#bc i hate transferring my crap over to a new device and all that

[aewrie]

getting new electronics is its special kind of torment

[farewell-in-veil]

Both, or whichever you prefer :}

okay well itd probably be better to explain the actual games before explaining the aus i have for them , sooo !

starting off w / pr bc i can probably give a bit more of a coherent plot for it bc most of it is my hcs and nothing else ! ( the og plot is all over the place so trust me this is better )

so , hundreds of years ago , a god named equinox ruled over valestrum . and there was solstice who i think was lesser but also very powerful . tess aract and dusekkar were two ppl living under these two , and they fucking hated them bc um . tyrannical gods yknow ?

and one day when theyre still rlly young ( 13 - 14 methinks ) tess summons a demon , aka scriptliss . back then , ribbon demons werent uncommon at all , but nowadays , scriptliss is thought to be the only one left .

anyways , the trio grow up a bit , so fast forward to their mid to late 20s . they decide theyve had enough of equinox and solstice , so they start plotting to put an end to their reign . they go on quests for equinoxs oracle , aka sphara , and in turn she grants them each a wish . dusekkar wishes for a device to help him create a new world , and is granted the plot book . tess wishes for a vessel to help him study the void ( as hes an alchemist and void mage ) , and he gets the void star . scriptliss wishes for immortality , , and gets his soul ripped into 7 pieces lmao

anyways , equinox finds out ab the plot book and summons the 3 , then demands the plot book . dusekkar calls him a bitch , and this triggers doomsday . the 3 then proceed to have to beat the crap out of equinox and solstice

now dusekkars cousin , lanter , was a supporter of solstice , i think ? mightve been equinox tho . idk its irrelvant anyways . so hes pissed , and resents dusekkar for getting rid of them . dusk however doesnt care ( yes he does ) and creates a new world , paper robloxia .

everything is peaceful for a while , but then out favorite void mage decides " hm , what would happen if i put this bitch ( the void star ) on ? "

see the void star held a dormant evil god named 1x1x1x1 . tess put that bitch on and instantly , 1x transferred into his body , and used him as a puppet to commit mass genocide !

dusk and script were devastated to see what had become of their boyfriend ( oh did i mention they started dating at some point . lol ) , but they had no way of saving him . they had no choice but to lock him away in baland , which is essentially a prison dimension .

fast forward like a century or two later , scriptliss decides that tess rlly was all of his impulse control , and he was now going to take the pieces of his soul ( which can be very dangerous if they fall into the wrong hands and also will cause him to die if they all get destroyed ) and scatter them around . a town i forgot the name of . some random ass robloxian follows him around and collects them all , then delivers them back to dusekkar .

dusk tells them they had no idea those were even missing , and tells them to return them to their shrine in his wastebasket . so random ass robloxian : tm : does that . in the wastebasket they meet the folded , which are essentially scrapped people from when dusk was writing the plot book .

random ass robloxian leaves , scriptliss goes to the wastebasket to visit the folded and tell them stories , as per usual , and they proceed to lock him in the shrine . yippee !

and dusk is still clueless .

and fast forward like a couple hundred years , we have protagonist , this random ass bitch , waking up in prologue forest , with no idea how they got there . they begin to make their way out of the forest , and run into scriptliss . wowzers !

script tells protag that he has no idea how he got free , but ehs grateful for a second chance , yada yada . oh and also he has a piece of his soul chained to his leg . anyways , the two make their way out of the forest , and run into a scissor witch named wiscara at scissor shrine

she tells them that theres an evil necromancer named antagon on the loose , and she needs their help collecting 7 scissors . they agree , and protag makes their way up to castle climax , where a box dragon is going on a rampage .

they get to the castle and find a mage named otempes tryign to calm the box dragon . turns out her name is boxdra , and she was being controlled to go crazy . the two manage to bring her back though , and she gives protag a pair of scissors

now , on their way up to castle climax , protag got a letter from wiscara saying to meet her at peculiar hills . when protag gets there , she tells them that her brother , a wind mage named aristris , stole one of her scissors . the two make their way to his mansion , and traverse through it to get the scissors back . aristris taunts wiscara at the end , and she pushes him onto the ground , gets her scissors back , and opens a portal back to cutout town ( which is the town everythign is happening in forgot to mention that )

protag got another letter at some point , saying that they were needed at oddity woods . when they get there , they finally meet dusekkar . him and script have a nice reunion , and then they all get to buisness . protag is informed to make their way to oddity tree , where the rift of darkness is . its believed that antagon will target it , so they want to be sure to keep it safe . unfortunately , when protag , accompanied by otempes , get to the tree , the void star is there , and finishes absorbing the rift , then proceeds to disappear . luckily , it left a scissor behind !

