I think it’s a bit more complicated than that, but I haven’t had enough coffee to wrap my head around the complexities of time-travel/multiversal logistics. But I bet that if DE kills Prime, it will probably tear at the fabric of the multiverse enough to cause another moon to explode or something.
I’ve been reading this story wince it first published a couple years ago, and I still can’t tell if they’re the same, or if they’re temporal splits (one from the past and other from future), as there’s not enough storyline to tell me one way or another.
Insofar as I can tell, DE and Prime are connected in ways none of the other Charlies are; that both are from “Prime” universe, and that both chose completely different directions in the one moment their life was at “crossroads” (see chapter 1 for a refresher). The only thing I can think why two Charlies exist from one universe is it has to do with the alien device; that it’s a side-effect of interacting with it from the time when Charlie Everett first activated it (that scene isn’t shown, at least not yet).
It’s possible that from that moment, two separate parts of charlie (the DE and the Prime) both started to exist; also, Prime universe split into two, right along the “axis” of Charlie’s split persona. The Yin and Yang, so to say. Still, it’s a hunch on my part, and to me it helps explain a lot of the weirdness happening in this fascinating, though strange (and spectacularly drawn & inked) storyline.
You are correct, there is (intentionally) no concrete way to discern whether they’re the same person or not, by design. It’s a plot threat that’ll play out for some time. It might come to a head in Year Four (still writing it), and it won’t in Year Three, but you’ll learn some important things.
The reassuring thing, I hope (if you trust me) is that I have had this answer since day one, and I wouldn’t hold it back if it wasn’t anything but (to me, at least) a good explanation and a fun story.
First, however, we’ve gotta learn what made the Dark Everett what he is, and that’s coming next year.
Anyone else reminded of playing Marco Polo in the pool as a kid?
If we are to believe Prime and Dark are inferredly one and the same, if Prime dies there, he doesn’t become DE….or am I being too simplistic?
I think it’s a bit more complicated than that, but I haven’t had enough coffee to wrap my head around the complexities of time-travel/multiversal logistics. But I bet that if DE kills Prime, it will probably tear at the fabric of the multiverse enough to cause another moon to explode or something.
I’ve been reading this story wince it first published a couple years ago, and I still can’t tell if they’re the same, or if they’re temporal splits (one from the past and other from future), as there’s not enough storyline to tell me one way or another.
Insofar as I can tell, DE and Prime are connected in ways none of the other Charlies are; that both are from “Prime” universe, and that both chose completely different directions in the one moment their life was at “crossroads” (see chapter 1 for a refresher). The only thing I can think why two Charlies exist from one universe is it has to do with the alien device; that it’s a side-effect of interacting with it from the time when Charlie Everett first activated it (that scene isn’t shown, at least not yet).
It’s possible that from that moment, two separate parts of charlie (the DE and the Prime) both started to exist; also, Prime universe split into two, right along the “axis” of Charlie’s split persona. The Yin and Yang, so to say. Still, it’s a hunch on my part, and to me it helps explain a lot of the weirdness happening in this fascinating, though strange (and spectacularly drawn & inked) storyline.
You are correct, there is (intentionally) no concrete way to discern whether they’re the same person or not, by design. It’s a plot threat that’ll play out for some time. It might come to a head in Year Four (still writing it), and it won’t in Year Three, but you’ll learn some important things.
The reassuring thing, I hope (if you trust me) is that I have had this answer since day one, and I wouldn’t hold it back if it wasn’t anything but (to me, at least) a good explanation and a fun story.
First, however, we’ve gotta learn what made the Dark Everett what he is, and that’s coming next year.