fandomhigh_ooc | Fall BDE 2022: The One With the Time Traveling Jerkass

It's the most wonderful time of the year...or is it? It could be both in the same week! Well, either way, you get an interesting exam week! Our Fall 2022 BDE goes from Wednesday, December 14 to Saturday, December 17.

A lovable (ish? If you squint?) Time Changing Jerkass named the Master from Doctor Who is coming to town! He's coming to mess with the timeline ~~to own the libs~~ ~~for the lols~~ because he would like to see the destruction of the human race. Since there are a lot of humans on Fandom Island who are pivot points of their own universes, this is like one-stop shopping for bad guys. Plus we've had a few Doctors here and he hates them. He's a crazy mastermind--definitely not the kind of dedicated jackass who would travel 106 years back in time, ingratiate himself into the Russian court, name himself Rasputin, all so he can capture the Doctor and have a dance scene set to a specific song, so ignore that linked video--who jumps all over time and space.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is not to defeat him (because that wouldn't undo the changes) but to travel back in time and fix the one thing that would set everybody right: stopping the Master from making the changes before he starts.

I am intrigued! How, pray tell, does the timeline change?
Pick a character from your canon or an FH character (with permission from the player, of course) to be your character's alternate parent, with all the changes to backstory, appearance, and powers that might entail. Imagine a world where, say, Rey's father was Obi-Wan Kenobi! Tony Stark's mother was Peggy Carter! Diego and Five Hargreeves' father was literally anyone else! Think how well-adjusted they'd be! Or you can go a different way and have Eric Northman make you a vampire: a very different form of fatherhood. Play that new-you character through the week, either in familiar situations or on BDE adventures. Some people might even be changed enough that they side with and help the Master. As always, you don't have to change your character, but if you are it has to happen on Wednesday. This isn't a rolling effect.

For example: starting December 14, Ingvar Island's father wasn't IKEA - it was Nemesis Island. Instead of creepy dolls, not!Ingvar (now Ingrid) sucks in canon nemeses of FH characters (for example, Anakin Skywalker v. Palpatine and not, say, v. sand) from across time, who will wander over to Fandom to attack or otherwise mess with the FH characters. The nemeses need a day to figure out boats, so they will show up on the island December 15th. The nemeses' invasion will backfire a bit because some of the FH characters are now AU versions of themselves and don't have the particular weakness their canon nemesis generally exploits. They might even like the nemesis now! Live out your weird hatefic dreams! You can have a nemesis even if you haven't made your character an AU version of themselves, and you can play them out of your own journal since finding icons has become...difficult. Sigh.

We just ask one thing: that each and every one of your nemeses has an improbable 1995 fashion statement on them. Maybe it's Oakley glasses! Maybe it's a baseball cap from the 1995 Coca Cola catalog. Maybe it's a t-shirt with Coolio's head on it. We're not gonna judge your nemesis, but pick something fun.

This small invasion twigs everyone to realize that the personality shifts aren't just Fandom Doing a Thing.

Cue the Research and Finale Teams!
We'll need people on Thursday to start researching. People were weird on Wednesday, there are random bad guys showing up and monologuing all over the place while looking like extras from a Green Day music video, it's the end of the semester...characters are genre-savvy enough to put some things together. It's the holidays, so exploring night-time ghostly interventions to make people have a change of heart would not be a bad place to start, nor would going through handwavy Fandom records and remembering Nemesis Island, where we defeating the bad guys in one-on-one combat. Looking into timeline divergence is a good idea, too. We'll RNG the person who'll get to point us towards the Master, so sign up in ye handy sign up section down below if you'd like that to be your character.

By Friday, we'll need science and engineering-minded people to try to build a time machine. As you do.

And on Saturday, we'll need a group of four characters to travel back in time, confront the Master, and set the timeline right again. Meanwhile, the rest of you get to deal with an invasion of highly punchable, highly moddable NPCs dressed like 90's extras - and your own nemeses again, if you'd prefer - from Ingrid island. The whole issue will be fixed by early Sunday evening, Fandom time. If you'd like to be on the finale team, please sign up by Sunday night for great RNG justice.

Once the timeline is restored, how does that affect everyone?
That's, again, up to you! If you would like your character to remember being Rosa's secret child, you can! If you want to have amnesia about all or some of the events, you can do that too! If you want to remember but DENY THAT YOU DO FOREVER, that's also a great option!

Ye Helpful Timeline:
Wednesday: AU Timeline Shenanigans! FH characters wake up with entirely different backstories! Enjoy explaining your lives to your friends/family/roommates!
Thursday: CUE THE NEMESES. Which...does not go as planned and only lasts an hour, give or take. They retreat back to the Not!Ingvar island where the Master tries to come up with a new plan. Meanwhile our characters can start realizing this isn't just an advent thing and start doing research. One lucky RNGed character will figure out that this isn't a Scrooge thing but is actually a Master thing.
Friday: ...does anyone know how to make a time machine? Let's meet in the library and do science!
Saturday: PULL THE LEVER, KRONK. Our elite team goes back to 1995 to stop the Master from getting this idea to begin with. Everyone else is busy punching bad 90s fashion! Balance is restored! Steve Rogers fucks off into the 1950s! ...wait. Wrong time traveling plot.

So, questions, comments, etc?

