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[Loki, I guess, but really just time travel in general] If time is always on a set path, how do people create branch timelines?

So in episode one of *Loki*, we learn that >!variants can come from anything, without time travel even being involved!<. So if time is always on a set path, and everyone is always supposed to do what they do at the exact second they do it (basically meaning no free will is allowed), then how does someone suddenly achieve free will and branch the timeline?
gpt
>So if time is always on a set path, and everyone is always supposed to do what they do at the exact second they do it (basically meaning no free will is allowed), then how does someone suddenly achieve free will and branch the timeline?

Simple: this premise is false. Time *isn't* always on a set path and *not* everyone always does what they are "supposed" to do at that exact second.

That's why the TVA exists, to find people that deviate from that set path and "prune" them.