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Your ask immediately made me think of this shirt for some reason. I have no idea if I made it up or saw it at some point, but I can see Eve relaxing in it lol.

Anyway! My opinions! (there is a lot more than I thought lol)

Oh neat. Maybe! I somehow forgot about Alchemax lol.

Maybe instead of taking over it, the two became partner companies or something like that. Similar to how J-1 Robotics is partnered with a cybernetics company, or something like that.

Alchemax is where all the very delicate research on power samples and power-reducing tech is done and created. While Nueva York is where the therapy and housing (basically everything else) happens.

Miguel would still be the CEO of both, but probably has another person running the intricacies of Alchemax. I don't see that person being Liv because she would want to be in the researching area, not the one running the shots, and Jonathan I always saw as under Liv in the hierarchical ladder so that also keeps him from being the one running Alchemax.

Actually, just looked it up and found out that Olivia is the founder of Alchemax! Neat! Though I like her kinda being like the secret leader of the company and not really the face of it. That's probably why I think Miguel being the face of both Nueva York and Alchemax would work out really well.

I was going to say that Kingpin could be the head of Alchemax, but then I saw that he has his own company Fisk Industries. I think his company is a holding company in canon which, and I might be wrong here, is like a parent company that completely or partially owns another business as well as stock and stuff like that.

I kinda prefer the idea that Fisk Industries is more like a distributor or a warehouse company than a holding company. No matter what, it is a powerful company with a lot of money to it (probably because it is still definitely a front for a criminal organization in this AU lol).

So like, Vandelay Tech makes special parts, technology, robots and stuff like that, which is then bought by companies like Fisk Industries to store until they get shipped out to customers or brick-and-mortar stores (the cybernetics are done by Vandelay Tech themselves in house and are not distributed).

From there Fisk Industries distributes that stuff to other companies, stores, directly to customers. One of these being Alchemax, which gets specially designed parts and machinery that Vandelay Tech makes, but it's cheaper to buy that stuff through Fisk Industries than directly from the manufacturer (because Kale wants to make a big profit by jacking up the price legally and Wilson is willing to lower prices in some kind of laundering/crime scheme that makes him money illegally).

With the tech/parts/machines from Vandelay/Fisk, Alchemax can create highly specialized tech that relates to reducing powers in people as well as have the tools to do proper research to keep Nueva York running and showing progress to continue getting funding.

Loved talking about this a lot honestly! It's been a bit since I thought about the distribution process of goods from manufacturer to consumer. This also helped me round out more of the area and how some companies are connected together even if they don't seem like they should be.

Honestly, Psychonauts probably gets their parts from Fisk Industries as well. At least if they don't know that there is a crime ring attached to the company, otherwise they would try and get things directly from Vandelay Tech (even if it is pricier, but then the Tech Revolution happens and now Psychonauts aren't sure if they want to continue relations with them either and might have to look to overseas manufacturers for the parts needed for psychic machinery).

NSR and J-1 are definitely working together to supply each other with power, funding, and qwasa tech. NSR would technicaly be the holding company in this part of the world, with J-1 being a manufacturer. There wouldn't be a need for a middleman distributor for J-1 and NSR working together, but J-1 does have distributors for its toys and other products for the average consumer (the cybernetics company owned or partnered with J-1 is not supplying NSR directly, but it does have NSR's interest to think about in order to keep its funding/continue working).

I see you've taken an interest of my NSR fan kiddies aka Burning Constellation and the OFA Rockstars becoming villians aka L.O.V.E. So I've come to ask on what you think the reactions of everyone such as the main NSR Cast, Nueva York, Vandelay, and even the Psychonauts would be when L.O.V.E forms and starts causing havoc everywhere. It's mainly Burning Constellation who starts causing mayhem by launching an attack that destroys the NSR Tower aka Orion doing what her dad Kliff did and drops a satellite on it only this time the satellite hits the Tower and causes a lot of damage, plus they also steal the Grand Qwasa- (I'm sure Kliff would be proud of his daughter LOL-)

Then all the OFA Artists join L.O.V.E after becoming villains themselves so now it's getting out of control to where Titanium has to call in help so she would call in the 4 main groups mentioned. How would they go about to defeat the L.O.V.E villains? Would they try to take them out one by one in order of the OFA Rockstars (Henrick being the first, Rosie second, Prince Astral third, CAL forth, Jodie fifth, and Burning Constellation last?) Or would they lure them into a trap and them battle them all at once?

