That MAY be something for another post however. Only Arrowverse fans will get it, but… LOLOLĮven just creative writing about it tends to pull on or out a great deal of emotional energy. Getting everything correct and coherent is going to be HUGE in how readable the story is. These MAY seem like minor points or questions on the surface, but we’re talking about a plot device that will set the tone early, and may flavor various events as the story progresses. Easy enough to say yes, but does the earlier version retain the later version’s memories and skills that may have been learned? They did essentially share a mind and body after all. There’s also the question of do the characters simply un-merge when / IF the time traveler goes back to the future (as opposed to just waiting for time to catch up to the point they traveled). It’s convenient, but still feels slightly… contrived(?) to me. This eliminates the writer being saddled with multiple incarnations of the same character running around together, and by extension makes the story easier to follow for the reader. The closest thing I’ve come to finding a workable option is that if a time traveler comes face to face with their past self, the two beings merge into one. I just couldn’t do that without hating myself, lol. I could make the original nine chapters a dream that Witchfire recalls as she goes forward, but let’s face it, THAT has been the ultimate writing cliche and cop out since the resolution of the “Who Shot JR” thing back in the 1980s version of Dallas. In short, it works if the traveler is only going to be there briefly. THEN the future version doesn’t have those events / memories to draw upon anymore. Taking the original out of the picture leaves that character NOT experiencing the events that the future version did though. Two easy options around this would be something like ‘Back to the Future’ or ‘Quantum Leap’, where a character passes out when confronted with their future self, OR is whisked off to some ‘waiting room’. Multiple iterations of more than one character could get confusing for readers also, so I don’t see this as a viable option. Witchfire is a little overpowered vs the other characters to start with, and two of her could make the story really unbalanced. The standard comic book situation where there just can be multiple versions of characters working side by side. The bigger stumbling block for me is the temporal mechanics involved ie ‘the how it works’ aspects that keep the plot device believable for readers and workable for the writer.
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