05-19-2025, 10:17 PM
okay, some take aways on this now that I've thought about it overnight and re-read the hot bullet points.
whatever is going wrong with Zayne's evol, he knows exactly what it is and both Raymond and Grandma knew as well, and I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that Carter is in on it too. it isn't particularly centered in either arm (in this dreamscape it was on his left side, when he lost control earlier in the story it was on his right) so that kiboshed a small theory i had but it was small and its okay to let it go. my prediction here is that Zayne was working on something with Carter / may have collaborated with him possibly during medical school or residency. Carter goes to Xander and continues on with the project by himself for evil, whereas Zayne goes on to Akso Hospital to be good.
since we know for absolute certain now that Ever is fucking with people to make Wanderers, and that Wanderers did not show up until the Deepspace Tunnel opened, and the medical lab on top of the hotel is right under the Tunnel, it stands to reason that whatever breakthrough fused metaflux crystals into a human heart, it happened there and the result was a hole through space and time and humanity starting to fall apart. why Ever is continuing to work with this is unclear - maybe this is just the prototyping stage and the "acceptable losses" part of the experiment. if we further go back to the idea that Ever was founded or contains those from Traceback I or II, then knowledge of the future might be doing the predeterministic thing.. Philos was cracked apart but people also had immortality, therefore we better get onto the cracking of the world thing.
which would hang with that one conversation in the alley where Isaiah called Xavier a traitor and also the thing about me being the only one that could save the world. huh.
anyways, i think (obviously, because i'm the main character) that when Ever abducted me into the experiemental lab because of my evol anhausen class, they ramped me up trying to get me to be the energy dynamo they needed / make the crystals grow faster / get more powerful and i blew everything up. but that does mean that whatever corruption was put in there with or as part of the experiment, i've been carrying it all along. so when i was passed out and Zayne used his ice to lift something out of me, he took that corruption and added it to his own.
which would also mean he was experimenting on himself too? whatever was wrong with the crystal implantation, he got it as well, and he's been using his time at Akso to delve farther into the problem, while Ever and now Xander are trying to make it worse following some still murky master plan?
maybe Xavier's path has some answers or paths from the other perspective.
whatever is going wrong with Zayne's evol, he knows exactly what it is and both Raymond and Grandma knew as well, and I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that Carter is in on it too. it isn't particularly centered in either arm (in this dreamscape it was on his left side, when he lost control earlier in the story it was on his right) so that kiboshed a small theory i had but it was small and its okay to let it go. my prediction here is that Zayne was working on something with Carter / may have collaborated with him possibly during medical school or residency. Carter goes to Xander and continues on with the project by himself for evil, whereas Zayne goes on to Akso Hospital to be good.
since we know for absolute certain now that Ever is fucking with people to make Wanderers, and that Wanderers did not show up until the Deepspace Tunnel opened, and the medical lab on top of the hotel is right under the Tunnel, it stands to reason that whatever breakthrough fused metaflux crystals into a human heart, it happened there and the result was a hole through space and time and humanity starting to fall apart. why Ever is continuing to work with this is unclear - maybe this is just the prototyping stage and the "acceptable losses" part of the experiment. if we further go back to the idea that Ever was founded or contains those from Traceback I or II, then knowledge of the future might be doing the predeterministic thing.. Philos was cracked apart but people also had immortality, therefore we better get onto the cracking of the world thing.
which would hang with that one conversation in the alley where Isaiah called Xavier a traitor and also the thing about me being the only one that could save the world. huh.
anyways, i think (obviously, because i'm the main character) that when Ever abducted me into the experiemental lab because of my evol anhausen class, they ramped me up trying to get me to be the energy dynamo they needed / make the crystals grow faster / get more powerful and i blew everything up. but that does mean that whatever corruption was put in there with or as part of the experiment, i've been carrying it all along. so when i was passed out and Zayne used his ice to lift something out of me, he took that corruption and added it to his own.
which would also mean he was experimenting on himself too? whatever was wrong with the crystal implantation, he got it as well, and he's been using his time at Akso to delve farther into the problem, while Ever and now Xander are trying to make it worse following some still murky master plan?
maybe Xavier's path has some answers or paths from the other perspective.
