TENET

TENET is a science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan.
==Canon Overview==
The film follows a secret agent who learns to manipulate the flow of time to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present world.
===Main Characters===
*The Protagonist and CIA agent, played by John David Washington
*Neil the Protagonist's handler, played by Robert Pattinson
*Andrei Sator a Russian oligarch played by Sir Kenneth Branagh
*Katherine "Kat" Barton an art appraiser and Sator's estranged wife, played by Elizabeth Debicki
*Volkov Sator's bodyguard, played by Yuri Kolokolnikov
*Ives a military commander, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson
*Barbara a scientist, played by Clémence Poésy
*Wheeler leader of Blue Team, played by Fiona Dourif
==Fandom==
Even before the film's release, there were already works listed in the AO3 dated June 2020.a RPF John David Washington/Robert Pattinson fic, Restricted Benefits by AnotherHomosexualMale, dated from 06-10-2020 with 12,041 words The first of these being a RPF between actors Robert Pattison and John David Washignton followed by a work FPF of the respective characters of these actors.
Even though it's a small fandom in relation to the amount of fanworks reported, it has grown exponentially since the movie's release. Most crossovers are with other works by Christopher Nolan: Inception, Batman Trilogy or Dunkirk.
===Fan Theories===
Due to the lack of more information about the past, origin and fate of many of TENET's characters, some fans based on nolanverse have come up with their own theories that connect this movie with Inception, the director's previous work Christopher Nolan. The main speculations involve the Protagonist characters, Neil, Barbara, Ives and Max.
*Barbara and Neil may be Dom Cobb's children
**At the end of Inception, after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, Cobb passes the immigration checkpoint and Miles accompanies him to his home. Antes de se juntar a seus filhos, Cobb uses Mal's totem – a top that spins indefinitely in a dream – to test if he is indeed in the real world, but chooses not to observe the result. Some fans propose that without knowing, if the pawn falls or stays upright, Cobb has set precedents for distrust if he actually got custody of the children again. If the entire final scene was just a dream, it was likely that the children would be welcomed by different people, whether they were raised separately or not, and thus culminating in Barbara the scientist, and Neil the Protagonist handler were their adult versions.
*Max and Neil are the same person
**Neil carries a gold pendant - a holed coin - attached to a red chain. Max was with his mother in an area where such coins were gift from stores. Fans theorize that Neil is an adult Max, coming from the future and recruited by the Protagonist. This would explain why, before leaving, he indicates to the agent that they already know each other.
*The Protagonist created TENET, recruited himself, creating a paradox of ouroboros
**An action leads to a reaction, which leads to another action, and so on. Upon being recruited by the agency of this twilight world, the Protagonist discovers that at some point he will recruit other agents - Neil - as it was with him, which leads to the theory that TeNET is his work, which sets precedents for a second theory;
**That somehow Neil survived, that it was Ives killed in the final scene when an agent with the gold pendant saves the Protagonist from dying in the cave and so he can be the white-haired man who recruits the Protagonist at the beginning of the movie and teaches him about TENET
Many of these and other theories are part of the most different types of fanworks produced by TENET fans.
==Shipping==
Due to the interactions, chemistry and synchronization of the characters on screen many fans send Neil/Protagonist thus making it a juggernaut ship in the fandom.
It is quite popular among Chinese and Japanese fans, having a very wide range of fanfictions and pairing fanarts on sites like AO3, Twitter and Pixiv. Some fans tag the ship with the smushname protagoneil and/out other variations.
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
*I Loved You First by ThirdActLove, John took him to the gardens at sunrise. They bundled up in quilts and drank coffee and sat on the stone walls, and John said, “Next week, eight years ago, you save my life at the National Opera House in Ukraine.”
*May Contain Nuts by Laurie, They have time, Neil thinks desperately, willing himself to calm down. They have all the time in the world.
*Rendezvous Zero a Sentinel AU by Knott with a [English Translation] by UncrownedWanderer, Strangely, as the scene from my memory melted away, I understood my feelings for him. It came at the wrong time and the wrong place, in a cramped hotel room, with half a bottle of cheap booze between us. If I told Neil that I had fallen in love with him, how would he have responded? That’s too bad for you, maybe he would say, because I’ve already burned out all my love on your future self.
===Fanart===
*I Loved You First by Vati (hcnnibal)
*Neil/Protagonist by bazar-mademoizelle-libellule
*I'll see you at the beginning by mitsumur
*THE END THE BEGINNING by bazar-mademoiselle-libellule
*the protagonist and neil (tenet) by columbo published at Tumblr by midnighterho
==Archives, Communities & Resources==
*TENET tag at AO3
==Notes & References==
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