Possibly a love story that ended tragically. (Were both in love with the same girl, and did they fight for her?
Perhaps somehow the mind cloning was good, but the body cloning wasn’t (or the body was hurt afterward), and now he’s ugly and the girl didn’t want him. the scenario where she dies in an accident and one instance forgives the guy and the other murders him suggests quite different minds—so, not really the sort of clone we’re talking about.
There are many possible ways how to do this. I imagined something like “bad moral luck”—two minds that started the same, but different things happen to them, and they diverge as a result.
For example, both decide to murder the guy, and both wait for him at different places. One murders him. The other waits at a wrong place (maybe just further down the same street), so nothing happens… then he goes home, gets some good sleep, and realizes that he was stupid. Alternatively, one gets a phone call that reminds him of something, and he changes his mind.
The idea of mind divergence was already done with parallel words (e.g. Sliding Doors), except these would be clones living in the same world.
Perhaps somehow the mind cloning was good, but the body cloning wasn’t (or the body was hurt afterward), and now he’s ugly and the girl didn’t want him. the scenario where she dies in an accident and one instance forgives the guy and the other murders him suggests quite different minds—so, not really the sort of clone we’re talking about.
There are many possible ways how to do this. I imagined something like “bad moral luck”—two minds that started the same, but different things happen to them, and they diverge as a result.
For example, both decide to murder the guy, and both wait for him at different places. One murders him. The other waits at a wrong place (maybe just further down the same street), so nothing happens… then he goes home, gets some good sleep, and realizes that he was stupid. Alternatively, one gets a phone call that reminds him of something, and he changes his mind.
The idea of mind divergence was already done with parallel words (e.g. Sliding Doors), except these would be clones living in the same world.
Ouu that’s also nice!