#The debate is whether he could actually enter the Subcon area at all; even if it were prior to the time barrier

[snatched-by-ahit]

Full write up below.

General Concept

The Horizon the Moonjumper resides in was caused by the giant Time Piece in Subcon being broken by Vanessa’s ice outburst. When it broke, Subcon’s time became distorted, and a bubble formed around the area. The nearby Tower - and what was left inside - got caught up in the sudden time surge and got trapped in the space between Subcon’s distortion and the rest of the world.

The people in the world cannot see the bubble, nor can they normally interact with it. They can pass through one side and through the other without noticing. Though time within Subcon doesn’t pass, so it’s one of those places where, if you get lost there and manage to survive, you exit and find that it’s been a lot longer than it felt.

The Moonjumper’s only able to be seen when he’s near the edge of the barrier by Subcon, where he appears to be on some unreachable point on the horizon, hence how it got its name.

Abilities Moonjumper has Within It - Pre Time Piece

While Moonjumper can see Subcon perfectly fine, he cannot see the rest of the world without opening a window in the outer portion of the barrier. He can see any area (aside from Subcon) and they can be opened to events in the past, present, or limited future. (He can’t see anything anywhere when Time’s End will happen, and can’t view the future even when things are returned to normal afterward. His window of opportunity for knowing the future is only during the main story events. :D -gets booed off the stage- )

His strings can pass both through the walls of the Horizon and through the windows to interact with the things within them, but he himself cannot go beyond the barriers, and nothing can be brought into the Horizon. The object disappears or he loses the connection when they reach the point they’d be hitting the barrier.

While he can interact and meddle with events through his windows, none of what he does affects the outcome of the world outside of the Horizon. Cause destruction or have everyone become allies or allow some people to gain more advantages than others, once he closes the window, anything he had a hand in changing never happened. He’s mostly used it for adding information to his knowledge base, since it’s the only way he gets to learn much to begin with, but he has dabbled in ‘what ifs’ in his many years of solitude.

A Time Piece changes the Rules a Bit

Once he has one of Hat Kid’s Time Pieces, Moonjumper can freely pass through the Horizon’s barriers. He mostly uses it to pass through the actual bubble, so he can access a world he’s only ever been able to watch from a disconnected space. Time Pieces have a passively affect the time around the people who possess them, which can enable them to get to the in-between space that is the Horizon, whether they intended to or not. The effect is limited, so it doesn’t normally allow two people to enter with one Time Piece. There may be exceptions, though, and inanimate objects can be carried through.

The bigger change is with Moonjumper’s windows into the world. When he has a window pulled up, and he passes through the barrier, he can access the area he was viewing. Using this, he essentially gets to visit the past or experience alternate timelines that he sets up, but because he’s displaced from his usual time, his body is glitchy and it’s not the best experience for a longer visit.

He also gains the ability to bring things from his windows into the Horizon, but they’re just as glitchy as he gets when he’s on the other side. They can remain even after he closes the window he took them from, though will eventually disappear. People can be taken, too, though it’s not the best situation for them. 

People that are time displaced would make good temporary, disposable puppets, though, should the Moonjumper need some... After all, not like they really exist in the first place. How convenient.