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My new parent(s) is/are [yada]! If this will affect your powers, add that here, too.

Gray's new father is Azazel, which means, as the son's sin comes from the father's greatest flaw, he is now the avatar of Pride instead of Sloth. This makes him the most powerful of the Nephilim, meaning that in addition to his standard Nephilim powers he can erase humans' memories, and the other Nephilim cannot disobey a direct order from him. Also, he can hear other characters' prideful thoughts and yadda yadda all the deadly sin things only with Pride instead of Sloth.

Raiden's new father is the unnamed-in-the-text father of Galen, which makes him the avatar of Wrath instead of Gluttony. This means that he can go into a berserker state in which Wrath takes over completely and he is several times stronger and more unstoppable than he was already, and he can sense others' wrathful thoughts, yadda yadda all the deadly sin things with Wrath. Also, due to some retcon nonsense that made these powers Wrath-specific, he can sense someone's 'darkness'/generalized sins if he wants to, and he can tell when someone lies to him.

Edited 2022-12-08 00:30 (UTC)

Anakin's new father is no longer the Force! It is now one Sheev (really) Palpatine. Surely this will change nothing!

Oh, Libby's parents are now definitely the very liberal, granola-crunching Forresters instead of her extreme religious cult actual parents, ohmygooooood.

Also, can this be the canon-AU version of Summer that's raised by an AU version of Beth that's allergic to wine, so she's not an alcoholic, dumps Jerry's ass, never had Morty, and give Summer a ton of love and support, so she's super self-confident and happy and well-adjusted and also a lesbian?

Gladio and Ignis have switched families and roles, so now Gladio is a Scientia (and the blind one) and Ignis is an Amicitia (and was Shield to the King), because I am very easily amused.

Graham's parents are unknown, because he was kidnapped and enslaved by the evil wizard Mannanan and eventually escaped, ala Alexander, from the OG incarnation, because we do not talk about Chapter 4 outside of Amaya and Whisper's storyline, dammit.

Goose’s dad will now be Senator Wheiner instead of Commander Walsh because of this he was in the barracks with the other Supertroopers the day Wheiner released the gas and so he’s now a criminal like the other Supertroopers instead of a Galaxy Ranger. He doesn’t have his Series 5 implant but his bio defenses are heightened and he can control his shape shifting abilities without needing his badge.

Lana no longer knows who her parents were, because they gave her to the Jedi at a young age.

Due to a complicated series of events that also revealed her latent Force sensitivity, young Chelli Aphra became the padawan to a somewhat reluctant Ahsoka Tano.

She's been very excited to work with her grandmaster! Even though he's ancient.

Jon will be a happy and well-adjusted not-orphan!

Arthur will also be a happy and well-adjusted non-orphan!

John is not changing.

Nell will have been rescued from her cult-y church and raised, reluctantly and only because Nell is ridiculously stubborn and gave her no choice, by Jane Yellowrock. So have Nell Ingram, Vampire Hunter (rogues only), tight leather clad, bristling with weapons, long sword down her back, thin silver stakes at the top of the queue of her long braided hair. Her plant/earth related abilities remain, but are more powerful as she's been able to practice and hone them openly. She's also a kick-ass fighter as she was trained by some of the best vamp and non-vamp fighters around.

Edited 2022-12-11 21:54 (UTC)

Kurt will have a different father so he ended up with more of momma dearest's powers- meaning no teleporting and instead will be able to shapeshift and assume the identity of pretty much anyone, just like Mystique can.

Edited 2022-12-11 22:57 (UTC)

Dwight will have a different father (thankfully) for this AU round. This means his Trouble is different. Instead of attracting bullets, he now has a super speed Trouble that means for short periods of time he can move fast enough that things around him seem to slow down. So he could easily sidestep a bullet or even catch one out of the air rather than having it come at him like a heat-seeking missile.

Rey's a Kenobi now! Don't think about it too hard. She was raised by single dad Obi-wan so she's never been to Jakku and has trained as a Jedi her whole life.

Octavia's new dad is Marcus Kane, who also raised her as a single dad under the guise of having adopted her after her mother passed during childbirth and her bio dad was too grief-stricken to feel up to the task of raising a kid alone. Of course all of this was bullshit, and Octavia found out about both her very much still alive mother Aurora Blake and her older half-brother Bellamy sometime after everyone had landed on the Ground. And all of this after growing up out in the open but dealing with enduring whispers about how she was ' the girl who'd come out of nowhere'.

Even with this new background, she she's still seen a lot of traumatic, apocalyptic shit because that's inescapable in The 100, but at least she didn't have to try and lead people through any of it?

Duke will have been raised by Reverend Driscoll, Haven's own deeply problematic fundie preacher!

Like his adoptive sister, Hannah, Duke will have ended up with a, uhhh, conflicted relationship with his old man and the things he preaches. Unlike his adoptive sister, he'll have internalized the fuck out of Driscoll's "great destiny" speeches about how only Duke can save the people of Haven.

Are troubled people damned? Yeah, he's not so sure about that. Is he, specifically, meant to save them with his own trouble? Well now, that he can't really argue as hard with.

So yeah, I am not quite able to play Duke as a full-on cultist white savior type (I tried writing that fanfic already and have learned this about myself), but he's definitely not going to be the outwardly happy-go-lucky pirate we all know and love.

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