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[xxRomanceGirlxx]

I have a slight case of writer's block for my NS/MK fanfiction. It's a time-travel fanfiction where Sakura is thrown in the past back when Minato & Kushina were still teenagers. Along the way, Sakura interacted with a few characters that are still around in the present. So of course, this would alter their memories and have her actually be in them. That much I know.

But what I need help on is should the characters she interacted with remember her right away back in the present or should I wait for them to know Sakura's presence in the past later on? Some advice would really help, I want my fanfic to be as good and realistic as possible.

[sushi.]

When she travels back, they should remember her, not before. Because that's when she is done changing the "fate" or whatsoever. Timetravels are never realistic, so I don't know what to suggest. I just think it would be strange and more difficult to write if their memories keeps popping up bit for bit, as both past and present goes on. The characters would have creepy experiences if they suddenly remember new things every second about Sakura in the past. That was what you meant right, with "later on"?

Edited by sushi., 09 February 2013 - 12:33 AM.

[jworks]

I have a slight case of writer's block for my NS/MK fanfiction. It's a time-travel fanfiction where Sakura is thrown in the past back when Minato & Kushina were still teenagers. Along the way, Sakura interacted with a few characters that are still around in the present. So of course, this would alter their memories and have her actually be in them. That much I know.

But what I need help on is should the characters she interacted with remember her right away back in the present or should I wait for them to know Sakura's presence in the past later on? Some advice would really help, I want my fanfic to be as good and realistic as possible.

When she travels back, they should remember her, not before. Because that's when she is done changing the "fate" or whatsoever. Timetravels are never realistic, so I don't know what to suggest. I just think it would be strange and more difficult to write if their memories keeps popping up bit for bit, as both past and present goes on. The characters would have creepy experiences if they suddenly remember new things every second about Sakura in the past. That was what you meant right, with "later on"?

Yeah I agree with sushi. Also keep in mind that when Sakura changes the past, the person in the present will then have been carrying the memory with them for the entire 10 or 20 years or however far back Sakura is in the past. An example would be in the movie Looper when the present Joe cuts a message onto his arm with a knife, it appears on the future Joe's arm, but it is healed and scared the wound having been decades old.

All in all though time travel fiction rules are all kind of fuzzy and hurts to think to much about so as a reader I just try to not scrutinize details like that and just go along for the ride.

Edited by jworks, 09 February 2013 - 06:02 AM.

[Branden]

I imagine the easiest way to do this is simply by having Sakura explain to them who she is and ask them not to speak to her about it until after she returns on whatever day she left. That way Sakura's past will be completely unchanged and thus she would remain the same person as if it was all meant to happen and part of the real timeline.

This would make sense only if at the beginning of the story she was already in the universe where she went back in time. It gets a lot more confusing if she started out in the universe where she never went back in time, because then as soon as she went back in time and did anythign it would alter her, her memories, he situation, and ultimately reality itself, every step she took. My mind is shattering just thinking about this. Time travel is so confusing.

[desaix]

One way around it is to have them all say they knew who she was, but had never treated her different because they didn't want HER to make any different decisions in her journey to the past. Lots of ideas possible, there.