I apologize for this ask being quite lengthy, I'm really down the rabbit hole of my silly group of villains-

For the NSR characters, it depends on if the tower was empty or not (also I don't know all about your AU, I keep forgetting with my terrible memory, so I don't know who's still alive or still working for NSR at this point in time so I'll keep it vague lol).

If it's empty, like they were able to evacuate in time, the destruction of NSR tower would be devastating but not too bad. If it was full, then L.O.V.E. would be seen as absolute monsters and murderers. They would be hated by a large majority of Vinyl City and probably the NSR cast as well (imagine if Titanium was IN the tower when the satellite hit, we'd need a new leader of Vinyl City then, but since she's the one who calls for help she most likely survives).

Stealing the Grand Qwasa (which sounds so funny to me lol) would be devastating as well since most, if not all, of the power in Vinyl City is now gone. People would die from hospitals not being powered and flooding as machines to keep flooding down are now not being powered at all. Not to mention the whole structure of the city is being thrown all over the place because of the chaos. L.O.V.E. would be despised by the citizens of Vinyl City.

As for the retaliation itself, I don't think NSR would have means of fighting L.O.V.E.. I don't know about your version of NSR, but mine wouldn't have the security to go against a whole villainous organization, which is probably why Titanium tries asking for help.

I doubt Vandelay Tech would do anything. They are just a tech company, not really out there looking to save the world. I'm sure they could offer some security robots, but honestly I doubt they would actually even have any more of those at this point since those types of robots were more Kale's doing and not something Roxanne or Peppermint would have kept going. I can see them sending robots that specialize in care and help to Vinyl City during this time though.

Psychonauts and Nueva York. Those are two organizations that would help Titanium (if they are still around. I definitely think Psychonauts would still be around, but not so sure if Nueva York would have been able to stand the test of time).

With the Psychonauts, they usually only deal with psychic battles, however, they would absolutely be willing to help stop this organization considering they've HAD to have killed some people. I don't know how much of the OG adult cast from Psychonauts would be around (the Psychic 7 are long dead by this point, as are people like Milla and Sasha being very old or dead by this point), I think Raz would be around still, but I don't know if she would still be an active member of the Psychonauts (since she'd be like... idk 50+ at this point, but she could definitely still be kicking ass lol).

Either way, whatever Psychonauts are around would be willing and ready to help try and stop L.O.V.E. at all costs. Using their psychic powers and advanced tech at this point would definitely help them as they track down and get ready to fight L.O.V.E.

Nuvea York is a tricky one. Because, if the Power Revolution worked and stuck true to the core of Nueva York, then that organization wouldn't really be used in this situation. Nueva York at this point is about helping people learn to control their powers, nothing more and nothing less.

Other organizations would have been made to help rehabilitate people using their powers for evil, or to hold people with powers who would have been able to escape captivity after committing a crime, but Nueva York would not be one of them. So whatever other organization is used to help detain and stop people from using their powers purposefully for evil would be called instead (the people of Nueva York would probably not like L.O.V.E. though, considering what they have already done to Vinyl City).

As for HOW L.O.V.E. would be captured, I think the Psychonauts and Power Organization (don't know what else to call it) wouldn't really work together right off the bat. They each have their own methods for dealing and capturing enemies, so they would rather work alone. They'd both also wait until L.O.V.E. commits some kind of crime, maybe try to set up a situation that would attract L.O.V.E., but for the first few tries they would rather try and get L.O.V.E. to commit their own crimes at first and try and stop them at the scene.

