Ok. I believe this needs to be said regarding the TADC E9 leaks. The fact that we get no information on C&A and its purpose as a corporation means that we have no in-universe explanation for Caine's existence (As a corporate asset). The lack of explicit correlation between Caine (A creative AI) and the brain scans (Made by a brain scanner. Scratch's idea) as assets C&A would work on for profit (As a company's general goal) can lead to a bigger issue. That one being "Why does Caine exist?".
To me, not providing a strong foundation for the main antagonistic force's presence heavily affects the conflict of the story. If Caine has no reason to be a C&A asset, then why does the circus get to happen anyway?
Putting everything under a read more. This post has some episode thoughts and a Thawne backstory idea.
How episodes would go
Something to work on in the rewrite. You could divide the standard 40 minute long episode into three parts. Barry as a CSI (His job) working on a case the meta is part of, either a victim or perpetrator; Barry and the team find and catch the meta thanks to Barry's investigation; the meta and the team figure a way to rehabilitate them or teach the meta how to use their powers. In the case the meta wants to use their powers for evil, you can either send them to Iron Heights or keep them in Star Labs.
I know that Wells/Thawne wants those meta humans in the facility for later use but it could've given him a bit of a struggle he'd have to find a solution for and it would make STAR Labs less morally dubious. Honestly, I don't remember seeing the trapped metas getting rehabilitation in the show unless they're needed for the overarching plot. I wonder if the Flash team feeds them...
Making the episodes generally that way should make the audience used to that sequence, so when some meta humans are either intentionally antagonistic or afraid for their lives that they lash out, it would demonstrate not only them, but Barry, that not everyone can nor wants to be saved, a theme that Nora's death began in his life. Making the wound deeper.
Thawne
For Thawne's backstory, instead of the backstory the show gave him (Which I don't recall much but that's why I'm rewatching the show), what if, after learning that his hero, guiding light and inspiration disappears in 2024, Thawne tries to get into Barry's life with knowledge of the future to avoid the tragedy by his own hands?
At the start, he won't do much. He has to get intel after all, learn the time he comes from as his time remnant does since I guess the next century lacks that info? Still wonder the exact reasons they change the century Thawne comes from. I have my suspicions (Budget? Making it easier to create sets and props?) but shhhhh.
Thawne tries getting close to Barry. They even become partners once Barry discovers that he has superspeed as he tends to become a mentor figure (I wonder if Thawne ever tapped into the Positive Speed Force), which uh oh! Makes it so he's wearing yellow! (Hmm yes I'm using the comics for that one. #25 of The Flash 2016!)
All this work still doesn't make Barry faster to avoid his disappearance, so he ends up going back in time constantly. Something something time loop coded situation Thawne put himself in. Until he begins to think about going even further in time. What about becoming Barry's mentor. But how?
And THAT'S when the particle accelerator/flesh stealing comes to play. Still no idea about the specifics, but Thawne gets the idea of taking over Harrison Wells' life to increase his chances to save Barry 'cause he STILL believes there's a chance. He hasn't experienced many lifelines to change his opinion yet.
But because Thawne created The Flash way earlier (2014), Barry is quite the immature fellow and the limited time he has to be his mentor and father figure doesn't help him either.
Imagine getting frustrated at what you used to see as your hero. Spending lifelines to save him yet nothing seems to work, until you choose to become an adversary for him as a last resort. You know how to push his buttons with ease after all.
This means I'd have to work on Nora's death and the consequences of it. Hmm.
In this rewrite, both speedsters were buddies! They helped each other, saved their asses in battle and who knows what else! Thawne could've experienced the good bits and returned to his time once Barry was gone yet his devotion and obsession wouldn't allow that. He has to play hero, even if it means killing, manipulating and torturing, yay!
Because of all the overwrites to the timeline, Thawne saying that it doesn't matter why he's committed atrocities in S1 would make more sense. He's been experiencing hundreds of lifelines!!
I'd love to pick the pieces that Flash Age was building up to regarding Thawne's character. Perhaps there's a chance for him to become the hero he's always wanted to be? I wanna team up Barry and Thawne so bad, it makes me look stupid. His crimes won't be set aside though, nuh uh. He's still a big piece of shit, heh.
What about Nora Jr and Thawne teaming up to save Barry tee-hee. Hopefully nothing bad happens ^-^
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Ok! Time for that AU or Crossover between that two games that some people want.
