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-->-- '''BobDylan''', '''Music/BobDylan''', "My Back Pages"
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Compare with NonLinearCharacter. Contrast UnstuckInTime. Often runs in tandem with TimeTravelRomance.
When used as a framing device, see BackToFront.
MerlinSickness is generally associated with fantasy and works that are on the soft end of MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness.
Characters with MerlinSickness live or age backwards in time. What happens to their memory is highly variable; some options include:
* The character remembers the past, but ages backwards (so they remember what happened when they were "older").
* The character remembers the future, and is exceedingly confusing. This can be a form of CursedWithAwesome--it allows the character to serve as a [[{{Seers}} seer]], but if taken seriously more or less precludes them from developing much of a connection with anyone (as just about any event carries the opposite sort of emotional resonance for them as for anyone else). Sometimes characters like this come off as {{Mad Oracle}}s.
* The character remembers the past, but remembers successively less of it as they get younger. Usually this occurs when MerlinSickness is contracted partway through life, while the other two options are more associated with characters who are "born" (that is to say, who die) with it.
->''Ah, but I was so much older then,'' \\
''I'm younger than that now.''
-->-- '''BobDylan''', "My Back Pages"
When used as a framing device, see BackToFront.
MerlinSickness is generally associated with fantasy and works that are on the soft end of MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness.
Characters with MerlinSickness live or age backwards in time. What happens to their memory is highly variable; some options include:
* The character remembers the past, but ages backwards (so they remember what happened when they were "older").
* The character remembers the future, and is exceedingly confusing. This can be a form of CursedWithAwesome--it allows the character to serve as a [[{{Seers}} seer]], but if taken seriously more or less precludes them from developing much of a connection with anyone (as just about any event carries the opposite sort of emotional resonance for them as for anyone else). Sometimes characters like this come off as {{Mad Oracle}}s.
* The character remembers the past, but remembers successively less of it as they get younger. Usually this occurs when MerlinSickness is contracted partway through life, while the other two options are more associated with characters who are "born" (that is to say, who die) with it.
->''Ah, but I was so much older then,'' \\
''I'm younger than that now.''
-->-- '''BobDylan''', "My Back Pages"
