The World Starts To Reap

**The World Starts To Reap** is a Story Arc of the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in Interra and follows the perspective of a young Sarah Duncan.

## Main Arc

### The First Week

A young, ten-years old Sarah Duncan wakes up in the midst of her hometown, Los Angeles, invisible to all and chased by invisible creatures known as Noise. Guided by the enigmatic Reapers into what they call the **Game**, she quickly encounters bubbly V-tuber Jolene Powell and is forced to team up with her and participate in a series of trials decided by elite Reaper Ethan Owens, threatened with death if she fails.

Challenging these trials by wielding strange psychic powers through pins, Sarah encounters Reaper Officers July Conway and Vanara Luka, who respectively test her knowledge and information-gathering abilities, and adaptability with the new **Pinal Pintasy** game. She is also repeatedly visited by Liliande Evershire, an emotionless Reaper that warns Sarah that her selfish approach to the universe will eventually prove to be her undoing.

This proves to be true when Jolene's mind state slowly erodes through the week, finally shattering when August Conway, July's husband and a loose cannon among reapers, reveals the truth about the Game: its Players are victims of **Alicization**, a process that rewrites their soul according to their social identity, destroying their original personality in the process. Jolene, upon learning that she is the façade of a young man who let himself burn in his own home out of despair, loses hope and gives in.

To avoid being Erased, Sarah uses a strange sticker, a gift from her teacher, Jenna Fairfax, the only human still able to see her, in order to go back through time and form stronger bonds with Jolene, allowing her to love herself despite her origin and nature. Jolene and Sarah team up to defeat Ethan and survive the week, before being congratulated by Jordan Graham, the Conductor that leads the entire Game.

### The Second Week

On behalf of Alice, the city's ultimate ruler, Jordan allows one of Sarah or Jolene to return to the real world; Sarah lets Jolene go, and readies herself for a second Week. This time however, to survive, she is forced into a pact with Silver Noachia, an enigmatic young man whose existence has been twisted due to Alicization, and face off against the eccentric game master Cool Johnny.

Sarah quickly discovers something very off with this week, with the apparition of new, corrupted Noise known as **Discordant Noise**. Alongside Silver, they face off against them several times, and begin suspecting Johnny of controlling them. By investigating him, they discover a strange realm, the **Dissonance**, at the border of reality, where they learn of artist **Gaseous Snake,** a powerful contributor to the game.

Johnny elects to leave his place at the end of the fifth day, however, leaving Sarah and Silver to face off against more powerful Discordant Noise, created by a Demon. Although they suspect as first August of being the culprit, they are only half-right; August has brought Discordant Noise to the Game following the orders of Belial, a powerful Demon that seeks to overthrow Alice and take control of Los Angeles.

With Belial defeated, the demonic Noise eradicated, and the week won, Silver starts fading away, revealed to be only a major Noise given human flesh through unknown powers. Due to this, Jordan once more disqualifies Sarah from reaching the real world, and forces her to fight once more, this time without any help, guaranteeing Sarah's ultimate erasure.

### The Last Week

This time, Sarah receives help in the form of Liliande abandoning her role as a reaper to help her. Although she still suspects that Liliande has some things to hide - and in fact, has a second personality - Sarah accepts her help, and the pair challenges a variety of trials inspired by Melinda S. Carter, a benevolent yet bloodthirsty Game Master, quickly understanding that they are being sabotaged.

After a variety of trials, including the return of August, witnessing of a strange corruption among Reapers, and a confrontation with Melinda, Sarah and Liliande challenge and defeat Jordan during the last day. Despite that, however, they are unable to save Los Angeles as it is deemed unclean by Angels - superior beings that overwatch the city - and is destroyed. Sarah returns through time, using Liliande's investigation to instead find a strange throne room under the city's Historic Core.

### The Very Last Day

There, they meet with Lilibeth Evershire, Liliande's sister, and Sarah learns that the Game is a bet between the two sisters to determine who will truly inherit the title of Composer, and what will happen to the city; and that the two of them together form "Alice". Before Sarah can react, a shadow emerges from her and stabs Lilibeth; Belial had survived by turning himself into a virus and infecting Sarah, in hopes to kill the Composer. Sarah defeats Belial, but even then, the city is deemed unclean by Angels and destroyed.

Going back through time once more, Sarah enters the Dissonance, encountering Jolene and Silver once more, and teams up with them to find the real culprit behind Los Angeles's corruption. There, they find Johnny and challenge him to a formidable fight, defeating him, only to learn that Johnny is not the culprit, but instead a guardian angel sent to watch over Los Angeles and Sarah, after the mysterious disparition of Jenna, revealed to be both Gaseous Snake and Los Angeles's previous composer.

Johnny gives enough advice for Sarah to finally find the real culprit; Jordan himself. The Conductor, showing his true color as a fallen Angel who taught Belial the art of demon-summoning and corrupted his own Reapers to attract the angels' ire, professes that the city needs to be cleansed, and challenges Sarah and her companions one last time. Sarah defeats him by breaking through Alicization, returning to her former self as a multiversal entity, and saves Los Angeles, winning the Game and defeating this trial from her past.

## Characters

* Sarah Duncan
* Jolene Powell
* Silver Noachia
* Liliande Evershire
* Lilibeth Evershire
* Graham Jordan
* Ethan Owens
* Cool Johnny
* Melinda S. Carter
* July Conway
* August Conway
* Jenna Fairfax
* Vanara Luka
* Belial
* Other The World characters

## Trivia

* This Storyline is directly inspired by, and serves as an extension to, the **The World Ends With You** series.