#ahit prototype

What happens when you blow up a timepiece with C2 (C4 lite edition, used for door breaching) or any other small explosive device.

How does a Hat in Time's respawn work in-universe? Does time rewind when Hat Kid (or Bow Kid) is killed to before the event and they keep the memories? Or is it basically like the dead ringer from TF2 with it being rewinded a bit and the 'decloak' happens at or near the point of death? Or is it there is one attempt but the failed attempts are all in weird paralel universes or pocket dimensions.

How did Hat Kid remain sane during deathwish? My headcanon is that there is a dimension in between life and death which is basically a large bar floating around in the aether, this is managed by Master Tempus (well, her soul anyway) who had been freed when timeline 1 fell and timeline 2 began. Hat Kid must have met her.

How was Hat Kid able to access Puella's memories?

What was the Time War actually like, while I personally see it as some Warhammer 40k style, mud filled trench warfare hell others have their own interpretations, if you have any share them. Secondly was it a conflict for a single goal or were there multiple potential objectives the Founders Wanted, that is if they even initiated the conflict.

Mods? How do those work and are they canon.

The Manor is a concept of an hat in time meant to act as a bit of a horror game styled off of Amnesia: the Bunker, Hat Kid is trapped in Vanessa's manor and must escape but she is completely defenceless with no Umbrella, hats, heck not even her baseball bat and has no method of opening an exit and to make things worse its during a nasty blizzard which means that an exit through a window will not work.

However Hat Kid isn't completely defenceless, a chance find in a chest of draws pulls a rather strange find: a revolver, more specifically a model 1883 Reichsrevolver from Germany. Hat Kid also lacks any source of light, a windup flashlight is all that she could find.

While this is a bit of a Godsend because corrupted versions of herself (while slower, decayed and easier to kill) still walk the halls, worse still is the ever increasing threat of encountering Vanessa herself and ammunition is scarce meaning that every bullet must count: Missing could mean a slow and painful death by either corruption or being frozen.

Characters include the corrupted Hat Kid's, Hat Kid herself, Queen Vanessa (of course), Snatcher and the Moonjumper. The AU also explores the third floor and the locked and bordered up door is finally opened which reveals the Moonjumper. At the end both Vanessa, the corrupted and Moonjumper is dead, Hat Kid survives but looses her arm and an eye to the Moonjumper beast.

Snatcher decides to help Hat Kid recover and eventually becomes an adoptive father.

Since everyone has an AU I might as well share one of my own.

So there are three different universes which exist seperatly from each other but different events happen during it, due the events of the ARG, universe 1 (or 1HT) is 3 years ahead of the other two but due to unfortunate events around Universe 3's (or 3HT) version of Hat Kid going insane with the power of Time and space in her hands she accidentally melds the three universes together in a way which keeps them around but means that it takes up a lot of Space and that includes the 3 universe Earth's.

The three universes consist of:

1HT which encompasses the retail game and chapters, Hat Kid is an alien and her actual name is Caitlyn. Bow Kid and 1HT Timmy are dead and because of that (and some other events) Caitlyn decided to give up on beam attacks and umbrella swings in favour of jacketed hollow points and Thermite. Her ship has been destroyed by the cataclysmic events causing the mixup but Ol' Stella's fuel tank cooking off in the lower atmosphere over Calcite/Mafia Town actually lessened any horrific effects meaning most of universe 3's negativity didn't enter except, 1HT also concerns the events of the ARG some of those characters coming in later.

2HT encompasses the Prototype and alpha stages of A hat in Time's developement (Alpha Subcon forest, City of calcite/Harbour, Sands 'n sails and Science express), as such it also contains many cut characters (Moonjumper, Thor, etc, etc). 2HT Hat Kid is called Natalie, Proto Kid also exists (she was made by Tim to Give Hat Kid a friend to play with when she isn't serving him) and 2HT Bow and Timmy are alive. When the cataclysm occurs everyone instinctively blames Tim for yet another meltdown, then they shift the blame to Caitlyn (which kickstarts her shift from Umbrella's and projectile badges to crowbars and firearms) before finally getting the jist of it and blaming 3HT Hat Kid (more about her later).

3HT is mostly unknown because it technically no longer exists, very few things have been ported over to here and as such there isn't much information but due to 3HT's version of Hat Kid (whose actual name is unknown, she caused this entire mess and needs to go to therapy) and Snatcher (who in this universe in an irredeemable prick) somehow surviving the incident (everyone else is fucking dead) and the fact that they're both arseholes means that its hell in there.

The large Vehicles in A hat in Time take many large, in my au I want to give some more technical aspects about them or even make some pretty drastic changes to the lore about them.

