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Type 1 Acausality is the power to resist having your past tampered with through standard temporal paradoxes; e.g., killing a character with this ability in the past won't affect them in the present. However, I would like to add a note to this ability that it only applies to characters explicitly depicted as having the power to resist temporal paradoxes in their past. It's a common trope in stories involving time travel for a time-traveling person to retain their memories of the previous timeline even after changing the past. Almost all verses operating on such logic don't depict this as a bona fide power of time-travelers, especially given how such characters logically wouldn't be immune to those changes if they weren't the ones doing the time-traveling.
The proposed note:
The proposed note:
Note that only characters ''explicitly depicted'' as immune to time paradoxes in their past by feats and/or direct statements qualify for this power. Fiction commonly features time travel systems where time-travelers, for no explainable reason, retain their memories of previous timelines even after changing the past, and merely existing in a work with such mechanics doesn't mean the ''character'' inherently has such an immunity, especially given how they would still be affected if someone else was time-traveling instead.