User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-30411952-20180708183943/@comment-4867780-20180709093249

You know the way Lawrence's countless avatars are actually "different facets of the same crystal" ? The same principle applies in the scenario you described too. In other words, all past "Lawrence's" are the same entity experiencing the world from different points of time.

He's not a fan of time-traveling though, and the part of him lying in the past is experienced as simple memories, standing guard over the native timeline of immigrating citizens, and only intervening to protect their pre-ascension story from temporal interlopers/anomalies.