A few ground rules: one, the multiverse exists, and I’m not going to waste time debating that. By the time, I’m having this conversation with you, you already know all about it. Two, this universe is different from a lot of the others. We have no native counterparts here.
[ Which will inevitably lead to questions about what everyone’s like in other universes in the end. Tim will try to avoid the Batman Who Laughs. ]
Our universe has undergone a few significant events that critically impact the timeline. Lives get altered, people can get written out of existence. Your memories can get involuntarily suppressed. The last time it happened, I forgot about Young Justice.
[ Like it never even happened. Like Kon never even existed. He has the memories now, but that only makes him boggle at how he didn’t notice how much was gone. ]
Zatanna unlocked my overwritten memories. They’re not sequential - if they were, I’d be at least 23. It’s more like someone flipped back to beginning of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books and made slightly different choices. They’re concurrent. I remember being the majority shareholder in Wayne Enterprises. I also remember telling Bruce that I was going to Ivy U and running away with you. I can’t have done both, but I did.
[ It occurs to Tim to pause the exposition and give Steph space to breathe and interrupt. It’s likely both too much and not enough information. ]
Essentially, that’s why I think you might be from my universe. I think you’re from the original timeline.
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[ Which will inevitably lead to questions about what everyone’s like in other universes in the end. Tim will try to avoid the Batman Who Laughs. ]
Our universe has undergone a few significant events that critically impact the timeline. Lives get altered, people can get written out of existence. Your memories can get involuntarily suppressed. The last time it happened, I forgot about Young Justice.
[ Like it never even happened. Like Kon never even existed. He has the memories now, but that only makes him boggle at how he didn’t notice how much was gone. ]
Zatanna unlocked my overwritten memories. They’re not sequential - if they were, I’d be at least 23. It’s more like someone flipped back to beginning of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books and made slightly different choices. They’re concurrent. I remember being the majority shareholder in Wayne Enterprises. I also remember telling Bruce that I was going to Ivy U and running away with you. I can’t have done both, but I did.
[ It occurs to Tim to pause the exposition and give Steph space to breathe and interrupt. It’s likely both too much and not enough information. ]
Essentially, that’s why I think you might be from my universe. I think you’re from the original timeline.