[CLASSIFIED DOSSIER: SUBJECT A-09 — TIME TRAVEL ASSASSIN]
Clearance Level: Ω-Temporal
Compiled By: ChronoPsych Division, Silent Guardian Initiative
Date Filed: [REDACTED]
OVERVIEW:
Subject A-09, codenamed “Specter,” is one of dozens of known time travel assassins operating across divergent chronospheres. These operatives are tasked with terminating individuals deemed historically “disruptive”—though who defines disruption is, of course, a matter of political fluidity.
This dossier explores the psychological makeup of the quintessential time travel assassin. Based on cross-temporal interviews, recovered mental maps, and anomalous dream-echo fragments, this report aims to understand the psyche behind the paradox.
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A vow of silence. A mission across centuries. One assassin holds the fate of humanity in his hands.
Adam never chose to be silent; the Phylax demanded it. Trained from childhood as a time-traveling assassin, he slips through centuries to eliminate those who threaten the future. His latest mission: assassinate Emperor Qin Shi Huang before a ruthless plot ultimately destroys humankind.
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I. COGNITIVE DISASSOCIATION & THE FRACTURED SELF
Every time travel assassin undergoes extensive neuro-temporal conditioning. After their first few jumps, they begin to exhibit Cognitive Temporal Drift (CTD)—a condition marked by an inability to perceive time as linear. Subject A-09 once described memory as “a scattered book with all the pages ripped out and thrown into the wind.”
This produces functional disassociation—a survival mechanism. If you kill a man in 1792 and meet his grandson in 2027, you can’t afford sentiment. The quintessential assassin forgets—not because they want to, but because they must.
II. LINGUISTIC ADAPTABILITY & PSYCHOLINGUISTIC DETACHMENT
Most operatives develop fluency in over 30 dialects. But it’s not just language—it’s context, tone, idiom. They must sound like they belong, even when their soul doesn’t.
This extreme linguistic plasticity leads to psycholinguistic detachment—where the assassin begins to treat words as tools rather than meaning. Conversations are chess matches, not connections.
As A-09 scrawled on a temple wall in ancient Anatolia:
“I speak every tongue but forget my own.”
III. MORAL RELATIVISM & THE DEATH OF ABSOLUTES
A standard time travel assassin operates without a clear moral compass. One week they’re removing a genocidal warlord. The next, they’re eliminating a poet whose words inspired rebellion.
They live in moral gray space, where every kill is justified by a greater narrative—usually one they didn’t write.
Many display signs of Chrono-Justification Syndrome (CJS):
“If it hadn’t been me, it would’ve been someone worse.”
“History will thank me. Eventually.”
“I unmake monsters before they bloom.”
A-09 once remarked:
“I don’t kill people. I prune timelines.”
IV. THE SILENCE STRATEGY
Time travel assassins rarely speak. Why? Because language is a variable, and speech can create ripples. Silence is tactical.
But there’s more to it: prolonged silence rewires the brain. It deepens observation. It reduces attachment. It makes you forget who you are—a blessing, perhaps, when your hands are soaked in centuries.
Subject A-09 took a vow of silence after their third jump. They haven’t spoken in 47 years—though their eyes, reportedly, still scream.
V. PARADOX FATIGUE & THE CRAVING FOR ENDINGS
Paradox Fatigue is real. Assassins begin to crack not from the kills—but from the loops. From seeing moments repeat with subtle shifts. From realizing that no matter what they do, the universe self-corrects.
They stop asking “Did I do the right thing?”
And start asking, “Did I do anything at all?”
The quintessential time travel assassin becomes obsessed with finality. Many vanish into obscure centuries. Some self-delete. Others beg to be forgotten.
As one rogue operative whispered before disappearing into a breach:
“Time is the only enemy that never dies.”
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Understanding the psychology of a time travel assassin is like staring into a cracked mirror that stretches across millennia. These operatives aren’t just killers—they’re relics of competing futures, ghosts bound by duty, sacrifice, and the burden of knowing too much.
And yet, they remain essential—at least to the organizations that created them.
To the rest of us, they are myths in trench coats and shadows.
Always watching. Always waiting.
And just maybe… always one step behind us.
Read chapter 1 of The Silent Guardian to find out more about Adam, a time-traveling assassin.