Advena

from here two paths, zmr realizes his feelings too late and is either left mourning sasrir forever (yearner zmr, yearner zmr??? I never see yearner zmr but he's def the type to be a yearner bc wdym you spent like over a year avenging people you only knew for like 2-3 months) probably pulling sasrir out of the historical void to stay with him while his evil spirit possesses it (? not really too sure about this) or sasrir doesn't possess it and zmr is genuinely just kind of cuddles and cries on it and evernight has to stage an intervention because "at this point you may as well be my angel of mourning, you can't keep summoning him from the historical void, it's putting a constant drain on your spirituality" (i wrote this listening to too little too late, can you tell?)

you know what would make this even sadder? if zmr never found out about evil spirit sasrir, he would never know that there was still a trace, a chance for the man whom he's realized he loves, he'd never know that he was partially the reason for evil spirit sasrir's continued existance, he'd never know he was one of evil spirit sasrir's obsession. He'd never know his feelings were reciprocated.

YES, omg this angst potential, OROR, zmr knows sasrir loves him, but he wasn't sure and he never told him and sasrir dies without knowing zmr loves him back. damn what was in my water today? ill call this angel of mourning au

hmmm, the other path i can see for this is zmr becomes the true creator's angel because even tho it isn't sasrir, it is sasrir's body, everything he couldn't do with sasrir in life, at least he can in death, at least, he can stay by sasrir's side in his death. He becomes like a mother mary type figure in the true creator's mythology or something, ouroboros creates murals of klein's transition from evernight to the true creator and he also does klein crying over true creator, he's constantly shown crying and he's dubbed angel of tears? hmm he's forced to keep crying, maybe in the beginning it was because he was genuinely crying over sasrir, but now, he's known as the angel of tears, mourning over sasrir, but people think he's mourning the true creator?

Maybe klein becomes the orthodox's deity's lesson about letting believers warp your image, he's forced to cry because his anchors believe he'll cry, he's forced to mourn the true creator because that's what they believe he's mourning, zmr is torn, he is mourning for sasrir, yet he finds himself crying over the true creator too?? but he doesn't care for grisha, not even in all his humanity, because his humanity is all focused on mourning, mourning sasrir, and now being forced to mourn the true creator even though he resents him for being the reason sasrir was taken from him

takes place immediately before the part 1 wish, in a universe where Choi & Bronze were keeping an eye on Go Yeongeun and followed her to the station where she's just grabbed a very valuable box

Kim Soleum tries to distract them when they start arresting her - both bolt, the agents follow - and happen to trigger this darkness

Lee Jaheon, Lee Seonghae, and Baek Saheon are all on their way to or from an assignment via this particular station - not even to the same places - and just happen to also get caught up on account of knowing/having heard of everyone else who's just been sucked in

so: Choi, Bronze, KSE, GYE, BSH, LSH, LJH, and (somewhat secretly) Braun. plus all the versions that of those people that others have met but not realised are the same person - so Lee Kangheon and 130666 (LSH doesn't know those were Choi & KSE), Jisan Agent (BSH), Sekwang Agent (Bronze), and two Lord Cats (Choi & Bronze). also this isn't in the comic bc it was too clumsy to explain concisely, but there was also gonna be an extra Soleum - Mirror Soleum. bc i miss that guy.

also. bc GYE grabbed the box of wish potions. and both KSE and Braun know that's what's in that box. both their versions of her also have real functional wish potions. for a total of 6 wish potions in play. only 2 of which can actually leave the ghost story.

KSE has a small existential crisis over the wiki since while this darkness Was on the wiki, it was a new one - and there'd been excited discussion about it, specifically about how Daydream could use it to "recycle" employees and several people pitching exploration records for older characters whose characterisation had gotten a bit flat or inconsistent or just boring over the years as, retroactively, employees who had been replaced this way - including Viper.

... and, critically, nobody had actually written and submitted that yet, but it was being discussed. so KSE's also here like: shit. would BSH have gotten replaced here? is the Viper in the wiki genuinely, actually, just a polarised version of this guy i know? which also invites further existential questions about the nature of time and the universe (that are now at least partially answered by part 3 lol).

ALSO Choi's ghost story detection device is, somehow, (semi-)canon? which i absolutely did not remember until i reread a couple weeks ago. (KSE mentions that Braun was confident he wouldn't be detected by it)

the two Soleums in normal jackets are specifically the real one and Braun's version. which is almost identical except could potentially be persuaded to cohost again. (i would 100% have ended this fic with our POV Soleum being left behind, alone and terrified, unsure if he's really the real one or Braun's version. lol)

anyway there's a bunch more notes on this as well as an actual table for all 70+ resulting characters and a number of possibly fun combos, which is terrible.