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How does the Sacred Timeline and Multiverse even work in Loki?

It’s extremely easy actually! You just have to pay attention to Miss Minutes’ cartoon from episode 1 and He Who Remains’ speech in episode 6.

The Sacred Timeline isn’t just one universe. It consists of numerous separate, unique universes/realities/timelines (they use that interchangeably, but as shown in Ep.1 & Ep.6 it’s ultimately the same thing) that are all roped, woven into one stream of time, manipulated to follow the same path. That path is called The Sacred Timeline.

The meaning of The Sacred Timeline and what it actually represents is both visually as well as verbally explained in Episode 1 and 6.

“Eons ago, before the TVA, a variant of myself lived on Earth in the 31st century. He was a scientist and he discovered that there were universes stacked on top of his own.”

He Who Remains starts by explaining how one of his variants (a Kang variant) found out about the multiverse, how there were other universes stacked on top of his own. 

His variants were then able to made contact, interact and for a while everything was OK. 

“They shared technology and knowledge. Using the best of their universes to improve the others.”

However, that peace didn’t last. Variants started conquering other universes.

“The peace between realities…erupted into all-out war, each variant fighting to preserve their universe and annihilate the others. This was almost the end…ladies and gentlemen, of everything and everyone.”

Which brings us to Miss Minutes’ video. It’s not just propaganda, there’s lots of truth in there regarding the creation of The Sacred Timeline. Except that the Time Keepers are basically just a stand in for He Who Remains.

“Long ago, there was a vast multiversal war. Countless unique timelines battled each other for supremacy, nearly resulting in the total destruction of…well, everything.”

Miss Minutes’ video basically echoes everything said by He Who Remains.

Again, universes = realities = timelines. It’s used interchangeably.

To put it simply, the most important part of the video is the very beginning of the cartoon. We see these different, unique timelines/universes (they even pointed out their differences with different colors) all being roped into one singular stream.

The Sacred Timeline isn’t just one timeline/universe, but it comprises of an infinity number of unique universes. 

“But then, the all-knowing Time-Keepers emerged, bringing peace by reorganizing the multiverse into a single timeline, the Sacred Timeline. Now, the Time-Keepers protect and preserve the proper flow of time for everyone and everything.”

The Time Keepers are basically He Who Remains himself in this case. He explains to Loki and Sylvie in episode 6, that in order to stop the war and preserve peace, he weaponized Alioth, created The Sacred Timeline and once he did that, all he had to do was manage the same flow of time.

“I weaponized Alioth and I ended… I ended the Multiversal War. Once I isolated our timeline, all I had to do was manage the flow of time and prevent any further branches.”

Again, The Sacred Timeline is just a path. It’s a rope, full of different threads (universes).

Each universe is different, people, beings are different, the world is different, they are all unique in their own way. But once He Who Remains created The Sacred Timeline, they all started following the same flow of time, a path predetermined by He Who Remains.

That’s how we have different Lokis. Our Loki. Sylvie. Boastful Loki. Gator Loki. Bandit Lokis…..they’re all unique beings, they’re not the same person, they share no biological relation, their parents, families are different, their worlds are different, literally everything about them is different. 

The only thing they share is the same role. The role of a Loki. That’s it. 

And that role should end with death at Thanos’ hands.This is their predetermined path.

For example, and this is a bit of a spoiler for No Way Home I suppose….

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in No Way Home we’re gonna get three different Peter Parkers. One played by Tom Holland, one by Andrew Garfield and one by Toby Maguire. They will all play variants of each other. They’re all Peter Parkers, they all have Aunt Mays, Uncle Bens, families etc….but ultimately none of them are the same. They’re all different in their own way. They look different, their aunts are different, their uncles are different, their families are different etc….basically they share no genetic relation to each other. Absolutely none. They all hail from different universes, they all play the same role in their universes, but they aren’t biologically related to each other.

That’s why the TVA uses Temporal Aura to detect variants. Because being a variant isn’t about being the same person and sharing the same DNA. It’s all about the role and if you want to be more poetic, a soul. But that’s it.

Loki, Sylvie, Boastful Loki, Alligator Loki, Bandit Lokis…absolutely none of them are related to each other in any shape or form.

 He Who Remains made sure that all universes, all different, unique beings who live in those unique universes will move in the same direction. To preserve some resemblance of order and prevent another war started by Kang variants.

It doesn’t matter how different everything between universes is. It doesn’t matter if in one universe Loki resembles a human being and in another he’s an Alligator. As long as they follow the same path chosen by He Who Remains.

And when something happens and timelines split from The Sacred Timeline, these branches could be created from numerous universes. Because again, The Sacred Timeline isn’t just one universe, it’s made of infinite number of different universes (yes I intentionally keep repeating myself)

And these branches from different universes can and could further branch off into infinite number of timeline branches and/or eventually clash with each other thus creating another war led by Kang Variants. That’s basically where the TVA comes in with their pruning. To stop branching, prevent Kang Variants to run free and start a new war.

When Sylvie stabbed He Who Remains she didn’t create the multiverse. She merely freed it, allowing the unique universes to create their own path. The Sacred Timeline, which is basically just a path, no longer exists at this point. Sylvie gave each universe freedom.

Ultimately this will lead to another Multiversal War, but for the time being each universe, each being has freedom to take the path not predetermined by He Who Remains.

TLDR:

1. The Sacred Timeline isn’t just one universe/reality/timeline. It’s a just a path and it consists of numerous different unique universes that all simply just follow the same flow of time.

2.The multiverse always existed but was manipulated to follow the same flow of time. Sylvie merely freed the multiverse, she didn’t create it.

3. Each universe is different, unique in their own way. People are different, their worlds are different. That’s how we get such different variants.

4. Variants aren’t the same being. They’re all their own person, unique in their own way, they have different DNA, different parents, different families, different worlds,…the only thing they ‘do’ share is the same essence, soul, a role they play in their respective universe.

5. If you want to read more about how the multiverse works, here’s the interview where Michael Waldron explains it nicely

I hope this explains it nicely. Literally everything you need to know about how the Multiverse/The Sacred Timeline works is in the show. And yet people stil think there was no multiverse before Sylvie stabbed HWR, that the Sacred Timeline is just one universe and that multiverse is created from that one universe…which is all just…no 

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CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND NATALIE PORTMAN (AND MJÖLNIR) IN THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER (2022)

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BEGGING BEGGING BEGGING YOU PEOPLE TO STOP WRITING NS//FW SHIT ABOUT STEVEN/MARC INVOLVING THE ANKLE RESTRAINT. it’s LITERALLY a preventative measure steven took bc he thought he had a sleep disorder, which can fuck up people’s entire lives, which turned out to be a mental health issue that is also very hard to deal with.

you HONEST TO GOD think steven (an alter in a system who does not even understand what that means yet) would want to use the thing that was presumably his last resort at trying to keep himself from going off the deep end for anything REMOTELY sexual? please just stop it’s so uncomfortable. ESPECIALLY as a host of a system myself, it’s genuinely sickening.

singlets don’t clown on this, systems don’t start syscourse. please.

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Captain America: Civil War (2016) dir. Joe & Anthony Russo

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i am bad at introductions, but here i am as my technopath x-men sona, syntax, in apocalypse! or, at least, the coolest of my outfits; the one in which i 1: am zoomed to xavier’s school by peter maximoff (my beloved), 2: briefly think he is dead for a second (as pictured), and 3: get captured by stryker (cringe). click/tap to zoom in on em and read the details!!

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