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In one possible timeline, Briar, unable to find such a fang, succumbed to vampirism, her mind itself becoming twisted and evil. She destroyed [[Century Smith's Void Ship]] bare-handed in her beastly rage, before learning to control her powers so well that she devised an entirely new means of transportation both for herself and any new [[vampire]]s she created, the [[Shadow Pathway]]s. Newly equipped with these innate dimension-travelling powers, Acantha returned to her home village and conquered it. She took to wearing intricate, aristocratic black garments adorned with the red letter “alpha” to match her new name, borrowed from a [[Ἀκάνθα|controversial figure in Greek mythography]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | In one possible timeline, Briar, unable to find such a fang, succumbed to vampirism, her mind itself becoming twisted and evil. She destroyed [[Century Smith's Void Ship]] bare-handed in her beastly rage, before learning to control her powers so well that she devised an entirely new means of transportation both for herself and any new [[vampire]]s she created, the [[Shadow Pathway]]s. Newly equipped with these innate dimension-travelling powers, Acantha returned to her home village and conquered it. She took to wearing intricate, aristocratic black garments adorned with the red letter “alpha” to match her new name, borrowed from a [[Ἀκάνθα|controversial figure in Greek mythography]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | ||
=== Timelines at war === | === Timelines at war === | ||
However, in another possible timeline, which threatened to overtake Acantha's, Briar managed to cure herself using her own fang from the future, a paradox made possible by the disturbances in the synchronicity of Time in [[the Void]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | However, in another possible timeline, which threatened to overtake Acantha's, Briar managed to cure herself using her own fang from the future, a paradox made possible by the disturbances in the synchronicity of Time in [[the Void]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') caused by the disappearance of [[Lord Thymon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'') In a development of this possible timeline, Briar, on the way to finding her cure, crossed paths with [[Jenny Nowhere#Betraying Century Smith|a version of Jenny Nowhere]] whose [[shift]]ing abilities had been damaged, and who had built a machine powered by paradoxes which could restore her multidimensional nature. Revealing her true colours to Briar and Smith, she strapped the former in the machine, but Briar managed to change position at the right time to be hit by the resulting ray instead of Nowhere; the machine itself caused the split in timelines which had made Briar an ideal power source for it. This caused the still-human Briar and Acantha to begin to exist at the same time. | ||
Displeased with this development, Acantha attempted to thrust Briar out of existence, but Briar turned the tables on her and Acantha was cast out towards the [[Oblivion]]. However, she managed to alter the timelines as she fell out of existence, leaving behind one of her fangs, her characteristic outfit, and a [[Cult of Acantha|cult]] determined to bring her back to physical existence. With the timelines thus altered, creating an effective time loop, Acantha was suspended in a state of semi-nonexistence, not quite reaching Oblivion. On the “second go-around” of History, the Cult, who worshipped Acantha as “the Echo”, acquired the robes at an auction in the [[Interdimensional Black Market]] and hired [[Lainya Vantrik]] to assassinate the human Briar, allowing Acantha to take over her life once again. However, Vantrik refused to fulfill her contract at the last moment due to her code forbidding her from killing someone as young as Briar. This gave Briar the opportunity to overpower Acantha. However, to break the time loop, instead of trying to remove her evil self from reality, Briar ''merged'' with Acantha. | |||
Following this event, Briar was no longer a vampire (partially-transformed or otherwise), but she retained the ability to turn into a bat. With her newly-acquired occult abilities putting a return to her village out of the question, she opted to continue travelling with Smith. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
=== Notes & references === | === Notes & references === | ||
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