The thing about time travel fixit AUs

[conuly]

is that they generally leave open one very interesting question: If you've gone back in time to inhabit the body of your younger self, what happens to the person who was already there? Or maybe none of them realize that this even is a question to address.

The obvious answer is that you're possessing them, same as any other form of possession, and either you'll have to time share it somehow or they'll be fighting from the inside - but for some reason nobody ever seems to actually write this. Which is a pity, because it'd certainly be a new and interesting angle.

(Alternatively, they go forward in time to the future you're hoping to abolish. Good luck fixing things when your adult body is inhabited by an eleven year old child! A child you've just up and abandoned, stranded alone and lost in the bad future. I wonder if there's any way to go back and rescue them once you've devoted yourself to bringing about the good future, the happier timeline. It's all a little irresponsible to do this on purpose, really.)

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Comments

[conuly]

Possession. It's totally different - although you might want to hide it if you think other people will try to forcibly treat the psychosis you don't have. That treatment won't work, not if your problem is possession, and then you'll have a whole new set of problems as well.