So, this little thing, I'm not going to lie, I am not an expert as a writer or something similar, so I'll try my best to make both franchises work together, and I'll probably ask for a second opinion, don't mind to reblog with your opinions or even message me.
Portal saga and Inscryption spoilers ahead!!
Characters.
In Inscryption we have the Scrybes, our secondary characters and Luke, we can include us [Player] in the equation if we want; in the other hand, Portal 2 cast is mostly robots like GLaDOS and Wheatley with the Test Subject [Chell] that is out protagonist.
Funny thing to note, we have Kaycee [Dev of Inscryption] and Cave Johnson [CEO of Aperture Laboratories], even of they gave different ways of thinking we could, just maybe, fit in Lore: We could make them work together, or Cave Johnson bought Kaycee's "game" because well, Inscryption's characters are sentient, Cave wanted to put a person's mind into a computer so he did GLaDOS... It has sense?
That give us some options to make, we could make a crossover and combine all the characters into one of the worlds, which? That's complicated, how GLaDOS could fit in Inscryption? Maybe in P03's factory, but she is enormous, also remember her role, she is Portal 2 main antagonist so, why both of the antagonists are in the same place? That would be funny.
There must be another option in which everyone or mostly everyone can fit, but I think a crossover is not a bad idea.
Another option could be an AU, we could make that one of the games just pops into another, probably Inscryption characters are now Test Subjects! That couldn't be impossible, if I remember, there is a Co-op mode in Portal 2 with a DLC [Peer Review].
Also, remember Portal 2's main colors? Those are white, orange, blue, yellow and black... Well well well, if I'm not mistaken we have two important characters in Inscryption that have those colors as main: Leshy and P03, we could compare them with the Co-op robots! Atlas is the oldest and small prototype, use blue/cyan portals and its eye is blue; P-Body is the newest and tallest prototype, use orange/red portals and its eye is orange.
How it could work [Portal 2 Co-op experience]
I was thinking about the Co-op, if Leshy and P03 use similar colors as Atlas and P-Body, maybe they could be the bots! Not the bots entirety, just having their role as Test Subjects of cooperative tests. There is my sketch of how that could be.
All the Scrybes enter Portal 2 world.*
Leshy with P03 and Grimora with Magnificus, now they are new GLaDOS Test Subjects.
The rest of the cast are also Test Subjects now in the Enrichment Center, probably in cryogenesis as Chell did.
GLaDOS takes the opportunity and starts testing the Scrybes.
All this events are happening after Peer Review events, that means aprox 1-2 weeks Portal 2 ending events.
Now that I think about it, Grimora and Magnificus would be very chill while testing, meanwhile P03 would be teasing Leshy or probably be the one trying to guide, but Leshy won't accept any help, they could even fight and blame each other? Just imagine GLaDOS's reaction to all of that screaming and jokes.
[*] They probably escape in some way, but before thinking in that, we must ask a question, how they enter in that new world in the first place? I was thinking that we could use the Steam version of P2 so both games are in the same platform, probably the game files get merged [I’m looking at you OLD_DATA!] or are manualy moved into P2 [I’m looking at you Luke!] so they ended up in the game.
Now, the ways the Scrybes could escape in this version are mostly...
Ask for help to the player/Luke to try get all the files into Inscryption again. Do it by force, having to work together to find a way out using Player’s/Luke’s computer.
My personal opinion in this one? I think is not perfect, but it could work, as I said, I’m not an expert in this kind of AUs, I’m just a Lore nerd. Now let’s check out.... !
How it could work [Portal 2 Solitare experience]
Hear me out, this will be longer because of all the dots I have to put together to make this work, I apologize in advance for this mess. I’ll make a list like I did with Co-op; I’ll make it more based in Inscryption’s timeline this time.
All the Scrybes enter Portal 2 world.
Leshy takes the role of GLaDOS as in Act 1 I don’t think he could change of aspect so much, he could be sitting in the “body”, P03 as Wheatley, maybe in this scenario he is just the head with a claw and something to help him move with the rails; Grimora, Magnificus, Lonely wizard, Goobert could be Personality Cores that will be introduced in the final Chapter.**
As in Act 1, P03 will ask for our help to escape, but now that he and the other Scrybes are outside of Inscryption’s territory I don’t think the same rules apply, I mean, almost/no cards, is just tests.
At the end of the game... How should the game end in the first place?***
The Companion Cubes, some characters could be inside them [I still think about that MatPat theory] or they could be in important zones to the game as the incinerator, scanner zone and the place where neurotoxin is created, even in the old Apertures we visit in Chapter 6-7, Aperture is huge.
