Plot and also Canon Update
Jan. 2nd, 2012 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
parasomnistIn Alex's canon, she is very shortly going to be killed by her mentor, Iris de Hautdesert, for Knowing Too Much about the universe. This is going to be done by throwing her off a building. Whee!
The thing is, Iris miscalculated, and Alex is a powerful enough Deva (reality-warper / god) now that her consciousness doesn't completely die, but instead she leaves enough of an imprint in the Dreaming to survive. That is, in her own world, she continues to exist in the alternate universe that everybody taps into when they sleep.
Unfortunately for her, the traumatic nature of what just happened does leave her mind mostly broken, and she ends up in Nightmare, the layer of the Dreaming where all the subconscious crazy shit goes. Nightmare's ALSO one level above the layer of reality called Chaos, which is a seething soup of everything that possibly could be.
So the supposed Big Bad of Somnus, the Nightmare Queen, finds the shattered bits of Alex's consciousness, quietly puts Alex's mind back as best she can. While she does this, she gives Alex the rest of the truth she's been missing: both Alex and the Nightmare Queen were experiments on Iris' part to create superweapons that would destroy humanity's emotions and reason, as part of a plan to end all war and to keep Reality nice and quiet. She also confirms Alex's suspicions that Reality is, in fact, a prison plane designed to keep everyone trapped and ignorant of the true nature of reality.
The Nightmare Queen very carefully structures her arguments to bring Alex around to her way of thinking, but also gently leaves out most of Alex's higher mental processes and ability to be reasonable about things. She then takes the Fury, a living incarnation created from humanity's collective rage, and implants it into Alex, while at the same time destroying the rest of the artificial limits on Alex's power (the same limits most of humanity has)
(I could explain why the nightmare queen can't break her own limiters but man I only have so much time here)
This means that Alex can just waltz right back into her broken corpse, fix it, and be alive again, which the Nightmare Queen hasn't been able to do for Reasons. This ALSO means that Alex is the Nightmare Queen's personal death-bringing reality destroying hellbeast because she's now 50% the collective rage and despair of all humanity oops.
Alex / Fury then proceeds to try to break reality and actually succeeds at destroying a large part of Boston. Thanks to Iris' work, she's actually too powerful for the local Sentinels (the reality police, who keep people from waking up to their true power, usually by murdering them) to handle, and they have to call for backup.
MEANWHILE! Aaron de Hautdesert finally stops moping because Alex's friends go and kick him in the butt until he gets off it and realizes that he really should stop kicking himself about the whole oops I lost the war that got us into this situation in the first place, and he explicitly goes on the run, breaks a lot of rules by coming out of the Dreaming into reality, and also breaks most of the limiters on Alex's friends (Andrea and Jasmin) so they can, y'know, actually do something about this
the three of them fight back against Alex's gozilla stomping of Boston and manage to fix most of it, and subdue her enough that they can abscond to another layer of reality before the Sentinels get there to murder Alex. They end up in Kalliste, the former capitol of all reality, a broken wasteland of shattered and warped glass and weird reality storms where there was once a city that defied imagination.
There, they end up in a place where they used to test fledgeling Deva and teach them their powers, and there Aaron, Andrea, and Jasmin all do a whole journey to the center of the mind thing with Alex to get her sane again (and remove the Fury from inside her soul), THEN they go putting her mind back, and FINALLY she goes and ends up taking a test to come to terms with herself
ONCE SHE FINALLY COMPLETES THAT (it'd take like a lot of pages, if this were a book, and be totally awesome, or something) Alex is finally at peace with herself, and comes into her own powers as the new Deva of Fire, the first full-fledged Deva to come into existence in about a billion years. She then removes the rest of the limitations on Aaron's power, restoring him to as he was before the war, and finally Jasmin and Andrea end up Ashura (fledgelings) under her.