These concern the Owl and science expresses, The Trains in the metro, Ol' Stella and the SS literally can't sink which has been abrieviated to LCS(and by extention its younger sister the SS Absolutely Will Not Sink or AWNS).

The Owl Express:

The railway the Owl Express travels on was built in 6478 ATB by an independant railway company in the Confederation of Avian States (C.A.S), the Owl Express isn't the only train in 1HT but it is the first and only mainline transcontinental service. Its quite a surprise how it hasn't been taken over by the goverment due to how many unautharised stops are made each journey, it is also a miracle that the locomotive and rolling stock are in peak condition especially with its use in films and regular incidents.

The Owl express runs on a 1435mm railway gauge and has a consist of around 5 wagons and a caboose being pulled by an oil-burning tank locomotive capable of reahing speeds of 75mph, The wagons pulled by the owl express are around 55.5 feet high and are around 10.7 feet wide albiet the interior is quite a bit larger than the exterior.

The locomotive is an oil burning 2-6-4t which can rumble at speeds of up to 120kph and with its rather sizable boiler can generate enough power to go at these consistant speeds, the reason why an electric horn was the original steam whistle was shot off during production of the 3rd Conductors 1st movie. The current conductor has been trying to recover it ever since. It was built at around the same time the railway was finishing construction

There have been 4 conductor's since the trains construction, including our current one.

The Science express:

Basically 2HT's version of the Owl Express but unlike the Owl express was more serious and made use of many advances in experimental technology, causing the Alice in Wonderland size shennaniganry. The science owls use this train for their experiments and also for transport.

The train is ran by Gregg, Walter and Redd as well as 2HT's version of the Conductor, externally the Science and Owl expresses are almost exactly the same but internally there are many differences which make both of them stand out.

The Science Express was the development location of New Earth's KL-11, an alternate version of the Korean K11 assault rifle , which was rejected by the Metro's police force because of its cost in favour of the KL-7 (K7) Submachine gun, Caitlyn recieves the original KL-11 prototype after she stops the Shapeshifter's rampage.

The external dimensions of the Science Express are the same as those on the owl express.

The locomotive of the Science express uses an experimental steam-Diesel hybrid system, it looks like it's working to since a more conventional locomotive hasn't replaced it yet. (the system exists irl look it up).

Shapeshifter is Natalie's shadow but had been originally contained in the Science express and experimented on for most of her life, when he escaped she decided to go on a murder spree before being kicked into the firebox of the Owl express.

The Metro Trains

Run on a hollowrail system, a system created in the metro seperate of the original railways, originally these rails were served by more conventional diesel-electric Multiple Units on more conventional rails but concerns about hygene and the carbon emmissions caused a full conversion to Hollowrail which started in 6544 ATB and ended in 6611 ATB but due to them being unable to purchase specially built rolling stock and lacking the material to make their own they instead removed the engines and genetically created these giant fuckoff cats to run them.

Can average the same speeds as your average London Tube train while being similar scale to the most up to date New York Subway units, the cat's aren't very fast when pulling the trains but can hit 100Kmh if pressed and without a burden.

The Empress has some say in what funding is put into the Metro since the Nyakuza was originally created by workers running the original Diesel Electric multiple unit's who grew disatsfied but due to several anti Union laws passed at the time they had to form this group to get their opinions and points across, violently.

The Metro's technology far outstrips the rest of the planet unless you count Caitlyn's ship as part of the rest of the planet.

Sirius Model yacht MK 14 conversion 'Ol' Stella'

The above is the full designation of Caitlyn's ship, since it is the 14th conversion of the Sirius Model Yacht.

Caitlyn built this out of a decommisioned Sirius Yacht and whatever shit she had lying around on hand to weild or bolt on which included starfighter engines and a bomb bay in the engine room, turned out to be surprisingly durable which was placed on full display when a prototype starfighter colided with it and Ol' Stella casually strolled away with little to no damage.

Stella's top speed in atmosphere is mach 54 and can has a 7 second accelaration from standing still to lightspeed.

Stella is armed with several pairs of plasma cannons and can be converted into probably the scariest close air support/ground attack platform ever due to Caitlyn's insistance that cluster munitions because they aren't forbidden by any intergalactic treaties.

Due to Stella making so many long distance high speed trips the Time Piece vault was expanded and modifed to feed into the core fragment tank in order to refill it without having to stop anywhere.

The events of A hat in Time were indirectly caused by Caitlyn neglecting proper maintenace on the vault door and the window due to her being far away from anywhere and hoping to get it fixed up at the next space station, while Stella has no interior defences it has an alarm system which can often be either too effective or next to useless. She got hell for it when it was discovered and was banned from flying for a whole Terran year while Stella was retrofitted with the newest technology.

