#and to shatter and/or multiply timelines or something

[clawsoutspotsoff]

🐇: "I warned you that if I used my powers without a holder there might be side effects." 🐞: "What do I.... do with her?"

[viktorthemachineherald]

What actually happened to Jayce and Viktor in the end? And why didn’t Ekko’s Z-drive destroy everything within its blast radius?

TL;DR: the only timeline that could have worked was the one where Viktor gives Jayce the Acceleration rune, where Ekko invents the Z-drive, and where Jayce saves Viktor and gets his partner back.

Something we’ve seen pointed out is that the world rune that worked in this timeline was the Acceleration rune, which has the function of transportation through time and space. 

Ekko’s Z-drive was built by inverting Jayce’s Acceleration rune (this is important later).

We know from his experiments that the limit for reversing time is only 4 seconds. Any further back and it causes catastrophic harm to his surroundings. It’s implied that the further he overextends his Z-drive, the more disastrous the damage and radius of effect.

In the final battle against Viktor, we see Ekko overextend his Z-drive far beyond 4 seconds. Then, he yeets it at Viktor, whose mask is shattered from the impact.

We know that turning back time beyond 4 seconds causes catastrophic destruction of the surrounding areas: Jayce and Viktor, and perhaps countless others should have been caught up in the blast. But instead, we see something different:

Time stands still for a moment, courtesy of the boy who shattered time. 

Now things happen all in a manner of seconds: In the astral plane, we see Viktor comment on the anomaly that Ekko has created.

It’s something that Viktor as smart as he is, couldn’t have conceived— leave it to Ekko (and lest I forget, Heimerdinger and alt-Jinx) to show them all up.

This is debatable, but I firmly believe that Viktor with his awareness of all time and space, could have escaped or even survived the explosion.

It’s only Jayce, the only person who could show him what he showed him, that gets through to him in the end and convinces him to give up his Glorious Evolution.

"In all timelines, only you can show me this". Ekko is the catalyst but Jayce was the key.

Jayce returns the Acceleration rune to Viktor which kicks off a chain of events. The souls under Viktor’s control are freed from his grasp. Back in the real world, and back to the explosion, we see the following happening almost simultaneously: 

The blast from the Z-drive extends from Viktor’s reach to Jayce’s

The Acceleration rune embedded in Jayce’s wrist starts to glow from being activated by Jayce and Viktor in the astral plane

Jayce and Viktor are absorbed into the gem and the gemstone blips out of existence 

Recall that the Z-drive was created through an inversion of the Acceleration rune. To multiply something by its inverse, is to divide it by itself. The Acceleration rune multiplied by the Inversed Acceleration rune, cancels out the effect of the other: nullifying both the anomaly from the Z-drive but also the rune.

This explains why there was no larger explosion. Viktor and Jayce (who chose to stay) sacrificed themselves and took themselves out of the equation. Jayce and Viktor were the anomalies— just like the Z-drive should not have existed, neither should have Hextech.

Through all the timelines and permutations of runes that Viktor tried, the only combination that could have worked was in the timeline with the Acceleration rune. It couldn’t have worked if it was any other rune, if Ekko had never invented the Z-drive, or if Jayce had never convinced Viktor to give up his path of destruction, and got his partner back.

In short: Boy Savior saves the day; Love Wins

[anmagirl]

Sonic Prime time line theory

OK so I just thought of something crazy.  What if the original world and the shatter-verses could co-exist kind of.

Now hear me out but in the last episode it was only for a moment but there was a time where his friends returned in the same space of the shatter-verses.  It happened when Nine misplaced the crystals.  Now can they literally be in the same universe?  No, i don’t think so.  instead they would be alternate versions or different time lines.  

I think I said this in one of my previous theories but what if each world in the result of the butterfly effect.  Being one small thing changes the reality,  The prism effectively kept the different POSSIBLE times apart but once separated they became realities.  The shards made them realities.

there is a real theory all about how they were multiply dimensions set in different times because of the different actions we take, so maybe this is based on that.

So once the shards are back together the spaces don’t ‘”disappear”  they just became another possibility or even another time line.  So Nine and the others are still alive they just can’t co-exist with Sonic’s time.  Unless Nine creates a portal to travel dimensions but he probably wouldn’t do that since we all know he will be redeemed.

Oh and if this theory is true then odds are the shatter verses will get their own variety of Sonic in them.  Since Sonic didn’t split into the different times the worlds couldn’t get their own.  

