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You already know why Alone didn't get to leave. She gets spat out of the mirror as is canon. Mono is probably going to be lying in a heap somewhere. All the other monster's left seeing as the kids escaped so there is no reason to stay there any longer. The Flesh is trying to revive Mono but it doesn't have the power to reset everything anymore but it has enough juice to go back a couple seconds, just his body not the world around him. Its up to Alone to help save him. The Flesh doesn't see Alone as a person, it knows what she is, if anything it sees her as a parasite, she exists know because of Mono, as long as there is someone in Nowhere that knows her she won't disappear like she did at the end of LN3. In the Flesh's eyes there's only room for one parasite here. But since she's helping keep Mono alive it will allow her to be around, for now. During this entire arc for Alone and Mono there are two main focuses. Learning more about the Fleshes of Nowhere, I have a lot planned. Younger ones, Elder ones, the Signal Tower is considered somewhere at it's near peak, well, it was before it lost most of its mass keeping Mono alive. The 2nd main focus will be getting Alone back to Low in the Counties. There are many exits from Nowhere but some have limitations like the one that will let Alone get to the Counties. A painting meant to pass things into the Counties, that makes the unreal real, the only reason its not widely known by other kids is that it only works on non-living things. Perfect for Alone! But not Mono, she doesn't need to know that though. Next we have the Counties Arc happening simultaneously. I'll switch back and fourth between the two but considering how time works differently. One side is going to have very long time skips. Imagine Mono was the oldest of them all and when they get back he is now the youngest. There is a lot planned with the Counties, from Noone returning to her parents to Six starting to remember who exactly she is. I already had a thought of making either Six or RCG be Cici but honestly after watching the Overman's theory video I think ill go with Six. I'll talk more about their situation in another post but the main goal for them is to find a way back into the Nowhere. Now for the Counties you might be thinking I can't have that much planned but I do. There is a very particular game that fits perfectly with the Counties. This game wasn't that big I'll be honest but its a dystopian city set right around the time after the end of WW2. There is a corporation that manages everything, literally it was based off 1984 book. Brain diving equipment that looks and work's exactly how Otto's worked in the podcast but better because it's the 3rd iteration. TV's everywhere! Lots of eye motif's! And get this.......black substance somehow rising up from the ground that turns people into monsters and a pair of siblings, an older sister and younger brother that have powers exactly like Mono's from the game. The younger brother gets captured so all the power feats we see are from the older sister. She does something exactly like how Mono tuned the Thin Man out of existence, she can be anywhere and anywhen. She could delete someone from all existence from every possible timeline, see how events play out in all timelines from beginning to end. Younger brother dies (queue Mono entrance to Nowhere) getting captured by evil corporation, like im very tempted to give Mono an older sister in the Counties. Last thing, she can go to the Threshold, its not called that in the game, she calls it something else since she is the daughter of a scientist, Hyper Dimensional Space Tunnel. There's a giant black hole looking thing that looks like an eye with a door, even she has to be careful there because there are other entities there watching, in her words, memories, fears things carry over to that dimension. Noone, Six, Low, RK and RCG all getting chased by this corporation with Otto as an important figurehead in the company since he made the brain dive tech. Anyway here is another comm

So this is a more in depth post on the Counties in my AU since in the last one the word limit stopped me. Although even with this post I don't think I could fit it all so I'll stick with one topic. I'll talk about the game I am using for Counties chapter ideas. Came out this year but there wasn't that much hype around it, I loved it thought an knew immediately it would fit in my AU. Game is called Karma: The Dark World. I'll talk about the similarities and show some pages from the artbook.

but before that here is another commission I got of Noone from my AU done by @octoyoshiii thank you for amazing work!

This is from the artbook on the Dive equipment. Looks very similar to what Otto made that we saw in LN 3. I want to go with making a Counties equivalent to the Leviathan Corporation. I might even just keep it under the same name. Makes sense to since most of the entities in Nowhere are based on myths like the North Wind and Ferryman, well mostly the North Wind, the Ferryman is more like a Archetype as there is no real world myths of a Ferryman but the North Wind is mentioned in folklore. The Leviathan was actually a Nowhere entity i want to use and it would be fun to have one actually trying to establish influence in the Counties. Otto would be like the head of the Brain Dive department but not the boss of the corporation.

This looks like that one LN concept art lol.

So this one really sticks with me. This Dasein substance seems incredibly similar to the black sludge we hear about in The Sounds of Nightmares podcast and from the podcast I always assumed there is a opening to Nowhere somewhere that leaks into the water like how Noone got sick when she would play by a river. It's constantly raining in the Counties then also in the comics Hush's arm touching the black sludge kind of changed? I can't really describe what happened to it.

A pic of the HST, very similar to the Threshold, things are there, things are watching. A black void with a sea of stars and a door.

Last one I just wanted to show you guys the description of the sister's powers just so you get an idea of just how op she sounds lol. There is a real reason she got captured despite being so powerful. The brother and sister restrain each other unknowingly so its only after her younger brother dies that she can really let loose.

