Spoilers.

[achievementhunter]

 

The Omniscience Meme

You now know your entire canon! All of those things that happened before you were born, when you weren't in the room, after you died... it's all there, in your head.

...And in the mind of everyone else, for that matter. Now what?

• Comment with your characters. They now know everything that went on in their canon. Hooray for omniscience!
• Others comment to them ALSO knowing their canon. Oops.
• ????
• Profit.


Example: The Drifter now knows that at the end of their quest, they really will die. And so does Guzma. And Osomatsu. And-

Comments

Edward Elric | Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

[solperierat]

[A wild series and movie appeared!]

[Don't mind Ed, he's just going to be in BSOD over NAZIS KILLING HIS BOYFRIEND ROOMMATE AND ATTACKING HIS HOME WORLD.]

The best thing I loved this series and movie as a kid

[achievementhunter]

[So...

Your boyfriend roommate was killed by Nazis, huh? That's rough, buddy.

Not that there isn't anything rough about his life. Two kids tried to play god- and the world was ready to make them suffer for that mistake, every, single day.

They aren't one for pity. So it's not offered to him. Instead, they sit by his side, exhaling slowly, before-]

Congratulations on saving the world. Again.

Ren | Fragile Dreams

[catpiper]

[Background if u want.

And whelp. She sees her own death (not a surprise) and found out that Seto dies, completely alone, after she does. They never found another living person. It was only them in that big wide world.

Someone's a Tad Upset.]

...Seto.

Re: Ren | Fragile Dreams

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Welp, that's an awfully depressing world to come from, that poor girl. She's not really sure how to comfort somebody who seemed kind of scared of her the last time they talked, but it's worth trying.]

Do... do you want a hug?

[crosslaced]

.......

Since you're here. Perhaps Seto is out there, on another island?

Muffet | Undertale

[prettypurpleparlor]

Honestly, there aren't that many new revelations about Muffet, specifically: baker, magical spider monster, loves her people, plays up her intimidating reputation for business advantage.

Tried to murder a human.

But, to be fair, only because she was lied to thought they'd already committed a great deal of murder themselves.

Which, in turns out... they kind of have? Or did, and then never did.

She didn't realize her life involved this much time travel. Or any time travel, actually. She's starting to get a headache.

[50shadesofburaza]

Ha....

All of this is going right over his head. The thing that doesn't, however, is her conception. As one of a group of sextuplets, he feels- something, at that. A twinge; a moment in time where he imagines what it would be like, to grow up without them. To know they could have been there.

"Hey. Are you okay?"

Osomatsu Matsuno | Osomatsu-san

[relieable]

[Osomatsu's canon is weird. the gist of it is that there are six brothers who all share the same face. they get up to wacky hijinks!

now that Osomatsu knows everything that's going to happen to him and his brothers, he's wary of horses fine. it's not like he's going to die in the end, like some of the other people here. tough luck for those guys!

because he gets a second season starting up in a few weeks! fun!]

[50shadesofburaza]

[No real surprises here. Maybe just- the fact that they all get back together? That's a surprise. Nothing...nothing actually dealt with, either. No fixing the issues that started it all.

No. Just a baseball game. Which they lost anyway.

Karamatsu doesn't know how to feel about that.]

Heh, a second season, huh? We're even more popular now than ever.

[So he's not going to acknowledge it at all.]

The Batter | OFF

[unpurify]

[A walkthrough. Note, that in LifeAftr the player is simply called "The Puppeteer", so while a name is entered in the beginning what it actually says is blanked out.

As for the Batter himself....he has no reaction to this. He's already experienced it, the victory that ended with him switching the world OFF. It was only this world that kept the man alive for just a little longer, for reasons beyond him.

...the memories before this all began? They're there but merely a feeling of contentment and warmth. There are no pictures to go along with it. For now.]

Re: The Batter | OFF

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet watches him with quiet wariness, tilting her head curiously as she examines the man who- knowing what she now knows about him- leaves her deeply uneasy for multiple reasons.]

... I don't know if your world is too fundamentally different from ours, or far too much alike.

Either way, I do not think I can understand you.

[achievementhunter]

[They expected this much.

But then, even they couldn't have determined quite how deep it went- a man not so much his own person as he was a puppet.

One that easily could have stayed his hand at any time.]

...You have my pity.

[And that is the worst insult they can offer.]

Chara Dreemurr | Undertale | CW: suicide, child abuse

[achievementhunter]

[Oh, wonderful.

