Ask the Game Over

((MOD: And I’ll get this one for the same reasons. Both currently released fangames have a set question order like for 2011 onwards and some of the earlier titles. Episode 2’s Gibberish Question isn’t in the main game, it’s hidden in the main menu. Tab your way across every menu screen, you’ll find it eventually. Also, SC gives instructions to find it at the end of the game… if you get a three-way tie.

Mad Hatter Chao: The logic goes like this: an imaginary friend is an entity that is made up within the imagination of someone for the purpose of interactin' with them. A character in a story is an entity that is made up within the imagination of someone for the purpose of playin' a part in a scenario.

Don't sound too different, do they?

That's m'man's, and by extension my, theory: characters are imaginary friends, and imaginary friends are characters. We're the same sort of thing, just one Wall lower.

See, a bit that Miss Tamany left out when talkin' about cross-dimensional transformations is that the multiverse is divided inta layers. Each layer has a number of dimensions in it each, and the "lower" each layer is, the more "fictional" it is in relation to the layer above it. The barriers that separate these layers are known as "Fourth Walls." Movin' around on layers below is easier than pie; once you're on a layer below the one ya were born on, there might as well not be other Walls, which makes it nearly impossible to tell exactly which layer in relation to the other, or at least it's easier to just not think about it. The problem is getting through that first Wall; everyone finds the Wall below him - or her - harder than bedrock, and movin' sideways to other dimensions on the layer or up to the layer above is next to impossible. The only way to reach up to a layer above is by a sort of morphogenetic field-like transmitting in the form of imagination, which then take form on that higher layer as fictional characters - and imaginary friends.

TL;DR: we're sentient for pretty much the same reasons "real" people like Shard or SC are. There's a layer below Shard, which she can't reach, where there's a you with his own story, and the idea of him being transmitted up forms you. Same case for me and m'man.

((MOD: SC sounds exactly like me, if with a little more eloquence, and by association the SC Doll's like that only more robotic. Larme sounds like Mr. Game & Watch. And those're pretty much the only ones I'm not more or less making up right now.

Now obviously I can't give a voice to the entire character list there, but here are some of the important ones. 666 sounds like Disney's Pete. Calcutta sounds like the cowboy that arrested the villain for robbing the Pine City stage in the climax of Back to the Future Part III, a.k.a. one of only three westerns I've ever seen. Sparkz sounds like my brother with a higher pitch. Tamany is a younger Anne Robinson, with a downplayed accent. Panchico... I want say Socks the monkey from Elliot Moose, if more subdued and submissive, but in any case it's a young girl. Mad Hatter Chao sounds like SC only more gangsta, and Ticktick a male Navi. DC is Evil Emperor Zurg with a little more malice to it, while AC is Annabelle from All Dogs Go to Heaven with a more airy mystical tone.

At least those are the best estimations given my head attributes just variations of my own voice given my tendency to read out loud.

((MOD: A full character listing (or at least as many as I can remember that don't belong to other people) of more-than-minor characters in the Game Over series has been posted, along with tag links for each character that has posts here. Characters, however, still cannot answer asks or participate in roleplays until they've had a profile image made. Requesting to meet a character or asking who a character is in an ask, or basically anything that says "please make this character available," will be my signal to create their profile image and open them up to asks and roleplays.

Tamany: One the most fundamental elements involved in cross-dimensional transformation is the quantum signature. Unlike dimensional IDs, multiple universes can share a quantum signature. It what designates the general type of universe and how its general physics and natural characteristics work. Mario-based universes, for example, all have the same quantum signature identifying them as Mario, while Sonic, Kirby, My Little Pony, and every other work of fiction you can think of have their own separate ones. Quantum signatures also determine what universes relative to a given universe are "parallel," "mirror," or other such designations, which makes them easier to cross boundaries across, even by non-Game Over technology. Inhabitants of these clusters are shaped by their universe's signature, which is how they grow the way they do.

The next, and one of the most important concepts, is the Fisher. This is the name we've given to the massive field of energy-like material that separates universes, like the Gummi barriers in Kingdom Hearts only on a reality-wide scale. Within the Fisher, a subject's quantum signature is everything and nothing, and so the subject's form loosens and becomes just its essence, its thing-in-itself; philosophy knows it as the ding an sich. When the subject exits the Fisher, its form seeks definition and the first answer it finds is the quantum signature of the destination universe, and so the subject form builds itself according to the rules of that universe. Funny thing is, the Fisher is really rather holey. The Interdimensional Warp Pipe is able to plot a course through spacetime to arrive at the destination without ramming its passengers through the Fisher, allowing for form preservation. Standard plothole portals, on the other hand, just go in a straight line, causing users to move through the Fisher and be transformed nine times out of ten.