capitalooc | THE TIME WARP AGAIN, ETC

HELLO I COME BEARING PLOT. This plot is going to be primarily player run, and as widespread or as narrow focused as you like. It could easily involve the whole game or just a few people. It is optional, but radical.

The idea: TIME TRAVEL.

The structure of this time travel plot will be thus:

PART ONE
Ten years in the future of CH, there has been a Bad End. For those unfamiliar, this means that everything has gone to SHIT through some means or another, and is tonally a post apocalyptic world of tomorrow. The nature of this “apocalypse” will depend on player plotting, and the people who want to step up to be bad guys. Has someone risen up to become an evil cyborg overlord? Have Alternians taken over the planet? Has TRIDENT taken over CONDOR? These are the questions that we must answer.

Everyone who wants in will get to make a gritty, dark future AU version of their characters. An INCIDENT will occur that will send a group of these characters into THE PAST (aka present game time) in an attempt to stop whatever bullshit has caused the future to suck so much. This could be one event, or multiple.

The important thing is that we have a team of time travelers in Los Angeles attempting to fix the future, and weirding everyone out. They must acquire some kind of MacGuffin, or stop some disaster.

PART TWO
With the mission more or less in hand, the time travelers will travel to the future – and this time, they will be bringing a motley of past people with them, to experience the rotten world of tomorrow. Why? Because they need help doing some kind of thing, most likely dicking with a time machine in a way that will properly reset the timeline instead of creating an offshoot.

So they are basically fighting to make their timeline no longer exist.

At any rate, they need backup. Time will move along in both timelines more or less linearly, though there can be some variation for convenience. How this part ends really depends on you.

So what we need to do here is PLAN. Who wants in? Who wants to timetravel? Who wants to be villains?

Use the comments below to decide. The plot will start mid November and will proceed indefinitely, since the rest of the world will be able to continue on regardless.

Threaded | Flat

If nobody else steps up, I'm up for this guy being Evil World Overlord (or having a part in thereof). At the same time if someone else would prefer to take that spot I am super down with him basically sealing off his place from everything else (or dying in the attempt).

I'm also up for him having a direct hand in the events that led up to whoever the Evil World Overlord is; that is, doing something that needs to be stopped here and now to prevent ~the future~!

Yeah so I think in grimdark future Optimus pretty much has to be dead, because dying is what he does.

BUT THAT MEANS THAT SOMEONE ELSE CAN HAVE THE MATRIX OF LEADERSHIP!!!

QUICK, BEFORE RODIMUS CALLS DIBS

Okay so dark n edgy future Peony is definitely 100% a supervillain, and anything beyond that I am willing to negotiate

Miko is SO going to the future

Veloci will probably have been outed as an evil dinosaur and unfortunately for him will NOT be in with any evil overlord stuff going on, meaning he'll most likely be either dead or Hiding From The Law

that's all i got so far for the people who i've got in at the moment

Optimus is dead, as stated above.

I want Sollux to have ascended to supervillain in the future, though the specifics are flexible.

Future Katniss is almost certainly no longer around, but I may involve her in some wacky time hijinx since she's already a time traveller.

I have NO IDEA what Signless is doing, but it will probably depend on the rest of the set up.

CELESTIA: definitely dead, celestia is incompatible with grimdark futures

MEGATRON: possibly also dead (or 'dead'), but either way no longer leader of the Decepticons

KARKAT: would like to imagine that his grimdark future self is GRUFF and MANLY with STUBBLE and a ROBOT ARM and dispensing STOIC ONE LINERS but in fact he is mostly probably doing a lot of crying about how Sollux is evil and Katniss is dead

VANESSA: the true grimdark future: everyone has been turned into a furry

Starscream is ready to take his rightful place on the throne.

Regular Starscream is ready to go into the future to see what a shit leader he actually is.

Thoughts from fellow Decepticons?

Drift: Honestly, with him it will largely depend on what's happened with his pals.

Rotorstorm: She would probably end up being in some kind of rebel faction? Maybe using her helicopter to transport supplies and rescue civilians.

BAD END EVIL TERRY also raiden is an ADVANCED BATTLEBOT of some kind with ZERO EMOTIONS except a thirst for JUSTICE and VIOLENCE (who the fuck knows what chris is doing all i know is that i'm contractually obliged not to let him die at all ever)

Raiden and Chris both want to go to the future but beyond that I have NO IDEA what to do with them

Man usually I am inclined to go with sad drifter Maxxie in these situations but I'm gonna go with tough sunshine-less Maxxie. With scars. And like, chest hair or something. It's impossible for him to go evil tbh so like

FUTURE FINNICK....... either dead or playin on the evil team. Will investigate.

Nilin is most certainly fucking evil as fuck.

IDK ABOUT GOING TO THE FUTURE I'M GONNA GO MUSE ABOUT THIS ON PLURK FOR A WHILE.

Future Black Ghost has probably fallen off the Evil Overlord Ladder, probably because someone (Sovereign/Baelheit) managed to wrest control of TRIDENT from underneath him. He has now gone back to his roots as the vigilante Skull Man and is basically acting as the bitter angry uncle of the future heroes. I'm not planning on him going to the past currently but he'll certainly be around for Phase 2

What Magnus is up to depends entirely on what the Autobots have planned and what his relationship with Arcee Prime is cause they didn't exactly have a great rapport last time she was in command.

Edited 2014-10-30 17:01 (UTC)

GRIMDARK FUTURE JON IS BASICALLY CANON ANYWAY OK LET'S DO THIS

future jon has been cut off from his entire family somehow (ned, cat, and robb is dead bc if robb stark can't be dead in a grimdark future au who can) and elected to an extreme responsibility to circumvent a power struggle between several more established factions

is he in charge of the CONDOR RESISTANCE? what's left of ALPHA FORCE? idk but nobody listens to him. he has MYSTERIOUS SCARS from a fight with a magical (bird?) supervillain or something, or maybe they just represent his emotional damage

he's mostly dead inside

Edited 2014-11-04 19:58 (UTC)

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WHY IS OPTIMUS PRIME DEAD AGAIN

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General Character Info!

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