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i consider the corrivality.
i wonder how numbers tend to play out? the colonel is of veterancy and experience, the lionsmith of heroism. both would imply lower numbers. But the colonel is a soldier (to be regimented, there must be regiments), and the lionsmith a smith (and so would make many of his trade), both would imply to me higher numbers.
How do numbers play in the corrivality?
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What Does the Colonel Do?
Hey everyone!
The New Year holiday has passed, and congratulations to all on that occasion! Today, we are suddenly diving into a search for deeper meaning and logic where there might be none, as well as exploring all sorts of intricacies and twists within the Colonel’s web. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In short, I once came across a rather interesting headcanon from the esteemed @rin-henricov, suggesting that Stork buys illegal parts from the Colonel - parts that are impossible to obtain legally on Atmos. At first, this seemed a bit strange to me: why would certain parts suddenly become illegal, and why would they be completely unobtainable through any other means? After all, this is the world of Atmos, and spare parts should theoretically be almost a necessity. But, of course, such seemingly oddities only make one wonder why this might be the case. Today, we will try to figure out the Colonel’s activities on Atmos and how Atmos might have ended up in this state. Without wasting any more time, let’s go!
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So, let’s start with what we know well about this, let’s say, gentleman:
Piper calls our current subject a “mega-gangster,” which specifically points us toward organized crime activities, particularly the mafia, whose records include trading various contraband, extortion, and sometimes even dual authority. In other words, it becomes clear from the very first second that the hero of our discussion is far from a good guy.
However, at this point, a situation arises where an elephant walks into the room, and ignoring it is simply no longer possible:
What’s wrong here, you might ask? Well, how should I put it… Everything?
I think I don’t need to comment on what our current hero did to Junko. And… well, let’s say if someone else had done the same thing, like Master Cyclonis, for instance, our heroes certainly wouldn’t be standing there with guilty looks on their faces, justifying that they didn’t actually mean to do anything like that. Forget our heroes! If the Colonel is far from a good guy, surely someone on Atmos would have a grudge against him - perhaps some law enforcement agencies, for example. But neither our heroes, nor the other Sky Knight squadrons, nor Cyclonia, nor even the Raptors, seem to want to do anything about him. And this raises a very serious question: where did the Colonel get such immunity? How did it come to be that all of Atmos sits quietly and tolerates him while he conducts his obviously not-so-benevolent business?
To resolve this clearly paradoxical situation, I suggest we take a closer look at Atmos - it is, after all, an uneasy place.
Is the Colonel a Mediator Between Free Atmos and Cyclonia?
I think the statement above needs no further explanation. On Earth, when two countries are at war, relations between them usually deteriorate sharply, and all interactions - with each other and with many other countries - become very difficult. Therefore, they often have to resort to the services of various individuals like our subject today. But that’s Earth, where there are plenty of states and opportunities. On Atmos, everything is quite different: there are only two centers of power - Free Atmos and Cyclonia - and assuming they are completely self-sufficient and in no way dependent on each other would probably be somewhat naive.
Without delving too deeply into the details, we can note the following: In the episode “Age of Heroes Part 2,” we can see containers of donuts being delivered to Cyclonia.
And in the episode “Five Days,” Master Cyclonis has a device in her office that looks very similar to the accelerator from the episode “Velocity.” Snipe also seems to be acting as some kind of storekeeper here.
One could certainly doubt the demonstrative nature of both examples, but overall, this gives us the right to suggest that Cyclonia purchases food supplies from Free Atmos, and Free Atmos, in turn, acquires technology.
In this scenario, both the Colonel’s strange immunity across all factions and the headcanon from @rin-henricov fit into this hypothesis without any particular issues: no one has an incentive to eliminate a useful intermediary or to conflict with him unnecessarily. Therefore, they might allow him certain, let’s say, liberties, and the fact that some spare parts might be supplied illegally also ceases to be an immediate question: how is that possible?
However, this same hypothesis also excellently explains how guys like the Murk Raiders can afford to maintain a fleet of three ships whose firepower is not inferior to Cyclonian battleships…
…and also where they got that advanced sonar…
…but that’s a completely different story. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s all for today. As usual, I am not claiming to be the ultimate truth; I am just writing about what was shown in our favorite show. Thank you all for your attention, and see you soon!
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“Um, Sir, I believe it’s, ‘no substance.’”