I can see it being kinda comical if you want to go that way, where Power Organization and Psychonauts make each other fail a few times and they have a little rivalry going on until something super serious happens and that's when the two groups start to work together and actually coordinate instead of almost actively sabotaging each other.

The order of capture would also depend on how L.O.V.E. operates itself. Do they usually attack in groups or by themselves with only some attacks being group/partner work. If it's single work with sometime having group/partner work, then Psychonauts and PO would do their best to get crimes that are committed by more than one person. But if they only capture one then that's fine as then they can use methods like going into the person's brain (or I guess code for CAL if I remember correctly) to look for the location of L.O.V.E.'s headquarters or base of operations.

If it's group work, then the Psychonauts and PO would do their best to try and capture everyone at once. I can see something going wrong and one person from L.O.V.E. escaping, and now the two organizations have to worry about them breaking out the rest of L.O.V.E. or something.

It could also be that L.O.V.E. ends up never getting caught because of reasons like they are too good at evading capture or are too ruthless that even if they were almost caught, the casualties were too great for their pursuers that they were able to escape each time.

Fun fact that's not really related to the Eriverse but to an NSR exclusive universe instead!

Blue (alt Purl-hew 1010 from Failed Revolution AU), can actually do what you are suggesting! He can look into any kind of robot (especially those with sentience) and read their code! I had a version where all my NSR AUs would meet up and he was a raging dick to others at times because he was so guarded that he could only push people away to feel safe and used people's code against them.

Anyway!

I love that idea for Margo! It probably won't be incredibly OP, probably more like how Psychonauts can look into people's minds is the same way that Margo can look into code.

Technically byte can do it without consent, but a code of ethics/morals has bit ask before looking at someone's code.

OH! Or, possibly looking at people directly in the eyes (if they have eyes, possible something equivalent or it has to be eyes idk) forces their code into Margo's mind when in a digital domain!

The reason I think this would be cool would be because it would make bit into an enderman basically! Endermen in the Eriverse have an eye of clairvoyance that they use to see from so they aren't looking into people's eyes all the time because they can see the souls of people through the eyes (which is very overwhemling for endermen because they can look at entity souls just fine but human souls are too much for them to look at).

This would be a similar thing for Margo at first, where bit can barely look at entities in the eyes while in a domain because byte will be forced to see all the code inside of an entity.

Overtime this can be practiced with so that it's not an automatic force into bits mind, which is why byte can go into TADC domain with no problem later on.

I think it would be neat for Yami (my enderman OC who's friends with Miku, Kinji and Kirara) to have learned some tricks from Margo before bit got trapped in TADC domain so they can actually look at humans through their eyes without getting incredibly overwhelmed to the point of wanting to kill whoever looked into their eyes.

Also, by the time Margo goes into the Arcade Domain, I think the events of the movie has already happened for Wreck it Ralph. Mainly because it happens in liked 2012 I think is when the movie takes place, and by the time Margo goes into the domain it would be after the timeskip around the 2020's.

The domain was just very isolated and so never was able to escape into the real world and draw attention to itself other than the fact that it is home to creepypasta King Candy lol.

So 2012/early 2010s is when Wreck it Ralph takes place. An about 10 year timeskip happens and then Margo, Eloni, and a mermaid (and possibly Tila and a Psychonaut agent/Gisu) go to the arcade to see what's up.

Margo uses bits astral projection to go into the arcade game to see what's up with the code (with permission from Litwak) and ends up finding a whole domain inside of the cabinet instead of just code that byte can look through.

If Gisu isn't hear with the group at first, then she would end up coming along once Margo tells her about it to go and investigate because these arcade cabinets are acting like a human mind rather than acting like technology.

I'm sure at this point some mental figures have been showing up in the real world as well (panic attacks and nightmares were some of the first mental enemies to start appearing in the real world), so Gisu would be taking this supposed human mind arcade cabinet really seriously as a Psychonaut.

