I keep seeing things about Tim as a Desolation Avatar, but what Tim as a Stranger Avatar?
Like… Okay, hear me out. In my Endless AU, Tim is going to be touched by Desolation and an avatar of the Endless Destruction.
What if in my TMA AU—without any crossover shenanigans—he ends up as an avatar of the Stranger? And THATS how he gets out.
Michael ends up saving Sasha—the wax Sasha. [Im only on 101 so I’m assuming she has some sort of skin replica because that’s how Orsinov is.] But he can’t save Tim—because he’s too late, because he can’t find him. [Your guess is as good as mine at this point.]
But he comes back later—to the Institute—unscathed. Nobody can figure out how.
But!! The kicker! Tim doesn’t have a clue either. He remembers the explosion. But the details between that and arriving back at the institute is BLANK. Clean slate.
He remembers everything beforehand. Everyone ends up writing it off as short term amnesia.
[Also in this AU, we can’t save Michael. We can make him more human…ish. He still has a vendetta against the Archives but the Unknowing was stopped. He’s more likely to help Jon and the others because they want tue Institute gone as much as he does.]