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ALTColonel – Part 3
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4
(With thanks to @sugar–brown for proofreading!)
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“We made Peter Walter III a Colonel at 20” you fucked up a perfectly good homosexual is what you did. look at him. he has trauma.
panel from part 2 under the cut!
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WASSERPFLANZEN WOLFF - Nymphaea 'Colonel A. J. Welch' - fertig im PFLANZKORB - Seerose, gelb - winterhart
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Man Dressed as Colonel Sanders Taunts Japanese Dodgers Pl…
A goateed man in a white go well with and black bow-tie stole the highlight behind dwelling plate throughout Game 2 of the World Series, and it wasn’t only for his classic Kentucky Fried Chicken look.
The mysterious fan, dressed like Colonel Harland Sanders himself, was noticed gesturing and playfully heckling members of the Los Angeles Dodgers, notably the group’s Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani,…
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This is the only moment we see Krailert genuinely smile, and it’s also the most human he looks in the entire episode. I wonder why. Does he really enjoy writing about music that much?
That would make sense since it seems like playing the piano is the only way he can express his true emotions. Or maybe he enjoys the intellectual sparring with Sarasawadee.
I can’t wait to find out if he knows who his ‘opponent’ is. And if he does, his smile might have an entirely different meaning.
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Both Colonel’s forms in Mega Man X DiVE. Too bad Thug Colonel wasn’t playable.
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Nomadverse character batch 1
This post will go over some random characters from the multiverse that have been impacted by the gods in the Pantheon. This can manifest in several ways:
- They got displaced from their original world against their will (something Atlas is the most common culprit for doing).
- A god chooses to intervene in their world’s story in some way.
- A god chooses to claim them as a follower, which depending on the god can cause physical or mental changes along with getting new powers.
- They encounter a god that has chosen to enter their universe for a more casual visit or otherwise didn’t come in with the intention of actively changing anything (less like to make them a noteworthy variant, but can still change characters depending on how strongly the god reacts to them).
- Or they end up encountering someone who was more directly impacted by the actions of the gods. This is usually in the form of either followers coming into universes or travelers coming in to either visit or try to change something.
Note: This whole idea started off as just me wanting to create a scenario where I can kind of play around with the versions of characters I’ve seen in other creators’ fanworks and fanfics and I wasn’t sure if I’d ever actually show it to other people. I don’t really know how to navigate this sort of situation and for the most part the focus will be on the Pantheon of gods with these characters serving mostly as side stories or just a way to bolster the numbers of groups outside of a handful that are important to the plot due to them closely interacting with the gods in ways that impact the main part of the story. For now I’m just gonna try and make the stories into more vague or generalized versions of themselves in case some of the creators don’t want their own works explicitly featured here. I’m mostly saying this because some of the works I had made ideas for have very uncommon plots to have in the fandom and I wanted to make it clear that I didn’t make the stories for any of the characters’ origin worlds myself, I only made the storylines they go through after a god or traveler has interacted with their origin world.
- Nomad
-Character type: 2012 Leo, origin world is set after the season 4 finale but doesn’t include any season 5 content
-World Origin: Was Donnie and Mikey centric, with the storyline basically following the idea that the family dynamic is too dysfunctional (with it being more emphasized that Leo and Raph’s behaviors are depicted as particularly abusive both emotionally and physically) which leads to Donnie and Mikey running away. While Leo and Raph are depicted with sympathetic qualities where it’s clear that they are troubled (Leo becomes depressed after it sets in that Donnie and Mikey chose to leave for so long and they aren’t in danger and may not be coming back, while Raph becomes progressively more self-destructive due to not knowing how to handle his feelings with the dynamics with the people in his life being disrupted so much), they are both still largely framed as the main antagonists and end up being depicted as deserving it or bringing it upon themselves as they lose basically all the connections they had with their allies during their attempts to find their younger brothers, and they are both framed as incompetent on their own.
