OK FINE HEREâS EVERYTHING THAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN
The Resynchronising (or the events leading up to and immediately after it) takes place in chapters 19, 20, and 21, and the Resynchronising itself takes place at the end of Chapter 20. For this event, for one night only all of the Old/New Lords were going to be talking with one another in the same void.
The beginning of Chapter 20 was going to be Kindler challenging Wiggly to a duel to pass the time before the actual event (and also partly to intimidate the others and keep Wiggly from hiding how bad he actually treats him anymore). The rest of the pantheon (both pantheons) would be separated from him by a forcefield begrudgingly held up by Gazer
Wiggly actually holds his own in this fight for a good amount of time, though a lot of that is Kindler intentionally holding himself back to toy with him (also Wiggly wields a rapier made of semi-solid water here and you need to know this), at least until he gets bored with holding back and starts treating it more seriously to flex his âsuperior mightâ in which point the poor squid boyâs ass begins to get absolutely kicked
After a while of this, Gazer has enough of seeing her asshole boss kick the shit out of whatâs basically their equivalent of a child for no reason and intentionally breaks the forcefield, upon which Blinky immediately enters her griffin form and starts her own, more brutal yet also more short-lived fight against Kindler. She is absolutely fucking pissed that this guy turned out to be every bit as cruel as she thought heâd be, more than she ever even gets close to in the fic, but it still doesnât give her any chance against him.
Anyways, at the end of the chapter the Resynchronising begins. The Resynchronising isnât actually one solid returning of all of their past memories, but rather the moment that the locks in their memories are broken and they are granted one crucial yet out-of-context memory of their past lives. The rest are hidden in the deepest, darkest depths of their rooms and slowly unlocked over time
Chapter 21, the next time our favourite siblings are able to talk, is kind of the big beginning of the twoâs character development in the story. Blinky, naturally, wants to get to the bottom of why he didnât trust her enough to actually tell her what Kindler had been doing this whole time, and Wiggly is more focused on what she remembered during the Resynchronising that left her in such a visibly distressed state after the fact (though to be fair basically all of them were having panic attacks when they came to, itâs just that seeing Blinky having one left a strong impression on him)
This is the point where itâs made most clear that their problems are actually extremely similar, with them both being like âhow dare you care more about me than you do about yourself!â That, combined with the added stress of the situation, means they actually full-blown argue about it for a bit, though they do calm down eventually and promise to be more transparent with one another
ANYWAYS! To the parts you were all looking forward to. I only 100% decided on Wigglyâs name (William), so Iâm not going to tell you any of their real names- besides, theyâre not all that relevant anyways. Hereâs information about their human lives! (Also: the New Lordsâ past and current incarnations wouldâve been treated as separate characters by both the narrative and the characters themselves, so donât treat them like theyâre 100% the same people)
Pokey made a deal with the Old Lords for fame and stardom, which he had for maybe a few years before Stinger had him killed via supernatural means (perhaps an unnaturally strong and fast-acting disease) for being unable to pay whatever debt he had to them in exchange for their support
Blinky was the older sister of another missing person killed by the Church- of which there are many- who took it upon herself to investigate their disappearance and briefly got ahold of the Black Book and tried to make a deal with Thrasher for information before getting shot in both the brain and the eye by one of the cultists, who then returned the book to its rightful resting place in the Church
Tinky was also targeted by the Church after solving a cypher specifically created to help find Gazer an heir, and executed via a special means specifically designed to give him the best chances of ascension (even if turned out to have absolutely no hand in whether someone gets picked by the Stars or not)- making him the only person out of the five that the Church intended to become a god, despite them being directly involved in almost all of their deaths other than maybe Pokeyâs
Nibbly was sacrificed to Rattler during the Honey Festival (there is no pageant in this universe- the sacrifice is instead selected through a lottery of Hatchetfield citizens belong to a certain group). Thatâs why sheâs so obsessed with food: all of the souls that are killed by or sacrificed to Rattler re-manifest in his room to be tortured and starved by him for the rest of eternity, many of them slipping into madness very quickly. Not only is this the origin of the screaming skeleton people in Nibblyâs room in Chapter 3 (originally was just going to be a throwaway gag), but when we got to explore more of her full room, we wouldâve eventually seen that there are still hundreds or even thousands of tortured souls hidden underground.
