I come from a canon where alternate universes exist and there are two instances of my fictype in one part (one of them hopped over) – both of them are the real one. I wish others would consider things like this, it may help with confusion and feeling invalidated. And they were different because they were from different timelines – but they were still themselves, just different personalities. Just as we are – we are our types, but we are different timelines, different personalities.