-How the gods changed things: Is one of Atlas’ earliest cases of displacing someone, and unlike most who are taken by surprised or otherwise tricked into walking into a portal at the last second, Nomad just had the portal appear near him when he felt like his whole life was irreparably broken. Figuring he had nothing to lose anymore and that everyone would be better off if something bad happened to him, he went in. He ended up in a artificially made universe that was basically a hub for various Mikeys across the multiverse to meet up and help each other through their struggles from their home universes. The creator of this artificial universe, a 2012 Mikey with genius level intellect, made Nomad a device called a Portable Dimension Tunneller (PDT for short) so he could get home, but Nomad instead decided that he’d try to find a new purpose by travelling around the multiverse and helping people change their stories for the better. He thinks no one back home will really care that he’s gone, especially since he now has a extremely self-depreciating view of himself, so he avoids his home universe and any unaltered copies of it like the plague.
-Status: Actively travelling around the multiverse. Heavily important to story (obviously, the multiverse scenario is named after him after all).
-Appearance: Goes from wearing a mask to having blue face paint (the mask is now tied around a small section of his waist belt). Has a slightly ragged looking hooded cape that is a blue-gray color. Has his PDT on his wrist most of the time. Carries around a brown satchel bag that was gifted to him by a multiversal god so it has unlimited space. Has some new additions on his belts that allow him to carry more visible weapons, and his katanas are kept on the side of his waist belt. Everything else is from his original outfit that he wore when he left his universe, but it all looks messier and more worn out.
-Personality/Behavior Change: Outwardly, he comes across as being cheerful, albeit a bit reckless and impulsive. He also tends to confuse people by acting friendly but being avoidant of forming proper friendships and expresses not wanting to settle in any one spot. He’s also rather forgiving when it comes to villainous or antagonistic versions of characters that are usually heroes in the main iterations of the universes (the canon iterations in the TMNT franchise), he knows what they did is wrong but wants to give them a chance to do better by giving them the option to no longer be trapped in a world that defines them by their mistakes despite the risks that come from letting them free upon the multiverse. His biggest value is freedom, which is a large part of how the DPTs got turned into a widespread piece of technology. Internally, his self-esteem is extremely low and he’s convinced that if anyone spends too much time around him they’ll inevitably come to hate him, he’s so reckless with his own life because he thinks no one at home wants him to return and he started his travels feeling like he had no reason left to live and was simply persisting until something kills him, as time goes on his feelings become more complicated.
2. Taiyo
-Character type: 2012 Mikey, set after season 4 finale but doesn’t include any season 5 content, he was in his early adult years before his world had any interactions with the wider multiverse.
-World Origin: A story where all of Mikey’s brothers weren’t able to handle their emotions in the aftermath of Splinter’s death and slowly left the lair one by one within about a year, leaving Mikey to live there alone with only Ice Cream Kitty for company. He became depressive and experiences some traumatic things while still trying to fight crime. His world gets thrown off its intended course at about the second year mark.
-How the gods changed things: Atlas decided to drop a 2012 Leo from a different universe into Taiyo’s universe. Taiyo saves this Leo by catching him as he was falling from the sky, though aside from giving him a place to stay Taiyo isn’t equipped to actually help him get home. Instead, this Leo, despite struggling with his own troubling situation back home, notices that Taiyo doesn’t really take care of himself and starts to do chores, bond with Ice Cream Kitty to make her less lonely, and even attempts to learn how to cook just because otherwise he would feel bad about not doing anything to actually help. This effort helps pull Taiyo out of his depression and the two more or less adopt each other with Taiyo being this Leo;s (who gets the nickname ‘Hoshi’) older brother since this Leo’s about 17 while Taiyo is in his mid 20s. While it is a odd shift to get used to, Hoshi does eventually start embracing a healthy balance of helping support Taiyo while also getting to act his age instead of being a pseudo-parent. Hoshi’s presence also leads to several tragedies to be averted and for Rocksteady and Bebop to be added to their small found family situation. Ultimately Taiyo was approached with a deal by Atlas and was forced to comply since otherwise the antagonists of the story would’ve been able to blow up the lair which Taiyo is now much more determined to protect than in the intended course of the story, resulting in him becoming one of Atlas’ Arch Angels.
-Status: One of Atlas’ Arch Angels, but still lives in his original universe and is trying to hide his status as a follower of a multiversal god from his loved ones. Has to leave his home universe for missions Atlas sends him on. He’s one that I like, but isn’t terribly important to story.
