Read all that. Still hate Kloff. He's inexcusable. That said, for the sake of my own sani...

Read all that. Still hate Kloff. He's inexcusable.

That said, for the sake of my own sanity, I've come up with a way to rationalize him. Maybe not what the author intended, but once a story is out in the world, readers are free to interpret it however they want.

Basically, I view the second timeline as a reconstructed world rather than the original one rewound. The people carry over memories to varying degrees, but they're not quite the same people anymore.

That's the only way I can make sense of this story. First-world Kloff was a complete asshole. Second-world Kloff feels fundamentally different. Same with Aeroc. Aeroc remembers everything, so his past and present selves have almost merged. Kloff only remembers fragments, so the old timeline barely shapes who he is now.

So yeah. The mental gymnastics I do just to justify all the time I've spent on this toxic story