Would you like to hear a joke, fellow islanders? It's about a kid who climbed a mountain for not a happy reason, the reason of which begins with flashes of adults with fists raised and ends with a nine year old climbing a mountain, covered in blood and suffering from what feels like broken ribs.

It's about a child who was adopted into a royal family; dubbed the Future of Humans and Monsters. A child who took that new title very seriously- so seriously, they killed themself for it.

It's about a child that didn't die when they should have, who was there as their brother was murdered by humans. Who has vague memories of decomposing in their own coffin, of becoming mulch in the soil. Of waking up in the body of someone else, incapable of doing more than attempting to guide them as they slowly tallied the many deaths they experienced together. One, two, ten, fifty, two hundred and seven-

It's about a child who eventually snapped. It's about nine hundred and forty-seven monsters slaughtered, cut or punched or kicked to dust, from one timeline, to two, to forty-three.

It's about a child in a castle in the mist, who fell in love with a skeleton, a man in red, and a child who held a part of their SOUL.

It's about a child who decided their LOVE was meant to end in hell.

Honestly, you should really know better than to approach right now- or at all. Ever. But if you do, it won't be to a cowed child, shrinking away from the weight of all their sins.

Chara stares down anyone who approaches- really, go ahead. Call them by The True Name. Judge them.

They dare you.]

[prettypurpleparlor]

[She should not, she thinks, know this truth in this manner, without their permission. It is not something to which she has a right.]

[But it is foolish and pointless to say that something should not happen, after it has already occurred. The fact of the matter is that here and now she does know. Therefore, she has a responsibility.]

There are many things for which an apology is woefully inadequate- and yet one still must be made, because a wrong cannot be addressed until it is acknowledged.

The apology I made to Frisk before was more inadequate than I realized, since I didn't know the full extent of the wrong I did. I will be addressing this with them.

I had not made any apology to you, because I didn't know you were ever there at all. But you were, and you were harmed and wronged as they were by what I did.

[Her tone is calm, even- not uncaringly happy, or dripping with guilt, merely... stating a fact. She knows the truth, and must therefore speak the truth.]

So: for all that you have suffered at my hands, and for all I did not prevent, I am sorry.

Asriel Dreemurr | ota

[pleasereset]

[Hardly any of this is new to Asriel.

A monster prince is born to the king and queen of the Underground. He grows up healthy and happy, he gains an adopted human sibling, who fell into the Underground for reasons Asriel never really understood.

They come up with a plan to free the monsters of the Underground by stealing six human SOULs from the Surface. The sibling poisons themselves, as the brother watches and grieves and waits. Once the child passes, the monster prince absorbs their SOUL and become a being of incredible power. They head up to the Surface to carry out their plan.

They're killed by human villagers, and Asriel returns with Chara's body to die in the royal gardens.

From there, he's brought back to life as a flower. He slaughtered his own people, before resetting timelines and doing it all over again. He fights a child, who saves him before he can destroy everything.

And at the end of everything, after he's cried out his apologies to the child he hurt, and after the child leaves - a strange catlike creature offers him a wish. Asriel accepts it, and becomes a hero of a small town. Fighting evil creatures that exist in nightmares. Fighting former magi who have succumbed to despair, turning them into Witches.

Asriel struggles to better himself, establish himself as a hero and fighting for his new "home". It all comes crashing down with the accidental murder of two magi, in which a foolish decision he made along with two other magi gets them killed. His fellow magi accuse them for the girls' murders, and it turns into in-fighting and violence against other magi.

It's nothing Asriel doesn't know. But he doesn't know everyone else now knows too...]

[achievementhunter]

[It's nothing he doesn't know, and yet, he probably isn't expecting laughter as a reaction.

But that's precisely what he's going to get from Chara. Complete, unbridled laughter.]

That's it? That's what you were accused of in Nyoi-cho?

And you allowed them to pin that on you?

Weiss Schnee | RWBY

[whiteas]

[ Wiki link That's so detailed you would not believe but also my shitty summary if you don't wanna go for the tl;dr version. Uhhh warning for emotionally (and slappy) abusive family.

The kind of stuff she knows about in addition to her own life are things that mostly make her have more questions, though, so she's kind of looking confused about it. She has q u e s t i o n s. For people who aren't here. Also wow Jaune actually had feelings for her and wasn't just a jerk. ]

[aurabble]

How come your team got all the cool extracurricular trips?

[He knew Weiss's father was a terrible person by now, but he didn't realize the extent he had gone to hurt her. He doesn't bring it up, yet, because they both know now, whether or not he should, and some things are too personal. Why would he want to make her feel even worse about it?]

