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=== Early life === | === Early life === | ||
Briar was born in an isolated village in the middle of a forest. She knew nothing of any reasonably advanced technology, let alone the existence of the [[Multiverse]]. She met [[Century Smith]] during an incident when she was bitten by an [[Invisible Vampyre]] and [[Sanguivor]]. Her superstitious fellow villagers mobbed her, but she and Smith ended up running away aboard [[Century Smith's Void Ship|Smith's Void Ship]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | Briar was born in an isolated village in the middle of a forest. She knew nothing of any reasonably advanced technology, let alone the existence of the [[Multiverse]]. She met [[Century Smith]] during an incident when she was bitten by an [[Invisible Vampyre]] and [[Sanguivor]]. Her superstitious fellow villagers mobbed her, but she and Smith ended up running away aboard [[Century Smith's Void Ship|Smith's Void Ship]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | ||
=== Struggling with vampirism === | === Struggling with vampirism === | ||
As her transformation into a vampire began, Briar's body began to become invisible, piece by piece, beginning with the area of her forearm around the wound where she'd been bitten. Trying to ignore her condition's immediate effect, she took to wearing long gloves as she and Smith travelled to find some cure. They stopped off at the [[Adromedi Jungle Observation Tower]] so that Smith could do some repairs to his ship. They then met [[Jenny Nowhere#Betraying Century Smith|a friend of Smith's]] who was a dimensional scientist at the [[Interdimensional Tavern]], and, after a stop at the [[Interdimensional Bank]] so that the scientist could retrieve her “library card” from her vault, to the [[Interdimensional Library]], where they discovered a potential cure: a prick from the fang of someone who'd already been bitten and cured of vampirism. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | As her transformation into a vampire began, Briar's body began to become invisible, piece by piece, beginning with the area of her forearm around the wound where she'd been bitten. Trying to ignore her condition's immediate effect, she took to wearing long gloves as she and Smith travelled to find some cure. They stopped off at the [[Adromedi Jungle Observation Tower]] so that Smith could do some repairs to his ship. They then met [[Jenny Nowhere#Betraying Century Smith|a friend of Smith's]] who was a dimensional scientist at the [[Interdimensional Tavern]], and, after a stop at the [[Interdimensional Bank]] so that the scientist could retrieve her “library card” from her vault, to the [[Interdimensional Library]], where they discovered a potential cure: a prick from the fang of someone who'd already been bitten and cured of vampirism. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | ||
=== Becoming Acantha === | === Becoming Acantha === | ||
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]]'') 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. | 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. | ||
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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]]'') | 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]]'') | ||
=== An eventful vacation === | |||
In December 2021, [[Prime Universe]] time, while trying to enjoy a vacation, Briar and [[Century Smith|Smith]] became embroiled in the conflict between multiple species and factions of cyborgs competing for the right to be dubbed [[Supreme Cyborg]] by [[Cybele#In the Prime Universe|Cybele]]. They ran into them at the [[Multiversal Waffle House]], the [[Interdimensional Gift Shop]] and even the “[[Gnome Place]]”, which they only visited by accident in the first place. Realising the cyborgs were a threat wherever they went, they tried to beat one group of them to their apparent destination, [[the Frost King's Realm]]. Arriving before the cyborgs' ship landed, they borrowed a [[striberu]]-pulled sleigh and headed for the village. On the way, they met [[CS-NA]], whom Smith recognised as a [[Subcinctus|Subcinctan]] robot, the first human CS-NA had ever encountered who understood his [[Subcinctan Audial Code]]. | |||
Arriving in the village, they witnessed the arrival of the [[Mecharon]]s; showing himself to make a stand, Smith was shot by one of their energy weapons, although it proved ill-adapted to human biology, only knocking him back and making him taste gingerbread. Scrambling to hide, Smith and Briar tried to evade capture by the Mecharon squad but were eventually caught, with the Mecharon commander ordering them converted into Mecharons themselves. However, CS-NA managed to force all the Mecharons to go into hibernation mode and retreat to their ships by hacking into their own comms frequencies, saving the two humans. Smith ruled that now that the village was saved and the Mecharons they'd been chasing were defeated, he and Briar could move on with their holiday fun; he offered CS-NA the chance to join them, but CS-NA, being on a wider mission of his own, declined. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
=== Notes & references === | === Notes & references === | ||
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