Discovering his alternate personalities experience vastly different timelines, an apparent Dissociative Identity Disorder sufferer must use experimental treatment to connect with his other personalities and travel between realities to discover who is retconning history and why.
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..but shouldn’t your logline include how retconning history turns out to be a conflict for him
some specific stakes would help this awesome concept
this is how far I got
“the victim of retconning history must destroy the responsible time machine in his own timeline before one of his alternate personalities does in its own, rendering his continuum of existence dead”
you must drop how he happens to access parallel universes in your logline because it’s irrelevant to the plot.
Also, if all the other realities are destroyed except the one in which the time machine was wasted, then it means all the other realities would try to:
1. hinder the protag from destroying the time machine in his reality &
2. destroy the time machine in their own reality before the protag stops them
It makes for a really gargantuan goal!
The protag becomes a direct target of all the other alternate identities, while stopping them from destroying the time machine in their own reality and face death
If you suggest, it is only one corrupt identity which needs to be dealt with, then why should the other identities support you and face death for themselves..
the only real solution is if the protag and all the alternate identities conspire to kill the corrupt identity
bit that still doesn’t stop the retconning, does it
and if the retconning were to stop, only one identity would exist..
..which also means that all the rest die
how to decide which one lives when for everyone their realities is as real as it gets?
If the protag does kill all alternate realities to save his own skin, he becomes a character which loses my empathy..
What’s at stake?? What’s so bad about a little retconning among alternate selves?? Even if the various versions of the protagonist don’t know the ultimate answer to the Why question, the retconning must have clear and immediate baleful consequences that urgently need to be remedied. Otherwise, so what, why should anyone care NOW?
Good point raised by DPG, if you look at Back to the Future the stakes were the MC’s very existence. In this case, it’s just rejigging a few facts, could you somehow connect that to a life and death stake for the MC?