Oh, and that âcertain groupâ Nibbly belonged to? Yeah, kids. I was talking about kids. Rattler is horrifying and finds torturing and decaying souls most fun when itâs the youngest and most innocent souls possible. Thatâs another reason why she was like that: Nibbly was actually only seven when she was sacrificed. (Donât worry, you werenât gonna see her die, but still, it really puts it into perspective how dark this story wouldâve gotten if it had been finished!)
And finally, Wiggly was the former second-in-command to Lucius within the Church (hence why itâs Persephone in the fic despite her also being the leader of the Sect), and was even intended to be Kindlerâs chosen heir for the Metempsychosis for a while. His assigned death method was drowning, but he bailed out at the last second and saved himself (possibly only surviving because of divine intervention from Kindler, however that would work), and was going to get the fuck out of town while he still could before the Church did what he knew they were going to do when they found out-
-and eventually would do: sacrifice him, but not⌠in a clean way. Not in a fancy, special way specifically designed to garner as much favour from the gods as possible. No, they knock him unconscious and drag him to the nearest sacrifice circle they could find within their walls, where they proceeded to slit his throat and leave him to die within seconds. Usually, it would be custom for the sacrifice to still be conscious when they are sacrificed. But not here. They neither want or need to pay attention to such a lowly insect, such a vile humiliation of the idea of what a god should be or ever could be. They were a fool to ever put faith in him, and they would never again.
Now, the New Lords have always been openly against the shit the Old Lords did, but this is when it becomes most clear that if they were chosen by the Stars for any real reason, it is most certainly because they are the exact opposites of the absolute monsters they picked for their last pantheon. Iâm like 90% sure Wiggly actually personally kills Lucius after finding out what he did, not just to his past lives but to all of them.
Oh and also thereâs no other place to say this so Iâll just add it here: it turns out that the reason why Webby seems to have emotions despite the fact that sheâs supposed to lack them is because her whole life sheâs slowly been on the way to developing a soul, starting with the way the Old Lords (especially Kindler) used and abused her that was so intense it struck fear and pain into a heart sheâs not supposed to have. By the time the story ends she acts a lot more like Canon Webby
And finally, the climax. I didnât think of this in an awful lot of detail but the way I was imagining it was that Kindler tries to pull off⌠basically what Willabella was trying to do with Hannah in canon (i think), overtaking Wigglyâs body and soul so he can have a second chance at godhood. (Donât ask me the exact specifics of how this would work, what he was planning to do with the rest of both pantheons, or how he was expecting to get away with it with the Stars watching his every move)
This would eventually result in one final boss fight that intentionally parallels the duel Wiggly and Kindler have in Chapter 20, except Wiggly is a much more skilled fighter and Kindler is actually genuinely trying to take him down. The rest of the gods are there too, and not only is Gazer fighting on the New Lordsâ side which gives them a major advantage, but theyâre eventually able to convince Stinger, Thrasher and Rattler that what Kindler is trying to do is absolutely crazy, which leads to them turning on him too- not because they turned over a new leaf or anything, but because they finally accepted their fates.
You know who didnât accept his fate, though? Kindler. And as it turns out, heâs also a very sore loser, and every bit just as insane as we knew he was. He spends a bit going on a crazy rant about how superior he is to everything around him and that he will find a way to free himself from the Starsâ control and do as he pleases no matter how many other gods try to get in his way⌠and then the Stars show up personally and vaporise him after two seconds.
The rest of the Old Lords are given their chance to say goodbye, the New Lords decide to make their existence known to the rest of the world while keeping Hatchetfield as their main base of operations so-to-speak, Webby decides to trade her true immortality for a real soul and becomes a real person in the same way the rest are, and the five- now technically six- siblings are finally happy. And thatâs⌠where the story ends, I guess.
Oh, and there would also be an epilogue chapter that takes place some 5000 years after the main story, with a much older and much more self-actualised Wiggly talking to his heir, the God of the Skies (and a silly little parrot man!). The world will keep on spinning, with no ending or beginning.
So, uh⌠yeah! Thatâs it! Please ask me if you have any more questions :)