so protag got another letter , inviting them to the brand new casino centavo . wiscara feels something is fishy , so she tells protag to go , since theyre the only one who got an invite . here they meet tucker trillion , and a bunch of other irrelevant characters that i do not remember the names of . anyways , after a bit of parkour , all the people in the casino get trapped in a room . there , antagon shows up on the tv , obscured by shadow , and informs everyone that this whole thing was a trap for the protagonist .

then , slowly , people begin to disappear . when its just tucker and protag left , tucker accuses them of being the one behind all this . turns out , the void star was just teleporting people lol . so tucker apologizes , and then they have to traverse through a gravity changing maze . when they eventually get out they find . wow scissors !

so during that whole thing protag got another letter , telling them to meet the others at these big ass doors . turns out the heroes are going to the rift of light , and they need get the first sage to open the door . the only problem is , , the first sage is lanter .

lanter no longer supports equinox , hes seen how awful that guy was , but he still resents dussekar . he believes hes too immature to be the ruler of paper robloxia . scriptliss has a perfectly fine relationship with lanter though . so him and protagonist go and get lanter .

lanter is willing to help , until he hears dusekkar will be there . scriptliss , however , is very convincing ( aka just too cute and pathetic to say no to ) . so finally , he agrees , and opens the door .

he doesnt intend on sticking around , but again , scriptliss is convincing . dusekkar , upon seeing lanter is sticking around , stays behind . the rest of the heroes go to retrieve the second sage , to opent he second sage door . the second sage is sphara ! unfortunately shes been sleeping since like a few years after the creation of paper robloxia .

they go to wake her up , and encounter glyph ! which , he was around back in old world times , but he went by glyphard and was . well , a human . now hes literally just a glyph .

anyways , he helps wake up sphara , and she makes a comment ab the wish she granted scriptliss , which leads to his whole past with tess being revealed . then she goes and opens the second sage door for them .

they all go to open the third sage door , but like halfway there , lanter reveals that the third sage was tess , and therefore if the door is open that would be very bad . so guess what ? the door is open lol .

they go inside , and find , , 1x1x1x1 in the rift of light . he appears to be in large amounts of pain . and he is ! it turns out tess is currently in control . antagon freed him from banland , and had him wear the void star again . he hadnt thought anything bad would happen , as he had already had 1x transferred into his body , and hed already regained control of his body . but oops , antagon filled the void star with dark energy , as we know from chapter 3 . the dark energy corrupted his mind , made him weak and easily overpowered by 1x . he rushed to the rift of light to try and counteract it , but it was too late for him .

he apologized to scriptliss , and told him that he loves him , and to tell dusekkar that he said the same to him . then he disappears , along with the rift of light . script is crushed , and lashes out at lanter and otempes when they try to comfort him , then runs off . protag then grabs the scissors that just existed for reasons

then low and behold a buncha portals open over the cutout town harbor and a bunch of warships appear ! this pink i lady says that shes with the banland security force , and theyve sided w / antagon bc she got bribed or something . tucker then takes the protag to sneak onto the ships and see whats goign on .

the moment they actually make it into a ship , they get kidnapped , and taken to the leader of the fleet , rozanda , a pin magic user , and a pirate released from banland . she then has tucker whisked off to be kept as a prisoner , and lets protag go free with a pair of scissors . for some reason

then protag goes to the music district , aka the neighboring area to cutout town , w / otempes . the residents there ( harmonians ) worship otempes , as long ago , he aided them in a war against tretone and the crevons . otempes goes to see his old friend , base clef , whos apparently a pacifist . then finds out base clef is declaring war bc tretone is threatening them or something .

the protagonist goes to crescendo crevice , aka where a battles ab to take place , and finds pink i there . pink i and base clef threaten each other with literal nukes , then just before fighting breaks out , otempes swoops in on boxdra and whisks protag off to sforandzo ( ? i think thats how its spelled ) spire , aka tretones lair .

they traverse up to the top together , and confront tretone . otempes questions why tretones doing this , when they had previously had an era of peace . tretone says hes sided with antagon , as hes a psychic , and had a vision that told him it was useless to resist . he then gives them scissors . bc why not .

so now we have 7 scissors ! wiscara opens a dimensional cut , and were transported to paper boxia . its just filled with box animals , nothing important happens here . except scriptliss' true form is revealed , and his soul that was chained to his leg is transformed into a crystal named cogen .

the next dimensional cut brings the heroes to clockworks domain , where theyre confronted by rozanda . she gives wiscara and otempes an outfit change for practically no reason , then tells them all that their efforts are meaningless and disappears . the heroes then meet clockwork , who speaks an old tongue called birdyword ( i think ) . dusekkar also speaks it and acts as a translator . clockwork ends up leading them to the next dimensional cut .

