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dreamedbeyond · 1 year

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THE SHADOW.

For those of you who don't know, the 28th century leader of the Suliban Cabal, dubbed 'Future Guy' in fanon, and 'Shadow Boy' by me, had Enterprise been renewed and had they pursued the Temporal Cold War arc (seasons 1 and the first half of 2) instead of the Xindi War arc (the second half of season 2, season 3, and season 4), was going to be revealed to be none other than Archer himself. This has been confirmed by Brannon Braga.

What led Jon to become Shadow!Archer is that the Enterprise went down with all hands and he alone survived. He blames himself, and is all but debilitated by grief. He has lain in wait for centuries, undying, and causes the Temporal Cold War to rewrite that history.

Having sat around and watched the prime timeline (the timeline comprising of the Original Series, the Next Generation / Deep Space 9, Voyager, and culminating in the version of the 31st century Daniels is from), he is incredibly disappointed how things played out, and will stop at nothing to make a better future.

Given the Trek universe and the many reboots / soft reboots / things changing behind the scenes without an in-universe explanation, I reckon that Shadow!Archer has reset the timeline at least three times but it could be a lot more.

The first reset results in the timeline consisting of Discovery, Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Picard, and the 'bad future' 32nd century Archer and Daniels go to in "Shockwave."

The second reset results in the AOS timeline.

The third reset results in the 'final' timeline or the 'best' timeline, a timeline where the Xindi War doesn't happen, the Kelvin survives, the Burn doesn't happen, Captain Pike either lives (AOS) or is disabled but lives well (TOS / DIS / SNW), there's no Dominion War, and Voyager doesn't get stranded in the Delta Quadrant.

As a result, Shadow!Jon is ancient, jaded, and ruthless. He does not consider himself to be Captain Jonathan Archer, maintaining that Captain Archer died on the Enterprise with his crew. Though he loves deeply, fiercely, and all-consumingly, he could not care less about time, the universe, or himself. He is incredibly angry, eaten alive by guilt, and feels that what's happened is his fault to the point that he will remake time to his own design. He has nothing to lose, and he both doesn't care at all and cares so much to the point it destroys him. His best ending, he knows, is getting erased from history so that normal!Jon can live his life as he always should have, so if things don't work out this time, that's alright.

He's patient.

He can wait.

#ooc.#headcanon.#i'll stay with you for all of time [the shadow.]#verse two.#first reset.#second reset.#final reset.#[ooc] me holding up the traumatized and terrifying all-powerful centuries old shadow!jon: look at my son. my precious baby boy.#[ooc] also me: can we talk about the temporal cold war please tumblr i've been dying to talk to you about the temporal cold war ALL DAY--#[ooc] god the fucking MISSED POTENTIAL IT DRIVES ME CRAZY #[ooc] this is why i exist. to wreak havoc on the trek timeline #survivor's guilt tw #depersonalization tw #dissociation tw #ptsd tw #death tw #death mention tw #long post #long post tw

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yashley · 15 days

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Then why are you here? What is it you want? I want to free you.

#critical role #cr lb #ygifs #cr3 #imogen #liliana temult #maybe a bitch cried and that bitch was me #anyway the psychology of imogen using her responses as questions to get liliana to talk it out more it's so good #the 90 episode payoff is SO GOOD FOR ME #the TWO 31 rolls like the dice said it's laura bailey guys #also like it has to be ludinus planted that liliana's go-to is the ''children'' like something's not right there matt #it's so reset to factory settings and strange that she's hollowly committed to a concept that isn't even actually real #but it Was real for liliana when she first set out to protect her daughter #like how really All There can you be when your work husband is ludinus daleth #imogen getting her conversation I'm just framing it

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antirepurp · 7 months

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such a normal and well-adjusted 14-year-old

#silver the hedgehog #purp doot #sonic #sth #“but soda the timeline reset and his future is nice now -” what do you think all that time traveling does to a kid #what kind of kid even decides to time-travel in the first place

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ghirahimbo · 6 months

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evil time loop escape conditions where you can't get out until you've fuucked up your life in the most spectacular way possible, confident that the next night will reset the slate as usual.

instead, the next day comes.

#that's the first chapter btw #the rest of the story is about coming back from the fallout #trying to make amends #something something the hubris of believing you were above consequences #coming to terms with the pain you were willing to cause in the moment because you never thought it would last (but it did)#actually maybe this is just undertale geno route #post cancelled undertale did it already #lol mostly i was trying to figure out if i could get to new york in a daily reset time loop #i probably could if i fucked up my life #and of COURSE that would be the day it didn't reset

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bixels · 2 months

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Splatoon 3: Side Order is good, but not great. I still highly recommend it, but if you care about the story, you're going to be disappointed. Quick review: spoilers ahead.

