An Anachronistic Aye
Premise/ Pitch/ Brain Splooge
Susan and Daphne Danvers, along with Jessica Summers are killed in a car crash. This isn't your ordinary car crash however. For one the car crashed due to a meteorite impact, and second, this car crash wasn't supposed to happen. An oversight by a novice time travel team caused a temporal anomaly to have a cascading effect causing multiple anomalies which eventually cause this car crash.
This sets off multiple alarms in the Underworld as their systems detect a death that wasn't happened supposed to happen. While deaths happening at the wrong time as a result of simple anomalies are frequent enough to be called common and often warrant little action, this is a warning the likes of which they've never seen before for two reasons.
This was caused by a ridiculous number of small anomalies, in a chain of events so large, they assumed the probability to be negligible.
As the icing on the cake, this trio also happen to be very important to the future of their home planet Earth [Dimension 28]. Their untimely deaths have a very high probability of causing humanity's untimely extinction.
This all means one Jason Hardy, Celestial of Death has a very big headache on Sunday morning. He calls in his siblings, Harry and Jennifer, to figure out some way to fix it. The two assume it'll be a time consuming but relatively simple and straightforward rewrite of the timeline to flow as it's meant to. However, they run into a small problem.
Billions of years ago when the underworld was being formed, due to the likelihood of this event occurring being effectively zero, Harry jokingly added a clause to the rules of death which meant that the three souls cannot be returned to the land of the living unless they pass through seven trials.
Harry originally assumes that it can just be changed but Jason refuses, stating that the law of the dead, if changed would cause unnecessary chaos that they simply don't need. Humanity is just one species among millions after all. They're not worth the risk.
Harry then sets out to ensure that this mess is sorted out, taking full responsibility for causing it as a result of his prank. Jennifer, unlike Jason, decides to help out. They start by rescuing the girls from the Rethe where they souls had been stuck in limbo due to the nature of their deaths. Harry also dispatches a pair of trusted friends, Temporal Manipulation master Vankuos Frostification and Stean Stakes to edit the timeline as required and generally hold it all together. He then assigns the three girls to the task of ridding the timeline of an increasingly annoying group of meddling time travellers.
Their first mission, gather intelligence from an anachronistic crew of pirates terrorizing the seas of Vantaxia 42, a usually peaceful planet. Harry proceeds to grant the girls powers in order to help their trials along but Susan reacts badly to the infusion and ends up accidentally banished to the ether. As a result she ends up in an unusual state of limbo that Harry then teaches her to control and use as a power.
The girls have to process everything that they'd just found out about the universe at large, master a set of brand new powers and then muster the ability to somehow infiltrate and gather information from a group of rather unsavory individuals.
Meanwhile Vankous and Stean have to start by looking for the beginning of the time travel anomalies.
Harry sends another trained time travel agent and trusted friend James Bonlark to keep an eye on the girls without interfering because doing so could lead to the trials being invalidated. Harry and Jennifer are a bit too busy with other matters to help out, nor can they do so without causing any issues with the laws so Jennifer settles for being a ghostly presence near the girls whenever she's free while Harry decides to help Vankous and Stean.
Can the girls gather the information they need and survive in one piece on their first trial of DALSAFCEA? [Deaths Affecting Large Scale Anomalies From Cascading Effect Anachronisms]
Other Stuff
This is a ridiculously complicated plot and so its gonna be a lot longer than the tentative 25k word count target I have, but I hope to be able to write at least that much and make a start on it. Its been in the planning stage for a while now and the more I write silly shorts of rp's with these characters, the more excited I am to dive into things here.
I plan on featuring maybe four, or five POV's. The three girls almost certainly will get individual POV's. James and Jennifer are most likely not going to get POV's that are consistent, they might get a chapter or two here and there but not very often cause they will be mostly just hidden in the background in this story.
Harry, Vankous and Stean most likely will get POV's or at least Harry will, with the other two maybe getting the odd chapter.
Genre will be Sci Fi/ Action of course with the afterlife mechanics, superpowers and time travel all being thrown into the mix admits much shenanigans and fight scenes for both the girls and the trio hunting the anomalies down. There is of course going to be undercurrents of romance because well...that's how it is apparently, although this is a bit different. All of my stories so far have featured best friends who are in a kind of dancing around each other a bit...but this one will have Daphne and Jessica who where both in a pretty strong relationship for a couple of years at the time of their death and Susan who will get lots of crushes on everyone before she finally gets herself a girl...although that one is [redacted] for the moment.
So yeah...the underworld is very well fleshed out already, these characters also have been fleshed out really nicely.
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