How do timelines work:
There are three types of timelines and two types of sub types of timelines
The three types of timelines are, main timelines, neighboring timelines, and farlander timelines, the main timeline speaks for its self, the main timeline where everything happens, but you might wonder what are the sub types of timelines, well, they are: branching timelines, overlap timelines, and gateway timelines. Ranching timelines are basically alternate versions of the timeline that either merge back into the main timeline or becomes its own thing, overlap timelines are branch timelines that merge into neighboring timelines or farlander timelines but it’s a random point of the timeline and it takes time for it to merge into another one, now gateway timelines are overlap timelines but it takes a significantly shorter time to merge into another timeline, any those three sub types of timelines are universal for ALL timelines, anyways, neighboring timelines are alternate timelines that have a close relationship/ any branching overlap or gateway timelines are most likely to go to each other and farlander timelines are basically if you had a distant relative or ancestor that your not closely related to unlike something like the ape, and by distant I mean that any branching overlap or gateway timeline will 20-30% of the time not merge into that timeline