Essence ofTime Reversal

Tastes like nostalgic drink from the past, different to each person that consumes one of them.

• You gain the ability to reverse time for yourself and your surroundings, going back in time to either relive an event or choose to act differently than you did a moment earlier, retaining only the knowledge from the timeline that got reversed.

• This ability is initially only able to reverse time for up to 5 minutes in one go, and while you may repeatedly reverse time back to that point while already having reversed it previously, the furthest back you can go is 5 minutes from the furthest along you have been in one of the timelines. This limit can be pushed back further with enough practice and testing, but it starts as a relatively short-term reversal effect.

• You cannot retain anything gained from a reversed time-line beyond the knowledge of what would have happened, so you cannot steal a key in one time-line and reverse it, and retain possession of the key. You could confront someone dangerous and get them to slip something that they might very well hurt you to force you to remain quiet about, but reversing the time on the spot would allow you to retain the knowledge, without them being alerted to the fact you know.

• You will gain an instinctive understanding of any 'Breaking Point' events that might affect future in a noticeable manner, and may reverse time further back within them than you could normally, the initial 5 minutes could extend to 20 minutes, and a later limit of 1 hour could turn into 4 hour time reversal option at these Breaking Points, where actions would have long-lasting consequences.

• You can 'force' a moment to become a Breaking Point, once a day, initially, but doing so will tire you out and potentially cause you to suffer a headache, suffer from nosebleed, and might make your Time Reversal power unreliable for twice as long as you stretched it out during a Forced Breaking Point.

• You can eventually begin to learn tricks like making a 'copy' of an item stolen from another time-line, such copies will be more fragile and will likely break within 24 hours, but could allow you to acquire an otherwise difficult to acquire key and unlock a door once, before said copy would crack and vanish into thin air. This trick and others may take a while to learn, and improve further.

• If your life is at a serious risk, you can instinctively reverse time for up to a whole day, waking up in your bed or other such moment where you had been resting previously, a quiet break during a work-day or class-hours also counting if better rest was not available within the time-frame. This reversal initially comes with a mild headache and causes the power of Time Reversal to become a little unreliable for the next couple of hours. Once you have used such a 'Second Chance at Life', it will take a week until you gain another such instinctive use of this power.

• Your power of Time Reversal makes trying to learn about you in supernatural or magical ways more difficult, liable to either provide no information or spoofing false information of your choice to anyone trying to look into your identity, past, and motives. It also makes you innately immune to Paradox, and anyone else trying to mess with your time-lines will find themselves puzzled by complete and total failure of their respective abilities when they come into conflict with your own. Your focus may be somewhat narrow, but within it, it takes Divine Power to be your equal.

• Fanwank responsibly.

• Source material is likely obvious, but this borrows a fair bit from "Life is Strange", but with some changes.