User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20190606213852/@comment-4867780-20190608141105

Hey DIN ^ ^

A very interesting point, alternate realities do offer the opportunity to explore different paths of the same stories without the cascading troubles of time travel. Lawrence is not the "save everyone" kind of person though, only those he personally met and came to care about truly matter to him (the major trait preventing him from being "good" despite his many qualities).

This perspective extends to parallel universes as well. While he is aware that many of the planes he visits are internally divided into a multitude of variants, he generally explores a small fraction of them at most before moving to something new, and thus considers what happens in the others as having nothing to do with him (factually correct and reasonable).

On this regard, he sees alternate versions of people he knows living in unexplored parellel universes as entirely separate people who for cosmological reasons just happen to have a lot in common, and for all intents and purposes are effectively strangers to him. As such, he doesn't feel the urge to scour each multiverse and rescue every "copy" of them, exploring alternate universes at his own pace simply for the enriching diversity of it, and taking under his wing whoever he deems worthy regardless of who's alternate they may or may not be.

This dissociated perception was notably derived from his personal history. Lawrence having gained sentience and identity through merging with a specific human belonging to a specific Earth in a multiverse-type reality, he felt grateful and indebted to this one human and simply indifferent to his myriad alternates in so many universes, since they are all strangers to him.