[**] So, why Personality Cores and which, well, that cores are very important to the game, without them, you wouldn’t be able to complete the game, even our main robot cast is made of those Personality Cores [GLaDOS and Wheatley].
This AU is with Portal 2 so, let’s take a look at the Personality Cores we have in this version, there is Space Core, a core that only thinks about space, Lonely wizard could fit, you know, “STIMULATION”.
Grimora and Magnificus are Fact Core and Adventure Core, I know those characters doesn’t have a similar personality, but remember, Inscryption cast is just taking the roles of the others. I bet you may ask “But why cores?”, well, if we remember the final battle in Chapter 9 aganist Wheatley, we use the cores to make to force a change of Central Core, so we can put GLaDOS in charge again, Grimora and Magnificus wanted to stop P03 in Act 3 from being the one in charge, even if is a similarity, I hope is enough.
[***] So, the end, this will be complicated, if P03 takes the role of Wheatley, he must be also thrown to space- wait! Just wait P03 fans, even if he is in space now, just as in Inscryption’s ARG, he might have a backup plan, probably P03 made a copy of himself in the original game, so when things return to normal, he is still alive and present, but probably the other Scrybes think he is dead.
I’ll use the chapters to help me in a way to order this possible AU events:
Chapter one [Start of Act 1]: All is mostly normal and follows P2 storyline, there is a few glitches in the game -the OLD_DATA is involved- and P03 makes asks for help.
Chapter 2: Leshy is awakened, P03 is thrown away, you now enter into new tests chambers, maybe with card elements? I have absolutely no idea how to make the cards + chambers work now. Also let’s take in cosideration how the mainframe works.
Chapter 3: P03 returns and tell us his master plan to escape, in reality he’d probaby use us to gain control of this new game.
Chapter 4 [Start of Act 2] :Leshy makes his best to make things work as he wants, creepy ambience and flavor, P03 tells us we’ll escape soon.
Chapter 5: Both escape and try to sabotage any resource Leshy will use to keep himself in power, the neurotoxin and turrets could be changed with something that Inscryption has. At the meeting you end up pressing the confirmation button and put P03 as the Central Core, but with the OLD_DATA help, he obtains more power, merging both games or something. Leshy’s mind could be inserted into something [Like the scientists did with Caroline, uff], an animal could be -we have crows in Portal 2- just as a way to keep his title as the Scrybe of Beasts; or a potato as Portal intended, or way better, a card using P03′s scanner!
Chapter 6 [Start of Act 3]: Now in the old Aperture, we learn stuff about both games if they got merged, specifically about Kaycee and Cave, Lore time.
Chapter 7: We meet Leshy again, he feels regret and asks for our help to defeat P03, we keep going.
Chapter 8: P03 welcome us, new mechanics are introduced, Leshy tries his best to be useful. P03 starts suspecting there is a truce between the player and Leshy. For more angst we could introduce the “meatbots”, Wheatley fused turrets with cubes... Why P03 wouldn’t combine the humans that are in P2 with robots to make better Test Subjects? I mean, Aperture Laboratories is a giant factory, he’ll make good use to that.
Chapter 9: P03 will try his best to delete us so he’ll keep being in control of the facility, we are still alive fortunately. Final boss, shoot to the moon, P03 is now in space, as the game ends you have the posiblity to fix both games and return things to normal. The end.
Well, that was long! There is one more that I need to check.
How it could work [Inscryption crossover]
This one would be more easier to make, we have now instead of chambers, a different kind of test, an intelligence one, GLaDOS will use the cards to give you those tests and the goal is to defeat her, like in Act 1, you'll get closer to her chamber and you'll enter her boss battle.
The cards will be based in Portal 2 characters, like turrets, they'll have the ability to snipe just like P03's cards with that sigil, cubes will be mostly like the empty vessel, maybe the gels and other in game elements will be added by the progress you obtain, losing could cost you a ticket to the neurotoxin chamber, after all, GLaDOS has a lot of Test Subjects [Based in Co-op events].
Wheatley could be a card too, based in the Stoat's role, he'll try to help you beat the game. At Chapter 5 you put him in charge of Aperture and well, this is more like a possible mod that I'd love to see!
I'd like to thank @tabolina for the idea and motivation, also @your-stoat-stands-unopposed for the meatbots.
Neo is done! Hope you enjoyed this long post as much as I did creating it.