Jaune Arc ☽☽ RWBY

[aurabble]

[vague canon specific background and more detailed character specific background.

Jaune's canon is up to date, but he'll be even more worried about Weiss, know that Yang is trying to move forward and that Blake is safe, as well as that Pyrrha's murderer, Cinder is still alive. He'll probably want to finish the job that Ruby started. Otherwise, it's just been further confirmed that Ozpin's team consists of a bunch of manipulative assholes and he needs to stop shoving responsibilities at innocent people.

Some things to note about Jaune might be: He's lied and isn't as good or noble as he tries to be, he encouraged his best friend to do the right thing but it was wrong and he's just as much to blame as everyone else, he watched as his best friend accidentally murdered a fellow student and then lost her after she finally showed him how she really felt, and then lost the village his family would visit for camping as a child and he puts himself through listening to the same recording of said friend on repeat every night to train and get stronger because he's not good enough. But there's also wearing a dress to cheer her up, having his hair braided in pigtails by his sisters, and still being there to keep moving forward and eventually reunite with his friends that are still there.]

Re: Jaune Arc ☽☽ RWBY

[prettypurpleparlor]

...I met her, just once.

It was on that strange place, the dreamlike one that we were in right before we arrived on the islands. She seemed kind, and tired, and sad. I told her story. I still don't know if it helped.

[There is, she's fairly certain, no need to specify who 'she' is.]

tim wright | cw for hospitalization, suicide refs THIS GOT LONG I'M SO SORRY THERE ARE NO GOOD WIKIS

[postictal]

[ Everything is fine. ]




[No. It's not.]

[Here's a story for you. It's about a little boy that grew up in a hospital room with a window. The doctors wouldn't tell him what was wrong, but he could guess from what he parsed from conversations - conversations centered around phrases such as "violent episodes," or "delusions." The little boy had a mother who must have loved him very much - or perhaps not enough, because eventually, she stopped coming to see him.]

[He had one friend, though it wasn't a very nice friend. It was tall and didn't have a face and always wore a suit, and mostly it made him hurt, made him scream. Sometimes, when it got bad, he tried to run. The doctors responded by taking away his window.]

[It's a mystery, they say, as to how that hospital burned down.]

[Though the fire damage was always worst in that room of his.]

[The little boy grows up. He finds the right combination of chemicals that let him pass as someone that can attend school, and a mixture of student loans and his newfound ability to find semi-steady work allows him to attend college. He meets someone who doesn't seem to mind his surly, strange company. He makes his first real friend, and he can't understand how it is that this friend doesn't someday grow tired of him.]

[Until the day he does. Brian disappears from his life, and he thinks that it must have been inevitable.]

[He was wrong, of course. Brian never left. It's just that Tim's old friend from the hospital came calling, and not a single person in Tim's life, no matter how little he might have known them personally, went unscathed. Their minds were souped with missing memory, their stories diluted with ink, and one man with a fire in his soul couldn't stand to see it all happen. He tried to wipe them out, one by one, so that the influence of the thing without a face would die, completely and utterly.]

[He missed someone. Several someones.]

[He missed one Brian Thomas, who used to smile but now shadows his face in a hood. He missed one Jay Merrick, who carries a camera and tries to document the missing pieces of a memory splintered beyond repair. And he missed one Timothy Wright, the catalyst of all the misfortune he brought into everyone's lives.]

[And Alex Kralie - he missed himself. He thought that maybe he could get off scot-free.]

[Like he was about most things, he was wrong.]

[They all came back, one by one. And one by one, they fell and they faded in earnest. Leaving only Timothy Wright, his hands gloved in scarlet and the weight of countless consecutive deaths on his shoulders, who had nothing more than a chemical shield against the demons in his head.]

[Until he found himself in a Castle in the Mist, and met a demon for real.]

[He didn't smile enough; they smiled too much. He eschewed violence; they embraced it. He choked down a handful of his medication in a moment of panic, and they swung a fist into his gut to make him retch it up. Their souls did not hum in harmony so much as they shrilled in hideous disharmony - too alike, and too bereft to exist in synchronicity.]

[He met a mercenary with a fast mouth, and a skeleton who turned cages blue, and a man that split into two dichotomous personalities. He met a woman who eased his way by tolerating none of his self-pity and a child with a butterfly knife.]

[Maybe he just exchanged one demon for another, in the end.]

[But the single Kill in their Count woke again.]

