Fractured Echoes is driven by a time altering conspiracy, focusing on a protagonist who must turn against the organization he once served. The characters are defined by their allegiance to time protecting it, exploiting it, or being saved by it.
Role and Description
The Retrieval Agent. A dedicated agent for the Time Travel Program (TTP) who uses time travel to “pluck” women from the past moments before their deaths and bring them to the future. He is physically rugged and emotionally hardened by his grim work.
Core Conflict & Motivation
Betrayal & Redemption. Shatner’s mission of ‘saving’ women collapses when he realizes the TTP is corrupted. His motivation shifts from dutiful agent to whistleblower, driven by the need to expose the director and halt the weaponization of time.
Role and Description
The Rescued/The Anchor. A woman Shatner saved from a moment of time in the past. She is one of the “Echoes.”
Core Conflict & Motivation
The Cost of Survival. Sera represents the humanity and innocence the TTP is supposed to protect but is actively corrupting. Her mere existence is a paradoxical consequence of the TTP’s actions, and her memory of the world before the time shift gives her a unique perspective on the stakes.
Role and Description
The Ally. A character Shatner confides in and who helps him investigate the Time Travel Program. He is portrayed as skeptical and thorough, but ultimately trustworthy.
Core Conflict & Motivation
Moral Compass. Don represents the external force of reason and ethical concern. His involvement helps Shatner process the trauma.
This character represents the power and ambition that corrupted the TTP and controls the weaponized time.
Role and Description
The Billionaire Conspirator. The leader of the Time Travel Program and the one who betrays Shatner. While not always directly present, he is the mastermind of the dark conspiracy.
Core Conflict & Motivation
Ultimate Control. His motivation is to weaponize time to control who gets to exist, love, and live. He seeks to manipulate ancestry and history for power, profit, and control over the future devastated by the Hormonal Plague.
These characters help establish the world’s stakes and the emotional fallout of the time shifts.
The Echoes: The collective name for the women “plucked” from the past moments before their deaths. They are the living evidence of the TTP’s ethical abuses.
The Son (in Chapter 1): The young man in the 1800s homestead whose personal tragedy is interrupted by Shatner’s extraction mission. He establishes the grim, life or death nature of the TTP’s retrieval operations.
The primary conflict among the characters is defined by the TTP’s mission:
Shatner initially believes he is saving women from history (a benevolent interpretation of time travel).
The Director views them as resources to exploit and control, leading to the “billionaire scheme.”
Sera and the Echoes are the proof of the TTP’s ability to save, but they are also the victims of its ambition.
