YMMV / Burdens of a Timeline Traveler

• Evil Is Cool: The Entity is a sadistic, remorseless tormentor and makes no secret of this, but he's also a very powerful adversary as well as a smooth operator, not to mention having genuine respect for Henry in the end for his perseverance to earn a happy ending without any help.
• Magnificent Bastard: The Entity is the enigmatic, cruel and manipulative deity who masterminded the events of the story. Goading the naive Henry Stickmin into a pact that allowed him to reset time at will, with the only conditions being that he complete every path given to him and that The Entity could laugh at him for his failures. The Entity would proceed to pull a fast one on Henry, sabotaging his good endings and causing them to end in tragedy before forcing him to pick one of the three worst timelines as his permanent residence. At the end of the story, The Entity reveals that everything he had done had been part of a test to see if Henry could use what he learned to craft the best timeline he reasonably could without The Entity's assistance. The Entity ends his monologue by stating that Henry had passed the test with flying colors, earning his respect in the process.

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