#timedancer

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Anyway. So if we’re saying the comics aren’t cannon, I would probably do a similar set up to the original but explain it by saying the Phoenix is an ACTUAL Phoenix that was trapped inside the talisman that became the Phoenix gate. When it was thrown into the time stream the talisman eventually corroded and the Phoenix was able to break free.

I actually have this headcannon that the Phoenix was drawn to Brooklyn because he has some kind of dormant magical abilities. The longer he travels with the Phoenix the more his powers come to light.

But back to the movie idea, I actually really like the story that is in the comics so I would probably keep it as the plot of the movie. Assuming an accompanying series was made, I would delve into the psychological and physical trauma Brooklyn HAD to have gone through (we just haven’t seen it yet in the cannon series). There would be stories to tell along with the new scars he recieved as well as wrangling with his new found powers (I like to imagine he has fire powers cause fire is volatile and unpredictable, but strong and powerful like his character).

Through his travels he will meet with Demona on a few more occasions, eventually learning how to forgive her after seeing some of what she did indeed go through (not justifying what she’s done, but rather explaining how she became so hard and jaded to the world). However, he never fully trusts her but if, perhaps, down the line she gets a redemption arc, maybe he would be one of the ones more willing to believe she can change as he did work with her to fight a war (to the surprise of everyone).

However, as much as I LOVE Katana and Nash, I don’t know if I’d include a love arc for him or not. I think it would depend on how the story unfolded. If I DID include her, I would bring her in for like season three or four? Not right away is the big thing here. I would have her “defrost” Brooklyn a little because, perhaps, he has seen his fair share of horrors already and is on the verge of giving up hope that he’ll ever make it home. Okay yeah, now typing this all out I would include her because she would become his rock and moral compass, keeping him grounded and helping him to still be able to see the good in the world.

There would be a few times when his time dancing crossed his own timeline and he would have to do lots of ninja moves to stay away from his clan (and subsequently himself) as he doesn’t want to risk something happening to his timeline if one of them see him. Even though Goliath and Demona have said the past is immutable, he’s not going to take any chances.

Oooooo. I’d also make Griff a reoccurring character cause he needs more love and I think the two of them would work really well together based on their one interaction in the episode Kingdom. Griff has to keep secret all his interactions with Brooklyn, again to prevent anything happening to the timeline.

I would also make his absence FAR longer away from his “current time”. I’m thinking a few years. His clan doesn’t know if they’ll ever see him again just like Angela said in the comics. But maybe it’s more like 40 months vs 40 seconds (I’d keep the 40 connection cause I like the metophor).

Dimension travel is something else I would add to the story. Maybe he meets an alternate version of himself at some point? Maybe he gets transported to a dimension where gargoyles don’t exist? Or one where gargoyles are the dominant species/accepted in the human world? I feel like this scenario in particular could be very angsty because Brooklyn could have to choose if he stays in a world where he’s accepted, or keep trying to return to his family. Maybe that’s how I’d end the series. Brooklyn has to decide if he stays somewhere where life is objectively ‘easy’ (the grass is greener and all that) or risk traveling for who knows how much longer.

I feel like this would’ve happened at some point X) 

just trying to get some practice in (and figure out text bubbles lol i don’t know what I’m doing)

probably messed up that last panel, go by color

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Gargoyles (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Summary:

what if the proposed spinoff Timedancer wasn’t soul crushingly sad? and what if it wasn’t so heteronormative? welcome to A Time Dance; a Timedancer alternative by this sad bitch

WELL anon, since you asked

Brooklyn being swiped away from his clan and not seeing them again for 40 years. holy shit that's awful. have you ever been forcefully separated from loved ones? it's wretched.

coming back, what, 40 years old? 39?his brothers still babies. he's older than Goliath. this difference in experience means that there's no going back. he can't come home and fall into Goliath's arms and feel safe. he can't play video games with his brothers and enjoy the banter he missed. everything's different now. have you ever been forcefully separated from loved ones for a long period of time? I have. it's wretched. and then made to deal with the decayed relationship when you get back to it? I'm not looking forward to it.

he must've been aware of this. at some point on his journey, he thought to himself "what if I never see them again?" and then with perhaps more horror he thought "what if when I do see them again everything's Different and there's no going back?"

he grieved them and eventually came to terms with it enough to make a new clan, but his family didn't get the chance to grieve. they have to grieve the loss of all those years together now.

he essentially grew up from a teenage boy to a man in an ever changing environment, without any comfort or role models besides his memories. ouch.

Lexington and Broadway lost their BROTHER. he's not gone gone, but he's different, and a little distant, because he loves them so much but he grew out of them and he doesn't know how to deal with that fact. he's not Headstrong But Kind, Natural Leader, Curious And Adventurous Brother Brooklyn. he's old, tired, calm, mated father. he sees them as children now. they miss their BROTHER.

imagine the slow, illogical, inescapable guilt that Hudson and Goliath would feel. Brook went through all this in the blink of an eye. they couldn't stop it, it was over before they knew it'd happened. that's terrifying.

Brooklyn was probably aware of this. over 40 years he'd have ample time to realize how they'd react, how he'd react, how things would be broken, and he couldn't change it.

that's not even mentioning that all this will trigger BAD bad memories for Brooklyn leftover from the Avalon travels.

"take away their comforting role model to make them Grow Up and Mature and Character Develop" is a bad trope. y'know what negative effects adults with a good supportive relationship with their parents have? absolutely none. Brooklyn can mature into a worthy second in command without being ripped from his family and forced to mature through trauma.

and it is trauma. it would be traumatizing to be torn from your family and thrown into a confusing landscape all by yourself.

I'm having a really hard time communicating the absolute horror that is living, fully aware that something is slowly being drained from you that you can never have back, and being unable to stop it. imagine the horror of the passage of time but instead of your available lifespan it's your friendships themselves being stolen from you second by second.

maybe it just triggers some of my own issues really bad but holy shit there's really no good to come from this whole situation.

THIS IS ALL ASSUMING HE DOESN'T RUN INTO ANY OTHER DEPRESSING AND/OR TRAUMATIZING SHIT ON HIS ADVENTURES. given where the gargoyle species is now he's got a lot of opportunity to witness more massacres.