Having Multiple Pasts

[XitSign]

An odd one, but got posed this question by a friend, and I can't find any examples:

"What would you describe someone with multiple, but all equally valid, pasts as?"

Asking him to clarify, he meant a character that somehow had muktiple backstories but they were all true despite the inconsistencies. That multiple pasts came together into one being.

I was a bit stumped and couldn't find any goid examples, anyone got anything?

 

[Pepsimanslover_69]

You need more context on to how for this kind of stuff, since it could be them existing multilocationy at the same time, clones, or really any number of things.

 

[Voidnether]

An odd one, but got posed this question by a friend, and I can't find any examples:

"What would you describe someone with multiple, but all equally valid, pasts as?"

Asking him to clarify, he meant a character that somehow had muktiple backstories but they were all true despite the inconsistencies. That multiple pasts came together into one being.

I was a bit stumped and couldn't find any goid examples, anyone got anything?

That's just a character with parallel versions of themselves, don't know what it would get though.

 

[XitSign]

Yeah it was a very odd question. I believe what he was getting at was that the character was existing multilocationy but came together at one point, so they were one person, but multiple pasts at once.

Don't know what character he was exactly referring to, I might need to ask if he had an actual context he was working with.

 

[Detective_Blizzard]

Howdy there, what you are looking for is Negative Continuity where a franchise will typically just ignore continuity for any one of various reasons.

As the resident crack addict Lupin III fan I can say that the Lupin franchise is a perfect example of what you are looking for. The series has multiple points in it's near 60 year long life spam each giving the cast different backstories or origins. For example we have the movie First Contact which sets it sights out to show how the cast of characters first met, contradicting the events of Part 1 of the main series. Then we have something like Is Lupin Still Burning? which re-confirms the plot of Part 1 by having Lupin return to those moments in time. Then we have Lupin Zero which ignores all of that and give a newer and even more modern backstory to the Thief that contradicts both origins. Then we have Green vs Red which while it released before the last two, it's the biggest extreme here since it just goes "Screw it, everything possible is canon in some way, shape, and form". And then you have....... you get the idea.