-Appearance: Normal appearance is obviously a little taller due to being a adult, is also slightly rougher and more muscular than the typical 2012 Mikey. He now wears a long black mask with the tips fading into a red-orange color, the rest of his gear also leans towards almost being black. When he’s in his Arch Angels form he gains a mark in his right eye that is a red sun that is in a similar line style as a pentagram, his halo is a round red and more cartoonish looking sun with the center being a circle and the rays being detached triangles around the circle’s edges, his wings are detached from his body and are primarily black with the tips of the feathers fading into a red-orange color but otherwise look like a bird’s wings, also has red sun markings on his palms.
-Follower powers: Can completely erase things, both physical objects and messing with a person’s mind. He can do this either by directly touching the object/person, or he can apply it in a long-range form by manifesting balls of glowing red energy that he can direct towards a target.
-Personality/Behavior Change: He’s mostly diverged in that he isn’t as depressed as he would’ve become had things gone down their intended path, but he’s still prone to feeling he needs to internalize his negative emotions despite having others around. He also dislikes when anyone tries to alter his current life situation, especially when it comes to travelers saying that Hoshi doesn’t belong with him and he should be trying to get Hoshi back home, which results in him being aggressive. When around Hoshi and the few others he accepts in his inner circle he acts like a slightly more matured 2012 Mikey, in addition to acting more like a big brother to Hoshi. When he’s on missions as a Arch Angel, he is aggressive and focused on trying to get the mission done, he’s not sadistic and very rarely ever takes enjoyment in hurting others, but he also won’t go against Atlas or his fellow Arch Angels.
3. Colonel
-Character type: 2012 Mikey, is from a bad future based on SAINW so he is a middle-aged adult.
-World Origin: Since he already had a nickname that is used, I’m confirming that he’s from 'His Father’s War’ by Takashidaimao on fanfiction.net.
-How the gods changed things: Butch and a 2012 Leo (who will end up getting the nickname 'Ace’) from a different universe got displaced by Atlas and got dropped off in Colonel’s bad future world. Ace was the first one and struggled to adapt due to the events from his own world making him wary of trusting a version of Mikey with a leadership position and hating that he’s a teenager amongst a bunch of adults that look down on him a bit since he didn’t grow up in the dystopic future. It didn’t help that Colonel misguidedly wanted to try and protect Ace by keeping him out of the war effort since it isn’t Ace’s world and thus he shouldn’t have to be sucked into the conflict if it can be avoided, but eventually they did talk it out with Ace explaining the situation that had been happening at his home universe and Colonel agreeing to let Ace help out so long as he’s careful. About a year after Ace arrived, Butch got dropped into this universe and ended up having to also find shelter with Colonel’s rebels, and Butch was arguably worse than Ace due to him not even wanting to help nor being willing to listen to anybody due to some unclear irritation he wouldn’t name the cause of. At least until a event that no one else knows about caused Butch to suddenly seem to accept his current situation more and express a sense of guilt that Colonel struggled to try and get him to talk about (Colonel is a bit bad at emotions now, so is Butch). As the years go on Colonel basically emotionally adopts Ace and Butch as his kids (though he will deny this if it is commented on), but his main goal is to keep the two alive long enough for him to be able to figure out how to get them back to their home universes.
-Status: Currently only indirectly affected by the intervention of a multiversal god, still in his own universe and is planning on staying there. Isn’t terribly important to story.
4. Butch
-Character type: Rise Donnie, is from a post-movie timeline where they weren’t able to bring Leo back from Dimension X.
-World Origin: A universe where Leo’s brothers weren’t able to get him out of Dimension X in the events of the movie, leading Donnie to obsess over searching the multiverse to locate him. The continued disappointment leads him to change the plan to grabbing a Leo to turn into a replacement (though he’s still consciously in denial that he is replacing Leo instead of getting him back).
-How the gods changed things: Right as he was about to actually kidnap a Leo, Atlas created a portal right below him which dropped him off in Colonel’s world. Atlas also made sure that he couldn’t easily get himself out by cursing Butch to be stuck in that universe no matter what technology he uses. For a long time Butch’s irritation at his plan being foiled at the last second became his defining emotion that effected how he interacted with everyone. He did attempt to try and do a lesser version of his plan with Ace, mostly in making recommendations for his appearance and introducing some of his Leo’s interest to Ace (Ace of course had no idea that this was manipulation, he thought Butch just wanted to bond with the only other person around who was also displaced from their home universe). Atlas eventually came back and forced Butch to see what would’ve happened if he hadn’t been displaced, facing the horrifying end result of his attempts to force a 2012 Leo to become a replacement for a Rise Leo (leaving that Leo almost hopelessly mentally broken and disturbing just to look at, on top of all that this Leo would’ve became extremely dangerous to everyone). The thing that really broke Butch though, was the reveal that his actual Leo was actually alive and had landed in the 2012 universe, albeit with one less arm and temporary amnesia. So, not only was everything he would’ve put that 2012 Leo through would be pointless, but if he hadn’t been in such a rush to kidnap another family’s Leo he could’ve actually rescued his real Leo. After all that he drops Butch back into Colonel’s world, and Butch is now experiencing guilt and has decided everyone back in his own world is better of without him and instead focuses on trying to make a new place in Colonel’s world.
