#to clarify again: this au takes the concept of the comic characters being badly written/written ooc and creates new universes w/ them where

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Taking the bait. What's the beef with the Freedom Fighters?

❝Ugh. The Freedom Fighters.❞

— ;; INFLECTION DRIPPING WITH VENOMOUS DISGUST at the very mention of the spirited group, Chronos' expression sours into one of unabashed hatred.

❝Where do you want me to start? Better yet— what do you want me to say? Should I talk about how they treated me as an accomplice to Robotnik's terror when I refused to let them destroy the Time Twirler? Or how about the way they tried me for accessory to terrorism? As an adult? Should I mention how the judge on that case was that Rotor bastard's uncle?❞

❝They locked me up in a maximum security prison with hardened adult criminals. I took a beating every single day in some of those places until I managed to escape on my own. And this didn't happen in just one universe, either. Three times. By three different groups of Freedom Fighters, I was treated like criminal scum. Like trash beneath their feet. They didn't care about what happened to me. Every time I was forced to live through that.❞

❝And what they did to the only person who defended me... what they did to Gambit... it still makes me sick to my stomach thinking about it.❞