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Causality and Speed in Hypertimeline

TheGreatJedi13

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With hyper-timeline being more and more popular it is time to ask other questions regarding it

How do we treat Causality in a hyper-timeline?​

in my personal opinion. It should still be the same
The idea is that a person exists on a hyper-timeline but still follows the causality on both regular and irregular time

In the same way, someone who exists on multiple versions of the timeline branch wouldn't get Acausality type 3 unless he is connected to all of them and can weaponize them.

Furthermore, as they still abide by the rules of regular causality they can still be affected by it. that, unless said character can take advantage of the hyper-timeline and weaponize it like Acausality Type 3, can weaponize its multiple versions.

What about in the case where the character only abides by the causality of the hyper-timeline and not the regular one from the regular 4D universe?
generally with how Causality is pretty heavily related to Time
I'd say this scenario they would be granted Type 4 as they are irregular

Would a Type 2 Acausal character be affected by changing the causality of a Hyper-timeline?

This one is complicated but as we currently consider a feat-based scenario. if it wasn't shown to include the past and future of a higher timeline/causality we shouldn't generally assume they also lack those.
At the same time you can also argue as they only exist in the present no amount of past and future alteration on any level would affect them the same way a 1-B character cannot interact with NEP Nature type 2 and have to indirectly incapacitate them by simply destroying the reality they need to anchor in to do something/interact.
Opinions are welcome on how we treat this

Immeasurable speed​

This is a complicated topic. Generally, it is assumed that moving in a hyper-timeline would grant one immeasurable speed but this in itself is a can of worms
a hyper-timeline existing on a regular time doesn't mean anyone can simply move through it.

In a sense, if you're a 3D person inside a 4D universe and there are uncountably infinite snapshots of this 4D universe on a hyper-timeline
that makes you a 3D person who only exists on one snapshot of a 4D universe thus you don't travel on the linear time of the hyper-timeline.

But if you're shown capable of doing so then you will be granted one. now would immeasurable speed from hypertimeline be superior to someone who is immeasurable in linear time?
the way it works is that it has far more travel directions than linear time in a way that they can travel on a snapshot that existed before the linear time of your snapshot existed allowing them to harm you on a complex past.

Furthermore, if your flow of time is following the hyper-timeline and not regular time that might potentially still grant immeasurable speed due to its nature as you will now exist on every 4D universe snapshot. But if you cannot weaponize each version of yourself then you still won't be getting Type 3 from it

If you have differing thoughts and interesting arguments feel free to answer the question in your own logic.
 
What about in the case where the character only abides by the causality of the hyper-timeline and not the regular one from the regular 4D universe?
generally with how Causality is pretty heavily related to Time
I'd say this scenario they would be granted Type 4 as they are irregular
We actually have a precedent for that already.
 
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