Re: tim wright | cw for hospitalization, suicide refs THIS GOT LONG I'M SO SORRY THERE ARE NO GOOD W

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Her tone is brisk and even, but not unsympathetic.]

I have absolutely no idea how to deal with any of that, and I'm not even sure I ought to try. I'm still sorry it happened.

Sit down and have a donut, you've been through far too much to handle it with an empty stomach.

[Where did Muffet get donuts in here? Ask that, and you'll have to start asking even more awkward questions, like: where the fuck is here, anyway.]

[Some mysteries you just have to accept.]

the drifter | i sure know how to pick characters who don't have good wiki pages

[hyperlit]

[ " A searcher, aspiring to find a cure. " ]
[ " A lonely soul, in a desperate search. " ]


[A loss of self. A narrow path traveled.]

[An Immortal Cell festered in the chambers of the world, eating away at its people. The peaceable inhabitants of Central are all that remain of a once beautiful land. The otters of the East were skinned and devoured; the birds of the North were sacrificed, their eggs smashed to appease a false god; the raccoons of the West were imprisoned in crystal; the lizards of the South attempted to plumb the depths of the ancient labs beneath the ground, and found themselves beset upon by the mechanical beasts that dwelled there.]

[And in the midst of it all, there are drifters: nomads who travel with cloaks and companions and swords, who follow their own loose codes and hide their faces. One Drifter in particular, a member of a race that others eschewed, would one day wake to find themself wracked with an illness that had overtaken many others in this shattered shell of a world. It tore apart their vocal cords and ravaged their throat, and they spent their days coughing blood onto the floor.]

[But determined despite this, they sought a cure.]

[They pieced together the modules they could, to determine the location of the Immortal Cell that plagued the world, all the while fending off hallucinations of their own death...or were those real? A jackal god walked beside them, silent but nonetheless benevolent, as she roused them each time their journey felt as though it would be at an end.]

[Throughout it all, they had one single, unexpected friend and ally: a fellow drifter beset with the same illness, who took them into their home and assisted them whenever possible, despite the Drifter's race. They could never do enough to repay them for their kindness - or anything at all, in the end, when their guardian perished in the South, succumbing at long last to their illness.]

[Their last words were of their family and their children, before they passed their equipment on to the Drifter.]

[With all the modules assembled, the Drifter proceeded to the Abyss, where the Immortal Cell swelled in a slurry of pink and black. It struck them down as it liked, but the Drifter did not, would not stop until they saw it dead.]

[And see it dead they did.]

[The jackal began to lead them from the subterranean Abyss as it crumbled in the wake of its defeated master. Their vision trembled; they could barely see, let alone stand. Feverish, spitting their own blood, stumbling, dying, the Drifter endeavored until they cleared the debris.]

[A vision of water, pristine and clear, swam beneath their feet.]

[The world was - at long last - at peace.]

[The Drifter sank back against the great swell of stone. Before they could continue, they were already sliding to the ground, their head dropping to their wheezing chest.]

[After fighting for so long, they were tired.]

[They were so tired.]



[It will just be for a moment.]
[They'll only close their eyes for a moment.]



[They'll get up again soon.]
[Won't they?]

Re: the drifter | i sure know how to pick characters who don't have good wiki pages

[prettypurpleparlor]

There are many things I think I dislike about the way my world functions.

The possibility of a better ending- if not the certainty- is not one of them.

[The Underground has many roads, which can tangle or turn back. But the Drifter's path seems to have only one destination.]

You deserve better.

Laurent | the captive prince trilogy

[crosslaced]

[content warning: implications of childhood sexual abuse, paedophilia mention.]

[The fact is, none of this matters anymore, but oh well.

The fact is, his brother the Crown Prince died on the battlefield when he was thirteen. The fact is, that battle claimed the last of his immediate family; leaving him no one but his uncle who now was Regent.

(the fact is Uncle is what they call a paedophile, though of course you don't say something like that about the Regent of Vere if you want to keep your head.)

The fact is, he had no idea how deep Uncle’s hunger for his throne was. Sure, years of spreading insidious slander is fair game. But Uncle didn't have to go for his animals, or his friends (Nicaise had been only thirteen.) He was never that interested in the throne, you know, he'd give it up for a single true friend.


It took a wish from Kyuubey to settle things. But the fact is, he would have been better off without it. Captive Prince ends happily on its own.]






[oh also and he's a ghost now.]

