Time-Travel (Fix-It) | Found Family Feels | Regret & Redemption Arcs | Enemies to Allies to ... | Partners in Crime | Genderbent!Caleb | Mortal!Xavier | UnsteadyHands!Zayne | SirenVoiceless!Rafayel | Coreless!Sylus
The five Love Interests sacrificed everything to turn back time and save the world - but for Caleb, that meant waking up in the past trapped in a woman’s body, stuck between rewriting fate, stopping Ever, and learning how to fight without tripping over his new center of gravity.
Humanity had fallen, the stars had burned out, and the world they fought for was nothing but ruins. Ever had won in ways no one had expected. The planet was past saving, and time had run out.
But Xavier had a plan.
The Backtrackers’ final mission: a high-risk temporal jump into the past - back before everything spiraled into destruction. Back when MC was still alive. Back when Ever was still weak enough to be stopped.
But time travel wasn’t free.
Each of them had to sacrifice something to make the jump. And Caleb… Caleb lost his male body. Instead, he was trapped in a genderbent version of himself.
And he wasn’t the only one.
Standing across from him were the four other men he got to know and fought alongside against Ever, and each wearing the same haunted expression. Each of them had retained their memories of the doomed future. Each of them had made a sacrifice.
Now, they had one last chance to change everything.
To rewrite fate.
To keep her alive.
…If only Caleb could get through a fight without tripping over his new center of gravity.
And as if fixing the past wasn’t hard enough, now he had to do it while figuring out how bras work, avoiding weird stares, and trying not to punch the first person who called him "missy."
The universe really wasn’t pulling its punches this time.
The Sacrifices They Made
Caleb – The Soldier Who Became a Stranger
Sacrifice: His Body (Now Female!)
What It Changes: Caleb remembers everything, but his body is no longer his own. His strength, reach, and muscle memory are all wrong. He struggles in combat, miscalculates strikes, and hates the way people perceive him differently. He refuses to let the change slow him down - but it does. More than that, Caleb has always relied on brute force - now he has to fight smarter, not harder. And he has no patience for the first person who tries to “mansplain” something to him.
Xavier – The Immortal Who Became Mortal
Sacrifice: His Extended Lifespan
What It Changes: Xavier was hundreds of years old, but now, he will age and die like everyone else. In the original timeline, he had time to plan, to maneuver, to learn. Now? He has one shot. One lifetime. No second chances. He feels time creeping up on him for the first time ever - every moment with MC, with the others, feels fragile in a way he never understood before. For someone who always saw the world in centuries, this is a devastating shift.
Zayne – The Surgeon Who Can No Longer Hold a Scalpel
Sacrifice: His Steady Hands
What It Changes: In the original timeline, Zayne was the only one who could treat MC’s worsening condition. Now? His hands shake. Not constantly, but enough. Enough that he can no longer perform surgery. He tries to compensate with medication, treatment, prevention, but he knows the moment MC needs life-saving intervention, he won’t be able to do it himself. It’s crippling. He spent his entire career preparing to save her - and now he can only watch and hope. It’s ironic, really. In the last timeline, he couldn’t save her in time. And in this one, he won’t even get the chance to try.
Rafayel – The Siren Who Lost His Voice
Sacrifice: His Siren’s Singing
What It Changes: His voice was once a weapon, an art, and a connection to his people. Now, it’s just a voice. He can no longer lure, calm, or influence others with his song. He is just another Lemurian exile, no different from the rest. Music was his escape - a way to process his emotions without words. Now? It feels hollow.
He can still paint, still create, but his melodies, his harmonies, the songs he wove through his very soul - are gone. For the first time in his life, the world is truly silent.
Sylus – The Beast Who Can No Longer See
Sacrifice: His Aether Core Eye (The Ability to Read People’s Deepest Desires)
What It Changes: Before, Sylus’s left eye saw more than just the physical world - it saw through people. He could look at someone and know what they craved, what they feared, what they would kill for. Now? He’s blind to it. He can still read people the way a skilled manipulator does, but it’s not the absolute insight he once had. And the worst part? He feels vulnerable. For someone who always played the game three steps ahead, this is a serious handicap. He still knows how to manipulate, how to calculate, but now, for the first time in his life - he has to guess. And Sylus hates guessing.
