The Time Travel Meme

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The Time Travel Meme

Have you ever wanted your characters to go see the dinosaurs, or be part of the Time Patrol, or go find their True Love in a different era? Or maybe play out the Back To The Future scenario, and have to go and save their parent's marriage?Here is your chance!



[How To]

1. Post as your character. (Please write down the name and canon/fandom of the character in the subject line, and also if they're canon, AU, crossover or OC, etc. Please also write down preferences, scenarios, etc in the comment box)

2. Another character tags yours. Congrats, now your character is either time traveling, or dealing with a time traveler! (Having both characters be time travelers is fine, too.)

3. Thread, tag and have fun!

[How The Multiverse Works]

1. Time Paradox What Time Paradox? : It's impossible to change history, the only thing that would happen if you went and killed your grandfather is that a new Timeline in which your grandfather was killed would branch off from the original one. The good thing - You can't mess your own Timeline's history up, while you can try to create new Timelines in which things go more to your liking. On the other hand, you can't fix your own history,either.

2. Yes, You Can Change History : And if you mess things up, things wouldn't be pretty.

3. Something Else

[Sample Scenarios]

1. To Make Right What Once Went Wrong - At a certain point in their past, things went really wrong for them. Can they make things better, this time around?

2. The Road Not Traveled - Now they have a chance to do something different, and steer their lives, and maybe the world, along a different path...

3. Saving The World - The world was heading toward hell in a handbasket in their 'previous life'. Can they make things better, this time around?

4. We Just Wanna Get Rich, Man - They just want to use their 'future knowledge' to make a ton of money, and/or get popular and famous, etc, etc.

5. We Are The Time Tourists - So you want to go see the dinosaurs, or the mammoths, or any other historical event? The choices are endless...

6. We Are The Time Patrol - And we don't want unauthorized people muckling around with the timelines, either!

7. On To The Future - Never mind going to the past, we want to go to the future. Those descendants of ours had better not mucked everything up...

8. Honey, I Think I Broke History - You went back into the past, and history changed - and not in the ways you'd consider good. What do you do now?

9. Time Travel Romance - Finding True Love, via Time Travel.

10. We Just Invented A Time Machine - And now we want to try it out. Please forgive us if we break the universe by mistake, OK?

11. Something Else

Comments

[hasperkynipples]

[He nods a bit -- he isn't sure how much good he can do when he isn't from their time, but he'll try.]

I'll do what I can.

[positutely]

Here, let me show you around.

[She takes his arm and starts leading him around, acting as curator. She's pretty fast on her feet, so she can easily make up tall tales about the origins of the artifacts that are way more compelling than the truth. From shrunken heads, to pentagrams, to tiny vials of powder said to be able to raise the dead, Evie's got a story for it all.]

[hasperkynipples]

[And Dean is starting to see more and more why he was sent here. And ... this can't be how the stories started. But then there's the one thing that he recognizes, that he's actually seen before, and he needs to stop her.

A raggedy old rabbit's foot, sitting on a pedestal.]

You need to destroy that.

[positutely]

What?

[She wrinkles her nose at it and nods.]

Wish I could. That thing looks pos-i-tute-ly disgusting. But no can do. My uncle would have kittens if he found any of his artifacts missing.

[But that does beg the question...]

Why? Do you know what it is? The card doesn't say much.

[hasperkynipples]

Yeah. It's a rabbit's foot, but it's cursed. So long as you hold it, you have a crazy run of luck. But when you lose it -- and you always lose it -- you're dead within a week.

[positutely]

Good thing I'm not holding it then.

[She looks at it curiously. Then up at him.]

Hey, how'd you know that?

[hasperkynipples]

Seen it before. Took out more than few people in pretty nasty ways.

[positutely]

Gee whiz! You'll have to tell my uncle about it! I know he'll think it's the cat's pajamas.

[She squeezes his arm, torn between looking excited and somber about the little rabbit's foot taking people out.]

Sometimes Unc is called in to help the police with their investigations. Not saying he is now, of course-- [He is.] --but something like this sounds like a big deal.

[hasperkynipples]

What kind of work does he do?

sorry for the delay! her voice got shaky

[positutely]

Usually he just runs the museum here, but his friend is a cop and when there are strange and illegal cult-like activities, he gets called in to help. Like a crime scene with odd symbols painted around or something, you know? Unc tells them what it all means.

[hasperkynipples]

[his head tips to the side a bit. because that sounds like ... ]

Is he a man of letters?

[positutely]

Golly, he must be! Yeah, I think so. He introduced me to a friend of his who's got a PhD. is this stuff, so he and Unc probably studied together, though Will isn't a doctor in it.

[hasperkynipples]

PhD in what?

[just out of curiosity.]

[positutely]

Can't say I know. Probably something to do with folklore and religion, though. He teaches at Columbia.

[hasperkynipples]

He got a name?

[positutely]

Dr. Georg Poblocki. Why? You've heard of him?

[hasperkynipples]

No, but I think I might need his help on something.

[positutely]

We could take a trip on campus, if you want. Though I don't really know his schedule so he might be in a lecture.

[hasperkynipples]

Sure, maybe. But you should continue giving me the tour first.