The thing about time travel fixit AUs
Nov. 1st, 2023 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyis 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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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.)
The Fight Between Cataphiles and Underground Police in the Paris Catacombs
Abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature
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What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
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They went hunting for fossil fuels. What they found could help save the world (Okay, but I'll believe it when I see it)
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Date: 2023-10-31 11:41 pm (UTC)Othar in his Girl Genius Twitter.
Yvonne currently in _Please Bully Me_, though presumably the time travel will eventually end and she'll bounce back to her older body, leaving her younger self with a memory gap during her (undisputed) possession.
Re: Zero, though I don't even know if 'time travel' is the official metaphysics there.
Probably others? Don't think I've seen that kind of time travel very often, really.
The hip new dilemma is isekai stories, where someone is "reincarnated" in another world; how and when do the memories integrate? That varies. In MagiRevo, Anis seemed to have a memory cascade at 5 or 7, but the Earth memories were kind of a hazy add-on. "Sanitize" has dodged the details, though Yui clearly had Earth-doctor medical knowledge as a kid; later chapters suggest she doesn't remember much now _other_ than the medicine and vague memories of a more peaceful world. At the other end, in I Favor the Villainess, Rae seems a total overwrite, with other characters commenting on the abrupt change of personality. Though given that she does go home to her 'parents', I hope she got _some_ local memories to help out. But the Earth-mind is at least overwhelmingly dominant.
Of course, in isekai it usually just happens out of the blue, so you can't accuse the 'traveler' of murder.