AND THEN THEY GO TO FUCK SHIT UP AND BE LIKE FUCK YOU STATUS QUO but also to fight the Nightmare Queen because even if they want to save her she's still trying to you know destroy reality
so tl;dr -- first alex is a reality destroying hate engine, then she's a god
The thing is, Iris miscalculated, and Alex is a powerful enough Deva (reality-warper / god) now that her consciousness doesn't completely die, but instead she leaves enough of an imprint in the Dreaming to survive. That is, in her own world, she continues to exist in the alternate universe that everybody taps into when they sleep.
Unfortunately for her, the traumatic nature of what just happened does leave her mind mostly broken, and she ends up in Nightmare, the layer of the Dreaming where all the subconscious crazy shit goes. Nightmare's ALSO one level above the layer of reality called Chaos, which is a seething soup of everything that possibly could be.
So the supposed Big Bad of Somnus, the Nightmare Queen, finds the shattered bits of Alex's consciousness, quietly puts Alex's mind back as best she can. While she does this, she gives Alex the rest of the truth she's been missing: both Alex and the Nightmare Queen were experiments on Iris' part to create superweapons that would destroy humanity's emotions and reason, as part of a plan to end all war and to keep Reality nice and quiet. She also confirms Alex's suspicions that Reality is, in fact, a prison plane designed to keep everyone trapped and ignorant of the true nature of reality.
The Nightmare Queen very carefully structures her arguments to bring Alex around to her way of thinking, but also gently leaves out most of Alex's higher mental processes and ability to be reasonable about things. She then takes the Fury, a living incarnation created from humanity's collective rage, and implants it into Alex, while at the same time destroying the rest of the artificial limits on Alex's power (the same limits most of humanity has)
(I could explain why the nightmare queen can't break her own limiters but man I only have so much time here)
This means that Alex can just waltz right back into her broken corpse, fix it, and be alive again, which the Nightmare Queen hasn't been able to do for Reasons. This ALSO means that Alex is the Nightmare Queen's personal death-bringing reality destroying hellbeast because she's now 50% the collective rage and despair of all humanity oops.
Alex / Fury then proceeds to try to break reality and actually succeeds at destroying a large part of Boston. Thanks to Iris' work, she's actually too powerful for the local Sentinels (the reality police, who keep people from waking up to their true power, usually by murdering them) to handle, and they have to call for backup.
MEANWHILE! Aaron de Hautdesert finally stops moping because Alex's friends go and kick him in the butt until he gets off it and realizes that he really should stop kicking himself about the whole oops I lost the war that got us into this situation in the first place, and he explicitly goes on the run, breaks a lot of rules by coming out of the Dreaming into reality, and also breaks most of the limiters on Alex's friends (Andrea and Jasmin) so they can, y'know, actually do something about this
the three of them fight back against Alex's gozilla stomping of Boston and manage to fix most of it, and subdue her enough that they can abscond to another layer of reality before the Sentinels get there to murder Alex. They end up in Kalliste, the former capitol of all reality, a broken wasteland of shattered and warped glass and weird reality storms where there was once a city that defied imagination.
There, they end up in a place where they used to test fledgeling Deva and teach them their powers, and there Aaron, Andrea, and Jasmin all do a whole journey to the center of the mind thing with Alex to get her sane again (and remove the Fury from inside her soul), THEN they go putting her mind back, and FINALLY she goes and ends up taking a test to come to terms with herself
ONCE SHE FINALLY COMPLETES THAT (it'd take like a lot of pages, if this were a book, and be totally awesome, or something) Alex is finally at peace with herself, and comes into her own powers as the new Deva of Fire, the first full-fledged Deva to come into existence in about a billion years. She then removes the rest of the limitations on Aaron's power, restoring him to as he was before the war, and finally Jasmin and Andrea end up Ashura (fledgelings) under her.
AND THEN THEY GO TO FUCK SHIT UP AND BE LIKE FUCK YOU STATUS QUO but also to fight the Nightmare Queen because even if they want to save her she's still trying to you know destroy reality
so tl;dr -- first alex is a reality destroying hate engine, then she's a god
