Wolfram and Hart: Time criminals
Jun. 16th, 2019 01:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethPlot bunny based on the tiniest slivers of canon ideas:
W&H actively seek knowledge about the future and, in the case of Angel's son, can for the right price rewrite the past. Even Gunn's law degree could be a case of temporal meddling, if like Doc Alchemy they can paste in details from other timelines. Like Dawn might have been, a piece of another timeline pasted over theirs.
If you leave out all the demon stuff you can get one set of mediators in an ongoing edit war on history, trying to see how it all works out and, when they don't like it, rewrite it to spec.
If you leave in all the demons then the other sides in the esit war aren't all from the same evolutionary branch, or possibly tree.
Sorting out contracts between opposing temporal powers would be an epic bitch, but basic broad agreement on how time should be is the only route to relative stability. Reducing edits to the memory of the person effected leaves some weird glitches but means there's no actual paradox involced, just... matrix level world rewriting mind control. For some.
So for people willing to sell everything to make their world have turned out different...
... it'd be like that Angel episode where they're selling futures. They can buy a grand destiny, but someone loses all their possibilities.
So what would 'selling your soul' be if the crimes are temporal, not spiritual?
Letting corporate choose your future and lock it down.
... I'm not sure changing the framing to time travel adds much
but
I had in mind the life of someone who sould out twice, once as a lawyer, once as a soldier, and both imagines the other way would be cleaner. So they keep doing flip flops, and if only memory is changing, they'd be the one that doesn't know it. Well, more likely other people with memory protection would be the ones that did know. But how would you resolve a timeshare life?
... this is a really complicated way to make Lindsey and Elliot the same person, but, plot bunnies be like that.
People would pay a hell of a lot to rewrite their college years and have like Gunn got, top class knowledge.
I feel like the issues overlap with cyberpunk and AI, but the time travel bit would glitch different.
Like, having chips full of access is different than having a pasted in life where you know a whole different set of people. But if you're buying someone else's future that would have elements of both.
So many time travel ideas, so few coherent outputs...
W&H actively seek knowledge about the future and, in the case of Angel's son, can for the right price rewrite the past. Even Gunn's law degree could be a case of temporal meddling, if like Doc Alchemy they can paste in details from other timelines. Like Dawn might have been, a piece of another timeline pasted over theirs.
If you leave out all the demon stuff you can get one set of mediators in an ongoing edit war on history, trying to see how it all works out and, when they don't like it, rewrite it to spec.
If you leave in all the demons then the other sides in the esit war aren't all from the same evolutionary branch, or possibly tree.
Sorting out contracts between opposing temporal powers would be an epic bitch, but basic broad agreement on how time should be is the only route to relative stability. Reducing edits to the memory of the person effected leaves some weird glitches but means there's no actual paradox involced, just... matrix level world rewriting mind control. For some.
So for people willing to sell everything to make their world have turned out different...
... it'd be like that Angel episode where they're selling futures. They can buy a grand destiny, but someone loses all their possibilities.
So what would 'selling your soul' be if the crimes are temporal, not spiritual?
Letting corporate choose your future and lock it down.
... I'm not sure changing the framing to time travel adds much
but
I had in mind the life of someone who sould out twice, once as a lawyer, once as a soldier, and both imagines the other way would be cleaner. So they keep doing flip flops, and if only memory is changing, they'd be the one that doesn't know it. Well, more likely other people with memory protection would be the ones that did know. But how would you resolve a timeshare life?
... this is a really complicated way to make Lindsey and Elliot the same person, but, plot bunnies be like that.
People would pay a hell of a lot to rewrite their college years and have like Gunn got, top class knowledge.
I feel like the issues overlap with cyberpunk and AI, but the time travel bit would glitch different.
Like, having chips full of access is different than having a pasted in life where you know a whole different set of people. But if you're buying someone else's future that would have elements of both.
So many time travel ideas, so few coherent outputs...