Caitlyn dislodging her friends with a broom is a courtesy not given to many, if the system hadn't activated the emergancy stop the ship would have shot into hyperspace killing all those hanging off (except the Snatcher) in pretty nasty ways.

Low flyovers are not advised.

Literally Can't Sink class (SS LCS and SS AWNS).

The SS LCS was built in 6600 and was originally christned by the Walrus Captain's hero figure, the ship was 128.3 meters long and could carry up to 470 passangers on cruises up to the arctic circle, it weighed in at 6,690 tons and featured technology donated by the Metro. Both the SS LCS and its successor can reach 19 knots in a calm sea.

Its sister ship the SS AWNS was built in 6628 and was originally going to be called the SS Hat Kid but evidence of Caitlyn being the one causing the sinking was found, fortunetally the company who ran the ship decided to cover up this actual reason because Caitlyn rescuing everyone and then saving their collective arses at Times End was enough of a repayment but even so extra security and safety measures were poured into the new ship. SS AWNS is bigger and heavier than SS LCS and has more to pack in its relatively small shell with it carrying an onboard motorboat for recovery of things like Time Pieces as well as two more lifeboats.

The name SS Hat Kid went to the most modern recovery ship built which ended up being a massive help when the calamity occured.

Both the LCS and the AWNS are used as junior crew training ships for younger crew.

The AWNS is famous for the infamous arctic flyover when a Time Piece spotted and collected by the seals as a present for the captain ended with Stella showing up and scaring the hell out of everyone.

Retail:

Hat Kid has a personal enjoyment of military history, this stems from the fact that apart from those who were directly involved she is the only one that knows what actually occurred and as such has signed an NDA.

Bow Kid is a closeted sadist.

Mustache Girl's main dream before the mafia arrived on the island was to join the local fishing business.

Following the downfall of Mafia boss the mafia essentially fell apart from the inside, some stayed on the island but the islanders kicked them off, the rest went to someplace.

Mafia boss currently resides in La Felin as a permanent guest of the Empress following the events of a hat in time.

Goofy mafia is the only remnant o the mafia still living in mafia town following the events of a hat in time.

Cooking Cat arrived in Mafia town on the same ship the mafia arrived in, apparently mafia boss and her knew each other even before the mafia came to mafia town.

The Conductor is still trying to authorize the FUB government for a new locomotive for the owl express, he still hasn't received a response.

Dj Grooves once tried to create what is basically the bird version of high school musical, it was his biggest flop yet and has never been sold or seen since its original viewing because the penguin pulled it from everywhere out of embarrassment.

Snatcher might say that he doesn't care for the kids but deep down he really does care, among those is filling the fridge with healthier foods and the letter stealing thing he does for his minions.

Vanessa once enjoyed bacon herself however her mother was a bitch.

The Nomads have been around for countless years however nobody knows where the corpses of the dead go, these are fed to the goats who gladly accept them and the lazy paw get nothing.

The Lazy Paw first started out on the moon but fled into the mountains when the FUB sent in the national guard.

The captain has a wife and a child, he has also been on the S literally cannot sink since he was a young wireless operator, using a Marconi wireless which he kept serviced with his own tools.

The Empress actually was once a rich business woman that did some slight crime on the side but after one of the older Nyakuza bosses killed her family and took her eye out she went into crime fully and eventually beat the fucker to death with a crowbar.

Cut content, the prototype/alpha story took place years before the events of the retail game:

Beta kid was originally stitched together by Tim to act as a servant but after some timepiece shenanigans he modified her in order for her to be able to fight back if pressed.

Timmy's first time with a skateboard ended with him accidentally taking both him, Sam and Thor into the sea, they were rescued and Sam taught Timmy how to skateboard since he used to skateboard as a kid and wanted to teach him.

The first and only time Sam used his snub nosed .357 magnum revolver was when he was ambushed by Nyakuza agents while investigating the 'rush hour incident', he was also almost shot by a paranoid Hat Kid when trespassing on her ship to find clues if she was related to the Nyakuza.

Tim the CEO of Time actively takes anti-stress medication as a precaution against meltdowns, it probably doesn't work but he don't take no chances after the 'incident'.

Thor has been inventing since he was a child, his first invention was a mini zeppelin he flew himself.

Beta Mafia Boss' real name is called Jason while the retail one is called Matt, the two hate each other but while Matt's existence is depressing Jason is dead.

The retail mafia and the Beta mafia used to be the same group but a particularly nasty incident lead to a schism.

Moonjumper may be dead but his existence in the depths of Subcon Forest as some sort of deity showcases just how powerful he was when he existed.

