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So, how's the new mass time travel/soulmates verse going?
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Still in the very early stages of planning!
What I have so far:
Everyone in Eos has at least one soulmate. But not as we’d traditionally think of soulmates. A soulmate in this ‘verse is someone who is going to play an important role in shaping your life—be that a parent, mentor, friend, lover, or even enemy. Or some combination thereof.
So people often have more than one soulmate. And the purpose of the soulmarks is somewhat unclear, at the beginning of the fic—there are tons of theories, but no one really knows. But what is known is that the mark is the first words that will be spoken to you by your soulmate.
Which is where the time travel comes in.
Noctis entering the Crystal sends a sort of—cosmic ripple through space-time. Which does two things: anyone who was alive within two generations prior to Noctis’ entrance has their consciousness sent back to the moment they met their first soulmate…and a paradox is created, of sorts.
Because Noctis was always meant to enter the Crystal, and thereby create the soulmarks, which were always intended to be a guide for the time traveling generations, but—the purpose of the time travel is to eliminate the need for Noctis to enter the Crystal. A sort of partial reset, as it were. But it’s also not a stable time loop, so something has to be corrected.
And, of course, none of the travelers know that. Or what they’re doing back in time. Or how they’re back in time. But they know they want to change things. And some of the things they want to change are at cross-purposes, or they may want to change the same thing but are going at it from completely different directions.
CHAOS
And then—weird things start happening. People get caught in small time loops. Objects become insubstantial. Everyone has identical recurring dreams. And it all gets worse the closer the timeline gets to the moment Noctis entered the Crystal.
And that is how the world learns that shit’s gotten real, fast.
So of course they turn to their leaders for answers.
Just one problem: they don’t have a clue either.
The only one with even an inkling of what could be wrong is a certain individual with a talent for time magic and a unique sense of fashion.
I’m speaking, of course, of Ardyn.
Of course, he’s not currently inclined to help anyone. He was so close to his vengeance and final rest, and then he got sent back to the moment he met his first soulmate. Who was this soulmate? Somnus.
This Ardyn tried and failed to avert his fate—failed because the Scourge is so bound up in him now, it came back with him. And so Ardyn had to reprise his roles as first Healer and then Accursed in order to get the timeline back to the birth of the one person who can kill him.
He is not happy. He is tired.
He has Lucians knocking on his door, why.
Oh, the Chosen King mentioned he can do things with time, did he? You want him to consult on this time travel phenomenon?
Why should he?
And thus ensues a comedy of sorts as the leaders of the world try to convince one stubborn, exhausted, cranky immortal to help them save the world.
I’m calling it “This Is Fine”.
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Still in the very early stages of planning!
What I have so far:
Everyone in Eos has at least one soulmate. But not as we’d traditionally think of soulmates. A soulmate in this ‘verse is someone who is going to play an important role in shaping your life—be that a parent, mentor, friend, lover, or even enemy. Or some combination thereof.
So people often have more than one soulmate. And the purpose of the soulmarks is somewhat unclear, at the beginning of the fic—there are tons of theories, but no one really knows. But what is known is that the mark is the first words that will be spoken to you by your soulmate.
Which is where the time travel comes in.
Noctis entering the Crystal sends a sort of—cosmic ripple through space-time. Which does two things: anyone who was alive within two generations prior to Noctis’ entrance has their consciousness sent back to the moment they met their first soulmate…and a paradox is created, of sorts.
Because Noctis was always meant to enter the Crystal, and thereby create the soulmarks, which were always intended to be a guide for the time traveling generations, but—the purpose of the time travel is to eliminate the need for Noctis to enter the Crystal. A sort of partial reset, as it were. But it’s also not a stable time loop, so something has to be corrected.
And, of course, none of the travelers know that. Or what they’re doing back in time. Or how they’re back in time. But they know they want to change things. And some of the things they want to change are at cross-purposes, or they may want to change the same thing but are going at it from completely different directions.
CHAOS
And then—weird things start happening. People get caught in small time loops. Objects become insubstantial. Everyone has identical recurring dreams. And it all gets worse the closer the timeline gets to the moment Noctis entered the Crystal.
And that is how the world learns that shit’s gotten real, fast.
So of course they turn to their leaders for answers.
Just one problem: they don’t have a clue either.
The only one with even an inkling of what could be wrong is a certain individual with a talent for time magic and a unique sense of fashion.
I’m speaking, of course, of Ardyn.
Of course, he’s not currently inclined to help anyone. He was so close to his vengeance and final rest, and then he got sent back to the moment he met his first soulmate. Who was this soulmate? Somnus.
This Ardyn tried and failed to avert his fate—failed because the Scourge is so bound up in him now, it came back with him. And so Ardyn had to reprise his roles as first Healer and then Accursed in order to get the timeline back to the birth of the one person who can kill him.
He is not happy. He is tired.
He has Lucians knocking on his door, why.
Oh, the Chosen King mentioned he can do things with time, did he? You want him to consult on this time travel phenomenon?
Why should he?
And thus ensues a comedy of sorts as the leaders of the world try to convince one stubborn, exhausted, cranky immortal to help them save the world.
I’m calling it “This Is Fine”.
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