do you ever think about how weird it is that when you become familiar with timelines and the infinite infinities of everything that the people you know become "a". A Snowman. A Jade. A Casper. etcetera etcetera like if things were normal we wouldn't be going "wow theres so many striders on this site" we'd be making posts like "this person has a lot of brothers and sisters and siblings and i think all the males in the group decided to pull a really stupid bit where they're all dave"
From what I can tell humans don't work like that, it's just the case of heavy timeline bleed! Humans have a lot of genetic variance which is why they all look so different from eachother, except for their like. you know. alternates from different timelines.
I don't think they were?.. Most of them, anyways? There's a chance some of them were. You know how SBURB and its contemporaries are. Sometimes the clone lab is involved. But that's sburb nonsense.
No problem, WV! I can totally see how the idea would arise!
Reality is a dumb thing. Even ignoring timelines and how they splinter in so many ways like branches of a tree, *generally* there's an equivalent to you a universe over. Reflections make this obvious, universes where there are small differences, and then the more complicated refractions. You're less likely to run into other you's, at least those that are recognizable. Theoretically infinite, but there can only be so much deviation before they stop being you.