You ever just enjoy torturing someone who never shows up?
Like my Wars has an entire multi-year history with Mask, going through the war, Mask growing into looking almost identical to Time at the point in the story they meet. So much so Wars has to stop himself from saying something to Time because they look almost the same, but Mask is gone, and this is Time. The two of them started in the same place, but they’ve gone very different paths. Different fates. Different burdens.
Time can still be saved.
And this is probably never going to come up unless Wars takes the plot from me and trauma dumps. Which is quite possible.
And if you’re asking about timeline implications, it’s a mess and I look forward to seeing if anyone tries to untangle to mess I’ve woven.