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One Character, Multiple Lives

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One Character, Multiple Lives	comment	Most characters, like most people, live one life beginning to end. While Time Travel, Alternate Dimensions and the occasional "Freaky Friday" Flip can complicate things, they are still more or less one person, starring in one life, for one lifetime. Except when they're not. Because every now and then, a story stars a character who lives multiple lives, not serially, but alternating between them one day at a time. It's not that they leave one and travel to the other; they physically exist continually in each world, but their consciousness alternates between them. These separate lives may take place spread out across time or in Alternate Universes. The character will often have to gather information between their lives in order to advance the plot. Their unique circumstance makes it possible to talk to people that died in one universe before they could deliver important news or lets the main character save someone in one universe by figuring out who killed them in the other. Often, the switch between lives happens each time the character falls asleep, making this trope related to Dream Land with elements of All Just a Dream and Or Was It a Dream? Sister Trope to Non-Linear Character. Not to be confused with Alternate Self, where the two lives are lived by two similar but separate people who happen to look alike and have the same name. Compare with Reincarnation. Contrast with Living a Double Life and Split Personality where the "multiple lives" are discrete aspects of a single life kept apart by design or mental disorder. For the video game trope involving extra lives that allow the player character to survive otherwise fatal encounters, see 1-Up.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_109f7814	comment	In the Sherlock fic "The World on His Wrist", John Watson begins waking up to the lives-in-progress of 4 very different John Watsons after he is wounded in combat with the RAMC in Afghanistan. At first, it's all he can do to juggle four confusing lives without being caught out. But once he gets the hang of it, he uses the various lives for escapism, to gather information, and to save lives as a doctor and a soldier and something like a non-costumed superhero... and then he meets Sherlock Holmes.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_25d3fee3	comment	In Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!, Kazuhiro thinks he was just having dreams of the same fantasy world since childhood, with him waking up if he sleeps or dies in that world. It isn't until the first chapter that he realizes that he is actually experiencing this trope, when he shields Marie from a dragon's fire and accidentally teleports her into his bedroom in Japan.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "Tempests", Commander John Virgil, the first officer of the spaceship Tempest, is infected with the venom of a giant alien spider which causes him to hallucinate. His perspective begins to switch between two mutually exclusive realities: one in which he is hailed as a hero for delivering the serum that eliminated the virus Ellycia C that was devastating his home colony and one in which he must repair the severely damaged Tempest so that it can bring the serum to the colony. He must decide which is real and which is the illusion. It turns out that neither is real and that the unconscious Virgil is trapped aboard the Tempest being fed on by one of the spiders, as are the rest of the crew.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_4d6ad22f	comment	Sigma and Phi in Virtue's Last Reward can send their consciousness across multiple realities, where certain major events have happened differently (their physical representation still lives through and experiences these events, but their mind can go just about anywhere in the course of the AB Game). After jumping to a new reality, they can occasionally retain some knowledge of what they've learned without knowing how they know it, to push the plot of that reality forward. By the end of the game, they're fully aware of this, and use it to their advantage multiple times.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: One of the features of SBURB is that players have an additional body, their dream self, who begins the game in a tower on Prospit or Derse. Once the player awakens their dream self (usually via a personal epiphany or extreme shock) their consciousness will shift between both bodies: when you sleep in one, you immediately wake up in the other. There are a few variations on this setup such as Dirk Strider, who's fully awake in both bodies, simultaneously.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "A World of Difference", Arthur Curtis finds himself switching between two worlds - one where he's a normal businessman and another where he's an alcoholic actor named Gerry Raigan who's playing the role of businessman Arthur Curtis in the film The Private World of Arthur Curtis.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_60508e35	comment	In Twilight Zone: The Movie, a racist man is shuttled back and forth in time to live lives as a black, Jewish, and Asian person. He was supposed to learn a moral, but due to the death of the actor while filming an action scene, he gets sent off to the gas chamber as a Jew during World War II.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_70814599	comment	In the Stargate SG-1 episode "The Changeling", Teal'c alternates between his life at Stargate Command and another life where he and the other SG-1 members are firefighters. Both seem equally real. In truth, neither is real. He's hallucinating due to sharing his symbiote with Bra'tac after they were both shot during an ambush by Anubis' forces.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_b3e81703	comment	This is how the different arcs of Arthur, King of Time and Space work; Arthur's consciousness shifts between them, but all these worlds are real and exist even when "our" Arthur's consciousness isn't there. This is only fully clarified in the final strip, when Morgan explains "We don't just go from one time to the next. We genuinely belong in all of them."
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who has had several examples of this in its run: In "City of Death", it's revealed that the Monster of the Week, the Scaroth, is living multiple lives throughout Earth's history simultaneously, and using his shared knowledge of these lives to further his plans. In "Amy's Choice", the Doctor, Rory and Amy keep going back and forth between two lives â€” one where they're all on the TARDIS and one where Amy & Rory are living on Earth & she's pregnant â€” and have to decide which is the "right" timeline.
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One Character, Multiple Lives / int_cca75e9d	comment	Awake (2012): Main character Detective Britten suddenly begins switching between two universes every time he falls asleep after a car crash kills his wife in one universe and his son in the other. While his therapists in each universe try to convince him that the other universe is just a trauma-induced dream, he isn't so sure. Across the two lives, he begins to notice suspicious coincidences which he investigates seeking an explanation for what's happening to him which leads him to the heart of a dangerous conspiracy where he needs the time and information from both lives just to stay one step ahead of his enemies.
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