#circustalk

The domains of the world are naturally generating spacial pocket dimension between the fabric of the regular world. Basically 2 worlds are being made to exist in one location (which is why the world will collapse if the wild magic is not contained or lessened, there will be too many domains that will end up spilling out fully into the new world and wreaking havoc, chaos, and destruction).

Humans at the moment cannot actually make domains, but they will be able to. It won’t be on the same level as the domains that entities can make. Human domains are very similar to the JJK domains that are like temporary pocket dimensions inside of barriers. Entity domains are like a mirrorverse of the “real” world that exist on a different plane but in the same physical location. (Does that make sense? It’s kinda supposed to be complicated).

Entity domains are also permanent and can’t be dispersed like human domains. When an entity like Hanami opens “their” domain, what they are actually doing is opening a small space to the domain that kinda swallows the person/people the entity is fighting. These domains are also not owned by one person/entity. Like there are many entities in “Hanami’s” domain, but she is the strongest one there so she is able to open the “door” to that domain with ease, while others who were born in that domain might have difficulty or can only travel themselves through the domain and not actually open a “door” for others to go through.

There are naturally spawning doors for domains that humans and robots can walk through. This would be kinda like getting spirited away I think. Something similar like that where a person just disappears when you look away from them, never to really be seen again.

Domains are also separate from each other but also interconnected. A human or robot brought into a domain will be stuck in that specific domain if an entity doesn’t help them traverse the domains. Otherwise if a human/robot tries to leave, it will be kinda like that scene in Coraline where Coraline tries to leave the Other World and ends up in a white space that brings her back to the center. That is how the domains would work here for humans.

Entities can travel from one domain to the next. Either they make a legit door like how Kenjaku arrived in Dagon’s domain, and travel to the domain of their choosing (usually it has to be a two-way connection between entities to make a direct path like that) or you just walk out of your domain into another domain and hope you get the one you are looking for when you enter the white space between domains.

I was thinking there would be a visual effect going on that plays tricks on people as they walk towards the edge of domains with an entity, or an entity walks to the edge of a domain. Kinda like how when you look in a glass ball or how a tube lens wraps around the visual point and encompasses the person. Though I think I might just stick with how the Other World does it in all honesty.

Anyway! Back to the topic of domains! These domains may exist at the same time and in the same space as the real world, but they are not stagnant at all. Hanami can open a door to “her” domain ANYWHERE in the world she is, and can open a door from the domain to most places in the real world (there needs to be a high magical connector to the real world place, like a person or a highly magically infused location to connected to. When the entity is out of the domain they are they connector themselves so can open a door TO the domain anywhere).

The internet itself is also a domain. The internet as a whole became an incomplete domain the day that Sayu and mer digital world was created (which is why B2J could enter it). Well maybe not the day they were created, but once enough magic was pumped into Sayu and the tech that made mer, the internet, or at least Sayu’s arena, became a kind of incomplete domain that encompasses the whole world.

Instead of like the entity domains which exist at the same time in the same locations as the real world, the “digital” world exists between both real world and entity domains. Kinda like how the real internet is all around us thanks to wi-fi. 

So because of this, the internet is a completely different kind of domain compared to entity domains. Like how there are lethal and non-lethal domains in JJK. However, the internet can be used as a bridge between the two domains.

We know that B2J can get into the internet because of their fight with Sayu. And Margo actually uses this as inspiration for the Virtual Reality headset that byte makes during the timeskip. So humans can enter this already made incomplete domain with the use of technology even though they can’t really make their own domain (more on that later). 

So humans and robots that enter the incomplete internet domain have a possible way to enter an entity’s domain, though they won’t be able to exit the domain themselves. And honestly, depending on how they enter they might just immediately die (or be put into a coma).

I say this because if you use a VR headset and get brought into a domain without being a psychic (as in having the ability to disconnect your mind and body) then you will most likely die (or maybe be put into a coma instead?Might just go with the coma thing). If you do what Mayday and Zuke did, and get your whole body into the internet and then an entity domain, then you are fine as long as you got a safe domain (something that is not like Coffin of the Iron Mountain) you can possibly make your way out if you can convince an entity to help you.

Now before I get into the TADC, which this would be a perfect place to do so, I want to finish my talk about domains (almost there… probably).

Humans actually CAN end up making their own special domains. Eve and Pav are ones who are able to make domains that are incomplete and need an enclosed space similar to how Megumi needs in order to use his domain in the JJK canon. This is only for people who have incredibly immense power/magic and/or being a psychic/having mind powers.

