#AND DONT EVEN ASK ME ABOUT AFTERLIFE I JSUT IGNORE IT

[quaranmine]

For the reincarnation Jimmy thing, I like to think that all the different versions of Jimmy are reincarnations except for Last Life, Double Life, and Empires 2, who are all the same character. I'm pretty sure X-Life, Third Life, and maybe Evo (not sure on this one) could be a separate iteration of the same character as well but i'm not 100% certain.

now that's an interesting perspective! i've never thought about separating the life series from each other. I always assume default that everybody who went through it are the same versions of themselves.

I tend to treat Evo > X life > Traffic series Jimmy as definitely all one person, because that's specifically what is relevant to my headcanons/fanfics for Lonesome Dreams. the throughline from listeners > canary curse/omen > watchers and death game is really easy to follow in my eyes.

it's the empires seasons that I have difficulty placing. i think it's very possible that empires S1 is a reincarnation because the whole ancient sea monster, small cracked egg thing etc is very standalone. References to 3rd life in S1 can also be explained by past lives, since I think they do sort of reference it as like "another world" (or maybe i just read too much fanfic and forgot what was canon.) Empires S2 also seemed standalone to me, but in the same universe as S1 of course....except for the double life memories, and knowing the hermits, which calls the continuity back into question yet again.

and don't even get me started on trying to wrangle all this into a functional timeline WHILE taking into account pearl, santa pearla, gem, scott, etc or while taking into account everybody who remembers jimmy from other series.....

the only true way to make it all exist within the same character is to take a "realistic" approach and just say that every server they're on has gimmicks and stuff they play with, similar to what the CCs are doing in real life. but in doing that you inevitably sacrifice the seriousness of the lore