Dr. John Gillman

☠︎︎ TWO WORLDS ; ONE PROBLEM.

A verse primarily designed for same-muse interactions as alternative to the overused twin trope. Created by @homclander and yours truly @starsupe.

THE STORY— it starts with the season 3 finale. Soldier Boy is about to blast everyone in his vicinity away, Queen Maeve steps in last second to topple him and they crash through the window to fall down the tower. Mid-air, Soldier Boy releases his nuclear blast which grazes the Vought tower and destroys multiple levels. The impact doesn't spare the floor where they store all the vials of Temp-V and Compound-V, which results in a chemical reaction of such magnitude that it tears an anomaly into the fabric of reality. A portal, ripped into time and space. It gapes like a scar at the centre of the laboratory and Vought, naturally, takes security measures to shield this gate. Some poor employees readily sacrificed if anything goes wrong get sent into said portal to check what's on the other side. They found earth. But everything is different, mostly destroyed, and on top of the food chain as new president? Homelander, who went nuclear after many efforts from the good guys to rein him in failed and made him ultimately snap. Vought is scared of this world somehow finding ways to influence the 'main' world, so they keep trying to find ways to seal it again. Nobody is allowed to talk about it in public or they'll be executed.

Now to interactions: your muses, especially if they're supes, can weasel their way past security and access the other world. Whether that alternate world's timeline aligns with the original or plays in the past, or future? Is up to your individual interactions. Some characters might be dead in the other world, maybe the alternate versions went 'dark' or bad guys are the good guys there because their lives took different turns. Maybe the alternate world muses can help solve problems in the OG timeline, or see the portal as opportunity to flee from theirs. All that is open and free to go wild with!

For those who love horror twists: the evacuation prior to the whole Soldier Boy fight may have left some civilians at Vought at disadvantage because they followed up too late, or refused to leave because they thought Hughie's warning was a false alarm. Particles of the chemical explosion could get inhaled and tick off a biochemical process in their bodies to turn them into wrongly adjusted supes. Like zombies. Brain-fried but dangerous, as if taken over by a parasite whose only goal is to survive and spread. That's very out there, but we're roleplayers and nothing is too cringe as long as it's fun to write.