Analysts used to work on cases involving discrepancies with the Sacred Timeline. Things have been changed around a bit now that multiple branches are allowed to co-exist. I'm sure the job still functions the same just on a bigger scale. Need to work out some details but I'll be sure not to steer you wrong.
Yes time travel is real. Yes multiple universes do exist.
I thought the point of putting the Time Stone back was to prevent all that. [ Which is how she ended up here because she didn't, or at least she didn't manage to do so without touching anything, oops. ] You're saying there are other ways to change the course of time?
Time Stone doesn't factor into any of this really. Have you heard of the butterfly effect? That's the easiest way to change a timeline. I can also just say any decision a creature makes can create a branch. We don't prune those anymore so they're free to do their own thing.
What do we do, then, if those altered timelines are free to do their own thing now? [ Or, well, just her now since he's retiring? It's a small reprieve, at least, that what she's changed gets to stay changed. She'll happily spend as long as it takes paying for what she's done. ]
Yeah. Title's The Butterfly Effect. The protagonist has blackouts and later finds out that it's because his future self, which is his present at that point, can travel back in time and inhabit his younger body.
Huh. That's not so bad. [ Boring, but it could be worse? ]
Who decides if something is considered a threat to the timeline though, as opposed to a natural progression?
That's the basic idea yea. Causes branches in timelines all the time. I'll have to make a note of it. There are way too many movies I still need to catch up on.
We're still figuring it out. I keep hearing something about "anchor beings" but I'm not entirely sure.
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[ It was supposed to be one last mission... and she botched it. ]
Sorry. I tried asking for someone else, but I'm apparently in no position to make such demands.
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I didn't mean to come off as rude. Sorry about that.
I can help you but I'm not sticking around OK?
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Thanks. I'll take that, though I'm not sure they will.
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I'll have a little talk with the big boss.
You don't have to worry about a thing.
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[ If he's not sticking around, is she being trained to replace him? She doesn't know how to feel about this whole thing. ]
I'm sorry, sir, but what exactly is the job? We're not really talking about time as in time travel here, right?
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Things have been changed around a bit now that multiple branches are allowed to co-exist.
I'm sure the job still functions the same just on a bigger scale. Need to work out some details but I'll be sure not to steer you wrong.
Yes time travel is real. Yes multiple universes do exist.
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Have you heard of the butterfly effect? That's the easiest way to change a timeline.
I can also just say any decision a creature makes can create a branch. We don't prune those anymore so they're free to do their own thing.
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What do we do, then, if those altered timelines are free to do their own thing now? [ Or, well, just her now since he's retiring? It's a small reprieve, at least, that what she's changed gets to stay changed. She'll happily spend as long as it takes paying for what she's done. ]
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We just watch them. Maintain them. Make sure nothing interrupts the natural progression of things.
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Huh. That's not so bad. [ Boring, but it could be worse? ]
Who decides if something is considered a threat to the timeline though, as opposed to a natural progression?
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I'll have to make a note of it. There are way too many movies I still need to catch up on.
We're still figuring it out. I keep hearing something about "anchor beings" but I'm not entirely sure.