She'd even start interrogating Litwak thinking he is using human brains to run his arcade as it still isn't common for psychics to enter robotic minds (there have been some breakthroughs, but it's very difficult and Margo entered with ease even though bit has never been able to enter a human mind that wasn't connected to technology before, which is why Gisu thinks there are human brains connected to the cabinets).

Vanellope and Ralph (and others) would not be able to leave the domain yet but would be able to see all of this through their screens, and so would have to talk to Margo when byte comes back into the domain while Gisu investigates (and gets psychic tech that would allow her to enter the domain herself which is used for robotic minds in case there are no brains in the cabinet).

From there conversations would be had and it would come to the conclusion that this is something entirely new that is not truly human nor robot. No one knows what they are called yet, as nightmares and panic attacks aren't too talkative and the Wreck it Ralph cast were isolated from everything outside of the arcade.

I would say a year, possibly 2, after Margo's discovery of the arcade domain is when everything starts to happen (with Yinu's retirement and the ambush on the Lights Up Audtion to the Culling Games and Vinyl City attack).

By the time everything happens, enough magic is in the world (and plenty of domains have appeared), and the fact that Mahito and Kenjaku go into the arcade domain, that Vanellope, Ralph, and the others will be able to leave the domain to help out the world.

Fun fact that I might have already said before but can't remember, Ber1's pronouns are ey/em/eir. It was at first done because I misspelled "their" as "eir" but really liked how it looked.

As for Kiw1, I definitely knew that Kiw1 wouldn't be using traditional pronouns for long. Possibly starting with the standard she/they but then change over time.

I don't know if I was gonna stick with standard pronouns (he/she/they), neopronouns (like it/mer/xe/mew), or do what you suggest and do no pronouns at all.

I do like the idea of Kiw1 not using pronouns though! That or Kiw1 doesn't use pronouns verbally but does writtenly in emojis. I've seen people use things like 🌙 and 🌙self. Don't know what Kiw1 would use for that kind of neopronoun yet though. Possibly ✨(sparkle emoji) or 📓(notebook emoji) I think would work (and if Kiw1 uses 📓, the notebook emoji, then it would be cool for 📓 and Gwen to meet as Gwen does use note/noteself pronouns).

Funnily enough, I need to go through and actually remember what each character's pronouns are (like Gwen being she/note and I think something else) because it's been so long for some of them I am forgetting lol.

I am making a document now that will have every character in the Eriverse on it with notes about them. I'm just gonna be building off of my NSR one which is really filled out, but I'll be adding all the characters from each media in their own sections to hopefully help me remember little details I will absolutely forget :3

The movie takes place in 2012. (Meaning it’s been a few years after the Robot Revolution.) Sugar Rush was released in 1997. Fix It Felix Junior was released in 1982. Hero’s Duty was released in 2012. Meaning the kids in the Eriverse might be fans.

… hopefully Cy-Bugs will not escape to the real world in the Vinyl City incident. (but at least this probably means that the weapons/the arcade characters might aid in helping Vinyl City. (However, if Kenjaku made Litwak’s arcade into a Culling Games ground too…)

Ralph and Vanellope might be the first people to realize what was going on in TADC. They found out about the entities going missing there.

I base time off of when Psychonauts takes place. So those games take place in 1980's. Then about 20 years later is when the Rock Revolution happens making it early 2000's.

After that there is a 2 year time jump each between the Rock Revolution, Power Revolution, and Tech Revolution. Meaning we could be ending this time anywhere from like 2004 to 2010 depending on when exactly Psychonauts takes place.

After that revolution is when a 10 year timeskip takes place and entities start showing up. Possible before the timeskip ends we could have Wreck it Ralph start forming, but I would say that if that is the case it would be at year 9 of the timeskip and after the timeskip is when Margo goes to check out the arcade.

