Honestly it would not surprise me in the slightest if Salem's death is predicated on several specific twists, and that those twists in turn were introduced by the Light Brother (who IIRC is actually the greater douchebag of the two).
Now, I haven't actually watched the Salem and Brothers scene, but here is what I am assuming happened in canon:
1) Salem asked first the Light Brother, then the Dark Brother, to resurrect Ozma. LB refused. DB agreed and resurrected Ozma. LB pitched a fit and killed Ozma again because "she needs to learn balance" or something.
2) Salem pitched a fit and got cursed by DB to live until she learns respect to the balance of life and death. After which she would die.
3) Centuries later... The Brothers resurrect Ozma to kill Salem, and make it so he reincarnates until she dies.
4) Ozma returns, family reunion happens. Not all is well. Family spat between Salem and Ozma kills their children, the first Maidens whom Ozma gave portions of his magic to.
5) Salem eventually decides she wants to die. But despite #2, she does not die and is now seeking a way to permadie.
6) One of Oz's reincarnations asks Jinn if he can kill Salem, and gets a nope bro you cannot.
Close, but not quite- Ozma carked it, she went to Brother Light, who said no, and, like a fucking kid going to dad when mum says no, she goes to Brother Dark and asks
him to resurrect him instead. Brother Dark, being the cool parent, does it, then Brother Light comes around and says "uh she asked me first and I said no" which, yeah, hello latter half of point 1. Salem pitched a hissy fit and prepared to go and shank Brother Light, before the two of them yanked her into their domain and gave her her curse until she "understands the point of life and death," say the immortal godlike beings.
At this point, and frankly quite justifiably by now, Salem raised a
world-spanning army against the gods, turned almost the entirety of humanity against them, after which they go "lolno" and WIPE OUT HUMANITY IN ITS ENTIRETY, and then Brother Dark smashed the moon on their way out for funsies. Brother Light then just fucking
dragged Ozma out of the afterlife, and offered to make him immortal so long as he protected what was left of humanity and these shiny new relics- you know, I'm honestly a little convinced that that jackass
subsists on hypocrisy.
Either way, canon skips over how humans come back, and the presumed level 1-20 DnD adventure that occurred in the process of Salem turning humanity against the gods, which...
... Fuck, that actually sounds like an incredibly sad but
incredibly compelling quest to write. Like, in the hands of someone
way more competent than me, that sounds like it could
absolutely be a case study in dramatic irony.
See: The Wizard of Illuminatee actively losing the War To Save The World.
This is just backfill to ensure the NPCs can be suitably badass while the world retains its "Literally Falling Apart" quality.
Yeah, pretty much. Like almost all worldbuilding in this quest, it's caulk to fill the holes in canon's worldbuilding more than anything else- besides gently shuffling the timeline around a little just to make things flow a little better, and, actually establishing a timeline to begin with, pretty much
everything that is canon, is canon. To quote a very good song from a very good band that's never going to release Act III, the dream is dead and I need to accept that, 'whatever's on the table plays.'
But yeah, hell, not just this past update, I made
RWBY: The Grimm Campaign canon here. I made Roosterteeth's Critical Role knockoff canon, that's how fucking desperate I am for scraps of worldbuilding I don't have to create by myself.
We use the
entire animal here, kids.
Pretty much the only things that
aren't canon are things I'm not explicitly aware of before I end up publishing something that covers it, like the names of Jaune's sisters, and the few things that have made it onto the Wall Of Shame, such as taking Ironwood, a
very neuroatypical-coded character, and making a major aspect of that neuroatypicality, a) his Semblance/author fiat to not have to deal with the ins and outs of the toll PTSD takes on a person, and b) the reason he all-but became a major antagonist for a volume and a half instead of
merely an untreated severe trauma case who could still be reasoned with.
Can't abide that, won't abide that, rescued what I could and burned the rest.
Did you know that your quest is quite possibly one of the only Transistor transformative works thats actually readable? I have certainly never seen Transistor fic i liked before
I found one, once. It was long-dead by the time I found it, but what was there was honestly compelling.
For those new to this quest like myself (i just finished reading the backlog, for clarification's sake), with the foreshadowing in the latest interlude, how are we meant to conduct ourselves when it comes to decision-making?
By that, I mean: Do we make decisions as Jaune would in-character for any prompt that isn't explicitly targeted at us-the-forum, or do we do it from the omnisicent reader perspective, even though Jaune would have no Watsonian reason to presume Salem has employed a Guy Who Knows A Transistor Thing (tm)?
I apologize if this question has already been answered in some previous infopost, but for the life of me I can't find it.
Welcome, hasn't, yes and no.
... Maybe I should explain-
no, you really shouldn't make plans regarding information you don't have, and pretty much every non-write-in vote is geared with that in mind,
however, between the Transistor, the Process, and Ozpin, what is
out of character knowledge generally has a very solid chance of very quickly becoming in-character knowledge anyway. Maybe not this, maybe not in any useful detail, but still.
I would love for this to be the point where I say "anyway here's your complementary 'new guy finished the backlog' update" but unfortunately real life has run me ragged these past few days. I won't go into many details, but I'll say the words "grandmother," "palliative," and "care," that certainly haven't been put in any particular order to draw my readers to one conclusion or another, then see what people make of it.
I'm fine, before anyone asks, this has honestly been a long time coming, I made my peace with it years ago- it's just left me very,
very busy, and I can't guarantee the update will come before it's all done with, which could be anywhere from hours, to weeks, depending on a million different things.
Apologies. On the bright side: what I do have written is probably going to be longer than the last three interludes, maybe not combined- but either way, when it does get finished, it'll hopefully have been worth the wait. It's gonna be, uh...
Different, to what you're used to.
