Time Travel...
To some it might sound like a means of salvation, a path to making a better now compared to what
is now, even a way to save someone you care about from something bad that happened to them.
We're blinded by our own wants and desires, we pay too much to certain details that we don't consider the bigger picture, or how messing with history in perhaps even the smallest detail can so drastically affect the present and the future, and we are guaranteed to do more harm than good no matter how noble our intentions.
I've read (and watched) "A Sound of Thunder", I've seen the ending of Samurai Jack, I've watched the The Flash TV series, I even watched that CGI movie of "Mr. Peabody and Sherman", and plenty other sources in media concerning time travel.
It- It- The rules! They.... They are basically consistent but they are still subject to change with things like... cause and effect, paradoxes, the lsit goes on
Jay Garrick explained to Barry Allen that even after setting history back on its original track there are always cracks in time that can't be fixed, so that the original timeline is never the same after it's been meddled with, and all the after-effects of Flashpoint
Zoom, Savitar, Time Remnants...
Well, suffice it to say, Time Travel as a fictional concept is a fun and complicated thing to write about, but... for the sake of existence itself I hope no one ever figures out how to actually do it
So now, lemme get to the point:
I'm writing a fic and... Well he's the basics:
Someone goes back to mess with a specific event in history
The hero tries again and again to stop the time-traveller from messing up history but is unsuccessful every single time
Each attempt in stopping the time-traveller creates a new Present that is worse than the one prior
Finally the hero shows the time-traveller a possible future that results from messing with history
The time-traveller is still adamant in her goal but is almost convinced otherwise... but the hero's romantic interest intervenes and the time-traveller's method of time-travel is destroyed
The three wind up in a future that is nothing more than a barren wasteland; the hero's romantic partner is filled with rage and almost kills the time-traveller but the hero convinces him it's not worth it
But then the romantic interest remembers a spell that he and the hero and time-traveller are able to use to go back to before the original timeline beofre the Time-traveller began her mission to mess with history
The Time Traveler of the Future is able to convince her past self that it isn't worth it, that she'll do more harm than good
This would leave the present with two versions of the time-traveller, the hero, and the hero's romantic interest, one each from the present and one each fro ma future that has been prevented from ever happening
Now logically, the versions from the future that no longer exists should all also cease to exist as well... But does it make sense for them to merge with their past selves as a way of time "readjusting" to this temporal anomaly?
And also, could there be... temporal hiccups from the mergings of these present and future versions that affect the Present and change it in small but significant ways?
If you have an idea of what I'm talking about or any advice, please Note me
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