IN THE ORPHANAGE, THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL NAME EMILY WHO WAS VERY ALONE. THE NEXT DAY, SHE FOUND AN BLUE VERSION OF MR. HOPPS AND KEPT HIM. MR. HOPPS TREATS HER DIFFERENTLY THAN THE OTHERS. SHE WAS ADOPTED BY THE AFTON CIRCUS AND BECAME THE CLOWN OF THE SHOW. SHE WAS ALSO SHOWN TO HAVE HIGH; INTELLIGENCE AND EXCEL IN ENGINEERING AND CHEMISTRY. MR. HOPPS SHOWS HER HIS WORLD AND HOW IT WOULD IMPACT HER LIFE. IN 1963, SHE MET AN BRILLIANT YOUNG MAN AND LATER HAD A SON THAT BEEN KIDNAPPED. THE GIRL DISCOVERS THAT SHE WAS INTERSEX AND HAVE TO HAVE HER FORCED HYSTERECTOMY DUE TO BIRTH COMPLICATIONS. SHE THEN BECAME AN MAN AND HE CHANGE HIS NAME FROM EMILY TO WILLIAM AFTON. HE WAS ALSO SHOWN TO ALSO HAVE A POWER TO TRAVEL BETWEEN WORLD, BUT IT RESULTED INTO GOING 5 YEARS IN THE EARTH REALM. WILLIAM, REALIZES THAT HE COULD HAVE HIS CHILD BACK, TRAVEL TO 1963 TO GET HIS BABY, BUT HE THEN RUNS INTO HIS PAST SELF AND FELL IN LOVE. WHEN HE WENT BACK, HE FELT SOMETHING BURNING IN HIS FACE, LIKE A FIRE. HIS FACE WAS DISFIGURE, BUT WAS LATER CHANGED. HE TRAVELS BACK TO GET HIS SON AND RETURNS TO HIS TIME AND NAMED HIM MICHAEL AFTON; AN PREDESTINATION PARADOX