What would you like to see in a Time Travel plot?

I once spotted a discussion on the lack of time travel stories in the site, and while reading through the comments, one of them spotted my eye and many weeks later, I'm trying to nail down what concepts are good for when it comes to time travel.

With this in mind, I do know that there are a few "celebrities in the past" or "past lives of celebrities" stories floating around, but that's not what I - and maybe a few others - want. What I'm trying to offer is the story of how a person (or multiple) travels back in time and gets lucky with some ancient someone from a bygone era, or maybe they're their own grandparent.

Furthermore, I'm a huge believer in public stories and almost all of my stories are open to the public, ready for anyone to contribute.

But of course, in order for collaborations to happen, there has to be a hook, or else, people will just read your story, leave a like or a bookmark if they're generous, and leave.

With that said, what would you like to see happen in a time travel plot and what would you want to write if you found a story about this? I'd love to hear what you have to say.


And as thanks for reading my post, here's a picture of Marilyn Monroe in a potato sack.

 

That's another model emulating the Marilyn Monroe photo:

As for time travel stories I'm often more interested in finding out what the time travel rules are for a particular story, and how it explores paradoxes and the maleability of the timeline.

 

It was a 50/50 flip, as Google image kept providing me contradicting information. Bugger.

Well, thanks for the correction as well as the feedback.

 

The answer is obvious:

Past Incest with Past Mom.

 

Truth be told, it's been done before, but with someone's sister.

 

In the words of Mark Twain.
"There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and make new combinations indefinitely, but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages"


Yes, I quoted the whole line. Too many people quote just the first part and claim it as an excuse for uninteresting plotlines when the whole quote is really suggesting the opposite.

Regardless, the point is... "It's been done before" isn't the best argument for not doing it in a new/different way.

 

Truth be told, I'm impressed, speechless, and ashamed at letting an idea sit idle just because it's been done before.

 

I wasn't trying to shame or impress anyone. Just giving my opinion on the matter.

anyway, expanding on the idea. One could start by introducing a bunch of 30-some MILF's and then have the player learn through what their interests are and what makes them "tick" then jump him into the past where they're 18 year old high school students and he could use that knowledge specifically to seduce them.

Of course, there's also the idea of accidentally running into an extremely thirsty version of the Main Character's mother and having that be a thing. A La Back to the future.

 

Another use of the timetravel mechanic (depending on its implementation) could be as an info-gathering tool, so going back in time to actually figure out how each woman's past has shaped their current likes, dislikes and kinks, then using that information back in the future to win the MILFs over. Going further, maybe the protagonist can do things in the past to influence the past-MILF's future desires, for a more proactive approach to the story.

Also, if your mother was a young and horny Lea Thompson then I don't think you can be blamed for letting her ... do things to you.

 

Have you ever seen those pics comparing an adult woman now with her younger self, showing how she was like a wild rebel type who became a domestic mom, or like a homely girl that turns into a bombshell?

It'd be neat to have a story where you interact with both the young version and the old version.

 

It might collapse the Space Time Continuum, but that is a risk that I would be willing to take.

 

Sorry I had to abandon the framing device. Honestly, I got bogged down as soon as I took a look at the gender button for the story creation and realized that no matter what I picked somebody was probably gonna get pissed off if I tried to make it universal.

Heinlein went for the incest angle as soon as time travel showed up in his stories. Immediately. Complete with everything being ok, because SCIENCE said so. (Seriously, had a whole thing with a family geneticist supervising father/daughter breedings on a regular basis, and a character having sex with rule 63'd identical twin eighteen year old versions of himself, and it being OK, because it technically is masturbation, not incest. I am not making this up as far as the in-universe implications.)

Course, the Story "All you Zombies" comes to mind, if you haven't read it, where a character finds out they're essentially every role in a ourobous style time loop, including giving birth to himself, unawares. (Yes, it's REALLY weird, and was rejected by playboy, but one of those ones that really explores the destiny/free will equation.)

Let's see... Groundhog day is of course the classic "Time Loop" story, but I think somebody's covering that right now. Which of course follows the classic "Enlightenment" story arc. Of course, I think most of our protagonists will find themselves stuck at the "No consequences! I can do ANYTHING!" mode for quite some time. Nothing wrong with it, of course, and could be a LOT of fun.

Since we're cribbing from back to the future... there's of course back to the future 2... where your bully gets ahold of the time machine and since this is CHYOA, of course does horrible perverted things and makes your younger mom love it... Which leads to you having to time travel back and seduce her to prevent him from doing it...

And then of course lots and lots of jokes at the expense of the 80s... or 90s.... guessing more 90's jokes these days. (I believe we'll have a lot of EXTREME!!!! jokes, and a whole lotta flannel going on. )

 

Why is it always the main character who travels in time?

Could also be the other way around:
The main character, being in college, gets visited by his 35-year-old PhD daughter. (Or 45?)
(If there's a deeper meaning, she might become his teacher...)

Might make up a nice scene when a middle-aged woman rides a young guy and screams "Oh, daddy! Right there, daddy!"

 

Where do I pre-order this book?

 

You can already get it at WIY Books.
Just fill their form with the desired content and press "Publish Story"

 

Ah thanks. I might take some time to fill that out...

 

I just watched a recent movie called "Time Freak" -- after a physics student's girlfriend dumps him, he invents a time machine that allows him to inhabit his body in the past so he can try to alter events from their relationship and make it so the girlfriend won't dump him.

So... imagine that he keeps changing things and winds up with sexy results, but still is unable to stop the dumping.

 

There was a pretty good short-lived tv show called Journeyman. A little like Quantum Leap, the main character was inexplicably being thrown back and forth between the present and a point in time decades earlier. He couldn’t predict when it would happen, or for how long so he had to constantly scramble to figure out how to build functional life in both time periods. Then he would return and have to explain his absence. Convincing allies to help cover for his disappearances strained his relationships, especially since his story is unbelievable.

He discovers lots of unexpected obstacles to getting by. Cash can go from past to present and be accepted, but cash from the present looks unrecognizable to people in the past. Modern cellphones are great, but are worthless with early wireless phone towers. He has to find clothes that are in style in both eras.

Nice little show that punched above its weight.

 

I actually read that short story once, but I can't remember the author. Story was set in the nineties, and had a lot of references to "The Prisoner" for some reason. Don't know why. Course, the story ends with the guy failing, going back to his time, and finding out that she was the worst thing that ever happened to him, because with her OFFICIALLY out of the picture, he moved on...

 

Indeed, "Journeyman" was one of my favorite shows, solely for the episode where a modern (for 2007) digital camera gets left in the 1980s, and when the main character gets back to the present, they find certain technologies are way advanced (computer monitors are holographic, for example)... and, oh, yeah, he now has a different child, because in this altered timeline, he and his wife didn't conceive at exactly the same instant.