Shouldn't the DBT be unstable?

[Lordchander]

How can the DBT be the way it is, how can the TD actually exist within it, isnt the DBT just filled with broken pieces of timelines. Now having all these timelines stuffed together wouldnt you think Time Space Continuum and stuff like that would be madly corrupted? Therefore making the DBT extremely unstable?

And is there such a thing as the DBT getting "full" of timelines?

[Zaperking]

How can the DBT be the way it is, how can the TD actually exist within it, isnt the DBT just filled with broken pieces of timelines. Now having all these timelines stuffed together wouldnt you think Time Space Continuum and stuff like that would be madly corrupted? Therefore making the DBT extremely unstable?

And is there such a thing as the DBT getting "full" of timelines?

Well, from what we have seen, the DBT is like a link to the real place where stuff is permanently destroyed. Lavos for one arrived there with Schala in an un-normal way. Think of it as if they're in a docking point. Around them in the swirl is countless timelines that have been discarded from countless dimension (unless theres on DBT per dimension). Anyway, when the TD was destroyed, the DBT totally erased that being, as we see him coming apart and flying into the black misty thing.

The timelines aren't merged there, they're just there for when the time is right and they're to be destroyed.

I just had a thought. Maybe the Dead Sea wasn't the timeline coming back, but Serge's actions of the future literally being projected there, so that place will one day be physical on the planet itself Oo

[AuraTwilight]

The DBT isn't part of linear time. It's merely where old timelines are recorded, possibly in a frozen, data-like form instead of dynamic, active timelines. Thusly, it'd be like entering a museum full of Timeline Fossils or something with infinite room for more specimens. The Time Devourer (and Serge and Co when they fought it) was the only dynamic thing that was ever there. When the Time Devourer got destroyed, it was erased from existence, creating an effect where it was like it was never there.

[Legend of the Past]

I think that swirl itself is the DBT. That swirl is where the 'data' for the DBT is 'stored'. The TD stands in the middle point between the DBT and the two worlds. Now, when you kill the TD, I think you in fact kill Schala, and not Lavos. Maybe the TD stayed in that middle point BECAUSE he had Schala, an undiscarded being, harnessed on him. Once Schala dies, nothing attactches him to the world, and back to the Tesseract we go.

[Lordchander]

Once Schala dies, nothing attactches him to the world, and back to the Tesseract we go.

So Schala was kinda like a link to keeping the TD physically alive within the DBT? If this is so how does Serge and crew be able to stay within the physical bounds of the DBT? Is it the Chrono Cross?

[Zaperking]

Once Schala dies, nothing attactches him to the world, and back to the Tesseract we go.

So Schala was kinda like a link to keeping the TD physically alive within the DBT? If this is so how does Serge and crew be able to stay within the physical bounds of the DBT? Is it the Chrono Cross?

No, they weren't discarded. They arrived their unnaturally. Plus, the swirl around them is most likely the storage. Atleast some part of the DBT has to have a place where people can stand, just like the End of Time. Gaspar arrived on that weird swirly floor too.