Looking for a term for a character that has gone back in time?

DarkShadowBlaze · Oct 14, 2020

From reading omniscient reader's viewpoint webtoon I found out the term Regressor for a person who has gone in time to their past self and plan to use that term. However I also plan to have someone who went back in time, but it is closer to actual time travel and was wondering if there was a similar word that fits.

I Intend for the MC to be a Regressor who got his emotions from two previous timelines and I want a support character to be someone who was born in the first timeline and went back, but not by reverting to their past self cause they haven't been born. I want a term that is similar to distinguish the two types.

Veronica8 · Oct 14, 2020

transmigrate I guess is the official term

There's also retrograde = taking a step backwards.

moving, occurring, or performed in a backward direction

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retrograde#:~:text=(Entry%201%20of%203),is%20retrograde%20for%20another%20week

DarkShadowBlaze · Oct 14, 2020

Veronica8
Thanks though not really what I'm looking for I want a simple term like how you have- Returner someone who returned from another world and Regressor someone who went back to their past self.

However what I want is a term for someone who travelled back in time, but the method is different from a Regressor by the fact they aren't turning or becoming their past self.

Veronica8 · Oct 14, 2020

DarkShadowBlaze Oh. So like a quantum leaper. Hmm. Yeah, not sure.

DarkShadowBlaze · Oct 15, 2020

Veronica8
Yeah pretty much I was thinking of somthing like traveller, but I want it to be somthing that readers will recognise as being a time traveller.

GegeSadewa · Oct 15, 2020

DarkShadowBlaze why not use "time traveler" then?

DarkShadowBlaze · Oct 15, 2020

GegeSadewa
Cause I wanted somthing simple like Regressor and Returner and was hoping there was already another word for it without saying out right they are a time traveller.

CxD18 · Oct 15, 2020

DarkShadowBlaze maybe reincarnated?

Drakonous · Oct 15, 2020

DarkShadowBlaze

Time Deviants? Time Drifters? Time Meanderer? Time Divergers? (Dunno if the last's a real word, whatever I'm making crap up)

DarkShadowBlaze · Oct 16, 2020

Drakonous
Those are good I properly remove the time part though cause I want it to be somthing that makes sense, but not out right stating.

DarkShadowBlaze · Oct 16, 2020

CxD18
Reincarnated is more being reborn though rather then travelling back in time.

GegeSadewa · Oct 16, 2020

DarkShadowBlaze perhaps using other word that means time and traveler? I think chrono also means time? How about transtemporal ?

NowhereOmen · Oct 16, 2020

Chrono regressive.

PsyberRose · Oct 17, 2020

DarkShadowBlaze Reincarnated is more being reborn though rather then travelling back in time.

Actually, I disagree.

Reincarnated simply means that the person's soul was reborn in another body.

I believe, as an Author, you can then play with that as there is no rule that the person could not be reincarnated to the past. cough

I say that only on the basis that my MC did exactly that. I just used the word 'reincarnated' and did not refer to the MC as any particular term though. I don't think there's really a terminology for what you're looking for as it's not something that is popular or used.

More so if you're saying he went back to the past, and is reincarnated. If he was not and he simply went back to the past, then he would be a time traveller (though that is misleading as well if he only did it once)?

Sorry, just rambling on and no suggestion as to the term that you're seeking ....