The world is a big place. The more we know, the more we don’t know.
Tim Robinson’s daughter, a time traveller who went back in time and fixed everything, is the perfect example of the problem with knowing. She never knew her father and is still in charge of fixing the world.
It’s one of those “everything” stories that makes no sense at all until you try and figure out what’s real, what’s not, and then try and figure out how to bring those two things together.
So the question is, does Tim ever figure out what is real? Does he ever find himself on his daughter’s time-looping island? It isn’t clear. On the one hand we know he had a daughter, and on the other hand he never knew his daughter. But even if he did, it’s not clear how he would know.
Tim says he never found out about his daughter because, well, he was so busy trying to fix the world, he never even knew how to check her time-loop status. So the problem is, Tim never knew he had a daughter. Does this mean he never knew he had a daughter? No. Instead, his daughter might be the most important thing in the world, and the thing that makes him so incredibly stupid.
Tim’s daughter, Chloe, is a time-looper who has been in a time-loop since she was nine years old. She was taken by the Time Lords to be a time-looper for the Time Lords, so she’d be part of their new reality. Chloe wants to get back to her own time and the Time Lords want to take her away from her time-looper friends.
This might be the best plot synopsis you’ve read all week, but before we get to the gameplay, let’s get to the story. Chloe has been in a time-loop ever since her father was sent back to the past to stop her time-looping friends from killing each other. She’s been fighting to get her parents back, but now all this time-looping could be killing her friends.
Chloe has been fighting alone and constantly surrounded by an enemy (her father) that is determined to get her back. That enemy is the Time Lords and they want Chloe back so they can destroy her time-loop. It’s an intriguing idea that time-looping is, at least in theory, the greatest threat to your timeline, but its effect on Chloe has not been explained.
Chloe has an odd history. While she was younger than her father, she was kidnapped by the Time Lords when she was a very young girl. Afterward, she was forced to be an unwilling participant in their experiments. It was only when she was of an age that she was able to break away and escape, but she had to go back there to be a human again.
Chloe is apparently now a descendant of a time-looping family. According to a recent interview with Robbins, his daughter is a survivor of the experiments, and her name is Chloe, who is “the greatest thing I ever did in my life.” She has a brother named Timothy, and she has the power of time-looping. She has a sister named Tia, and she has a brother named Jason, and she has the power of time-looping.