The Meadow

> DIS ISNT A SKOOL DIS IS DA MEDOW BTIHCES! THUG LYFE!!!!!!!!
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> Epona Amy, Christmas Crossover 2015

**The Meadow** was a key location to the Alpha Roleplay Universe, serving as the Core that the Outer Ring Dimensions circled. It resembled a field of grass with a single teenaged oak tree and a foot-high birch wood stage where time is frozen.

## History

The Meadow first came into existence with *Christmas Crossover 2012*, the first crossover event, as a bridge between the three active universes at that time (the *Harry Potter* Roleplay Dimension, the *EarthBound* Roleplay Dimension, and the *Genderswapped Nations* Dimension) where the characters met one of their creators for the first time. The characters were all abandoned in the Meadow after they threatened Panda with violence for making their lives imperfect, where it was discovered that Ness's PK Teleport didn't work in this area. It was determined that the only way that the characters could leave was if one of them sacrificed their energy to Ariana's dark magic portal, which opened doors to their individual dimensions and brought them home without any issue (except for Poo, who died after giving his energy to the portal). This established the space not only as the medium between dimensions, but as a dimension that defies the rules of the dimensions surrounding it.
It would later make an unexpected reappearance as the setting of *Christmas Crossover 2015*'s "introlue". It was the space in which Holland Trees, joined by Epona Amy, Makoto Naegi, Kyouko Kirigiri, Byakuya Togami, and Kiyotaka Ishimaru brought the main characters from each plotline before them and solved their problems for them. This is where it's (repeatedly) established that this is a dimension that exists behind the "fourth wall" of the roleplay dimensions and that it is not, in fact, a school environment.

Its final appearance was in *Christmas Crossover 2017: My Darling Crossover*, where it was given its customary use as a common space between dimensions. The Interdimensional Council of Interdimensional Affairs repeat Ariana's dark magic ritual (sacrificing D'ark Yagami in the process) in an attempt to solve the universal weirdness caused by Kitmo's newfound absence as a creator, sending all of the characters in every Outer Ring Dimension into The Meadow. The characters are trapped here once again as Kitmo isn't around to greet them as she did in the 2012 special, and because it's shown that the characters can't die or feel pain in The Meadow, the ICIA members are forced to reveal their secret identities in order to enter the Death Cycle and investigate the structural problems within the universe. N, Galaco, Matt, Evie Alden, and Nagito Komaeda combine their Mary-Sue/reality warping might in order to investigate this same problem, but after using all of their power at once in an attempt to escape the satellite dimensions inhabiting the space between The Meadow and the Outer Ring, they alter the fabric of the universe and permanently destroy The Meadow, scattering all of its inhabitants into the surrounding satellite dimensions.

In *Christmas Crossover 2020: The Re-Reckoning*, it can be inferred that the reason behind the disintegration of the Outer Ring Dimensions in the Alpha Universe was linked to the destruction of The Meadow, which was the keystone of the Universe's layout.