to prevent fraud and is punishable on almost every planet by execution, but she still can’t shake the idea. She constantly comes back to watch the clone as a form of literal self reflection. In a strange way it is the closest thing to family she has in this era, and she begins to feel pangs of regret over leaving her relatives in her excitement to experience the future. Eventually her loneliness comes to a peak and she decides the time has come to boot up her clone, hacking into the system to release her as a fully formed being coexisting with her original form. The pair flee her living space before galactic enforcement is able to arrive.

LAN Party Dreams:
Despite the pair being perpetually on the run from the powers that be, there is nowhere they would rather be than together. They love each other more than any beings have before; they are close enough to think with one mind, but separate enough to see each other and therefore themselves for who they truly are. As the years pass the pair becomes so unified that it is forgotten who the original version is, and as their bodies begin to decay it becomes clearer and clearer that death is the only thing that can truly separate them. In their makeshift lab they begin the LAN Party Dreams project, named after a long obsolete technology from the time of the original version. Over a few months they created a spacecraft containing two interconnected stasis chambers. The pair laid in suspended animation, and through an alien technology were bound in an organic virtual reality of their design. Over the course of centuries the craft fully transferred their true consciousnesses from flesh into this transcendent state of biological data, allowing them to live an open ended existence in their new reality. It was truly beautiful, but all things come to an end.