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It's totally not a complete rip of Cyberpunk 2077 and the wiki I swear, lol.
It's totally not a complete rip of Cyberpunk 2077 and the wiki I swear, lol.
@Havoccultist I never pegged a specific year, but I’d say roughly around the 23rd or 24th century. The Megacities took ages to build and they’ve been there for a century at least.
@Wayward Yup! Anyone can pop in and apply with a CS!
Character Sheets have been added!
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That works. We could say that all the timelines from which the Avatars originate may be at different points along their own flow of time, but the moment they bond with a Quantum Shard, their timeline syncs up with Celestia, which is why they all get teleported there at exactly the same time. So, it would be like one timeline has an Avatar bonding with a Shard in 1951 Earth, while in another timeline, a different Avatar didn't bond with a Shard until 1981. But they both arrive at Celestia at exactly the same time, and from that moment forward, both those timelines are locked with Celestia so that time flows evenly between them, meaning in the two timelines referenced, they will always be 30 years apart even though both are considered "present time" to their respective Avatars. Almost like multiple save files for a game at different points in time but all of them are now running simultaneously.
If you are doing a fantasy-themed world, it could be somewhere in the ancient past, the distant future, or anywhere in between. It only becomes synced with Celestia when your character bonds with the Quantum Shard and is teleported there. Though if you go with temporal powers, perhaps you can rewind time like in Prince of Persia or the Eye of Agamotto, but all Shard-bearers would rewind with you. You mentioned precognition, so that could be the subconscious mind of your future self sending back fragments of memories through the Quantum Shard, and perhaps that's how you begin to realize uniting the Crystal goes against your values. Like, you receive visions of people screaming out as their timelines are erased in the future or something. Now whether those are legitimate visions or doctored manifestations created by some nefarious entity remains to be seen XD.
Oh, and as for Void Demons and other Quantum Shards not part of our main group of characters, we could say only Avatars who were deemed worthy at the moment of bonding by their Shards were granted access to Celestia. In the case of our "bad guy" characters, they may have been worthy at the moment of bonding, but corrupted their Shards after the fact. Those who bonded with a Shard and were immediately deemed unworthy are the ones who first turned into Void Demons, and thus they never came to Celestia. And in some timelines, there are Shards which never found a host and are just waiting to be collected by the Avatars.
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Yeah, or if we ever get to a point in the plot where your antagonist character is defeated or killed, you could then bring in a good version of that character from a different timeline who then inherits their Quantum Shard or something.
As to your other question, it's totally fine to come from places other than Earth or Earths that are radically different. For instance, there could be timelines where humans or humanoid life developed on other planets, and timelines where non-human humanoids developed on Earth. There could be Earths similar to the movie Bright, where elves, orcs, fairies, etc exist in modern society.
What did you have in mind?
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Oh yes, I think we actually were on the same page after all about your future self idea. I went back and re-read your original post and realized I misread a part. I thought you meant that your evil version came from the future our characters were heading towards, kind of like Alternate Barry/Savitar in the Flash show, but I see now what you meant. So yeah, we can say that there are countless alternate pasts, alternate presents, and alternate futures. Some timelines are farther along than others, and there can be many different eras covered in our adventures.
Like, there could be a timeline where it's still the 1950s but aliens invaded, or a timeline where there's a zombie apocalypse going on, or a timeline where Earth has been destroyed and the remaining humans live on other planets.
And please feel free to continue on with your idea, your evil version and my Sith Lady/Lord could probably team up for a while, though I imagine he would eventually distance himself from her when she veers even farther down the path of evil than him XD. It seems your character still has some semblance of honor and a sense of greater good, but my evil character will eventually devolve into a sadistic bitch LOL.
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I had a similar idea for my Sith character XD. I was thinking of making them eventually become an evil character, and she is an alternate timeline version of my good character's twin sister. They come from very similar timelines that split off at the moment of a plane crash when they were kids. In the brother's timeline, his sister died, and in the sister's timeline, her brother died. He managed to grieve and then recover, but she still harbors a lot of emotional trauma from that day and gradually becomes resentful of her alternate timeline brother for him not having been as miserable as her after losing his twin. Not only that, in his timeline, their parents had another daughter, while in her timeline, their parents divorced and then eventually died in a car crash while they were arguing. She begins to feel betrayed that the other version of her family had such a happy life without her and that sparks the gradual corruption of her Quantum Shard.
As for your idea for time powers, I'd be curious to see just how far you wanted to take them. Since the Cosmic Crystal is a fourth dimensional construct, and by extension the Quantum Shards, I'd imagine any temporal-shifting abilities would not directly effect anyone who also had a Shard. But it could effect the environment around them. As for the future version of your character, I'd imagine their Shard would be a different one than the past version, since it seems unlikely that a fourth dimensional object could go back in time and co-exist with a past version of itself. Instead, it could be that his timeline was ripped in two as well, with a different Shard going to each half and finding him in both timelines.
I have to head to work now, but we can discuss it more later. I'm excited!