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KD Since: May, 2009
11th Dec, 2020 10:05:12 AM

If we drop the time travel part, that'd be Chronic Hero Syndrome and/or Samaritan Syndrome — that they try and try and try to save everyone, and fail and fail and fail not because they're inept, but because they're holding themselves to an impossible goal or standard.

I think one frequent outcome of excessive time travel is to be hounded by Clock Roaches, which would probably be stressful too.

Edited by KD
StarTropes Since: May, 2014
11th Dec, 2020 10:17:07 AM

There's also Temporal Sickness if the act of time travel causes adverse side effects.

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