Villains Verse (and Associated Properties) Lore and Worldbuilding

* She holds control over the Four Cornerstones of a Functioning Universe (time, space, reality, and magic)
* The Supreme remains eternal so long as the multiverse lives, unlike the pillars who have a set number of lifetimes in order to preserve balance and the gods who ebb and flow with the trajectory of the life force

#### The Pillars

* The Nine Pillars of Existence appeared with the first sophisticated life in the universe.
* Sophisticated life must live and eventually die. While living, sophisticated life must have the potential for either good or evil, as well as free will in order to choose. Free will comes from the combination of chaos and order inside every being that allows them to make decisions, as well as their emotions. On top of this, sophisticated life must have the power to learn and grow based on knowledge they’ve accumulated and the power to create.
* Each Pillar has 888 lifetimes before they pass their charge on to the next Pillar. The length of these lifetimes varies.

* + The current Pillars are all within their last eight lifetimes.
	+ Each Pillar can create minor gods that fit their category (ex. Ingrid was able to make Xine the god of prophecies and Pidge the god of messages since prophecies and messages both contribute to knowledge). These minor gods can live longer than the Pillars, or not long at all depending on what their charge is (ex. God of polar bears probably won’t last much longer, but the goddess of trees has been around for a long time and shows no sign of fading away any time soon).
* Pillars exist to channel the energy of intelligent life (ex. Every living creature has potential for evil, as stated above, so Vaaka’s duty as the Pillar of Yin is to act as pretty much a storage space for that negative energy) which is done automatically, like breathing.

* + If a Pillar dies prematurely then there is no longer a holding space for their energy and it is instead expelled into the multiverse. That expelled energy affects the very fabric of reality itself. (For more detail, see *After Cats’s Death: What Went Wrong and How It Was Fixed*)

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### A Lesson in Verses

##### Verses ↠ Worlds ↠ Planets

Verses are the infinitely huge globes that house the Worlds.

As of now, there are two main Verses, Villains Verse and Last I Remember. The Last I Remember (LIR) Verse was taken over by a collective of shadow creatures known as the Parasitus Umbra (now revealed to have been an Other), expelling the gods from that universe and breaking away from the hold of the four cornerstones and the Supreme’s. Eventually the last of the collective was sealed in a dimensional breach by the Supreme, but the LIR Verse remains unstable, with the time, space, reality, and magic of the Verse fluctuating.

##### Verses ↠ Worlds ↠ Planets

Worlds are essentially fandoms contained within the Verse. (ex. Kingdom Hearts, She-Ra, MCU, My Hero Academia, Fullmetal Alchemist, etc.)

Worlds come in all different types and sizes. There are multi-planetary worlds (MCU, She-Ra, and Kingdom Hearts) and worlds made up of just one planet (My Hero Academia and Fullmetal Alchemist). In addition, there are worlds that act solely as interdimensional hubs (Xadia) where the inhabitants of different worlds can intermingle.

##### Verses ↠ Worlds ↠ Planets

The planets that exist within each world are just that, planets; hunks of rock floating through space. (However, there are non-spherical planets like Asgard and the planets of the Kingdom Hearts world.)

#### Verse and World Overlap

Verse and World Overlap can happen in three ways, Sleep, Death, and Object Displacement.

##### Sleep:

Occasionally memories can cross over in sleep if two versions of the same person exist in two different Verses/Worlds. These sleep memories disguised as dreams can cause feelings of déjà vu in the person’s waking life even if they don’t remember the dreams. (ex. Villains Verse Max and Axel’s strange feelings that they knew each other from somewhere even though they’d technically never met is a phenomenon often caused by sleep overlap.)

##### Death:

Death is when universes truly cross and mingle. Different versions of the same person from all different Verses and Worlds can interact within the various afterlives and so it's entirely possible that if two versions of a person find themselves in the same afterlife they could meet. In addition, if a different version of a person exists in a separate timeline the original person can recover those memories once they die (see *Time Cornerstone*).

##### Object Displacement:

Object Displacement happens very rarely. When a person has had a sleep overlap there is a chance they will remember a certain object from their dream. If they become consciously fixated on that object, there’s a small chance it will be pulled from its original Verse/World and summoned to the person suffering from overlap (ex. Villains Verse Zeref possessing the black coats from the LIR Verse).

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### Magic (MPE)

* Every living thing has potential for magic, known as MPE. The level of MPE stored in every creature is exactly the same, but some unlock it more easily than others.
* This is due to the three “blocks” of MPE

* + Block One: Mind
	+ Block Two: Body
	+ Block Three: Spirit
* If a creature’s mind, body, and/or spirit subconsciously believe they shouldn’t be able to do magic, then they won’t be able to.
* Blocks can be unblocked however if the creature suffering from MPE blockage comes into contact with a magical item or has their MPE unblocked by a powerful creature (ex. Max touching Axel’s keyblade [magical object] unblocked her MPE so she could use magic [her own keyblade])
* Blocks are more common in cold spots; worlds, planets, or regions where there isn’t a lot of excess MPE
* The opposite of cold spots are hot spots; worlds, planets, or regions where there is a lot of excess MPE (dimensional hubs such as Xadia and regions such as Gravity Falls are hotspots)
* If someone uses magic past their limit (like how Elecktra used multiple stones) their body overloads with MPE so they can continue the practice. This does, however, destroy their dormant blocks and leaves the mind, body, and/or spirit unstable, though the mind is particularly susceptable due to the close link between magic and mind.

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### The Afterlives

The Afterlife is made up of many afterlives, each run by its own minor deity while Morgan (the Pillar of Death) oversees all of them and guides souls to the right afterlife through The Inbetween. The entire collection exists on another plane of existance. Since Cats’s death, Morgan is also responsible for monitoring travel of souls from the afterlives to the world of the living in order to keep reality from tearing.

