Downtown

– **Dexter** explaining **Downtown, California** to **Max Tennyson**.

**Downtown** is a sprawling metropolis near the border of California and Nevada, created by Dexter and his company, DexLabs. It is the current setting of the **Lover's Stadium series**, starting with **Season 4.5 (Lover's Stadium: Bears Like This)**. It has since become the home for several cartoons and significant characters such as **The Necro Crew**, **Sapphire Blackwood**, and others.

## **Population**

### **Classic Continuity/Integrated Timeline**

Downtown's population is 45,000 and counting.

### **Necro Continuity/Future Imperfect Timeline**

Prior to Necro Milo's destruction of Planet Earth, Downtown boasted a population of 2.1 million.

## **Climate**

As Downtown is on the border of both Nevada and California, it has an enjoyable climate. Due to the city being in the desert, Downtown has a dry heat, but due to it being close to Los Angeles, temperatures don't reach above 85 degrees, even during the summer. However, because of the dry heat, there is a cool breeze more often than not, leading to Downtown residents wearing jackets or sweaters more than shorts and short-sleeve shirts.

Downtown receives all seasons, including winter, which does come with snow. Interestingly, it only snows at night and never during the day. This is because, during the day, the temperatures typically are between 65 degrees and 85 degrees, as mentioned above. Due to the city being in the desert, its nights are cooler than most, which it shares with Las Vegas. Typical nights in Downtown reach 40 or 50 degrees, with a few instances of temperatures of 30 degrees.

## **Education System**

As Dexter was a scholar by trade, he wanted Downtown to have prestigious schools available to everybody. There are two colleges in Downtown which are equally crucial to the city.

The first college is a liberal arts school named The Kyoshi Conservatory of the Arts (often shortened to Kyoshi Arts), which boasts strong film, creative writing, and digital art programs. Their school mascot is a Panda Fox with a basketball team called The Roaring Foxes. Kyoshi Arts is a highly prestigious art school that ranks in the upper echelon of school rankings along with high rankings for most students with jobs after college and is a public school.

The second college is a STEM-based school called The Qui-Gon Institute of Science and Technology (often shortened to QG Science or QG Tech), which houses several different programs that are all equally impressive. They are the country's leading school in Bioengineering and Chemistry. Numerous advancements in technology and science have come from this school, and it has a football program that is D1. Their mascot is an Ewok, and their football team is called The Raging Ewoks.

Outside of college, Downtown has two high schools and two elementary schools. The high schools are Toph High School, which has an outlandish pro-bending team, and Hamada Technical High (or Hamada Tech), which has an excellent robotics program. The elementary schools are Mufasa Elementary and Claudius Elementary.

## **History**

The beginnings of Downtown can be traced to 2022, when DexLabs had earned enough capital for Dexter to purchase land in California. He bought land near The Mojave National Preservation, which he did intentionally as he learned of the **Integrated Timeline** and **The Necro Crew**. Dexter planned to create a central hub for the heroes to gather and work together to improve the world. His idea was realized whenever he saw that his counterpart had done it in an alternative timeline but to a less significant effect, as that version of Dexter did it too late as Earth was already lost.

Dexter started construction of Downtown shortly after purchasing the land and finished it shortly after meeting with The Necro Crew during their hunt for Sapphire Blackwood. With this newfound city, Dexter invited many friends to help cultivate the town and their shared ideals of a better society. This led to KND, Secret Saturdays, The Plumbers, and more coming. To further his hope for a perfect city, Dexter refused to take any governmental position and allowed Downtown's citizens to vote, leading to Mayor Wes Green.

## **Notable Locations & Landmarks**

Downtown is a large city, so it is broken up into sections, with each area serving its purposes. The sections are Sector V, City Station, Tech Square, Offworld Plaza, Heroes Hallow, Eternal Vistas, Orchid Bay, and Bravo Beach. While Downtown has no natural beaches, DexLabs created their own "pseudo-beaches," allowing the city to be on the coast.

The beach ends at the state line between Nevada and California. Interestingly, while it should be expensive to live Downtown, it relatively isn't. Most rents range between $600-800, and houses/townhomes/brownstones here typically cost under $300,000.

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 **McDuffie Plaza(underneath Eternal Vistas)** | * Right underneath Eternal Vistas on the map is the McDuffie Plaza. As Ben 10 is an intergalactic hero and The Plumbers are somewhat known but still a governmental secret, the alien has become accustomed to aliens. These situations resulted in Dexter, who wanted to promote galactic peace, creating a spaceport on Earth for allied aliens to come and visit Earth, free of xenophobia. The Plumbers, specifically Max Tennyson, run it in his spare time. While humans can use the spaceport, they are forced to go through intergalactic customs, get a visa from the allied planet they are going to, and more to get off-world through the spaceport.

## **Notable Inhabitants**

* The Secret Saturdays
	+ Doc Saturday
	+ Drew Saturday
	+ Zak Saturday
	+ Fiskerton
	+ Komodo
	+ Zon
* The Necro Crew
	+ Milo
	+ Xiao
	+ Raymond
	+ Talula
	+ Sarah
	+ Sapphire Blackwood
* The Plumbers
	+ Max Tennyson
	+ Mayor Wes Green
* Juniper Lee
* DexLabs
	+ Dexter
	+ Computeress
	+ Dee Dee
* Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
	+ Bloo
	+ Mac
	+ Wilt
	+ Edwardo
	+ Coco
	+ Frankie Foster
* KND West
	+ Numbuh 5
	+ Numbuh 3
	+ Numbuh 2
* Flynn's Arcade
	+ Kevin Flynn
	+ Sam Flynn
	+ Quorra
* The Incredibles
	+ Mr. Incredible
	+ Elastigirl
	+ Dash Parr
	+ Violet Parr

## **Trivia**

* Downtown was inspired by FusionFall.
* Dexter's idea of creating a city like Downtown was derived from the Star Trek franchise but in Lover's Stadium, it is a possible future that Dexter saw.
* Seemingly, the legal age to drive is 16 in Downtown as Violet Parr can drive.
* Creative-wise, Downtown is a more utopian concept of a city that Morpheus created called Cilvia City, set around the same location that Downtown is set.
* ***McDuffie Plaza*** is a reference to Dwayne McDuffie; the reason behind why Morpheus writes and creates, along with being his role model and personal hero.
* Downtown is in an interesting position as it is surrounded by many fictional and non-fictional cities.
	+ It is one hour away from Las Vegas, three hours from Los Angeles, three hours from Bellwood, two hours from Genius Grove, one hour from Coolsville, and two hours from both Riverdale and Greendale respectively.