Well, Victor didn’t write those notes on the Sacred Timeline.

And it’s more like Miss Minutes and Renslayer had to create the branched timeline to cause Victor to write those notes so they could be given to OB later. A loop with no visible beginning.

How do you know for sure that Victor did not write the notes on the sacred timeline? That’s assuming he even wrote notes.

Victor was living on the sacred timeline before Ravona and minutes interfered with it.

We all must have missed the scene where Ravona handed the notes over to OB. All I saw was Ravona was pruned.

@Dark Lord of the Pith The Sacred Timeline’s Victor seems to have never received the TVA guidebook, so whatever notes he wrote would be far too primitive for anything like the TVA.

about how Ouroboros gotten the handbook, one possibility might be through a library at the TVA. if I recall correctly, one was shown in season 1.

source for library's version of Timely's handbook, perhaps some person/people or machine/machines copied written words from various timelines.

Or Timely simply wrote notes while on the main timeline, and then OB used those notes as the basis for the official handbook.

Or Victor from the main timeline actually met face to face with OB a while back, to teach OB every thing he knows.

Any of those possibilities are just as plausible as any other theory put forth.

the scene where they met seemed to imply that Ouroboros never previously met any version of Victor Timely.

some time during the conversation, Ouroboros asks for his name and has a look on face after it is told. hard for me to tell if the look was surprised, excited, something else, or a combination.

if Ouroboros personally knew Victor Timely, Ouroboros probably would not have asked for his name and probably would have had immediate recognition of him.

@Dark Lord of the Pith As Sylvie said, Victor would never have written those notes on the “main” or Sacred Timeline. The captions at the bottom also clearly denote that Victor only wrote those notes in a branched timeline, “after” OB wrote the handbook.

So any learning from the Sacred Timeline would’ve had to come from someone other than the Victor Timely we know.

Victor only wrote those notes “After” OB wrote the handbook. And yet OB says everything he knows he learned from Victor.

Makes sense.

@Dark Lord of the Pith The "Sacred Timeline" version of Victor Timley could have never wrote those notes for OB because he never become Kang/He Who Remains. Remember that the only way Timely can become Kang and later on He Who Remains that is if he goes off the "Sacred Timeline" Path.

At this point I could care less if it was a sacred timeline version of Victor, or a branched version of Victor, or a version of Victor which came out of Brad’s butt.

All we know is some clown named Victor Timely taught OB everything he knows, so that OB could write the TVA handbook; but somehow it was impossible for that same Victor to create those notes for OB until after the TVA Handbook was written.

Makes sense.