A conversation held with stargazer over IM:
starkat: 'gazer, do we know where we're headed with this story and how long we want to stay in this particular storyline?
stargazer: not sure, kat.
starkat: With Katherine and Verena's ability to hop between realities, this could be wrapped up very quickly or it could be drawn out quite a bit.
stargazer: I think Sonny has some ideas integrating his characters into this, and I have a couple of conspirators I'm waiting for
starkat: ok
stargazer: do you have a preference? I do like the way you're bringing them in, and restoring their abilities
starkat: I'm not thinking of them as the actual solution. Just mainly as messengers to the various dimensions so that everyone can pull together and solve the problem.
starkat: Say maybe there's a piece to the solution in every reality or something.
stargazer: I hadn't really thought of resolution for my characters' alternates...more on the order of 'their lives go on.' Though I'd like to end their little story arcs, especially injured Abby in the red 'verse
starkat: One option I'd wondered about was maybe the resolution could end up in a reality that was blended together from all four
stargazer: interesting idea! Would that become the new prime reality then?
starkat: Yeah
starkat: sort of a knitting together.
stargazer: that is, the one the story would continue in?
starkat: yeah
stargazer: intriguing
starkat: that way no one would lose any character development they didn't want to.
stargazer: or any characters
starkat: ditto with plotlines and any additional characters
starkat: but to knit together four realities, I can see it being a complex thing to do. It would also allow for a reset of several things if we wanted including the villains.
starkat: Say instead of 9 have three. or even just one main bad guy group or something.
stargazer: you're right, it could be crazy.
starkat: but it could open a lot of doors
starkat: oh and the only alternate character I plan on keeping in the storyline is Verena. Anyone who pops in to help restore abilities is temporary.
stargazer: absolutely!
stargazer: to your previous note about opening doors
starkat: That Verena may also depart at some point towards the end of her usefulness or I may meld her character together with the younger Verena if we go the way of knitting dimensions together.
stargazer: I think it might be worth posting in the Library, see what others think
So... what do you guys think?
I do plan on adding some limitations as to how the hopping between realities ability can be used. I don't want it to be something that can be easily handled.
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