You already know why Alone didn't get to leave. She gets spat out of the mirror as is canon. Mono is probably going to be lying in a heap somewhere. All the other monster's left seeing as the kids escaped so there is no reason to stay there any longer. The Flesh is trying to revive Mono but it doesn't have the power to reset everything anymore but it has enough juice to go back a couple seconds, just his body not the world around him. Its up to Alone to help save him. The Flesh doesn't see Alone as a person, it knows what she is, if anything it sees her as a parasite, she exists know because of Mono, as long as there is someone in Nowhere that knows her she won't disappear like she did at the end of LN3. In the Flesh's eyes there's only room for one parasite here. But since she's helping keep Mono alive it will allow her to be around, for now. During this entire arc for Alone and Mono there are two main focuses. Learning more about the Fleshes of Nowhere, I have a lot planned. Younger ones, Elder ones, the Signal Tower is considered somewhere at it's near peak, well, it was before it lost most of its mass keeping Mono alive. The 2nd main focus will be getting Alone back to Low in the Counties. There are many exits from Nowhere but some have limitations like the one that will let Alone get to the Counties. A painting meant to pass things into the Counties, that makes the unreal real, the only reason its not widely known by other kids is that it only works on non-living things. Perfect for Alone! But not Mono, she doesn't need to know that though. Next we have the Counties Arc happening simultaneously. I'll switch back and fourth between the two but considering how time works differently. One side is going to have very long time skips. Imagine Mono was the oldest of them all and when they get back he is now the youngest. There is a lot planned with the Counties, from Noone returning to her parents to Six starting to remember who exactly she is. I already had a thought of making either Six or RCG be Cici but honestly after watching the Overman's theory video I think ill go with Six. I'll talk more about their situation in another post but the main goal for them is to find a way back into the Nowhere. Now for the Counties you might be thinking I can't have that much planned but I do. There is a very particular game that fits perfectly with the Counties. This game wasn't that big I'll be honest but its a dystopian city set right around the time after the end of WW2. There is a corporation that manages everything, literally it was based off 1984 book. Brain diving equipment that looks and work's exactly how Otto's worked in the podcast but better because it's the 3rd iteration. TV's everywhere! Lots of eye motif's! And get this.......black substance somehow rising up from the ground that turns people into monsters and a pair of siblings, an older sister and younger brother that have powers exactly like Mono's from the game. The younger brother gets captured so all the power feats we see are from the older sister. She does something exactly like how Mono tuned the Thin Man out of existence, she can be anywhere and anywhen. She could delete someone from all existence from every possible timeline, see how events play out in all timelines from beginning to end. Younger brother dies (queue Mono entrance to Nowhere) getting captured by evil corporation, like im very tempted to give Mono an older sister in the Counties. Last thing, she can go to the Threshold, its not called that in the game, she calls it something else since she is the daughter of a scientist, Hyper Dimensional Space Tunnel. There's a giant black hole looking thing that looks like an eye with a door, even she has to be careful there because there are other entities there watching, in her words, memories, fears things carry over to that dimension. Noone, Six, Low, RK and RCG all getting chased by this corporation with Otto as an important figurehead in the company since he made the brain dive tech. Anyway here is another comm

HAPPY BIRTH DAY @feedmeseyyymour

Most of the first half of the AU involves the cat and mouse game I mentioned between the two but Six will eventually catch Mono. From there they will work things out. You know in most AU's you have them meeting each other and hating each other before eventually being friends again. In my AU it's a lot more simplified. I'll give a brief description on how it will go down but first I want to talk about the new VR game, Altered Echoes, it really really solidified and even reaffirmed how I wanted to do this. My personal take on what the relationship between Shadow Six and Six is their just split in half emotion and character wise. It's not as cut and dry as saying one is good and one is bad. Shadow Six is all of the aspects of Six that would be deemed as weak qualities in Nowhere whereas Six after the split is now a pure survivalist, more cutthroat and decisive. Doing whatever it takes to keep themselves alive, at any cost. That's not evil mind you, evil would be doing unnecessary things that don't benefit her survival, every choice she made was to keep her breathing. We kind of see that in Altered Echoes with her rejecting Shadow Six, rejecting the weaker aspects of herself but as we see at the end of LN 2 and all of LN 1, the immediate consequence of rejecting Shadow Six is the hunger. She now knows she fucked up not accepting that part of her and that leads to her going to the Maw to find a solution to being whole again. She didn't keep rejecting Shadow Six, she thought she could do without that part of her but as soon as the consequences hit she's right on her way to fix it. So in my AU after Six becomes whole she just journey's around trying to find the Pale City again but it takes a long long time considering the Maw is always moving on top of Nowhere constantly shifting. She wants revenge against the Tower and is obviously guilty about what happened to Mono. She goes chasing after Mono after realizing he is still alive. Eventually she does catch him but things cool down as soon as Mono realizes that she isn't trying to kill him. She explains everything to him and he believes her. Why believe her so easily? Because he knew already why she acted they way she did. He knew she got split but this whole time still assumed she was still not whole and thought she was here to finish the job. Everything that happened to her he views as his fault, its why he wasn't angry or ever went to pursue her, he believed he would only make things worse, plus he had no way of making her whole himself or find her. It's so easy! Their friends again right?! Wrong! I called this the TV Star AU because its starts out with Noone and Mono but in each arc I focus on Mono's relationship with other kids. After Mono and Noone its Mono and Six, then Mono and Alone, then finally Mono and Mim. Everyone tries to get close to Mono and up until Mim it feels like no matter what anyone tries, there is this wall, this separation between them that Mono isn't letting anyone in or get close. He's nice yes, a bit standoffish but still talkative, essentially still completely acts normal but Mono has learned now to never ever let anyone get too close. It makes future problems easier to cope with and let me tell you he will definitely be proven right, but still also kind of his fault. Sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. Mono's got a very big secret, but so does Noone lol. Noone and Six actually share a secret even if they don't know it.