WRITING TIME TRAVEL WITHIN THE DCTV VERSE

saraqxeen:

Also, just a quick dash boop about time for everyone kinda confused about what is perceived to be a CW fuck up:

• Time is fluid
• Unless the event has already happened it can change
• If it’s already happened it has to remain the same in order to avoid creating a butterfly effect
• Time does not cement instantly – it takes a bit & can be molded into something completely different
• What you see as the future is only a POSSIBILITY – that does not mean it’s going to turn out that way
• The Time Masters were destroyed … fate/destiny are no longer written by them. It’s anybodies game
• You’ll notice in Legends 01 that Rip always begins with “a future where” because there’s a possibility that it won’t turn out this way
• What you see when you peer into the future is subjective. Any one person can change the way it appears without creating a butterfly effect because it has not happened yet
• IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF THE ABOVE: There are timelines that are considered TRUE ( real ) & there are some that are considered MIRAGE ( fluctuating, possible ). The ones that are TRUE are protected by the Legends & you will NOT be able to access/see them. The ones that are MIRAGE are the ones your character will likely see as they are the ones that can change.

Also, if you’re interested in writing/dabbling with time travel here are some possible symptoms of the experience ( some people are not impacted by time travel ):

• Nausea
• Vertigo
• Linguistic disorientation
• Eye disorders
• Temporary blindness
• Bleeding from eyes ( rare )
• Triple vision
• Blurriness in one eye
• Time Drift
• After spending too long in an alien time period, a person begins to lose their memories & becomes acclimatized to the alien period
• Personality Rewrite
• Should someone make contact with a Time Drive, the temporal electrocution will scatter that person in time but also rewrite their personalities & memories for the new period, suppressing old memories that resurface as dreams

As it relates to physics ( & ONLY if you’re traveling via a time ship):

• Time Quakes
• temporal shockwaves created by huge changes to the timeline
  
• Time Storm
• incredibly cataclysmic space-time events caused by crossing your own timeline, however, time storms do not always occur when someone crosses their timeline
  
• Temporal Vortex
• when you return to a time you’ve already visited
• Time Wave
• if an aberration is severe enough, an explosion of light will expand outward from the site of the aberration and hit the entire timeline, as well as the Temporal Zone. There will then be an immediate warping of reality according to the new timeline