Kind of like if he was in a time machine and visited the future.  since he is in the machine he wouldn’t age so in the future he would meet old versions of his friends but not of him since he wasn’t there to age. 

Once the prison is put together then Sonic effectively would be able to by there and meet the others in there own unique way.  Even Nine.  

Kind of like this.  The Top is the original world.  I could not figure out how it should look but in short it is all of them branching off of the world Sonic is in with the complete prism aka the true time line.  In this Sonic would be in all of them in some way but how he meet if friends would be different if at all.  Then the bottom is when the prism separated effectively separating the multiply timelines.  Sonic and Shadow not being apart of the split.

So the bottom line is. Will Nine and the rest disappear and be like they never existed?  No.  but could they live with the other times/shatterspaces?  also No.  They would just be different dimensions going through there own time lines.

I really hope this made sense since some of this I felt I was rambling or was repeating myself but I could not put this thought into words. 

P.S. I hope this is at least a little bit true.  I don’t want Nine to disappear.  Have him be in his own time and eventually meet his own Sonic.

[delilahanneiris]

iv. in another timeline, have my other self made it out too?

Have you ever become a particle inside a cube of plasma, suspended in endless motion, or felt that moment when the movie you've been watching finally reaches its climax?

That was what Delilah felt when the blinding light almost burned her vision. Not a chance to take her breath, the mirrored walls around her refracted the glow in infinite directions, multiplying her reflection again and again until she felt like she was standing in a sea of herself.

Then the light flickered.

Her reflections moved.

Not in sync with her. Not naturally. One of them tilted its head a second too late. Another curled its lips into a smirk when she hadn't.

Her stomach twisted.

That wasn't her.

A crack split in the air like shattering glass. The mirrors began to warp; from edges flickering to dissolving into pixels, pieces of the room deleting before her eyes.

It was falling apart.

She ran.

Her foot hit the ground just as the last of the mirrored walls vanished into static, dissolving into a single hallway ahead. She didn't stop to question it. The walls around her glitched, their edges jagged.

Her body screamed to keep moving, but her mind... her mind was still stuck in the maze, replaying the other her.

What if she hadn't been fast enough?

What if it wasn't her who escaped?

The thought made her want to stop, to check, to confirm, but she couldn't. The space behind her wasn't just disappearing.

It was being erased.

After the walls glitched, it faded.

A door loomed ahead. Coda Members.

Delilah fumbled for her ID card, fingers shaking. The glitches spread to the ceiling, black patches swallowing entire chunks of the hallway.

She swiped the card.

Error.

Her breath hitched. "No, no, no—" She swiped again.

Error.

A sharp dread stabbed through her gut. Had she used the wrong ID? Was she even registered anymore?

Green.

The door clicked open. She threw herself inside.

The moment she crossed the threshold, the noise stopped. She landed hard, breath ragged, and looked up.

The room was... normal.

Too normal. Couches. A vending machine humming softly. Three doors labeled Emergency Exit, Ladies' Bedroom, Gentlemen's Bedroom.

Other members were already inside, talking, resting, seemed to not know yet to the fact that the space outside had ceased to exist.

Her fingers twitched.

She still felt real.

She swallowed hard, forcing herself to focus. On the table, a single camera sat next to an instruction screen.

Each member has a piece of the clues. Gather them to unlock the last room.

Something small crinkled in her pocket. She pulled out a slip of paper.

OHW.

Her brain took a second to unscramble it. "Who?"

The others checked their pockets, pulling out similar cryptic words. One by one, they laid them out on the table.

Intertwine DNA and hum. Signals where room networking. The threshold, the beyond. Ascend way, the know who. Those by but not. Unbarred stands gate, final. The air meets steel. Where upward. Path the route. The escape, seek.

Something buzzed.

Delilah's stomach dropped.

The far end of the room flickered. The deletion had followed her inside.

Vanished.

No time.

The deletion spread faster. The vending machine blinked out of existence. The far couch collapsed into raw pixels.

Think. Think. THINK.

"Intertwine," someone muttered, reading aloud. "DNA and hum. Maybe… maybe we need to activate something?"

Glitched.

"The gate, final." Delilah ran a hand through her hair. "It sounds like it's talking about a door."

Another member nodded toward the emergency exit. "But which one?"

Deleted.

Her eyes darted to the clue. The air meets steel.

"The air meets steel," Delilah murmured. She turned toward the room, glancing upward. A ventilation grate sat high on the wall, metal glinting under the light.

Disappeared.

"Here, a vent." She scrambled toward it. Fingers brushed metal, searching a keyhole.

But no key.

Someone swore. "We don't have a key!"

