Time travel AU question

[conuly]

Or poll? IDK.

Let's imagine somebody is actually planning to go back in time mentally, into their own younger body, and fix things. And I guess for the ease of simplicity we'll assume they have no intention of returning to their current time except by the usual way, that is, going through it all again. (Except not, because if they fix it, it'll be new and different and better in some way.)

But they're a screw-up, because that's more interesting, and everything is going to be much harder now.

So for any given value of somebody, who are they, when do they want to go, and when do they actually end up? No fair suggesting that they end up in their own infant body - they can't go anywhere earlier than a short period before canon - whatever canon it is - picks up the camera.

(Also, to keep this from being depressing, no self-inserts in RPF. Sure, we'd all like to go back in time and give a witty comeback to whoever and then assassinate or at least punch our least-favorite world leaders, but we just can't. Fiction only!)

Comments

[ioplokon]

is sports rpf? bc i feel like it is a discrete event generator that is kinda perfect for time travel fixes. like goose gossage goes back to walk kirk gibson in the 84 world series, but in the moment he's convinced that THIS time he can strike him out... so everything unfolds the same. Or Carey Price avoids Chris Kreider wrecking his knee, except thinking that then this goes wrong is too sad & stressful.

[conuly]

I don't even know anything about sports.