ok i am imagining a smallville session of 5 players(almost half of the maximum of 12), with only a time player and no space player and everyone is in their unhealthiest places.
clark is a mage of doom, lex is a seer of life, chloe is a maid of light, lana is a knight of blood, and lois is a witch of time.
they realize everyone is unhealthy and everyone is fucked. they have no space player. they have no way of growing out of their worst selves. lois uses time travel to try and go back to before sburb started, which is not allowed but she manages to break the rules pretty severely, causing a huge glitch in the system. in the process, she learns about the scratch and that she must do it, and does so. this causes a universe reset, and shunts the original crew into a new slightly different universe.
now we have void clark, light lex, heart chloe, space lana, and lois is either rage or is glitched the worst and doesnt get a second self.
this still results in everyone being super unhealthy, but they have their space player. because the first scratch involved time!lois breaking the game in the process, the new game is corrupted, and they need a second hard reset WITHOUT breaking the game in order to get everything on track. they have a full team now, a time and space player, but they're all fucking disasters. none of them can escape doom, and the universe is literally glitching out around them.
universe C. no space or time players, AGAIN. but everyone is healthy.
clark is hope and lex is rage, but in a way that balances each other instead of putting them at odds. lana is breath, still concerned with people and being the best she can be, but instead of feeling tied down or overcome by space, she's simply free. instead of chloe being obsessed with knowledge or relationships, she's blood, learning how to balance knowing and connecting in a healthy way, and learning how to use those for a team. and lois is mind, using her incredible sense for knowing people to be the best reporter you've ever seen, instead of time-bound and focused in the wrong areas, or rage-bound and too angry at the system to build it back up once she's torn it down
space!lana and time!lois from universe B and A respectively work together to breed the genesis frog, but they are glitching Pretty Badly.
eventually, a new universe is about to be born, game won, but the rememnants of the glitched universes are going to fuck up the game file. using mind!lois and heart!chloe, they find a way to "fold" the glitched players into their unglitched selves, erasing them (and their corruption) from existence but putting their memories into their universe C selves, in a way living on as consciounesses semi-merge and also as memories, which their best selves can use to move forward without making past mistakes. there is a great debate over whether this will help them avoid pitfalls or make them more likely to fall back into old habits, but time is running out and everyone is kind of afraid of dying and universe A and B are at peace about it, so they all cave and do it.
universe C goes on to become the gods of the new universe as hope, rage, breath, blood, and mind. the new universe is built on the foundations of knowing what is right and wrong, having the anger to tear it down when it's wrong, the hope to keep going and build it back when you're done, the connections with others to make a society strong, and the freedom to move through life unencumbered. they remember what it was to be their worst selves, but they continue forward free and happy.
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