the thing that is really crushing my heart slowly is that i can't stop thinking about the idea that everything that is happening in the fixed timeline is happening not just in Great's mind, but is a mix of Great and Tyme together because they are both currently dieing in the original timeline. they're both having an out of body experience and the changes are their shared will, not one or the other wishing things had gone better.
because that means it's not just that Great wants to have a nicer, softer relationship with Tyme- Tyme wishes he had approached Great differently, had handled things better despite knowing who Great was. remember in the fixed timeline, Tyme is the one who pulls off his own mask and reveals to Great that he's the one who attacked Korn, but we know now that in the original timeline it was Great. if this is something they're both in control of then it makes sense for Tyme to have changed that, for him to have chosen different paths to pursue Great. to have done it in a way where they both developed feelings for each other instead of using each other and just not quite making the right connection.
the main changes we see are happening when Great experiences the visions of the future, but Tyme's choices don't feel like they're just ripples of that to me. they feel like Tyme pushing things from his side as well.
because they both wish things could be different. in their fight at the end of episode 6, Tyme calls Great out for being a coward and standing by while other people die. he wants Great to be better, Great wants to be better, the first thing Great changes is the first time that he let someone die. Tyme seeks Great out sooner, approaches him in a more open manner. finds out things that he likes, protects him, takes him on a cuter, better date. plays him guitar. makes it clear that he wants to be around Great for his own sake and not just because it's a means to an end.
Tyme is not a particularly nice guy in the original timeline either. clearly Great allowing or being an accessory to murder is worse, yes, but Tyme has plenty of his own problems. he's willing to use another person to achieve his goals, his reaction to his girlfriend ending their relationship is to shrug and drink some more coffee, he's willing to post a non consensual sex tape on the internet, he's willing to do whatever he has to.
but both of the times that he walks away from Great, he's upset. upset with himself for having to break things off, upset with Great for his failings because he believed Great could have done better.
when their original timeline mini-date ends, before Tyme walks away, Great possibly predicts the future, while thinking he's speaking of the past.
"you were dying for me that day," he says.
in a show wrapped up in death and the afterlife and the steps in between, i can't think that comment wasn't loaded with some kind of meaning.
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