Timothy Hunter - Other Versions

Other Versions

Due to the nature of Tim's power as an Opener, there have been several alternate versions of Tim. These include:

• No-one: a creature met by Tim on the way to Hell that takes his form to try to trick him into becoming its plaything. Tim threatens it with being turned into a statuette of a Pekingese and it leaves him be, giving him directions to find Molly.
• The Other: a version of Tim whose parents survived, but felt neglected by his father in favor of his work. Knew nothing of magic until a chance meeting with the demon Barbatos taught him about the other worlds: he learned how to travel between them, discovering that if he killed the Tims he found there, he would claim their power. Eventually came to the true Earth and thought he had killed the last Tim, becoming despondent when this didn't bring him the satisfaction he craved. Was subsumed by the true Tim when Barbatos took the memory of his creation.
• The Annual Tims: three versions of Tim that had been split from the original in childhood and left to live in alternate worlds. The first was a version of Tim that had never discovered how to unfreeze Molly and Marya during the Summonings storyline and lived alone in a world full of frozen people. The second had been adopted by a superhero version of John Constantine called Hellblazer, and became a superhero and a member of the Mystic Youths himself. The last was a version much like the original Tim during the Reckonings storyline, enjoying a loving relationship with Molly in the Lot. All three, and many others, were eventually killed by Tim's Other.
• The Hunter: worshiped as a god by humans and faeries alike, this version of Tim creates an alternate world where there is no religion, magic or war so that he can escape the war raging between the two races. With the help of an alternate John Constantine and Zatanna - and the love of a Molly he created on his new world - this version of Tim eventually ends the war and returns to live full-time in the real world. For more information, see Books of Magick: Life During Wartime.