>>117730128>Like, why does your model even require repeating iterations at all?To explain the ordinarily only one timeline comment since otherwise we are dealing with timeline fusions which is the metaphysics equivalent of "a wizard did it"
Cyclic universes is fairly normal as far as devices go. Timeline mergers post fracture requires some higher power forcing shit together with a cosmic hammer. What's worse is basically the only time I've seen that shit work is Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure.
This is of course setting aside Yomeiro-Choice style time travel which we are 100% not dealing with since that's zipper merge bullshit where timelines get merged from the front end not the back end and there's only one true "present".
>>117730176>Also, where do all the different timelines come from?Kat? I figured that was obvious.
>so that gunnerkrigg doesn't have parallel universesOrdinarily it doesn't have parallel timelines OR universes. Kat and Loup are breaking shit.
>is true so that gunnerkrigg doesn't have parallel universes, wouldn't that mean that all these multicolored timelines would have to have been started by the same Kat within the same timelineThere exists a progenitor timeline wherein there was a Kat that was not aware of time travel until she sent her bird back. In my clusterfuck chart, that's the black timeline. We're in something analogous to the pink timeline. Neither the first nor the last. Current flashback bird's on the mauve timeline.
>>117730198>As opposed to simply assuming that as soon as there are no more Annies then there's no point in keeping timelines separate any more?What's keeping the timelines separate is that events happened in them differently. Kat has sent back birds at a variety of different ages in presumably quite varied timelines. Only way you shove that shit back together is with a cosmic reordering so you don't explode everyone's brains by overlapping a whole bunch of lifetimes worth of memories. Annie isn't involved