that leads them to banland . like paper boxia , not much happens here . none of the guards attack , and the next dimensional cut , , is in 1x1x1x1s cell . which kinda hits close to home for scriptliss . oops .

the final dimensional cut leads them to auxim , the dimension which holds antagons castle . theres guards in the way , but a strange creature named tsumin instructs the heroes to go tell a butcher ab antagons actions

the butcher is his mom , antagmom .

yeah .

she gets mad , hearing her son has been causing trouble , and goes and gets rid of the guards , allowing our heroes to pass through .

the first thing that happens ? 1x taunts script , and they start fighting midair .

the next thing we encounter is a battlefield . on one side is wiscara , otempes , boxdra , base clef , and an army of harmonians . on the other is pink i , tretone , an army of crevons , and , , , aristris ? yeah turns out hes a bad guy . also turns out tretone is fucking dead ! and robotified ! so cool . yeah protag gets out of there just before battle breaks out , but wiscara is practically heartbroken at seeing her brother side w / the enemy . even if he was annoying - she never expected this from him .

next up , we have 1x and scriptliss again ! this time , 1x and script are arguing in the air . 1x says something along the lines of " you dont even know who freed you , do you ? it was antagon . he freed us both . you owe him . " and this sends scriptliss into a panic attack which can best be sumemd up by " DONT LISTEN DONT LISTEN DONT DONT DONT DONT DONT DONT AAAAAAAAAAA - " and then 1x dips . cogen stays behind to try and help script .

next , we see tucker and a group of others who got kidnapped , tucker and rozanda r ab to fight , and the others r trying to stop him . not much else to say here .

and then 1x plunges protag into tess' subconscious . theres a lot of burnign shit , and 1x tries to get protag to derealize . a lot . and somewhat succeeds . however protag finds soemthing . a remnant of tess , in the form of a blurry , distoerted version of him . the moment they fidn him . they drag him around , detrmined to save him . for scriptliss . they confront 1x , and dsiract him long enough for scriptliss to swoop in , grab him and drag him back into the fight up in the air .

next , we see lanter confront lanter . lanter reprimands dusekkar for his actions , and asks him if hes going to throw antagon , a child , into banland , for essentially doing the same thing he had hundreds of years ago . try to overthrow gods . this makes dusekkar realize the error in his ways , and he promises to try and help antagon instead . lanter is satisfied with this and lets him continue on .

next . i think its important to tell u the canon version first , bc then ull know how objectively better my version is

canonically , scriptliss kills 1x , and bro is left as a fucking . stain on the ground . scriptliss is moruning , knowing this means he killed tess as well . he says he wants to die , yada yada .

my better version goes like this ; whilst fighting in the air , scriptliss uses his ribbon powers to throw 1x at teh ground . antagon , simply wanting to break scriptliss , lets tess have the body back midway through crashing to the ground . due to 1x still being present , tess isnt immediately killed . scriptliss sees tess , and immediately rushes to him . he tries his best to save him , but after a few quiet words and a gentle cheek hold , the void mage dies in his arms . protag and cogen watched this whole thing , and cogen encourages player to go on while she comforts scriptliss .

finally , were nearing the end . protagonist and dusekkar confront antagon , who then reveals that the plot book has been filled up , which wouldnt happen with dusekkar , but since antagon wasnt the owner , it didnt generate more pages for him . but antagon doesnt know this , so he thinks its useless and burns it . which proceeds to destroy reality as they know it .

luckily , dusk manages to grab a piece of the burning paper , and write on it , giving the three a platform , surroneded by paper nil . antagon starts crying like a bitch baby , dusekkar takes him in as his apprentice , idk i didnt pay much attention to this bit it was boring - anyways the dusk starts rewriting the plot book at 1000 words per second or something .

whilst rewriting it , he sees scriptliss , holding tess' body and floating through paper nil . and he decides to revive tess , like any good boyfriend would . yknow .

once hes done , they all exit through a door , and everythign is suddenly okay ! the questing trio has a sweet reunion , um tretone got revived bc i said so , and they hold a lil show with epic guitar solos ! stream summer of heroes or sumn .

yeah i think thats it . well i could go into more detail ab the aftermath i made up but this is already long enough , so small summary ; protag finds out they were one of the folded , gains more personality and becomes lil shit : tm : , and forces tess to give them half of 1xs being bc tess is always paranoid that 1x will take him over again bc hes still within him , and protag figures " hey he cant do shit if hes split between us ! "

also dusk and wiscara get married at some point