Side Order was the devs experimenting with Splatoon's gameplay loop. The campaign is a rogue-like, and it works amazingly well. Super fun, super challenging, building my deck and fighting through challenges with the stakes of resetting really scratched an itch in my brain. They did a great job with it.

Unfortunately, I feel like priority went to game design rather than story. Much of the mysterious artwork we saw in the first teaser trailer was completely unused; turns out, all of that was just concept art that never made it into the final product. Side Order failed to make me care about what was happening. I don't know why the protagonist had to be Agent 8; it could've been anyone else and the story would've worked the same.

Octo Expansion was the absolute peak of meshing story and gameplay. The campaign's hook is insanely strong; we immediately empathize with Agent 8 because we know from previous lore that octolings like her have been trapped underground for all their lives. We care about her fight to the surface because it's a fundamentally ideological fight for freedom. The plot stuff about Tartar and the Thangs is just nice set dressing; 8's fight for freedom is the real story.

There's none of that in Side Order. I don't particularly care about Marina's metaverse, even if it's tied to Octo Expansion's story. I don't know why Acht is there other than backstory stuff. It really feels like 8 is just told to do something and she does it because she's the protagonist; she has zero personal stakes or motivations in the conflict. This is a story blunder the devs did in Splatoon 3's default campaign––forgetting to give the protagonist a personal reason to fight––that I hoped would be fixed here, but alas.

What makes it worse is that the gameplay and story progression are completely out of sync. I beat the entire game on my third run in 4 hours. With each run, you get up to two keys to potentially unlock bits of story. That means you'll get about one piece of the story every two runs. There are twelve pieces of the story; I got the first and then beat the whole damn game. Now I have to go back and grind to see the remaining story when I've already beaten the final boss and resolved the conflict. I missed the entire story because I never had to reset because I blazed through the gameplay! It's just a real shame that I experienced everything without knowing... why it's happening. The final boss had me asking myself what the hell is going on because I don't know the backstory at all.

Again, I still really recommend. The devs did a great job, but Side Order remains in the shadow of Octo Expansion's incredible success. Like the default singleplayer campaign, there's just a lot of lost story potential here that, while not necessary, would have really elevated this DLC into something amazing.

#long #personal #rant #splatoon #side order #it's a shame too because I got SO FUCKING HYPED at the title drop #when I realized that the entire first 30 minutes of the game was JUST THE OPENING TUTORIAL and they hit you with the music #and the “nintendo presents” and the title drop to a slow mo explosion. I thought “holy shit this is gonna be huge”#alas it wasn't because it turns out i'm better at roguelikes than the devs anticipated so i beat it in 3 hours lol #octo expansion was a cultural reset. it did something to my brain. the entire rising action part of the story; the reveals the twists the #boss fights the upward climb. it was so incredibly hype and just upped the stakes over and over. nothing's come close

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carlyraejepsans · 1 year

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was it foolishness? (was it fate)

#biscia continues to experiment with painterly styles. more at eleven #HI I AM VERY INSANE ABOUT FRISK TODAY. DONT TOUCH ME #undertale #frisk #myart #this is not possession btw i know it looks like red soul puppet stuff. but i just wanted to depict ''fate'' somehow #the narrative is alive and it tripped you down a big fucking hole. rip bozo #anyway you know how flowey said the first time he was able to reset/use his save powers was when he was so afraid to die #that he clung to life with everything he had? i think frisk had the exact same experience falling down mt ebott for the first time

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keikakudom · 22 days

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It's the witching hour, time to post RR!AU's Alastor design

I tried something new by adding the text info onto the photo ;;

Detailed/Transcribed text below:

The main differences in his personality from canon is that he does not smile 24/7; more like 23/7. Since he's not contracted here, he's continued to amass power fervently.

Alastor still hosts his radio broadcasts, a threat more feared in Hell than ever.

He loves to feign surface weakness for sympathy. The old bandages, the deer appearance-- he uses all of it for people to underestimate him and relishes on killing the overconfident and powerful. Anyone who's been in Hell for longer than a day knows never to make that mistake.

The only period where he didn't frequent killing sprees as often was when he worked as partners with Vox. They worked together for decades- Vox initiated it and seven years ago, he ended their partnership. Ever since, Alastor has become a bittersweet towards Vox, you can read more up on their dynamic here. But Vox is still his one of his favorite sources of entertainment. Something, something always unpredictable, they mirror eachother in that sense.

He's continued to topple other overlords since then, most prominently owning Carmilla's soul. He never owned Husk's soul in this AU....so, you heard that right. This is also an AU that features Overlord!Husk :]

As always, please feel free to flood my inbox with any questions you might have! Vaggie is planned next <3

You can check out the main AU post here, or the #au: reset resort tag below! ⤵️

#au: reset resort #hazbin hotel au #alastor #fanart #alternate universe #as a treat for being here #tumblr users always get to see new RR art first

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sixofclovers · 2 years

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