IT'S NOT FAIR, IS IT ?

( something I’ve been meaning to get around to sharing for a while, since it’s. kind of important oops. also i apologize if this is slightly unintelligible; i’m still kind of out of it )

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They met the gang in University. First was Damien — dear Damien, always the sweet and friendly figure who manages to find the most interesting people to make friends with. Then, of course, followed Celine, and then later William after a very entertaining chance meeting between two grand personalities. Later arrived the DA, who was introduced by Damien into the group.

The five of them were a tight - knit group. Great friends, often together and never separated for too long. Even as Elegy’s acting career grew greater and as everyone’s lives shifted them further apart, they remained in close contact. Exchanging letters and meeting when they could, Elegy of course always present on stage and screen when they could not properly be met in person. With Damien’s election and term underway and taking up a majority of his time, along with the DA’s, followed by Celine’s thirst for travel, and William’s being drafted, those communications grew scarce.

It was then that Elegy began to disappear.

Letters fell from frequent to rare, and job offers were being declined. Elegy rarely appeared in any production of any sort — and then, they stopped completely. Many speculated that Elegy was giving up. Maybe they had finally broken under pressure. Maybe the mighty had fallen.

In reality, far from that. But what was the paper to know ?

The Entity had overtaken them. Controlling their mind and body, twisting every memory and minor mistake into false stories of betrayal and lies. Falsehoods fed to Elegy that their friends had all abandoned them. Left them behind in favor of greater prospects. Used them and thrown them away.

Elegy hardly left their room, much less the Manor. The staff were all but gone, either having left of their own choice or been let go. ( Save for the select few we see in W.KM, of course, and a few others. can we please give Benjamin a Best Butler award ? ) . Their time was spent pacing alone or arguing with what seemed to be nothing. Nothing seemed wrong, when faced with them. The dismissal of any problems, and the familiar grandeur the actor had always held, were still strongly present. Until one saw their forced mannerisms, heard the hollow sound of their laugh, or met their eyes and found nothing behind them. Saw the way they turned every mirror around and leapt at shadows in those moments when the Entity’s grasp slipped.

Another note : Elegy never married Celine. Celine was given a room of her own in the Manor for her practice and hobbies, and free to visit the Manor as she pleased, but was not the Mistress of the Manor. I don’t think they were ever together, but that’s yet to actually be officially decided, and can be decided / altered depending on writer / thread. This also would mean that the affair wasn’t what tore the family apart — though, William and Celine having a relationship they told no one about would only be another pain for Elegy and another supply of ammunition for the Entity’s arguments.

Some time during or after that was when they met Abe. Convinced that they needed something more to work with and someone else on their side in that elaborate plan, Abe was hired to assist them. Whether they knew Abe before that is up for debate and up to interpretation ( tbh it could easily be decided depending on whose version of him it is ) . Regardless, Abe’s job was to keep watch over the news for Elegy. Inform them if anything happened — namely, when concerning their friends. They weren’t reading the newspaper on their own. They hadn’t been since they’d disappeared. Papers weren’t even delivered to their study anymore, and letters of many months past still remained unopened.

We all know how that poker night panned out.

With it ended in a horrible tragedy, their old friends led to ends they could not bear, Elegy’s denial of it gave them a second chance . . . and another. Each time, ending in another failure. They’re the viewer, after all.

So many failures, and they eventually realized that there was no “ happy ending ” . They caused all of it. The Entity affirmed that to them. They realized they were the villain. They stepped into the role.

They run through the stories, a happy ending given up on. Now, they walk the stories in search of . . . well, something. They’ll know it when they find it. Maybe it’s that crystal.

Maybe it’s that Box. They led a Heist to find it, with the Accomplice ( against Elegy’s will ) joining them.

Then came Space. The captain of the Invincible. ( It’s in their bio, we can skip this part. )

Only, things on their Invincible are different.

For starters, Mack is their Head Engineer.

They do have a Mark ( as well as the rest of the Crew ) , but he’s very distant from the bridge. He and Elegy have hardly crossed paths or, at least, Elegy didn’t notice and/or care enough to remember. They constantly butt heads with Mack, but the large egos sort of . . . keep them both in check. Especially with Elegy being the Captain, and therefore above Mack. It helps that they rarely give out praise.

Lady ? They’ve run into them. Bandit and the others, though ? Nope. Not yet, at least.

In some stories, the viewers may meet one another. Invincible I and Invincible II. Paths that have crossed inter - dimensionally.

The Captain in question changes the relationship, so there’s no set dynamic ( given how different all of them can be, of course ! ) . Elegy won’t immediately recognize them as the DA / anyone else they’ve known through their many performances, as they have long locked those memories away, but over time those memories may return to them and they may begin to remember.

After Space ? Well, that’s a time period to be explained on another post.