#tlf stuff

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Context+lore behind the cut

Noooooo veggie im so sorry i didnt see the ask. even worse is its a thing i actually want to talk about 😭😭😭

anyway because oc lore is vast and all that im gonna give you original world lore first and if you want more ill give you more loredump on specific characters.

SO. basically, the universe is composed of primordial energy (like space, time, change, etc...), and whenever a big change is shifting this balance, a new primordial energy will emerge, (this has appened with life, the soul and more human-centric stuff)

those energy manifest themselves in "anchors", unique minerals of an incomprehensible composition that shift the "normality" of their respective energy.

Because most of my OCs are centered around the TimeLapse foundation, i'll go into more details about them later, but rn all you need to know is they're basically an SCP-foundation analog. As of now the TimeLapse foundation as designated 8 primordial energies, with only 3 of them without a discernable/known anchor, named taxa (each known anchor is under the designation TLC-AO-001-)

The Decay - all things related to time. Anchor is a large quartz-like crystal that has been moved in the center of the TimeLapse foundation main bunker. it slows time down the closer you get to it (kinda like a black hole minus the gravity thing)

The Mind - ghost, mind control, hallucination, etc... Anchor is an amber-like monolith that acts as the center of a hivemind that only seeks to spread

The Truth - knowledge, perception, reality warping. Anchor is a small cube of diamond with a diamond-shaped hole carved in its center, it alter's the perceptions of people nearby to appear as a being made of white light named "The Librarian", and will manifest around itself an illusion of a large library containing all knowledge that was, is and will be

The Confine - space and dimensionality and liminality and the infinite. the anchor is a blue rock that randomly teleport itself anywhere in the known universe. really hard to contain which sucks for the foundation

The Void - Emptiness, destruction, energy, the fundamental interactions of matter. Anchor is an obsidian-like meteorite that's higly unstable, steals potential energy from things around it until it decides to explode or something worse

The Corpse - flesh, vines, blood, sap, all the appearances life can take. No anchor known

The Crowd - Humanity and the lack of it. the dull and the lively that we are. No anchor known

The Change - Randomness, Chaos. No anchor known

Also because Dawn is litteraly becoming the main character of everything so she was given more trauma:

As the stories of my OCs take place, there's also the emergence of a new primodial energy; The Host - control, very similar to the mind, but also goes further than that, dominion over all that is yours. the anchor is a very small granite-like octahedron that grows constantly into Dawn's current body's brain. when it finaly emerges it goes really bad

Addedum - the reason the foundation knows about those is because of the apotheosis, going in more details below

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that's for the taxa, now going a lil deeper into the TimeLapse foundation:

created by Dawn as a military-adjacent branch to contain 1 anomaly (TLC-AO-001-A; the quartz crystal of time) after apotheosis.

Apotheosis is an event that happened in 1920, where TLC-AO-001-A crashed into a random french field, and the corssing fields of energy between The Decay and both The Mind and The Corspe whose Anchors were already on earth. it create a big distrubance and anomalies started being more and more common (before then, there were anomalies but either they were really minor or very sparce).

TimeLapse started as a research and containment center for TLC-AO-001-A, with Dawn at the lead of the intervention team in case anything similar happened (ie. strike team to find and contain anomalies).

it slowly evolved in secret into something more complicated until it became a full blown secret agency, in the process, Dawn had declassified the files for the orginal TimeLapse strike team and cut the ties between the foundation and the french government (basically nobody outside of timelapse knew it existed)

After a while she partnered with Caelus Johnson (who had his own underground society, this one was made to create super-brainwashed-soldiers through the bullettrain.exe program; Dawn didn't know about it until he died for ANGST PURPOSES) because of his ties in many governments (especially the US congress) and they divided the foundation in two; the official affairs branch and the anomalous intervention branch.

then they added X, someone who is really secretive about his identity (even more than TimeLapse). He took the Lead of the Containment and Research branch, and the Anomalous Intervention branch became the Intervention Branch

Then Caelus Johnson died and it was a mess and his son Nathaniel Johnson (goes by N. Johnson because of TRAUMA surrounding his first name and his father) which ended as a good thing because he was an actually nice person and his father sucked and he still had basically the same ties if not more thanks to his fucked up upbrigging

Then Remus Altar (who goes by Ra because he has a superpower) joined them, became the Lead of the Research Branch

so basically the L4 are

Dawn - Intervention Branch

X - Containment Branch

N. Johnson - Political Branch

Ra - Research Branch

further notes on the timelapse foundation:

they have multiple public operation they secretly control:

Alpha Squad (basically the justice league of this world) and all the things related to it; the Alpha-affiliated hero list; Alphatech and other thing. Aube Dubois is the public leading figure. it's just Dawn's alter-ego

The Paranormal Bibliothecae - public association that colelcts paranormal stories, fictions, annecdotes and testimonies. over the course of anomalies being more and more of a public matter, they "associated" with the Alpha Squad to have a strike force and also became a sort of call center for supervillain-related problems. but it stays very esoteric because its part of the aesthetic

Gladiator Initiative/Ares Program - a publicly organized fighting sport where superheroes and other can battle to the "death" (they basically clone the heroes and have them mindcontrol the husks its complicated because theres like multiple anomalies used in the processus). The Ares Program is there to hope to reform supervillains and offer them a career as an athlete in the gladiator initiative

Espa Isles - an insulary country the foundation heavily helped create in hopes of recruiting the best of the best in term of researchers and scientist, also used as a way to do public programs, get some funds and have more influence in global politics. ended as a fiacso costing a lot of resources for it to not collapse too bad.

