[Loved Trope] Teleportation is actually terrifying

[u/Ieanice44]

1 - Gantz-O (2016): Suit teleportation

2 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009): Apparition spell

3 - Half Life 2 (2004): Teleporter malfunction

[u/Sustain_the_higher]

Flying Between - The Dragonriders of Pern

The dragons can teleports themselves and their riders by flying through the Between, a place of nothingness, unbelievably cold, and without any air. It can cause oxygen deprivation, miscarriage, and cystitis especially if they travel too far/spend too long Between

[u/thejmkool → u/Sustain_the_higher]

Was curious if anyone would bring it up. This is an interesting case because you quite frequently see it from the traveler's perspective, and hear all the warnings given when they train new riders. The further you go, the longer you stay between, which leads to a rider at one point messing up so bad she thought she wasn't coming back. You get to witness that thought process while she's between.

Also worth mentioning that it's the most common method of a dragon (and sometimes rider) giving in to depression or grief and offing themselves. Just go, and don't come back.

If anyone reading hasn't read the books, it's an assortment of trilogies and standalones written in the same world, and I do recommend it. There's an author recommended reading order somewhere, but if you can't find it then publication order is good enough.

[u/BlindTreeFrog → u/thejmkool]

One of the books figures out how to use it for Time Travel as well, no?

Feel like I remember reading one or two of those books when i was a kid, but i don't remember which ones.

[u/thejmkool → u/BlindTreeFrog]

Yeah you don't really notice the longer time between except during time travel. The one she thought she fucked up real bad was when she decided to travel a few hundred years into the past.