String
Timeline
Timeline noun - A sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and displayed along a line (usually drawn left to right or top to bottom).
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At first at seems like traveling to the past always creates a fresh new timeline, or "string," where none of your other trips happened, and if you screw something up, you can always make a new string where you didn't.
Source: Timey-Wimey Ball -
Between the effects of the whole timeline being shattered in the same moment he was sent back (thanks to the events of Thief of Time), and a string of random coincidences they weren't responsible for allowing him to take Keel's place, even they don't actually know what's happening.
Source: Discworld / Night Watch - Another couple, Dave and Karkat, had this work against them, as the audience can see they got much closer during the Retcon timeline but how and why is left so vague that the relationship's nature and quadrant (and whether they were Strangled by the Red String) is a major point of fandom debate.
Source: Off Screen Romance
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