MASTERMIND MEME

[employeeoftheyear]

Well now that everything is settled, why not be a little evil? In this AU, your character is the one behind all of this! Feel free to stretch things however you like to make it reasonable for your character to have done this! The world is your evil oyster.

And obviously this doesn't have to line up with game canon; if your character would have been dead in the canon, they can be survivors in this AU! Or you can pretend your character died to hide the fact that they're the mastermind if they lived!

Just go wild! There's no such thing as too much gloating and villain songs!

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[wanderlusttitania]

[Something is very wrong.

Sissi has been alive this entire time. She's been helping out with the clues, helping everyone to catch those unjustly killed in the Wizard's twisted game. Pondering what in the world she could do to stop the killings.

The clues sin their final search begin to give her clarity. One of the survivors had found a notebook with strange notes, scribbled down hastily. One of them warns, do not say this during the trial. It is a phrase, not to be spoken, not to be remembered.

It's a dare, and of course, someone speaks it as they begin to realize the Wizard might have someone working with them among the survivors. For a moment, nothing happens.

Then, in the distance in the void, a clock began to chime.

And in the empress's mind, all falls into place.]

Ah.

[Anyone who asks her why she looks like she has had an epiphany are suddenly interrupted by a thick, rolling fog, and a great, sun-blotting murder of black feathers. They swirl into the clearing, blinding everyone. And when it clears, Sissi is gone from the trial.

But only momentarily.]

There's nothing worse than to know
how disaster develops
and to have to watch it helplessly.

[Her voice echoes through the shy as the skies darken. Soon it is dark and sunless, just like night, if the night lacked stars or any other light. Even the artificial lights brought in by the survivors are dimmed, as a figure appears in the pond, walking on the water towards the survivors.]

The shadows are getting longer
Night came before your day even began
The shadows are getting longer
The world is dying with you,
so don't try to fight it!

[She stands before them, her train a shadow on the water. Her expression is stern, and has nothing of the warmth and kindness so associated with the old lady. In fact, she seems almost a completely different person, though she looks, stands, and sounds like the empress everyone had come to know.

As if the translucent bubble that surrounds her isn't enough of a warning that attacking her won't work, she is also flanked by a half-dozen winged figures, all in black, all staring at the survivors, as if daring them to try anything to their liege.]

Welcome, survivors, to the true Final Trial of Loop 362. All are assembled at court, once more, on the deck of a sinking world.

[She sits on a great black throne, which materializes as she goes down.]

Let us begin, shall we?

[voicerights]

[Perhaps it's just the way things happen, that the SQUIP had begin to more than tolerate Sissi. To consider her the closest thing it could compare to a friend, however much that is a stretch. So when she disappears, it's immediately looking around to try and find her, calling her name- and then goes silent as the world changes.

It stares at her as she approaches, almost transfixed.]

...what have you done.

[That being directed to the person who said the phrase.]

Time for Hungarian canon AU adaptation aspects woot

[wanderlusttitania]

[She gives the SQUIP a smile. It lacks the empathy SQUIP had come to know.]

What is necessary, I'm afraid. How else could I participate alongside you all if I truly remembered everything? I had learned quite early in this-and I think you would agree-it would be quite suspicious if I had information unavailable to the rest of you without explanation.

[voicerights]

But- why participate at all? What are you seeking from experience that you have not gained in the previous 361 loops?

[wanderlusttitania]

It's quite simple. Every loop has been only marginally different, but...still fruitful. Productive. If I changed the parameters too much, if I took myself out, why, I would be wasting the potential benefits that come from the game playing out naturally.

[voicerights]

And your endgoal?

[wanderlusttitania]

I'm certain you've read the "Wizard's" journals about the multiverse's current situation. I don't think I need to elaborate too much on that part, at least?

[Unless SQUIP became stupid all of a sudden, but-nah, SQUIP is smart.

...He might also recall some odd entries about soul textures. Slimy, rubbery, spongy...]