The Traveler Part I: The one Chosen by none

Subhadip Seal never felt like he belonged—and he was right. At sixteen, he discovers he was never born, but built—a creation of a powerful version of himself from a universe that no longer exists. When he’s pulled into the multiverse, a place where time flows at incomprehensible scales and fiction from his home universe is real somewhere else, he’s told he’s destined to rule. But the multiverse is no utopia. It's a dystopian sprawl of collapsing civilizations, artificial lifeforms, and biologically-augmented empires where organic and physical realities blur. Genetic memory, body-engineering, and consciousness replication aren’t the future—they’re ancient history. And Subhadip’s own body may be more than it seems. Forced into a political marriage with a famous idol hiding scars behind her smile—and drawn to a woman connected to his lost past—Subhadip must navigate love, identity, and the machinery of power. Surrounded by broken legacies, living myths, and multiversal expectations, Subhadip must decide whether he’s just another manufactured heir—or the one who can finally rewrite reality.