Rydia Universe (property)

The **Rydia Universe** was a short-lived property and cancelled comic book series based on the life of a boy named Rydia Portu. It was also the precursor to what would eventually become the Spekktrumverse property/IP. Most material on it was lost to time, however you can still read some of the pages on certain characters or events through the old wiki:

https://idow373-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Rydia\_Universe\_Wiki

The IP was dissolved due to writing that was subpar at best, as well as some copyright infringement. However, several characters would remain and remade into SCU characters, notably Rydia Piotro, Jacqueline Doyle, Kaden Henderson, Savix Vance and Sarah Vallya - albeit with major changes.

Rydia Universe was mostly a collaborative property, which allowed for anyone to make their character 'canon' simply by creating a new wiki page on the site. This idea was abandoned due to concerns of copyright infringement. The property was maintained by a then 14-15 year old Kris.

## Plot

Rydia Universe was focused on the life of a boy named Rydia Portu. He happened to be a god with the power to create pretty much anything but was still susceptible to injuries. At just 15 years old, he created his own *entire universe* from scratch but in which the only parts the audience ever got to see was a small town in which literally every major event took place... for some reason.

The plot had no real structure to it, things just happened randomly to the main characters which the audience would then see how they react. At one point, the plot devolved into complete chaos when characters from the popular webcomic Homestuck and from the video game Undertale started to appear along with many other characters from popular fiction.

Around half the cast were either near omnipotent or omnipotent gods and similar, which made fights extremely boring and hard to get through due to it devolving into essentially a pissing contest between each character over who had the most powerful abilities or who could steal the most power from other characters. Though many of this was to be expected as the only writers were 13-15 year olds.

## Changes

Despite the IP being cancelled, some characters were able to make it into Petremay. This page lists all the changes between the versions of the characters.

* Rydia was originally going to be Jacqueline's sister. Jacqueline's name was also originally going to be Saiou Portu with Rydia's last name being changed to Portu as well. Jacqueline was originally only supposed to be colorblind as well, though this not only was harder to write but also almost never came up in-story so it was eventually changed to total blindness. Jacqueline's personality was surprised kept mostly the same however, the main differences being that Jacqueline was given a much more interesting personality in Petremay. Jacqueline also originally wore green and dark magenta clothes rather than pink and black.
* Rydia was originally going to be a 15 year old boy. Eventually they were changed to be a young adult women in Petremay so that it would make more sense in the story (unsurprisingly you can't be a mayor at 15 years old, and Rydia sounded like a girl's name.) Rydia also originally wore a red hoodie with black stripes on it, this didn't really make sense and looked bad so it was scrapped. Rydia was also originally going to be an omnipotent god, but she was eventually changed to be a normal human without any powers.
* Savix was originally going to be an alternate universe version of Rydia who was just simply an evil version of Rydia who happened to be a demon. Savix was also originally ungodly powerful and had the ability to take away/steal people's powers, this was completely scrapped. Savix also originally wore a grey hoodie and went barefoot, but this was eventually changed to him wearing a black hoodie and boots.
* Kaden Henderson was originally named Tim Shadowheart. This name was almost kept in fact, but it was changed at last minute as without the originally context it just sounded too edgy. Kaden was also originally never meant to be humanoid at all, he was originally going to be a literally purple ball of energy with white eyes attached on, this was scrapped due to the fact that the design was too simplistic. Kaden was also originally not meant to be a villain, and was supposed to be a protagonist. Pretty much everything else about his character made it into the final version though, including the fact that he could shapeshift.
* Sarah was originally going to be an evil queen ruling over her own universe. This was eventually changed to her being an evil queen of a separate town in the main universe, but then it was changed *again* to her being an evil queen in a separate universe with the main universe version of her being mostly an innocent girl. She was also changed to be 20 years old from 16 years old in the evil queen universe so that it would make more sense, while the main universe version of her is still 16. Sarah was also originally supposed to be a human-cat anthro hybrid (also known as a furry/neko in internet culture) but was eventually changed to be a normal human.