#rooters arc

[szmaciarz-pospolity]

Rooters arc is VERY personal to me

Also yes I am aware Servantis has only 3 fingers and his hands resemble claws however I think crab legs for fingers is a creepier imagery which fits with the uncomfortable vibe I wanted for this piece

[catgirllair]

I did NOT just hear someone call Ben narcissistic for using Alien X in a plotline where they opposing side was trying to paint him as the bad guy like that wasn't the point of the Rooters Arc. I don't AGREE with the opposing side, but they were literally trying to show how much power this teenager has access too and bring up the debate of how some people might realistically not take that well. It wasn't about "narcissism."

[cows-quack]

Didn’t get the Ben Kevin confrontation I wanted so I drew the one I needed

[emperorsfoot]

I just went over this on Discord, but I wanna make a public post here too.

The Rooters Arc in Omniverse

The thing that really frustrates me about the Rooters arc is they could have made it 100% better just by making DEVIN LEVIN the leader of the Rooters instead of Servantis.

Like, Devin is a real person. Devin is alive. Devin faked his death that day on the ship with Max. Ragnarok was still in on it. Ragnarok is also a Rooter. But Devin never died, because Devin Levin is the ring leader of the Rooters!

Servantis is still there and one of the Rooters. But Servantis is a red herring, a puppet leader. The guy Devin sets up as the one the heroes should focus on while he controls things from behind the scenes.

Instead of teleporting into Plumbers headquarters in "Rooters of All Evil" in and being all like "we're here to arrest Kevin for no reason" it could have been "we need Kevin, he's the only one who can help his father!" And Kevin would have just gone with them. No questions asked. Just been like "MY FATHER IS ALIVE!" and been first though the projector.

Then it turns out the "help" his father needed was murdering Ben.

[juniaships]

Spoilers: Kevin's revealed to have a grandmother on his father's side, who comes around at the time of the Rooters Arc to put Servantis AND Aggregor in their place

[szmaciarz-pospolity]

Talking to @kariachi and seeing their ficlet that's about Rooters arc, made me want to write one myself. So yeah!!

Big tw it's about non sexual grooming (no other way to put it) from a perspective of 12 year old Kevin so yeah

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84843036

[emperorsfoot]

This was sent to me over FanFiction.Net private message by @jelsaotp23 and I’ve adopted it as my new head canon for the Rooters Arc and subsequent retcons. 

Like they said, it’s way easier to just press [DELETE] on a computer, than it is to invent an entire race and implant false memories in the minds of multiple people. 

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“IDK, personal headcanon is that Servantis lied about Devin and the Osmosians not existing so he could make Kevin feel inferior again and separate him from his new friends. He was so thrilled to be a Plumber like his dad and loved how proud his mom was of him! Not sure if finding out he used to be a Rooter would have been quite enough to crush his spirits if Servantis hadn't also taken away pretty much his whole identity as well. After all, he already knew he was a bit messed up as a kid, hearing that he'd joined the Rooters doesn't seem like it would have been too much of a shock to his system without something else to pile onto it. Like we both pointed out, it would have been a LOT of work to create a new species, get a large portion of the galaxy to believe they were real, alter the memories of numerous people to believe they had once known (loved, married, killed, etc) an Osmosian named Devin Levin, or that they'd grown up on a planet called Osmosis V all their lives in Aggregor's case. Overall it just doesn't seem like it would have been worth it! What would have been a much simpler task though is making a few select people believe that the guy with mind control powers had implanted false memories of Devin and the Osmosian's in their heads! It would make Servantis' targets start to doubt themselves and everything they thought they once knew, and he'd have to convince a considerably smaller amount of people of the deception! I seriously doubt Kevin ever rushed back to his mom to tell her that the man whom she thought was her first husband never existed at all, nor would Max heavily advertise being tricked by Servantis into thinking he had one more partner than he really did. As mentioned, it would have been both difficult and time consuming to create a whole new culture of Aliens and detailed Plumber's profile on one Devin Levin in the Plumbers database. However, it would take no time at all to pull up that same information and hit the "delete" key! Though, maybe it would have been even more confusing to let files like that remain in the system regardless of whether they're true or false because then it makes one question if Servantis was lying to Max and Kevin all along or if he was such an evil mastermind that he even created false records of Devin and the planet to make his story plausible. Truly, the only way to know for certain would be to travel to the supposed site of Osmos V and investigate personally. Which, again, is where my theory regarding what one of the possible episodes of the cancelled Ben 10 series might have been about! Like I said though, that's all just my personal headcanon. In either case, Servantis still remains a true master of manipulation! Either he created a whole new fake Alien species and culture, or he caused Max to think one of his old partners, who died protecting Earth from Ragnarok, never existed and Kevin to believe that his own father wasn't real! No matter which story is true, Servantis has still got to be one of the cunning, evil, manipulators the Ben 10 series has ever seen!”

[emperorsfoot]

Okay, so I have an idea for Gwevin Week day 4 “Deception”. A retelling of the Rooters Arc, except Devin Levin not only was real, but is still alive, and... Devin is the leader of the Rooters! He faked his death for reasons about as flimsy and nonsenseical as the original Rooters Arc. 

The thing is... I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO WRITE THIS IDEA!