Re: Shiro Fujimoto | Blue Exorcist | HAHAHAHA MAJOR CANON SPOILERS

[lionson]

[Shiro already knew his past and his future, since he was dead when he came to this world. None of this is a surprise for him.

But now everybody else gets to know that this weird, friendly old man is one of the last living subjects from a science experiment that was meant to create the perfect body for a demon (in his case, Azazel) to possess. Meaning he only exists to be a living vessel for an evil being. And when that failed because Shiro's willpower was too strong and he couldn't be possessed, he got turned into a demon-killing exorcist on a rather short leash.

And he watched the woman he loved die horribly. And then he raised her kids as his own sons, because of course he would he's not letting her kids be thrown out into the wild to fend for themselves as infants. Also said kids are the sons of Satan, because Satan was kind of a dick one time.

But despite his shitty life, he always tried to do the right thing at least? Even if his methods were extremely unconventional, they usually came from a position of "I'm going to do what I know to be right".

Oh and Shiro was a total asshole before he became a father. That's a thing too. "Jerk with a heart of gold" was his trope tbh]

((OOC: More info here! also most of the threads will probably have content warnings for body horror, possession, and (if anyone braves the topic of the woman he liked or his sons) forced impregnation.))

Ardyn Izunia | FFXV | entire game spoilers because of course

[scourgingstars]

[In an age long past, the magitek-based civilization of Solheim turned upon the god who ruled them; Ifrit the Infernian, who wrought a plague upon the people in return. It was a terrible, incurable illness which turned human and beast alike into horrific daemons, bringing Solheim to ruin and sparking a war between Ifrit and the other five gods of the hexatheon. A man born of Solheim and the Shield who fought at his side rose to combat the plague and the Pyreburner alike; he forged covenants with the gods and battled at the side of Bahamut, the Draconian.]

[When the Astral War reached its end and Ifrit was defeated, Bahamut gifted mankind with a holy Crystal and to the hero he granted a ring with the power to wield the Crystal's might. Until such a time as the Chosen King would arise and fully banish the plague which Ifrit brought down, he charged the hero and his line with guarding and protecting it. From Solheim's ruins, four nations arose: Accordo, Tenebrae, Niflheim...and Lucis.]

[The hero's name was Ardyn Lucis Caelum, and he became the founder of the Lucian kingdom with the Crystal at its heart.]

[But how could he just wait, knowing his people were suffering from the plague they named Starscourge? The darkness had a tight grasp on the world, and no ruler could sit idly by and allow his subjects to wither and die such a horrible death. He had already been chosen by the gods, so clearly that meant he could do something about it. Ardyn left the capital and fought the darkness in the only way he was able; by using the healing magic only he possessed. Beneath his hands the scourge vanished from the afflicted people as though it had never even touched them, and the nights seemed ever safer with their healer, their savior working tirelessly against it.]

[Magic, however, came at a cost. And though it was a cost Ardyn willingly paid, the truth was that the scourge never vanished at all. His mortal body played host to the darkness and daemons, becoming less and less human over time--until he was no longer human at all. Ultimately he was cast out by those he had struggled to protect, another of the Lucian line--Izunia Lucis Caelum, prince and his younger brother--proclaiming him 'Accursed' and usurper of the Crystal's power. His subjects turned against him, his Shield all but vanished, and ultimately Ardyn was rendered unable to even die when he was executed. So corrupted was his body and soul that the very gods he had fought alongside now denied his soul ascension to the astral realm.]

['Ardyn Lucis Caelum' disappeared and was redacted from all historical records. Two thousand years passed, and 'Ardyn Izunia' rose to power as Chancellor of Niflheim, at war with the kingdom of Lucis.]

[He cared nothing for Niflheim's aspirations of power; he manipulated the course of an entire war, orchestrated events as though the world was nothing more than a chessboard, killing and tormenting innocent people trying to save the world as he once had. What he desired was vengeance, steeped in two millennia of the malice and hatred his body was now entirely comprised of. Vengeance upon the planet that turned its back on him, the Astrals that betrayed him, and the destruction of the line of Lucis that had forgotten their founder and savior.]

[Having become the darkness of the prophecy, vessel of the Starscourge and bringing down ten years of endless night upon the planet, he simply waited for the true Chosen King that would be able to put an end to his two thousand years of life. When that end was finally, finally brought about, the man who was once a hero had burned the world, Crystal, and Lucian line down with him.]

[ooc: wiki link | app with backstory that has since been jossed because of course it was]

I want you to know I had a notif for every edit you made.

[achievementhunter]

[Another story. Another hero, lost to tragedy and warped beyond recognition by the malicious actions and poisonous ailments of others.

