#lyg

What if time-space in Tamriel, or rather the metaphysical Nirn, worked by different ideas of what are translated to us as cardinal directions? What if, instead of travelling to the future or past by going in a certain physical direction, there were different metaphysical "directions" one could travel on to reach different temporal and physical locations? I drew up some charts, thought myself real clever, and everything was good. Then I huffed a little too much skooma and started wondering if the different time models (kalpas, amaranth, etc) and accompanying philosophical / religious differences of different Tamriellic cultures could also be related to their respective “locations” on these "philosophaxes." (Confirmation bias? Never heard of her) These charts are the result:

Lyg as inverse of the center? As “Not Here” / “Not Now” / “Not Our Place”? The only adjacent-place truly inaccessible and all the more eldritch / strange for it?

Morrowind as Loveborne-Potential-Transcendence as described in C0DA? Alinor as antithesis Hateborne-Denial-Imprisonment where Walk-Brass would call home?

Akha in Khajiit myths going "South" to never return, Alduin the "World-Eater"

Northwesterly High Rock as Loveborne Determinism, (likely unintentional) parallels with Christianity and thus west-european tropes by association? (as opposed to Gnostic Morrowind & Nihilist Alinor?)

Cyrodiil as True Center of Each Axis, thus its metaphysical dominance over all of Tamriel / Talos as the "King of the Gods"?

Summary: “Still at a very early age, Billy found out dreams weren't for anyone. Certainly weren't for people like them, or at least that was what Neil had said.

California felt like a dream, until it didn't anymore. He doesn't like to look back at that night, but that night loves to haunt him.

It bleeds into Hawkins, into his other monsters. A constant nightmare, that is what his life felt very much like.

He wonders if now, after his heart stopped beating, after his body gave up, will it be like waking up? Will it be like the end of nightmare, opening your eyes to a new day, to a better life?

He doubts it, that sounds too much like a dream for him.

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Somehow Billy survives Starcourt. 

Gratitude is not among the things he feels about his survival, not when he knows he has to go back to a much more real (and much more angry) monster than whatever it was that took him.

Hawkins and California start to bleed in together, a gory mess of everything that haunts him. Billy can't tell apart past and present no more.

Or rather, he can't do it alone. 

Because much like in his past, he might have people to make the darkness clearer. That is, if he doesn't lose them this time around.”

Relationships: Steve Harrington/Billy Hargrove, Billy Hargrove & Max Mayfield, Billy & Steve, Steve & Max, Steve & Robin, Billy & Heather, Billy & His Mother, Billy & Neil, Billy & Original Characters

Warnings: implied/referenced child abuse, implied/referenced domestic violence, canon typical violence, overall bad parenting (Neil Hargrove is, in fact, his own warning), homophobia (period-typical), racism (not from Billy)

Chapters: around 12

Word Count: 1st chapter 5.6k

Love you goodbye

Lyg is reverse. Where there is land in Tamriel here there is sea, and vice versa. Even the colors are the opposite of what they are in Tamriel, and things that would seen intuitive in Tamriel are most definitely not intuitive here.

Given that Lyg is mostly water there are several amphibious races here; the Dreugh were once present but they are no longer. A few humanoid races exist as well.

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She's so stunning and gorgeous. She look so pretty in “pony tail" hair.