As far as we know, the mask itself doesn't possess any signs of being special nor sentient, but it's far from your average ceramic mask, it's anomalous

From what we manage to get from our "interviews" if you could call them that, Eon feels something move through his skin, like a surge of power rushing down his veins, whenever he put t mask on.

He told us he could fly and manipulate ribbons made of pure light, coming out of how very being whenever he had the mask on, but we both know this is only partially true.

He thinks he's a super hero, that's why he calls himself Eon and not something dumb like "The Smiler", why do maniacs keep thinking those names sounds cool?

Anyway, our main theory is that whenever he adorn the mask, his perception would shift. from the discrepancy we have, it could have started by only making the colors slightly more vibrant, the sun brighter, But those ribbons he think he control, we can see them for what they truly are, disgusting black tar-like tendrils sprouting from his skin, sometimes even growing teeths, bones and even eyes, almost like some sort of cancerous cells.

This perception shift would explain why he thinks of himself as a hero, seeing the heroes trying to stop him as vicious villains, Super-criminals as potential allies, his worst enemies as Eon are the very heroes who inspired him as Samuel.

Eon is a villain without realising it.

But we know he realised.

He told use a story on how, on one fateful night, one of the darkest his city had seen decades, Eon did something Samuel could never forgive.

After hours of pursuing another of his "villains", Eon heard screams coming from his apartment not far away, rushing through the skyline to get back as soon as he could, he noticed a black figure of pure shadow standing over his sister's bed, and without a thought lept toward it, crashing through the window and tackling it to the floor. 

The figure fought back, begging to be spared, its sharp claw trying to grab Eon's face, but he was stronger, holding it to the ground with his ribbons, strangling the monster with both his hands.

But before finally dying the thing managed to hit Eon's face, and as it's last breath escaped, Eon's mask fell to the ground.

While Eon thought he killed a monster, Samuel killed his sister, the only one he had left, the only person that cared about him, the only thing keeping him going.

With his vision blurred from his tears, disoriented by his own screams, he search for his mask, to defeat who tricked him, to avenge his sister, and when he finally did, everything was bright again, the room filled with a warm orange light, the body of his sister was but a flower bed laying in the room, the depressing hums of a dying city replaced by the hopeful chirps of birds...

Eon never gave his mask up since, and it's been so long the thing practically fused with him now, as he said the first time we encountered afterward, "To keep living a lie is easier when nothing is left in the truth. Denial is so much better since i can be the hero here."

But even that Eon is far gone now, after years of lying to himself, he started to believe them, a feeling we all know but to well.

-Dawn, report on TLC-AB-084 to Râ

Dr Zenith was renowned bioengineer, and started her career by making impressive exoskeletons and robotic enhancements, but after years and years of seeing how the human body was weak and fragile, she started experimenting on herself, changing her organs one by one to enhanced mechanical ones, and soon enough, physical enhancements weren't enough, she merged her consciousness with an extremely advanced AI, nicknamed "Deus Ex Machina". Dr Zenith continued to change her body parts one by one, until nothing was left but her consciousness slowly taken over by an AI.

Really in love with the idea of her realizing that SHE cant achieve godhood, it wont be HER anymore.

Like having her, who spent her whole life trying to free herself from humanity by becoming divine through the machine, realizing that she'll always be human. Thats what makes her, her. And also it is veu important that this realisation fixes nothing and makes her even more crazed over becoming a god. I think it would take place before she meets cybernaut. Like they meet when she finaly accepts that she'll die birthing a god but its worth it since humanity meant nothing anyway. And then she falls in love. I'm making her suffer for her crimes (shouldnt have burnt the orphanage).

I do also start to really like the idea of her despising Hellfist because he has no real goals, just a load of prétextes to try and grasp a semblance of importance. Like she would get tired of his whole "i'm going to destroy the world now" schtick when she nows full well he doesn't have the guys to actually do it.

Maybe have her finally break afer realizing she cant be god, reevaluate what shes doing here if she cant just do as Hellfist please to get the funding until she finished her project that she cant make. And just straight up goes to the last floor and kills him. Maybe throw him off a window. After all she has control over his augments, she made them.

Hmm her taking control of ENEA could distract her long enough from killing herself and everyone else to not have the cybernaut meeting happen too soon.

Also while cybernaut x zenith has been an idea for a while i'm growing more found of the codependent "cannot leave behind her humanity but wants to oh so bad so she can ascend" x "cannot find the humanity they lost but wants it oh so bad so they can understand" and they both bond over their hatred of everyone else.