THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX

**THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX** is the 11th episode and series finale of The Nixonverse side-series, tying together all of the plotlines of The Nixonverse.

## Overview

### The Ed Dwight Paradox

The episode opens on a face with stern eyes, zooming out with text containing an audio transcript:

Ed Dwight (stern): *"I'm recording now. Tell me everything."*

The note from the autopsy report in NIXON IS GOD is shown, the one that reads "The following audio does not feature the voice of Ed Dwight." Meanwhile, the audio of Ed Dwight repeats, shifting in tone. Ed Dwight's face returns and tne last audio clip plays, with another audio transcript:

Ed Dwight (angry): *"I'm recording now. Tell me everything."*

The video cuts to white text coming on screen, reading "THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX"

### Alcatraz Checkmate

A chessboard fades in with a white knight in the middle of the board, on the D5 square. Below, text states "Queen to Knight." A black queen can be seen sliding towards the white knight from the top-right corner. The Queen can be heard speaking to the Knight, with text transcribing their conversation in broken english can be seen, although the Queen speaks english fluently.

Queen: *"I wonted wellcom themm. [I wanted to welcome them] I wonted wellcom alhl humens to kingdum. [I wanted to welcome all humans to our kingdom] We ahl culd bin grate togeter. [We could have been great together] We culd bin paecefull [We could have been peaceful] But invtiation met wiht pain. [But my invitation was met with pain] A brite burneng pain. [A bright burning pain]*

*"I shuld hav nkown. [I should have known] There intire wurld buidlt on ineqauelty. [Their entire world is built on inequality] Evn there paece eqaution is a inequality. [Even their peace equation is an inequality] Knight. Yuo arr now blind def and muut. [Knight. You are now blind, deaf, and mute] Yuo canot tayst or tuch. [You cannot taste or touch] As lung as you stay on erth. Kno sences well reeturn. [As long as you stay on Earth. None of your senses will return] But yuo cahn evrything bak. [But you can get everything back] Are profecy garantees thes. [Our prophecy guarantees this] Joyn are kingdum becum pryns. [Join our kingdom and become a prince] Rool alungside me. [Run alongside me] Rool wiht are king. [Rule with our king]."*

Knight: "*Theer is no profesy. Theer is onlee me."*

After the Queen finishes her proposal, the Knight moves, crossing over her and going upwards into the D7 square, attacking the Queen. As he makes his reply, a void is seen coming out of him, and an image of the United States is seen, with the void encompassing the entire continental U.S.

The video remains white, with text appearing, stating "Alcatraz Checkmate." The text scrolls, with more text explaining that "Alcatraz matter attacks Lunarian bodies and destroys cloud ships. Human languages restored after 9 months."

### Grief Made Him a Monster

The video cuts to a video of Dark Alaska. The video depicts The Last Son in his Crescent King form, on his hands and knees. An incredibly loud crying can be heard from The Last Son, alongside what appears to be a more humanlike set of sobs.

White text appears over the video, stating the following: "He will not stop crying." "He does not want to live."

The Last Son can then be seen looking up, before slowly rising to his feet and staring at the sky. The text then states "The Horned Serpent lives."

### Fictionalization

The video cuts to the moon, and slowly pans down to Richard Nixon, The Moon God, sitting down, facing away from the camera. He speaks, with a text transcript scrolling upwards:

*"There will be no physical altercation. I will not bring about an end like that of my own world. The only way to destroy the Crescent King is to render him as fiction. The same way your mythology and urban legends took power from gods and monsters. He will have no authority once no one believes he is real. I must also render myself as fiction. I have involved myself too deeply. Like your world, I will be a necessary sacrifice. No one will feel pain. No one will be killed. This world will be fictionalized."*

The video cuts again, this time to an image of a glowing figure like the Lunarian Queen. The image zooms out to reveal it is a comic book cover, with the text "Mister Manticore presents: The Nixonverse, Featuring The Last Son, The Knight, The Queen of the Lunarians, and much more!" The video fades to a zoomed shot of a bubble on the cover reading "$2.30, Art by Ed Dwight."

The video fades to the mirrored corpse on the autopsy report. As it zooms out, a speech plays.

*"Ed Dwight did not blast himself. It was a cover story. It was Nixon who killed Ed Dwight. He was no god. He was not even a man. Nixon was only one of many survivors. He did what we all secretly wish to do, but cannot. Nixon used his power to erase history. Nixon erased the past. Ed Dwight was twice the god that Nixon could ever be. He was bold. He was kind. He was good. In our world, Ed Dwight never went to the Moon. Instead, he creates monuments. In our world, Ed Dwight preserves the past."*

As the audio plays, images of Ed Dwight are shown, including him alongside his family, as well as him alongside one of his sculptures.

## Notes

### Avenues' Note

Thank you, Ed Dwight. Regards, the Avenues.

### Trivia

* The fictionalization of The Nixonverse appears to have had a real impact on The Monument Mythos itself. The Season 3 episode AFTERANGEL is seemingly produced by Dwight Comics, and a Dwight Comics Representative has appeared in the comments of multiple Monument Mythos Season 3 episodes.