My 'Dream' 3sum is past Scarlett with past Tiffany.
This would make some memories that both present day Scarlett and Tiffany would recount to each other and - I hope - get excited at considering a repeat or 3 ...
Cheers!!
I get why people want to see the MC hook up with young Tiffany — the taboo, the symmetry, the erotic setup, all of that.
But personally, I think it risks breaking something
far more important than timeline rules. It breaks the emotional
illusion that makes Tiffany so compelling in the first place.
She’s not just hot. She’s not just older. She’s the kind of woman the MC — and the readers — project something sacred onto: experience, restraint, emotional depth, even a kind of moral elegance. She’s the woman you weren’t supposed to have, but somehow did. That’s what makes it hit so hard.
But if the MC has sex with her younger self — someone who, at the time, doesn’t know him, doesn’t love him, and just goes with it — it rewrites that entire emotional architecture.
Suddenly, Tiffany’s not the emotionally rare, slow-burning, maternal ideal. She’s just another girl who would’ve said yes to any bold, confident guy.
Even if that guy is the MC himself, it still shatters the illusion. Because for us — the readers — what we imagined was
a good woman, a special woman, one who reserved her body and emotions for someone who truly broke through her barriers.
If she gave it away casually in the past, then the magic of “she gave it to
you in the present” disappears. The story stops being about fate, and starts being about access.
And that, to me, makes her less — not more.