If you are a psychic/have mind powers, then you are kinda predisposed to domains in a way. The human mind/consciousness is in itself a domain. The mindscape that psychics jump into are mental domains that take up space only inside the living organism itself (I say this because humans, sentient robots, and entities all have mindscapes that a psychic can go into, so this is not just a human thing). 

This is actually the first ever true domains since psychics are a very old power set. I’m pretty sure when I answered the ask about where elementals came from, I think I said that mind powers were one of the first to be formed. Or I might have said it was a space powered person. Honestly, I think it was a psychic with space powers that was the first true elemental, both body and mind came together to create a whole new branch of humanity.

But that being said, the domain of the mind has been around since before elementals were around. The only difference is that these domains were inside people’s heads instead of outside in the world for anyone to access at some point. 

This is kinda where the Collective Unconscious is important as, for me, the CU is like a bridge between a psychic and all the minds they have been inside of. The CU exists kinda like a combination of  wi-fi and magic all around the characters. Wi-fi in the sense that it is a connection between sentience and like magic in the sense that it is connected and anchored to people. 

Now technically the CU is a single hub that holds ALL minds, a psychic can only access the ones that they have been in before. However, this was actually not possible until the Brain Tumbler was created. Otherwise it was just a connection that the psychic had with someone they have been inside the brain of.

Anyway, that leads me to the Collective Conscious. This was something I had planned for a LONG while now. It was actually the original version of the entity domains. As the UC is what surrounds all sentient living things in the “real” world the CC is the entirety of the entity domain world, as entities are literally just the manifestation of sentience and magic combined together. 

The first ever entities were actually just the manifestation of mental figures such as Nightmares, Panic Attacks, Censors, but all without a host mind attached to them. It was thought impossible for these things to ever exit the mind, and for the most part it was until the Collective Consciousness gave birth to them and they started to attack people. This is why the Psychonauts are the first organization to know about the entities.

Now sure, humans all technically have a domain as they have a mind, but there are some that can make their own domains because they have mind powers AND a lot of magic. This would be Eve and Pav.

Like I said earlier, these two have enough mind powers and just a lot of power in general that they can create their own domains. They just can’t make barriers, so like how Megumi did in the manga, these two need an enclosed space to really work. If they don’t then they are always expending too much energy creating their domains in an open space causing their domain to be weak, unstable, and a lot easier to break out of.

I don’t know how I am going to make it so that other humans would be able to make domains for themselves, such as Satoru I want to have skies domain, but perhaps that is where the Culling Games comes in. But that is for a different time.

There actually is a way that humans can make domains themselves, but they won’t be natural domains like the entities or power domains like Eve or Pav. It would be a technological domain. Meaning that someone imbues a domain tech with their power and will be able to make their own domain like how the JJK domains work, barrier and all.

This is because Ijichi is one of the few, or maybe the only person, who can make a veil in the Eriverse. It is his power alone, but other people can create veils when it is in its weapon form and allows its meister to create a veil through it. 

The Psychonauts end up finding out about Ijichi’s power and ask to have his power translated into a machine so that the Psychonauts can quarantine spaces when fighting entities so they can’t really escape. Ijichi accepts, and with the help of Vandelay Tech, Nueva York, and Psychonauts, the technology for anyone to make veils is created.

Soon, once domains are more known, the tech will evolve into the domain tech that people can imbue with power to make their own domains. From there, maybe people will naturally learn how to make domains once the Culling Games happens/ends.

Anyway, all of that to say, technology and magic are connected. Which is why Miku was created, and with the magic of the internet, The Amazing Digital Circus was created.

There are some domains that are more secluded than others and TADC domain is one of them. It is not a domain that many people like to go to because the rules of that domain will change you fundamentally in both body and mind. It is also extremely hard to leave, even for other entities (but almost impossible for humans or robots). 

It is one of the few domains that are pretty easily accessible to humans if they have mental or physical access to the internet. Miku’s domain, the Trolls’ domain, and Sayu’s semi-domain are some of the other domains that have a connection to the internet (Sayu’s being the most connected as a domain made from tech rather than a naturally occurring domain).

Because of this, and the seclusion of TADC domain, C&A (a company that makes VR headsets) ended up making a headset that can quite easily connect into TADC domain. They were just beta headsets that were tested, but the people who put them on had their minds ripped out of their head and placed into the domain, causing their body to either go into a coma or die (perhaps the ones that died abstracted immediately, and whenever one does end up dying their mind abstracts).

