Thread:Dawndragon1828/@comment-32273133-20180311152337

This is probably going to be very long so just bear with me. I think I’m tying up the CDs and starting up the Mortem Doors and tightening the tension in Micah and Damian’s relationship in one elaborate plot.

Micah is afraid of whipping — back in the Hester Knox days, he was accused of causing something he had no control over and was punished for it, that punishment being a severe whipping. He has scars all over his back and chest from that. They’re visible even with a shirt on the back of his neck and on his collarbone, which is why he always wears a jacket. One of the reasons Oganesson attacked him with the whip was because it’d tap into the traumatic memories and force him to do anything to make the trigger stop, namely say the place where Xenon’s lab is.

Enter Damian into the plot.

Micah’s at Base Camp, jacketless because it’s hella hot there, and Damian notices the scars and asks about them. Cue Micah freezing up and refusing to talk, but somehow Damian gets him to open up and he tells the entire story. Damian gets mad, or not, who knows, but the important piece is that this is important information for the CDs — they know how to get what they want out of Micah. And this is important because:

Simultaneously, another plot — the Freedom Sword prophecy.

There’s a sword that Xenon created and lost very soon after acquiring godhood — probably the most powerful thing he’s ever created. It’s powerful enough to de-Corrupt Oganesson with the help of a little electricity, and, with an enhancement that Xenon adds (maybe with Bixbite’s help) any CD. Oganesson gets this from his shared memories with Xenon, and somehow gets the assumption that it’s in Xenon’s lab. It’s not — it’s at some bottomless waterfall place that I haven’t named yet. Only those with Xenon’s blood can wield it, which would be Micah for now. Micah finds Delphi, who spouts a prophecy (that I still need to write but my brain refuses to cooperate) about the fall of the CDs and the sword. Word gets back to the CDs about this, and they turn to Oganesson to fix this inconvenience (because it’s your son and your counterpart’s sword).

By this point, Micah’s already been back and forth to the waterfall at least once, trying to figure out the game plan for getting it. He has to use the full extent of his shape shifting power — which he’s put up a mental block against because of something else Hester did — and he has to figure out how to swim, because the sword is in a flooded cave that suppresses magic.

Oganesson sends someone to capture Micah so he can get the location out of him — that person might be Damian. Oganesson loves to mess with people’s heads — just like Hester — and he makes Damian be the person behind the whip. This messes with Micah, because this person he’s loved is now the person instrument in this torture, and it messes with Damian, because he has to physically and mentally hurt the person he loves — similar to how he hurt Mockingjay. Eventually, Micah passes out or they stop for the moment and Micah gets put in a guarded cell.

Those two guards are Hanoi and Korin.

They’ve realized how bad this is going to turn out, and Hanoi really really wants his ship to survive, so the three conspire a plot. Hanoi and Korin know that Damian is under Senshei’s control, and, when he was captured, Micah had a Freedom Knife. Freedom Knives, when used correctly can lift mind control spells and generally help someone free themselves or someone else. Hanoi slips Micah the knife back and traps Damian in the cell. Micah frees him from Senshei’s control, maybe there’s time for confession, and they all escape.

Meanwhile, Clay is trying to connect with his mother, because he needs a favor. A big one. Oganesson is a noble gas, and weak to electricity. Sil can control lightning. Micah needs to channel the right amount of electricity through himself and the Freedom Sword to destroy Oganesson and not fry himself. Clay gains the favor and he and Sil meet up with Micah, Damian, Korin, and Hanoi on their way to the Bottomless Falls. (I want to name them something Latin-y). Micah gets the sword and is on the way to the CDs again when he meets Oganesson, who’s hell-bent on getting to the waterfall before Micah does. Cue a battle, Oganesson is defeated, Micah almost dies twice, Xenon’s back, hooray.

Oganesson’s death sparks the return of the Mortem Doors, but they aren’t operational quite yet, so they aren’t important at this point.

Idea about CDs: they can only be defeated by someone close to them. The sword can only be wielded by someone with Xenon’s blood. There’s a roadblock.

However, blood oaths do count as blood, so Micah and Damian make a blood oath and Damian can wield the sword within the parameters of the oath. He takes out Senshei. Xenon takes down Shatter. More blood oaths are made with other people, and the rest of the CDs fall. Micah gets the sword back (per the oaths, any other wielders get to use the sword to take out the CD and that only.) The CD plot ends.

With all the power rushing out into the world, something else has to happen, right?

Whenever someone dies, some of their energy goes to the Mortem Doors. With all the CDs dying, the doors are getting a lot of energy. At the last CD death, they become operational.

The new plot kicks off.

(The reason I posted this on your wall is because it directly involves Damian, but anyone else riding it is free to contribute.) 