still thinking about a regressor going back in time and finding their future comrade being tortured. they never knew anything about this but know that they have to rescue their comrade because they can’t just leave them to suffer like they did in the last timeline. now the regressor has to deal with the aftermath—the comrade they knew was someone who had moved past their trauma (or had learned to hide it) but this one has just been rescued so the wounds, mental and physical, are too fresh. they’re nothing like how the regressor remembered them to be. this version of them is scared and angry and bitter and resentful, while the version they had known had been kind and cheery and selfless. the regressor could then help the comrade through their recovery and help them learn ways to deal with their trauma, or they could feel so out-of-depth with the enormity of the task that worries of ‘what if i fuck it up’ plague their mind, not wanting to hurt their comrade further