I don’t know if I want TADC domain to allow physical bodies. I think it would only accept minds, so if you were an entity or human with entity that was walking around the domains, you could end up having your mind taken from your body if you get too close to TADC domain (which is why even entities stay away from it as again, it is very hard to escape even when you know of it). So at the edge of the domain you’d have a bunch of bodies in comas on the ground (once an entity would abstract and their body die, their body would vanish, but there would be some human bodies around warning people not to get close to this specific domain).

I think I like that version instead of having it so a physical body can enter TADC domain. That being said, I’m sure there are some people that can escape the domain. This is usually psychics who know how to leave a mind without smelling salts. I’m sure there is some kind of trick that psychics should know in case they lose their smelling salts, probably a new trick that came about after the events of the Psychonauts games because the interns still needed their salts to leave Hollis’ mind. Smelling salts are still the best, but now there’s ways to get around not having salts on you which would happen if you go into TADC as it changes your whole body (you just have to be quick otherwise you forget about your life and powers quickly).

This is where Margo comes in. As the creator of the first VR headsets as a way to connect people to technology like how bit can connect (and to connect with friends far away), bit was called into C&A to help with this problem. She was able to figure out what was going on thanks to her friends knowing about entities at this point (and perhaps Peni had explained the intricacies of domains thanks to being friends with Dagon) so Margo tries to fix the problem. 

Though Margo is not a psychic, she would be able to enter the domain to try and fix things. For some reason she has a bit of immunity to the effects of the domain. I don’t know why, maybe because she is astral projecting, or perhaps Pav and her have done some mental training at some point, idk, but she realizes she can come and go kinda at will and decides to try and help.

Most likely byte wants to make Caine sentient so he (as the pretty much sole entity of this domain, making him the owner of it unlike someone like Hanami who is just a keeper/most powerful of the domain she was born in) can release the people in the domain. The problem is, the more time byte spends in the domain, the more byte forgets about bits life.

So when Margo leaves the domain for a break, it is clear that bit is losing memories over time. But she is stubborn and wants to help. She wants to free these people, so she keeps going in. And Tila is not happy or taking any of this well. This is the tragedy for the two I was talking about earlier. Tila doesn’t feel like she has a right to tell Margo to stop, but she doesn’t want to lose Margo who is very much losing bitself in the process of helping the people in this domain.

This is all I really have for TADC at the moment. I think this plot line will be later on down the line of the Eriverse. Perhaps post-Mahito or even post-save Suguru. Probably around when Suguru comes back to the good side.

[Everything from this point on is not concrete and is subjected to change]

Most likely this is going to coincide with the Culling Games. To save the world, something needs to be done about the domains, or else they will collapse the world. The Culling Games will be the entity’s way of saving the world while the stabilization and unification of domains will be the human/robots’ way of saving the world. 

Stabilizing the domains will be kinda like Psychonauts in how you go into a mind and help it out, but instead you are going into a domain to help it out (or the entities out, I don’t really know yet). This would be able to “collapse” the specific domain into an area inside the “real” world. Kinda like a secret world hidden in the real world that would be contained but no longer fighting for the same physical space as the real world. They would become permanent anchors of magic that could grow and change as the world needs it. 

The Culling Games though, I am still definitely working on it, but I can see it as a global transfiguration that would turn all humans with some elemental in them (which is all of them) into the element they would have been born as if they were born an element, and give powers to those who hadn’t had any.

I’m thinking this sounds too good though. Like the Culling Games in canon is supposed to end in the Merger, but I don’t have an idea for what that would be in the Eriverse. Perhaps it could be Miguel’s worst nightmare and people who have never had powers or have been an element are now fighting or destroying the world?

Or maybe the Culling Games are something else entirely, I don’t know. All I do know is that when it comes to domains and TADC, it is a confusing mess that will need to be on the back burner until Mahito is solved.

If anyone has ideas on what the Culling Games could be, let me know! I’m open to ideas! Perhaps it really is just something similar to canon instead, where people are forced to fight each other. Maybe something like the excess magic in the world is given to a bunch of humans who are forced to fight each other to kill off the excess magic entirely as they would all be some kind black hole for magic like Mechamaru, Toji, and Maki without the heavenly restriction? Something like that, idk. This is about domains and TADC, not the Culling Games.