Golly, it's almost as if there's a recurring theme, here.]

Congratulations on your death.

[Because those things are so utterly permanent, and all.]

Mickey Mouse | Mickey Donald Goofy : The Three Musketeers

[souris_keteer]

[Low quality youtube cut or simple wikipedia! ... let's face it, it's a mickey mouse cartoon, you probably have a pretty good idea what happens anyway. aside from him drowning on screen.]

Ginko | Mushi-Shi | CW for attempted suicide (and cannibalism in the ryslig section) and spoilers

[onegreeneye]

[The wiki sucks, so, short version I tried to keep it short and failed miserably:

Ginko's world contains ethereal life-forms called mushi, which are invisible to most humans and exist in a state somewhat removed from most other life. They typically don’t have true physical bodies, almost never leave remains, and often seem to function in ways that many would consider wholly unbelievable. 'Mushi masters' are people who study and handle mushi for a living.

Twenty-six years ago, Ginko didn't know any of this - and, in fact, was not really 'Ginko'. Back then, he was a traveling merchant's son, named Yoki, who attracted mushi and could see them but had no understanding of what they were, and if they were even real or simply his imagination.

One day, a landslide killed his mother and left him injured; he was taken in by a mushi master named Nui. However, despite her efforts to protect him until he was healed enough to leave, Yoki was affected by two mushi that lived in the surrounding area: The tokoyami, which consumed his memories of his past (and consumed Nui entirely in the end), and a previously unknown mushi which Nui had come to call the 'ginko', which took his left eye, turned the right bright green, and leached all other pigmentation from his body.

For most of his life, his first memory has been of wandering alone in the woods, unable to remember anything of his past except for the name 'Ginko' - which he took as his own. Over time, Ginko was taken on as an apprentice by numerous mushi masters, most of whom saw fit to use his mushi-attracting condition to get more work for themselves by keeping him in one place much longer than was safe. Of course, this always ended badly, and Ginko ended up being abandoned or driven off time and time again.

When he was about twelve years old, Ginko was briefly taken in by a mushi master named Suguro, who actually made an effort to teach him about the conditions affecting him, as well as how to handle and drive off mushi to protect himself and those around him. In the end, though, Ginko's curiosity led him to accidentally kill an unborn mountain god - an animal, in this case a bird, which would have carried out the will of nature itself to keep the mountain in balance. After dropping its egg, Ginko was desperate to return the god's life force to the mountain to sustain it, to the point of being willing to have his own life taken with it if that was what it took.

The natural order stopped him, and its messengers took the egg themselves, allowing Ginko to live - but, though the mountain would recover, Suguro could not forgive him for killing the god, and banished him from the mountain.

Ginko continued to wander the countryside for over twenty years, learning and improving at his trade until he could support himself. His travels led him to meet and help countless people, though some he could do nothing for, and most he never saw again. There were few exceptions to that - notably, Adashino, a doctor with an interest in mushi who Ginko ended up visiting regularly, and Tanyuu Karibusa, a scribe slated to spend her life writing down the stories of mushi masters in order to seal away an ancient mushi.

And then there was Ryslig.

It was alarming enough, finding himself suddenly transported to what he would eventually accept to be an entirely different world from his own - a place unstuck from the rest of reality, where people from countless worlds and times were brought and trapped. As Ginko was one of the first people to be transported there, he couldn't have known at the time what was to come.

All those brought to Ryslig eventually found themselves changed, gradually turned into monsters, all connected by the need to eat humans - whether their flesh, their life force, or their very souls. The first development of these 'cravings' led Ginko to lose control of himself entirely, killing a human local, but he eventually managed to sustain himself by raiding the locals' morgues and fresh graves.

Ginko developed close friendships with a number of others on the peninsula, pushed even closer by their treacherous surroundings; he became incredibly protective of a number of younger people there, including Ed, and the brief implanting of false memories which were never quite erased led him to see Henry Townshend as an adopted brother. Most startlingly to Ginko himself, he found himself falling in love - for the first time in his life - with a former android named Epsilon.

His time in Ryslig also led to Ginko having the distinctly unpleasant experience of dying and being brought back to life, as well as being attacked by villagers (NOT for the first time in his life) when some locals decided to eradicate the monsters for good. On top of everything, he ended up meeting Nui for the second time, though he didn't know it then - and eventually regaining his memories of her, leading him to piece together the fact of his mother's death, as well.

Basically, this guy has had a hell of a time.]