DW/Plot & Lore

## Plot Summaries (1/20)

### Main Arc (1/16)

* 13 episodes (mimicking a suit of cards + idk how much content I can churn out).
	+ Episodes 1-7: solving the mystery behind Divina Alcaraz's death and trying to locate the Genie
	+ Episodes 8-13: rescuing John Darrow from the Genie's clutches and stopping it from enslaving the timeline
* Episodes 1 and 2 are a two-parter, introducing the four mains and the general plot
* EPISODE 1:
	+ Castiel is a journalist and goes to the lab where the "accident" (Divina's death) occurs and sneaks his way inside
	+ Arlene is trying to flee from the lab, and Castiel comes across her and tries to ask her questions
	+ Castiel enters the room where the accident occurred and spots John (as an alien, idk who yet) fighting with Jean and others
	+ Castiel attempts to help and is tossed around. John hands him the Royaltrix Mark II suggesting if he's going to help, he needs to be prepared
	+ John and Castiel versus Jean and others ensues
	+ John takes the Mark II off of Castiel and promptly leaves
	+ Arlene helps Castiel out of the lab and provides a lore drop on Divina, the experiments, and her surviving brother Julian
	+ Julian is seen committing petty crimes around town out of grief
	+ John briefly encounters Julian and fights him, learning of his connection with Divina and is triggered by memories of loss (his fiancé Drake)
	+ Castiel calls Julian at this time and asks that they meet for brunch the following morning, and John overhears this and is intrigued
	+ Last scene of the episode shows Jean, Wynch, etc. mentioning the Genie and that Jean has made "a wish."
	+ Castiel uses Necromaster and John uses Bootstrap to look at how Divina died and what happened
	+ Arlene vs. Jean, Julian vs. the rest of the group
	+ Castiel gets attacked and is near death
	+ John's connection to the Genie is manipulated by the Genie who wishes for Castiel to live
	+ The Royaltrix Mark II self-destructs as a result of prolonged usage of Wild Card, and John gets wish-cursed
* Castiel gains the Wishborn empowerment for his arsenal of aliens, while John is "gone" and his aliens are too
* Episodes 12 and 13 are also a two-parter:
	+ Arlene uses the Tempus stopwatch to go into John's personal timeline to rescue him; Arlene vs. Jean part 2
	+ Julian masters his cryomancy powers by strengthening his connection to Divina
	+ Castiel and John merge and gain access to Necropunk, a fusion between Necromaster and Timepunk
	+ Wishborn Timepunk creates a new timeline (Timepunk) by transferring everyone's souls (Necromaster) into it

### Character Arcs (1/16)

#### Castiel Latham

* Learning and growing as a person, trying to find reasons for his existence and moving forward from his tumultuous upbringing.
* Accepting his queer identity.

#### John Darrow

* Fulfilling his mission of wiping out the Genie and trying to successfully save this timeline, unlike his own.
* Finding love again (Castiel).

#### Julian Alcaraz

* Seeking justice for his sister, Divina's, suffering and consequent death at the hands of the Genie.
* Finding a purpose in life again after disbanding from the Syndicate.

#### **Arlene Henderson**

* Reconciling with her twin brother, Jean, who has become obsessed and corrupted by searching for the Genie.
* Discovering her new purpose in life (lab technician -> time traveler).

### Background Stuff

* Multiversal creature in a womb-like apparatus named the Genie tries to impose wishes on people at their most vulnerable states (i.e., resuscitate people on the brink of death). Those who make wishes with it henceforth feed it until it is able to be "birthed."
	+ Upon being born, the Genie is able to possess any host that has made a wish with it and enslave other members of said race via psychic connection.
* Person (we'll call him John Doe) from the same timeline as the Genie tried to fight it/its species. John transferred the Genie embryo into this series' timeline to save his home universe and "kill off" the Genie's species, but eventually it turned out futile. John eventually comes into this timeline to right his wrongs, but doesn't know where to begin.
	+ John has a transformation device that works akin to a playing card deck (i.e., maximum of five aliens randomly shuffled). Said transformations are a mix of previously used fan aliens and canon aliens.
* The Genie began to influence and genocide entire alien civilizations, including the ten alien species in the transformation device. The Genie was able to procreate as a result of wiping out populations, resulting in the current Genie embryo that has its eyes set on the Sol System/Earth.
* Years later, the deuteragonist Julian's mutant sister, Divina, made contact with the Genie through unknown means. The Genie tried to prematurely take over her body, resulting in a catastrophic incident where she died and killed all but two of a group of extraterrestrial scientists. Her body is later placed into a sort of stasis for further study.
	+ Said two scientists include the tritagonist Arlene's twin brother. Both of them become obsessed with the idea of finding the Genie and eventually form a group of five individuals searching for its location.
* John tries searching for the Genie in order to wipe it out permanently, stumbling across the various civilizations it has ruined. He creates the transformation device as a way of restoring DNA to revive said populations while also noting its potential utilization against the Genie.
	+ John finds himself on Earth and goes to the location where Divina's incident occurs. He tries to use Stopwatch to rewind time and figure out what happened, and discovers she had contact with the Genie. He then makes contact with Castiel and Julian who try to find her body in preservation. He notices Castiel's potential and gives him the transformation device before setting off to find the Genie.