Meadow Keynote

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Look out, reader! This article will contain serious spoilers for *ELEMENT*.

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The Mage

Eileen Keynote (mother, deceased)

Rose Terry (godmother, deceased)

Element Kingdom

Protector

Yellow and orange (during Part Two)

### Pre-Story

Meadow Rose Keynote was born August 8th, 10,000 years before the initial story, to Eileen and Peter Keynote. She was born four years after Cole Daley was adopted by the Keynotes as an infant, while they were under the impression they could not conceive. In a miraculous twist of time, Meadow is named after herself after appearing in the past at 10,016 years old, and becoming friends with Eileen and family friend Rose Terry. She is a twin to a stillborn sister, and born with a Celestial status. She is the first Celestial to live in millions of years.

Meadow's father, Peter, was an alchemist. Before Meadow was born, he ran experiments on Eileen's Element to try and make it possible for her to have children. This worked, but placed a curse on her. When Eileen gave birth to Meadow, she fell ill. Peter became obsessed with Meadow's Celestial status and began to plot a way to take over the kingdom using her powers and the enhancement of Cole's Element as well. When Amaranth Stonewing found out about this, however, Peter opted for the failsafe option and froze Meadow in a capsule of ice for 10,000 years, keeping him and Cole alive for just as long as she was, hiding until they were ready to return to the kingdom.

### ELEMENT: Part One

Meadow is first introduced under the alias "Experiment 193", as a guise to make readers think they are two separate characters. After the ice melts into semifluid matter, Meadow and Cole reunite. Cole informs Meadow of her part in the plan, and she sets off. She places a charm on the Light Emblem to incorrectly identify her as the third Light Element, stages a fight between Cole, his lackeys, and Sage and Ethan, stops Robin from interfering, and more. Over time, she becomes less inclined to betray the group, and instead starts trying to actually help them behind Peter's back. She is also being affected by the same curse that killed her mother.

When Meadow is abducted and taken to the palace dungeon, she is revealed to be Experiment 193 by Meridian, and learns that Harry sympathizes with her in a way. Cole arrives to rescue her, killing Amber Meridian in the crossfire.

Later when we return to Meadow's point of view, she's overtaken by the curse and is now under Peter's control along with Cole. Sage, Ethan and Robin fight to free them and stop Peter from blanketing the world in darkness. While Meadow's soul is in stasis, she meets the Mage.

Meadow is brought back from the curse after Sage is close to dying and performs a spell to save her. Then, when Meadow snaps Cole out of it, she helps the four of them kill Peter and becomes a queen of the Element Kingdom. The night of her coronation, the Mage begins to send Meadow visions.

In this part, Meadow is 10,015 years old and appears fifteen. She wears a black tank top and long denim pants. Her hair is shoulder level, and she has a signature widow's peak with two locks of hair framing her face. Before the curse is lifted, her skin is sickly pale and her eyes are black. Afterwards, she's less pale and her eyes are a slightly lighter brown.

### ELEMENT: Part Two

A year after she helped save the world, Meadow meets Quincy after her brother makes friends with them. However, this is where Meadow begins to hear "memories" somehow related to Quincy, as it is revealed later that the voice she's hearing is Rose Terry, his distant grandmother.

There's an upcoming eclipse, and Meadow and her friends plan to create a rainbow lightshow when the sun and the moon cross over. When this happens, Meadow doesn't get the chance to try--the sun and the moon collide directly into each other. Panic ensues, and it's heavily implied that Sage, Ethan, Robin and Quincy all die in this event. Meadow (perhaps involuntarily) travels back in time to stop the collision, pulling the moon off course and putting a barrier over the palace. The eclipse happens and Meadow adds the rainbow effect, but it's obvious to Cole that she's time traveled again. They have a short altercation, coming to an agreement, and then Meadow runs off with Robin to make chili bowls.

Later that same night, Meadow hears another voice, saying she isn't "normally this quiet". Then, she hears Cole calling for her and teleports to his location, sitting with him as they have a discussion. Meadow brings up the topic of her mother, asking questions. Cole explains that Eileen had five friends who had a hand in raising you, two of them being of importance--Rose Terry and the Meadow she was named after. He mentions that one disappeared, and one surely died, but memories at that point become hazy for him and he cannot specify. Meadow brings up the possibility of time traveling to meet her mother, and Cole argues against it. Meadow obliges him, saying she won't do it, but wordlessly goes against his warning. She finds the crowns made of the Light Emblem's gem pieces, and she can hear ghosts talking in the room for a moment--the Mage puts her hand on Meadow's shoulder despite hearing warnings from another ghost (presumably Paladin).

