History Recap / WithThisRingEpisode69

Takes place October 22-24

After being hurled away by the Time Trapper, Paul awakens in a different history with different memories. He still arrived in universe 16 with an orange ring, but China is the dominant nation on Earth, and Paul is working for the Chinese government and living with Jade Nguyen.

Initially Paul is unaware of the timeline change, but a group of magic users alerts him to it. Vandal Savage then appears in the sky, wearing a suit of time-manipulating armour, and announces that he intends to collapse the timeline and harvest energy from it to make one more suited to his interests. With help from the Guardians and Nylor Truggs - who retained his memories of the original timeline - Paul flees into the past and kills Vandal Savage before he can make the change that caused the alternate timeline. The change causes Paul to become the Time Trapper, and to have always been the Time Trapper; he sends his original self back to the repaired timeline, then ponders his own (Chinese) timeline, which he has preserved in a bubble, seeking a way to restore it to full existence.

After some of his regular work alongside Green Lantern Jade Yifei, Paul meets a group of magic users who attempted to scry the past, and realised that the timeline has been drastically altered. Vandal Savage then appears in the sky, wearing a suit of time-manipulating armour that allows him to NoSell any attack by sending it to a different time period, and announces that he intends to collapse the timeline and harvest energy from it to make one more suited to his interests. Paul briefly disables him by suppressing his desires, before getting help from the Guardians and Nylor Truggs - who retained his memory of the original timeline - to flee into the past and kill Vandal Savage before he can interfere. The change causes Paul to become the Time Trapper, and to have always been the Time Trapper; he sends his original self back to the repaired timeline, then ponders his own timeline, which he has preserved in a bubble, seeking a way to restore it to full existence.

After some of his regular work alongside Green Lantern Jade Yifei, Paul meets a group of magic users who attempted to scry the past, and realised that the timeline has been drastically altered. Vandal Savage then appears in the sky, wearing a suit of time-manipulating armour that allows him to NoSell any attack by sending it to a different time period. Paul briefly disables him by suppressing his desires, before getting help from the Guardians and Nylor Truggs - who retained his memory of the original timeline - to flee into the past and stop Vandal Savage from interfering. The change causes Paul to become the Time Trapper, and to have always been the Time Trapper; he sends his original self back to the repaired timeline, then ponders his own timeline, which he has preserved in a bubble, seeking a way to restore it to full existence.

* LoveTriangle: Paul is in a relationship with Jade Nguyen, who encourages him to also approach Jade Yifei. Paul is uncomfortable with the whole idea due to cultural holdover, but his compromise is for the relationship to be omnidirectional rather than simply a man with multiple partners. It possibly could have worked, except for the part where the world ended.

* LoveTriangle: Paul is in a relationship with Jade Nguyen, who encourages him to also approach Jade Yifei. Paul is uncomfortable with the whole idea due to cultural holdover, but his compromise is for the relationship to be omnidirectional rather than simply a man with multiple partners.

* CaughtInTheRipple: Paul wakes up in a timeline where China became the dominant world power.