Time travel novel: how do I prevent my protagonists from searching for Jesus?
Hi!
I'm currently writing a story about time travel, but somehow I don't want my protagonists to act on the urge to, for example, search for Jesus. Is there any way I can make that impossible, in a logical way, so they can't travel back in time?
So it is absolutely not possible to travel that far back in time.
But it should make sense.
Thanks in advance haha
The simplest possibility would be if your characters simply have no interest in Jesus from religion – either because their opinion on Jesus is already firmly formed (Jews, Muslims) or because Jesus is completely irrelevant to them (Buddhists, Shintoists, Atheists…)
But, fair, you leave other gaps. A Buddhist could visit Buddha, a Muslim Muhammad, etc.
Therefore, some other suggestions:
Either the time travel machine can only travel in time, but not in other places. Let the machine be so big or so secret that it is not liked to be transported to other places, such as Nazareth.
Or you’ll let them go there, and they’ll be mistaken there, and they’ll go back as soon as possible.
there was a tv show called “7days”… you can lay down every shice.
but they have something important to do.
if this should be based on continuation – let them visit him would be funny.
Certainly, the group’s “Boss” might order the rest to follow another mission… Nevertheless, there is one or the other who likes to follow his religion… I kind of want to make it impossible that can happen. I really don’t want to have to deal with the topic of religion in my history xD
Give people something to do! otherwise let them do it.
Depending on the way the trip is, you could say: the more someone returns, the more physically strenuous it becomes….
Thank you. Let’s hope that in my world there’s no “Bösewicht” that accumulates too much power to change history.
At some point, it hurts too bad to go back, or just kills you.
In a time travel history I had tried, the protagonists simply did not have the choice in which time they were coming:-D. That would be another way. – However, in which a protagonist “Jesus” was then:-D.
You have another religion that only begins in the future.