Character Relationship Map: Time Masters

Characters

• Jaffar (voice) (played by Jean Valmont) — protagonist

  Jaffar is the captain of the Double Triangle 22 and a close friend of Claude and Silbad. After receiving Claude's final message, he diverts his mission to rescue Claude's son, advises the child throug...

• Silbad (voice) (played by Michel Elias) — supporting

  Silbad is Jaffar's experienced friend and a former survivor of Perdide, whose knowledge makes him essential to the rescue mission. He advises the stranded child alongside Jaffar and later is revealed...

• Matton (voice) (played by Yves-Marie Maurin) — supporting

  Matton is a deposed prince traveling with his sister and the treasure intended to finance his restoration. He initially endangers the stranded child and clashes with Jaffar, but after learning how to...

• Claude (voice) (played by Sady Rebbot) — supporting

  Claude is the father of the stranded child and a friend of Jaffar. After indigenous hornets kill his wife, Claude becomes trapped in a wrecked vehicle while fleeing across Perdide. He gives the child...

• Igor (voice) (played by Michel Barbey) — supporting

  Igor is a passing spacefarer investigating the recently appeared planet when he finds the nearly dying child after the hornet attack. His intervention saves the child's life, although the trauma cause...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Silbad (voice) → Igor (voice) (Temporal Rescuer And Survivor) — Igor's intervention preserves Silbad's life after the temporal displacement, although the survivor loses his early memories.

  After the planet is displaced through time, a passing spacefarer named Igor saves the nearly dying child; the child is later revealed to have grown in...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Jaffar (voice) → Matton (voice) (Conflict Adversary) — Jaffar opposes Matton's dangerous behavior before eventually helping him find a redemptive purpose.

  Matton attempts to persuade the stranded child to drown himself, while Jaffar later confronts Matton's escape and explains how to resist the hostile e...

• Jaffar (voice) → Silbad (voice) (Social Close Friend) — Their trust allows Jaffar to rely on Silbad's knowledge during the rescue.

  Jaffar deliberately seeks Silbad on Devil's Ball because Silbad is his experienced friend and knows how to survive on Perdide.

• Claude (voice) → Jaffar (voice) (Social Friend) — Their friendship motivates Jaffar to abandon his original route and begin the rescue mission.

  Claude sends his final message to Jaffar and identifies him as a friend while asking for help for his son.

Story Analysis

A rescue mission becomes a meditation on sacrifice, identity, memory, and the destructive passage of time.

Plot Progression

1. The Child on Perdide — Claude's family is attacked by giant hornets, and Claude becomes trapped after the vehicle crashes. He sends the child into a protective forest with an interstellar transceiver before dying.
2. A Rescue Across Worlds — Jaffar receives Claude's final message and redirects his ship toward Perdide. He recruits Silbad, whose experience helps the rescuers communicate with the stranded child.
3. The Gamma 10 Threat — Matton endangers the child and then escapes, drawing Jaffar to Gamma 10. There, both men discover a hostile thought-being that controls entire populations.
4. A Prince's Atonement — Jaffar and Matton are brought before the controlling entity and learn that resistance may destroy them. Matton sacrifices himself, destroying the entity and freeing its captives.
5. The Lost Future — Jaffar's group attempts to evade the Reform Patrol while the child becomes isolated on Perdide. The planet is shifted sixty years through time, leading to the revelation that Silbad is the child grown...