The One Before

"Fixation on the past, will only lead to fixation on the present, and then the future,"~ACT Omega-0 'The 12th Chime'
The One Before (designated as C8-001), is an entropic time-warping anomaly that is currently held in Site Omega-0 where it's contained by a combination of TOA ACT Omega-0 'The 12th Chime' and time/reality pocket technology and monitored for activity by a surveillance team 24/7 and is a top secret entity only known by TOA High Command members, Overseer Division operatives, and on-site staff with authorized access with all connections to the outside world cut off from Site Omega-0. The One Before is to be constantly trapped in a reality pocket within a time bubble at all times or risk absolute guaranteed annihilation of timelines usually resulting in a Finalverse reset by means of Reality as well as having ACT Omega-0 stationed in a separate dimensional plane over the standard's to be deployed incase of the worst case scenario where The One Before breaks containment measures. The One Before appears to be anchored to a 1.85 km radius around singular point represented by a small glowing white sphere that is seemingly capable of moving when out of sight from conscious organisms where it will then assume physical form within said radius around every 147 hours in an event the TOA operatives on site call: "Chiming of the Clock". The One Before's body figure may vary from manifestation to manifestation but will always have the same characteristics of appearing around the ages 7-80, having void black skin, and shimmering pure white eyes and appears to be docile and non-aggressive while also being oblivious to all things happening around it even if it was inside the center of a collapsing dimension or literally in a theoretically impossible inexistent plane of reality. All physical matter seems to phase directly through them as attempts to physically grab the entity resulted in operatives phasing their hands through its physical form and thus makes all forms of physical harm completely ineffective including conventional firearms, explosions, and concentrated acids which includes its feet which when looking closely, you can see The One Before's feet hover a few inches off the ground. The only way that has shown actual results in the effort of containing The One Before is extensive time-space manipulation and reality stabilization to prevent it from massively damaging the time-space continuum of the Finalverse or risk changing timelines themselves which would by all standards, be extremely detrimental to Finalversal stability. The One Before simply wanders around the anchor point known as: "The Clock" And stares at random places with behavior somewhat resembling that of Dark: Type Null (minus the immediate hostility against all who approach it) but the two anomalies haven't shared any connection or even are aware of each other's presences.
== Appearance ==
The One Before doesn't always retain the same physical form when manifesting varying in different aspects such as age, gender, height, and hair color which has been recorded to be usually based off of humans other than species from different universes or dimensions but preferably takes the form of a man aged around 35 years old. This form is usually called "The Clockwork Figure" due to the form taken having characteristic of an old grandfather clock and wears a dark beige coat covering his torso and small parts of his legs over a two-piece gray suit with black tie, long black silk dress pants, and shiny black leather boots of an unidentifiable type. It also wears a beige and black fedora covering the top of his head and most of its hair which is usually cut short with a black color as well as having a constantly spinning minute-hand from what seems like an old model grandfather clock spinning around his left palm.
== Personality ==
The One Before seems to be completely neutral and emotionless to everything around it and the few times it does show any kind of connection to its surroundings, it stays completely calm and deadpan and the most expressive it ever became was slight passive-aggresion when TOA attempted to conceptually erase it from existence. Apart from being completely neutral, it always seems to be in a state of bliss as when it sometimes (inadvertently) communicates with others surrounding it, its voice (usually projected telepathicly into others' minds directly) sounds to be happy in nature and a lot like someone who just ate a good meal or something else similar. The One Before's can also act in different ways depending on which form it takes during its manifestation events such as older versions being more calm or younger versions being more happy and some manifests being more depressed or tired-seeming than others.
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Category:TOA Discovered