-Status: Displaced and stuck in the world he got displaced into, is now resigned to staying in that world. Isn’t terribly important to story.
-Appearance: Underdeveloped, but I imagine him with a outfit that is slightly more leaning towards being about as casual as a military themed outfit can be, with muted colors.
5. The Exorcist
-Character type: A variant of a OC named Remy that was originally made by Suzukiwee1357 from Deviantart, though this one is based on a story made by Tamersworld from Deviantart. He was in his young adult years before a god intervened in his world.
-World Origin: The bad future timeline Tamersworld made where Ginas betrayed everyone.
-How the gods changed things: Right before the 'kiss’ that would’ve killed him happened, Atlas froze time and told Remy about what the story had in mind for him. He then offered Remy a deal so he could stop the demodragon invasion. Not having a lot of options, Remy took it and became one of Atlas’ Arch Angels. Remy/The Exorcist then used his newly gifted powers to raise the dead as beings who are predators hungry for demodragon flesh. This 'hunt’ is ongoing, so his world is full of Pseudo Angels that don’t hurt anyone except demodragons, while the remaining demodragons struggle to survive and hide from the Exorcist and the Pseudo Angels. The Exorcist is often called in by Atlas on missions to worlds that have demodragons (usually just Kavaxas) to attack them.
-Status: Is one of Atlas’ Arch Angels, regularly travels to and from his universe due to Atlas sending him out on missions. Is one of the ones I like, but isn’t terribly important to the story.
-Appearance: The majority of his body is covered in silvery armor, this includes a helmet that covers his mouth and nose bridge area, and in combination with him often using the wings on the sides of his head to fold over what would otherwise be the uncovered area of his eyes, It is difficult to see his face at all. His halo is a glowing golden Star of David with a small circle in the center. He has grown 3 pairs of wings in total, there is one pair that is on his head, one pair on his back, and a pair that has each wing located on the outer side of each foot, these wings are the typical white angel wings style outside of the cyan blue eye markings on them (the Exorcist can see out of these eyes, and the head wings basically function the same as normal eyes for him). If his face was visible, his main eyes would be shown to now be almost entirely a glowing cyan blue, with his left eye having a white Star of David with his pupil now being a small white dot at its center, the right eye now has a white diamond shaped star in it, and both his 'eyebrows’ and freckles have turned into additional eyes that are cyan blue with white pupils, and his expression typically looks neutral, only changing in anticipation of a successful demodragon kill. He can change his mouth to a limited degree, mainly in that he can either have a normal mouth that just has sharpened canines, or he can open up the metal plates that normally cover his mouth to reveal a maw of fangs that belongs more in a horror movie. He’s also normally carrying a sword around that is strong enough to slice through demodragon flesh easily. For the most part I made his design to basically be similar to but thematically opposite to the demodragons, making him the (slightly biblically accurate) angel knight to their demonic dragon designs.
-Follower powers: Can let out a 'scream’ that sounds more like a loud trumpet, which can either raise the dead as Pseudo Angels or to direct the existing Pseudo Angels’ actions. He also is physically strong enough to rip apart the normally unstoppable demodragons on top of slicing them up with his sword.
-Personality/Behavior Change: After finalizing his deal with Atlas and becoming a Arch Angel, he’s now very emotionally muted outside of hunting demodragons. He rarely speaks to anyone and just wanders his home world. When on missions he will express some aggressive disappointment if there are no demodragons present. One of his main defining personality traits now is hatred for demodragons, especially Kavaxas and the rare encounter with another Ginas, and a hunger for the flesh of demodragons. The closest thing he feels to joy is sadism while hunting demodragons and thus he tends to draw their deaths out and torture them.
