Apparently, Lotus/Suu is a girl...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma...terMachine

used the wrong definition though :X anyways, yes, you could say he's sort of trapped between dimensions/cloned himself due to bad time travel, the akyrum we fight is pretty much a ghost left in time, can't be explained because it's one of those things that work on the basis of "time travel lol, i don't got to explain pomegranate"

that's the cygnus definition. yea the other one is the classic "i went back in time to warn myself, but accidentally caused the events that led to my doom"

Shoulda known it was a trope. Should have known.
Anyways, seems legit.