Reset.

As Delilah ran her fingers over the metal surface, she felt something shift. The words weren't just a riddle.

"Intertwine DNA and hum," she repeated, heart pounding. "It's us. We need to work together."

But a command.

"We have to activate it." Someone turned, urgent. "Together."

One by one, the members placed their hands against the metal. And then, uncertain at first, but growing stronger, they hummed.

Nothingness.

A deep, reverberating sound filled the air, vibrating through their fingertips.

A click.

The vent creaked open.

No hesitation. Delilah pulled herself up, every muscle straining.

Escaped.

The deletion reached the table. The camera blinked once before disappearing.

"Hurry!"

One by one, they climbed.

Delilah pulled herself through. She risked one last glance below, and—

The room is ceasing to exist.

They had made it.

***

Delilah swung her legs over the edge and stepped outside, letting the cool night air hit her skin. The grass beneath her feet felt real, wet, cold, like she hadn't really felt in days.

The sky was open with stars, moon, and the crickets. Nothing like the catastrophic spaces she'd just escaped.

She let out a long exhale, letting all the tension from the past fourteen days wash off. The endless puzzles, the mirrors, the rush... it was finally over. She was here, in the real world. In herself. No more glitches, no more warped reflections. Just her.

She closed her eyes for a second, feeling the weight lift.

A smile tugged at her lips, but it quickly turned into a soft laugh. She couldn't deny that her counterpart had given her a sense of freedom, an edge she hadn't known she had before. If it hadn't been for that mirror version of herself, she might not have had the courage to face the rooms, the challenges, the fear. Every single of it.

Tears welled up, but it wasn't from anything bad. Just pure relief. The medics were coming, but for now, she let herself fall apart for a second.

Outside, in the night of freedom, with no walls around her, Delilah finally felt free.

"2025... 2033... 2027... 2035... it makes no sense, but I hope in another timeline, my other self has made it out, too."

— D

[that-flux]

Lore Tidbits of the funny Worldbuilding Project

While writing a universe unlike ours, I've come up with a lot of funny ideas. In no particular order, here they are. Beyond the realms of the universe there is the "place beyond". The place beyond is well the place beyond what is the universe, which is a poor way of wording it. To make sense of it, considered the universe to be any container, this is just the space outside the container. The place beyond matters more in the latter portion of the timeline, but what is known is that this where the First Krolo resides and where the syf reside. Moving to the next one, the First Krolo. The First Krolo is an existence both similar and foreign to the mynori. Basically put, the First is the "god" of this universe. They are a very parent-like being, looking after the mynori, but not afraid of letting them make mistakes so they can grow more. The weirder thing about the First is that the First's appearance is based on the viewer's interpretation of what a god looks like. If you saw the First, they would look like how you personally concieve a god should look like. Syf is another concept I thought of for the funny worldbuilding project. It's basically the concept of self when you remove everything from it. If you remove your body, your mind, even your soul, at least in this fictional universe there is something still intrisnicly you there, even if by all understanding it should exist. This is syf and it's loosely the same kind of thing as the First Krolo. You can compare it to an embryo, and the First as a fully formed creature in comparison. Mynori with stronger connections to their syf, are able to use the power from beyond. This power bends the universe to their will, simply editing casuality, rather than using some funny physics or method to accomplish their desire. This power, however, is extremely rare, and I've only written of one mynori known to possess it. There are also demons in this universe. Demons here are not a unique species, rather demonhood is more of a state of being. Any mynori can become a demon, no mynori is born a demon. Demonhood strictly happens when the three cores of a mynori are shattered. Their body slain, mind broken, and soul shattered. Demonhood then takes over, and leaves only a mad hungry thing. Demons often blink in and out of reality, their actions predatory and seemingly without thought. They lack reasoning and command great power. They're written to vaguely be a metaphore of cancer. This horrible thing that overtakes and multiplies until it ultimately causes a final death. What created the original demons in this universe also came from beyond, though that force wasn't something sentient like the mynori or the First. Last bit of lore for right now. Soul-melding. Soul-melding is a magical ritual of sorts used by mynori to create new souls. This is often done with those partnered with each other that possess incompatible biology. The result is a child, that is concievably a unique existence compared to other mynori, as their form often takes a middle ground between their parents. Welp, the next time I write something a universe unlike ours, I think I'll tackle the other big mess of thread. Resets. It's a word that's not used literally here, although while time is never reset (as I very quickly banned myself from adding any timetravel shennanigans to this) it can be seen as being practically reset in major aspects.