Shifter is not a mortal, but a primordial entity born from the friction between timelines. He wanders the physical world in a shifting, semi-human form, existing everywhere and nowhere all at once. He acts as an accidental cosmic archivist, collecting the discarded remnants of broken realities. Shifter’s most defining possession is a heavy, tarnished silver pocket watch from the year 1900. This watch is not a mere accessory; it is his anchor to reality. The Fragmented Paradox: The watch was forged at the exact turn of the 20th century—a moment when humanity’s collective anxiety and hope for the future fractured the timeline. Shifter happened to catch that specific splinter of time and trap it inside the watch's gears. The hands of the watch do not move forward. Instead, they twitch violently, spinning backward or stopping entirely depending on Shifter’s stability. If the watch ever stops ticking, Shifter will unspool from existence, scattered across the multiverse. Shifter doesn't walk; he "glitches" through space. He can teleport short distances by stepping out of the current second and stepping back into the next. Objects and people around him occasionally experience brief temporal anomalies—a spilled cup of coffee might fall upward, or a person might briefly remember a conversation they haven't had yet.