Meadow takes Sage, Ethan and Robin with her to "the root of the problem", a very vague target for her time travel escapade, which turns out to be days or weeks before Meadow is born 10,016 years ago. She arrives at the Keynote family home and meets Eileen, her mother, who isn't and will never become aware that Meadow is her daughter from the future, but always has that motherly intuition towards her. Meadow also meets Cole at four years old, and Peter from this point in time. He is kind and loving, a strong parallel from what Meadow always knew of him. She tries to steer clear of him. Meadow's presence causes an overlapping variable, causing Cole to remember Meadow in his old life. When she goes back, the two of them have a fight, and Meadow accidentally hurts him. She ends up leaving, and the two of them do not talk for several days.

It's at this point where Peter and Meadow interact one-on-one for the first time. Peter catches Meadow outside, but the conversation is distorted by Mage, who tells Meadow in a voice that sounds eerily similar to her own, that she "won't be there" and she'll have to "do it for her". While the meaning of this is unclear at this point, the distortion fades and Peter is really there to return an orange hair ribbon that was left behind, assuming it belongs to her, which it doesn't. It's revealed in Convergence III: Fulfillment in Becoming that this hair ribbon really belongs to Nick Althorne, who arrived there through multiverse travel.

After four days of time traveling and meeting up with the Keynotes, Meadow is asked by Sage if she'd seen Cole lately, to which she responds that she hadn't. With the knowledge that he'd gone missing, Meadow assembles her friends and goes to consult Quincy on his whereabouts. Together, the five of them go looking in the snowy forest, and find Cole deceased. Meadow again travels back to reverse these effects, to the last time Quincy saw Cole. She reconciles with him, and the events of that night is erased.

Nearing closer to the Exile, where Meadow is sure the answers will be, she becomes convinced that the Mage is directing her every move and sending her these visions, from what she can remember about meeting her. After meeting Rose Terry for the first time, the visions return in waves, visibly showing Rose running away from a destructive scene, and Meadow begins to believe Rose is the Mage. This is incorrect.

The day that Eileen dies of the curse and Peter destroys her soul, it is Meadow from the past's tenth birthday. Meadow, Sage, Ethan and Robin discover Peter's lab, and that he had been creating a Celestial soul using Meadow as a reference. Meadow destroys this, and when Peter discovers them downstairs, she freezes him in place and instructs everyone to leave, but not before she talks to him. After this, the next time Peter and Meadow interact, Peter does not remember what happened in the lab. Instead, he hears snippets of what Meadow said to him, and she starts to show her hostility a bit more.

The day of the Exile, Meadow and Cole are in town trying to avoid the house. Someone alerts Amaranth to the curse they harbor, and Amaranth declares that the two children and Peter must die, and everyone else must leave the kingdom. Sage, Ethan, Meadow, Robin and Rose are outside the house when buildings begin to collapse. People begin running past, and when Rose realizes what's happening, she retreats to her home. Visions and voices begin to swarm Meadow, and she claims that this isn't how it goes, and that something is not right. When the timeline begins to collapse and Sage, Robin and Ethan are being booted out, Meadow realizes that the Mage is missing, and should be consummating the Exile with her prophecy. As Meadow thinks on this for a moment, she comes to the realization that she is the Mage and runs to the palace to take her place. Sage and Ethan try to stop her, while Robin goes to the present to get Cole.

It is here in the palace that Meadow's story comes to an end--when Cole arrives in the palace, she tries to get him to leave, but to no avail. Regardless, she delivers the prophecy to Amaranth, who is angered by her. He assumes she's lying, and murders Cole in retaliation. Meadow fights back against him, killing guards and almost killing Amaranth, until he diverts her attention through manipulation, and kills her. Meadow and Cole then become ghosts, meeting Mage and Paladin and completing the time loop. As the old Mage and Paladin fade away into peace, the new ones take their place. Meadow becomes the protector of her universe as Mage, and begins the story all over again.

In this part of the story, Meadow is 10,016 and appears sixteen. Her hair is longer and she wears a purple jacket over differing clothes to cope with the everlasting cold feeling after leaving the ice. As the story progresses, her eyes become yellow and purple.

### Trivia

* Mage and Meadow are, at the same time, the same person and two completely different people.
* Meadow was the hardest character to name, and also the funniest. While being stuck on her name in July 2019, Spyret had a friend over whom they consulted over her name. The friend had no idea what to name her, but mentioned that her own middle name was Meadow. When Spyret had a first name, they stole her last name from an iOS application for presentations called "Keynote'".
* Meadow's lore, backstory and all worldbuilding surrounding her (excluding the Mage arc) was written before the story of *Element*.
* Meadow was originally a Light Element, but was changed in the private rewrite to make more sense of the story.