"please stop touching things before you prevent yourself from being born."

Well... it's not a linear story, that's for sure.

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There is no particular timeline to Rory’s backstory. He appears one moment and is gone the next. Sometimes, events that, chronologically, happened like: A, B, C

Will, from his own perspective, have taken place in the order of: B, C, A

Go crazy go wild

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he goes around and does fun stuff in different time periods! Anyone is more than welcome to propose their character having a friendship w/ Rory! I think we could play around with him being able to transport them (+ himself) back in time, perhaps to a time period where a character wasn’t dead……..? Idk!

But here's what's happened to him so far!

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This is not accurate anymore but im too tired to fix it rn

There is no real way to track Rory’s life. He shows up, he does things, and he leaves.

Generally, Rory is a very lonely individual. He has plenty of friends in plenty of times, but because he is constantly running around, it’s hard for him to keep those friends.

Long ago in his past, Rory messed with time in a less-than-heroic way. He caused chaos and general bad things before he was punished by a creature much more powerful than him. The creature forced him to watch and understand the crimes he had committed, and forced him to go back to his own time and give up traveling. Clearly, that did not happen, as Rory escaped.

Despite actively going against the entity’s wishes, Rory changed his life path. He went from place to place giving people closure or just a better life. He eventually settled in the 2000s, the time he would most often come back to.

The entity did tell him that time traveling would kill him, but that was not new news to Rory. He was well aware that every time period he jumped took a toll on his life, but he could not live with himself just going back to his own time period before he had paid his own penance.

Eventually, traveling did get to Rory. He died alone in an unfamiliar time, deciding it was a fitting payment for the crimes he had committed.

Even after Rory’s death, he can appear further into the future. This does not mean Rory is alive, just that a past version of him previously traveled to further in the future.

Because of how weird this timeline is, Rory may not remember moments he had with other characters because while it happened, chronologically, in the past, for Rory that may have been a future version of him and he may not have experienced it himself yet.

For example, a 24 year old Rory may have a conversation with a character in 2010. However, it is possible, and likely, for a 21 year old version of Rory to appear in 2020 and not remember that conversation with the character, because they had it in his own future.

This is incredibly confusing. I am so sorry. Time travel. If you’ve watched Doctor Who-- its that. I’m using Doctor Who rules here. If you couldn’t already tell, Rory himself is inspired by Doctor Who.