“I have been performing some inter-dimensional experiments. I hope I didn’t cause an unintended ripple in the space time continuum again.”

he grumbled

“I’m usually far more careful than that. Perhaps I need to double check my numbers again and make sure I didn’t make any miscalculations.”

the gateway begins to spark and shake violently. Toby steps back, a smile growing on his face

“…steady…steady…hold…”

“Experiment 587. Test run 352.

Activating the limiters on the temporal chronitron destabilizer.”

he flips a couple of switches and places his safety goggles on

“…Locking onto the nexus point. All signals are converging. Everything is stable so far.”

“……Oh. Okay. Guess I was wrong in that prediction.”

“Tells time what”

“A clock tells time”

I think I had a niece once

I wish my mind was better. I can feel it slipping.

Experiment help…keep me focused.

-c- want and then exiting the room can prove to be nearly impossible. And when you exit the room, the room you renter? It may not be the same room you left.

And even if you find the right thread, apply too much focused pressure and you could trigger a potential collapse.

I’d say time travel is like a thread. But it’s more like a thread in a sealed room where every time you open the door and observe the thread it multiples and the more it’s observers it has, the faster it multiplies until it becomes a tangled web where pinpointing the exact thread you -c-

I mean purely hypothetical

And then consequences happen and I’m screaming

-c- version of the sibling isn’t the same sibling. But a variant.

Unless you had a genius who found a way to stabilize the timeline and make sure accuracy is involved.

Unless the siblings are reckless and think to themselves I’m gonna borrow this tech without reading the manual

For example. Let’s say you got two siblings from the same timeline. And both go into different parts of the past. Different departure times and different arrival times.

Hypothetically, they are creating riffs and branches at both those times and if they were to ‘meet’, it’s possible that -c-

Time travel can be confusing. Hypothetically, the majority of individual time travellers each create branching timelines. Even if each time traveler comes from the ‘same’ future

// julie my biggest fan

throws World War I era Canadian canned goods at julie

// krill me

“…I can here you. Doesn’t change the fact that these bones are cooked. I’d question how and why but I’m sure whatever answer I get is either depressing or absurd…

…Oh. Hold on.”

he digs his hands into the pile of bones and pulls out a roll of duct tape

“…hell yeah.”

he’s in front of a pile of charred skeletons in a wasteland

touches the ground

“…something happened here…”

“How can anyone dislike science?”

“But what if someone tugs on it?

Listen. What my wife does to my hair in the privacy of our home is our private business”

“I refuse to cut my hair. It adds character.”

// And of course, give negative feedback.

// Like…Toby’s company (name change pending maybe) created fully functional cybernetic prosthetics for those who need them

Lex? Does the same thing but makes them visually sleeker, more expensive, more popular, and spreads false rumors about Toby’s tech, and hires folks to sabotage

// But not nowhere near the same level.

Like…LexCorp keeps beating them in every department. And making services incredibly expensive

// I dunno. I just imagine LexCorp being the main competitor

// Like originally, it was somewhat large scale in my mind.

But I’m thinking in the rebooted world, it’s…I mean still big and fantastical in its technology, but in a world of heroes and advanced tech? It’s smaller scale.

Well big scale in regards to real life but in comics it’s…not?

// Honestly been on the fence about Ryder Tech being a thing again.

Although I do have an idea of a minor rebrand / reboot.

“…wait I had children, right? They weren’t figments of my imagination, were they?”