TV head narrates everything in his life in the first person.

The Worm once fell into a giant blender, how he survived is beyond me.

ARG, the ARG lot appearing was an accident involving Hat Kid, alcohol and a slight but very entertaining trip into underaged drinking:

Tempus is a bit of a night owl and, thanks to Hat Kid, can take an RPG round to the face and not feel anything.

Puella has a bit of a sweet tooth and when she was younger she would spend money on sweets, under Tempus however she had little options unless Tempus gave some to her as a reward.

Aggripa and Puella are partners and fully intend to get married, Tempus doesn't want them to because they would be annoying to deal with.

Cavus wants them to tie the knot to annoy Tempus.

Retail

Hat Kid is a bit of a gun nut and after the events of Rush Hour she 'aquired' a rather large shotgun for 'ship defence'.

Bow Kid is a vastly better fighter then Hat Kid and is very adaptable, surprisingly she wasn't at times end but if she was she could probably whoop Mustache Girl's behind if she was at times end (Mu would be in pieces in the aftermath).

The mafia are actually very inteligent, just in certain topics such as the speed and velocity needed to punch old people but some also know fireworks and other stuff.

Mafia Boss exploded during the boss fight because he earlier had mafia cooking and fucking exploded, no wonder why a certain cat switches out the food.

Cooking Cat's real name is CiCi.

Goofy Mafia basically has the A Hat in Time equivalent of Pinky sense, it does lead to many of his fellow mafia either being injured or dying.

The Conductor's only venture outside of train based Westerns before the events of a hat in time lead to his only loss against Dj Grooves, it was a noir detective film so boring that Dj Grooves' entry was considered better (somehow).

Dj Grooves' nightclub was once used as a speakeasy during the prohabition era, it is also where the 'basement' of it came from and what Dj Grooves uses it for.

Snatcher does still deep down have some feelings for Vanessa despite even him agnologing just how bad the marriage was going to go.

Vanessa is Vanessa

Mustache Girl legally cannot enter the FUB under threat of arrest following the events of times end.

The Seals on the cruise ship are trainees.

The Captain is the only person who could outdo Tempus in a chainsmoking competition and its by a narrow margin.

The Metro Cats live with 2035's technology unlike the Penguins and Owls which use 1980's tech and the Subconites are stuck in the medieval era.

The Lazy Paw are a Nyakuza offshoot which fled the metro instead of fighting against the rampant anti-union laws which exist in the metro which is what Empress and the Nyakuza did.

The Empress is related to CiCi

Cut content, the prototype/alpha story took place years before the events of the retail game:

Beta Kid is a sentient doll and as such can't speak or grow in size, they are perminantly attached to their body.

Timmy's alighnment is lawful chaotic, he has a strict moral code but nobody knows what it actually IS (he's a chaotic gremlin).

Sam the Detective is on Tim's pay roll because finding timepieces does include massive amounts of dirty tactics.

Tim the CEO of time, despite his immense power, can barely hold a candle to his predecessors since he spent little time studying in his youth and more time messing around with Thor, Sam and Oldster when they were young

Thor's inventions have occasionally been used in military operations, retail Hat Kid was once able to mount an M2HB onto a Sand Mobile to fight the Nyakuza entirely via drivebys. He hates this though and that HMG came straight off once Hat Kid was finished with it.

The Mafia originated from a fish factory but had to move because of 'circumstances' (they were forced to move due to reasons beyond just wanting a vacation), Mu's home island was just there and they took over out of convenience.

The Mafia boss of the cut content was retail Mafia Bosses brother who was killed in the fight with Beta Kid.

The reason why Moonjumper isn't in the retail version is because Beta Kid (with help from Snatcher) killed him, Snatcher exploited the resulting power vacume for extra power and also absorbed MJ's old soul and some of his abilities.

Shapeshifter is chill, a little murderous but chill (still hates Beta Kid though).

TV head has a posh English accent and has a tea obbsession.

The Worm's business is failing but badge seller does help him out, he now works under badge seller for good pay.

ARG, the ARG lot appearing was an accident involving Hat Kid, alcohol and a slight but very entertaining trip into underaged drinking:

Fuck you chainsmoker Tempus is still around, she can also tank multiple RPG rounds to the face and not give a damn.

Puella and Cavus are illiterate (Somehow, Tempus forgot to teach them how to read or write).

The first thing Puella did when she got a smartphone was to order a therapy apointment...don't blame her.

Cavus is also on perminant life support after his two bouts against Hat Kid and as such must be kept in a drinks cooler, he is about the size of a basket ball currently.

Aggripa forever curses Tempus for this as he has to dictate to the pair what something says.

Yeah and it includes both cut characters and ARG characters.