Possibly all of this happening before Yinu decides to retire so the events of the entity invasion hasn't happened yet, however entities are still forming so it's just Margo looking for creepypasta arcades. Or even right after Yinu retired as it would take time to set up the audition for the new charter.

Though if we do say that this is before Miku takes stage at the audition, and entities aren't known yet, then there's no reason for Margo to know what entities are, which is why this would be more of a hobby to find glitched out tech and games rather than help out entities forming an incomplete digital domain.

Unless Margo befriended someone in the Psychonauts (which, maybe. I don't think so though. Unless perhaps Gisu became some kind of friend to Margo because of tech stuff as Gisu most likely took over the tech field once Otto retired/died and Margo has been working with tech companies such as J-1).

So if Margo is friends with Gisu, or anyone else in the Psychonauts, bit might have already known about entities. Or at the very least byte would be informed about them once byte told the Psychonaut buddy about what bit discovered at the arcade.

But anyway, long story short, the Robot Revolution takes place closer to early to mid 2020s, with Wreck it Ralph's discovery being in early 2020's or even 2019. The kids of the generation from 10 years ago could have absolutely been some kind of fans that just grew up (and especially the Psychonauts kids being fans of Fex-it Felix Junior which might be why Margo tells the Psychonaut friend about it).

Don't know how the "lesser" characters in the games would be effected. It could be that just "main" characters and/or playable characters are the ones who become sentient. Or at the very least, those are the ones that can actively leave the arcade cabinet to join the real world.

Though, I do love the idea that Kenjaku and Mahito find this place, get into the incomplete domain/digital space similar to B2J, and take one of the cybugs (Mahito is taking it absolutely, even if Kenjaku tells him not to. How can you not? They are adorable and would be amazing to play with/run tests on).

Having mind powers or similar powers does NOT mean you are psychic at all.

The term "psychic" in the Eriverse refers to people who can disconnect their consciousness from their bodies (like how the Psychonauts will go into a person's brain with a mental image).

Margo is technically a psychic because bit has astral projection and can disembody bitself from bits body, even though bit doesn't actually have any mind powers at all.

Mechamaru is both psychic and not because he can disconnect parts of his mind but not fully. Very much there would be arguments on whether he was psychic or not in that community since he is one of very few people who can disconnect their mind to any degree and still have control over his physical body.

Eve is not a psychic even though pretty much all of her powers come from her mind because she cannot disconnect her mind and body from each other. This was actually a great deal of stress for her as a child at Whispering Rock Summer Camp since she couldn't do what every other psychic child could do (and pretty much all the training took place in the instructors' minds, so she couldn't even properly train her mind powers and just felt super left out).

You don't have to be psychic to create domains. Eve and Pavitr can sorta make them (incomplete ones) and neither are considered psychic. It does help that they have mind powers, but even then I would say it is possible for anyone to make a domain, you just need the skill or enough magic and control to do it (it's definitely easier with mind powers to do so, and even easier still for psychics who actually have practice going in and out of the personal mental domain of the mindscape).

So while I don't think Ganke is psychic, or has any mind powers, I do think he would be able to pull off a simple domain because of his silencing powers. Same for Inspector Singh actually! Those two have powers that would make creating a simple domain much easier compared to other people with powers (obviously not easier than psychics though).

could be a good explanation for the patients still being young

Personally don't care for that theory, also the patients aren't young? They are all like actually really old? Do you possibly mean "alive" and not "young" in your ask?

Because like, I just checked the wiki (which could be wrong), but it says the asylum was abandoned 55 years ago, and if the patients were all in their 20s and 30s, that would mean they are only in their 70s and 80s, which seems right to me in how I pictured their ages to be when I played the game (and possibly they could have been even younger for some patients, can't remember all the memories of all of them, but it wouldn't have been uncommon to send a teen to an asylum at that time I don't think).

I mean, I guess I could see a defense for that theory as there is the Time Bubble theory, so technically there could be a massive time bubble that distorted time to slow the world in the bubble down a little bit, meaning that people in the bubble aged slower.