#### System of Management

The afterlives have a fairly simple but rather lax system of management that was eventually tightened up and revised after Cats’s death. Once a creature dies, they are transported to the Inbetween, a castle hanging upside down on the underside of a cliff that is run by the Pillar of Death. Inside the castle, the spirit may wander and search for the door to their afterlife. Once they find the door, Morgan or one of his assistants will unlock the door in order for the spirit to travel to the right afterlife. Spirits of any kind can request to be reborn but that decision is fully up to the god of whichever afterlife they are in and Morgan.

Gods of death run one or a few individual afterlives while Morgan oversees the whole shebang. As the Afterlife exists within its own reality and is all one giant mass of land if two afterlives are close enough to each other a god can claim both (ex. Maurelle’s Afterlife and Dead Parents Town). That said, since there are trillions of afterlives scattered across the Afterlife some cross-afterlife travel requires a gate to be opened by Morgan.

Travel out of the Afterlife and into the living world also briefly required Morgan to open gates, but now each god has their own key. Movement of spirits into the world of the living is not uncommon, however raising a spirit from the dead is considered taboo and thus is rarely done. Mortals connected directly to the Supreme (namely stonebearers, but also sometimes mortals pre-godhood) can be revived by anyone without consequence. Using the Death Stone to revive people also has no consequence.

#### Wraiths

Spirits that interact unusually with the Afterlife are known as Wraiths rather than Spirits. There is no discernible pattern as to who becomes a Wraith after death, but these spirits are quite rare. There are three known kinds:

Wandering Wraiths: Wraiths that do not belong in any afterlife and are thus consigned to wander the Inbetween eternally or until they cross into the mortal realm via the lower gate. These spirits tend to be malevolent in nature, but there are of course outliers.

(ex. Ingrid, Nira)

Tarrying Wraiths: Wraiths that are claimed by one afterlife (usually due to unfinished business with its inhabitants) and are unable to leave it, even if it is not the afterlife they should be in. With the help of a Pillar these wraiths can reach the living world briefly, but are always forced back to their afterlife eventually.

(ex. Carmenilla)

Eternal wraiths: The spirits of Pillars become Eternal Wraiths upon reaching the afterlife. The only exceptions are if they become a different sort of wraith instead. Eternal wraiths can move easily through the Inbetween, living world, and Afterlife(s) with ease and their wherabouts are untraceable, even by the living pillar of Death.

(ex. Cats)

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### The Cornerstones

#### Time (Heart)

The Time Cornerstone is responsible for the following:

1. Keeping alternate timelines out of the multiverse
2. Suppressing paradoxes and limiting paradoxical situations
3. Keeping the timeflow linear
4. Limiting the effects of the changes time travelers make

Note: Since the Afterlife exists on a separate plane of existence people from both the main universe and other timelines all end up there. When that happens, the memories of the person from the alternate timeline return to the main person. (ex. Liberator from normal Sunset Valley got his WWW memories once he died.)

#### Space (Lungs)

The Space Cornerstone is responsible for the following:

1. Keeping Verses and worlds from expanding and contracting in such a way the the inhabitants would be harmed
2. Sealing dimensional rifts
3. Creating new verses and worlds

#### Reality (Stomach)

The Reality Cornerstone is responsible for the following:

1. Keeping everything, including the other cornerstones, from unraveling into threads of cosmic energy

#### Magic (Brain)

The Magic Cornerstone is responsible for the following:

1. Regulating the levels of MPE in intelligent life
2. Regulating the levels of MPE across the rest of the universe
3. Applying consequences for overuse of magic
4. Regulating blocks

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### After Cats’s Death: What Went Wrong and How It Was Fixed

#### Overview

After Cats’s premature death, the multiverse was without a Pillar of Chaos to channel the Chaotic energy. This caused chaos energy to be expelled into the multiverse, which caused a host of problems.

#### Problems and Solutions:

1. The universe began to unravel.

* Without one of the Nine Pillars of  Existence, the existence of intelligent life became unstable.
* This problem mostly manifested in the Afterlife, as spirits could no longer cross back over into the living world without ripping through the fabric of reality to get there.
* The solution to this was to give the gods and goddesses of each afterlife a specific key that allowed them to bring spirits back into the mortal world without having to call on Morgan to open a gate.
* Using this orderly method helped balance out the excess chaos energy  that had been introduced to the multiverse.

1. The Supreme was distracted and her hold on the remaining Cornerstones began to slip.

* Since there was so much chaos energy being expelled into the universe and tearing reality up, the Supreme had to focus all her energy on that particular cornerstone, which meant Time, Space and Magic began to act up.

* + Timelines became unstable and people from alternate timelines merged into the main reality, time travelers no longer acted within strict guidelines and ended up creating paradoxical situations, etc.
	+ Random Verses, Worlds and Planets appeared out of nowhere
	+ Intelligent life became randomly blocked or unblocked, some nonmagical people’s MPE increased to the point of destroying their blocks and some magical people’s diminished immensely, hotspots and cold spots appeared and disappeared in the strangest places

1. The worlds Cats had a hand in creating began to deteriorate. (This was actually a separate problem altogether as it was linked to Cats as a person rather than  the chaos energy that caused the previous two problems. Thus far it remains unsolved.)

The first two problems were eventually solved by having the Supreme create a Pseudo-Pillar of Chaos to act as a vessel for the chaotic energy until the true Pillar was reborn. Unfortunately that meant that the chaos energy the Pseudo-Pillar collected would be ripped out and transferred to the true Pillar which would likely result in the former’s death.