From Ben

Hello everyone. I have decided to leave The Omega Timeline. I will no longer be working on it and the new ‘director’ will be PrimalApex. Yes I was the director, I was the one who came up with the idea and brought everyone together to do it. Good luck without me, you’re going to need it without me.

There are a variety of reasons why I chose to leave this collaborative project. I have had these feelings for the past few days or so now. Mostly after reading Chapter 49.

Article I: Effort & Time

The Omega Timeline is a daunting project in my opinion. While ambition is good for many projects I personally did not enjoy some of the ideas presented to the table. They felt like cheap plot devices to milk the udders of this crossover project. Some examples include the “Reversal of Fate” idea (which I insisted should be a spin off HOWEVER my wishes were disregarded), the Body Swap idea, and I even did not like the Zombie Apocalypse idea that much. One of the ideas were that The Omega Timeline’s conflicts were caused by the characters inside however these previous examples are clear cut cases of overall poor writing and they are just cheap plot devices in my opinion. I especially did not enjoy the whole “writer voices” thing (which once again my opinion on the topic was disregarded and I was told to just put a writer voice of my own in the story). To me, it was a cheap way to change the plot. ESPECIALLY with reviving Aurora out of nowhere. And also Drain becoming the Herald of Darkness ONLY because the voices told him to do so. One of the core ideas of The Omega Timeline is that it was a “single timeline that could only be accessed by pure chance” and it is unknown how it was created BECAUSE it would create a fair writing environment for everyone. Clearly this is not the case. Now before one of you start going on about “ermm well you included Ben as a character how could that not be a self-insert” first of all this Ben isn’t even like me and second of all I guess I can’t put my name in a story now because it’s my name like jee whiz that’s amazing like I bet you that if Moon put her real name in a story or Sunny y’all wouldn’t care because YOU DONT KNOW THEIR NAMES. Case closed I can use my name however I like.

Article II: TAOH Character Screen Time

In the first ten chapters of TOT, all of my characters show up pretty frequently. This makes sense since there were only around three writers at the time. Me, Sunny, and Wyvernian. However once everyone else started to join my characters showed up a lot less often. To begin I don’t think MrGhostGamer has even written about anyone else’s characters except his own and Wyvernian’s in that one chapter. Sylveevee has only mentioned Samuel in her chapters. And so on and so forth. The only people who have included my characters consistently are Sunny and PrimalApex (i can’t say for Moon because she just joined however she did use my characters in her first chapter). The point is that my characters don’t show up as often as I want them too. Especially characters such as Neddy and Ruby. It is also somewhat insulting as I try my best to give all characters from each story equal screen time that way everyone has something to look forward to when reading the chapter.

I will be creating a graph which illustrates how often my characters are mentioned in other peoples’ chapters just to prove how underused they are.

Article III: Misuse of TAOH Characters

Don’t even get me started on this one. This one is mostly going to be talking about Chapter 42 (which I consider to be a dumpster fire of a chapter by the way). PrimalApex and Sunny have done excellent work at using my characters correctly and accurately, two which I commend for that. However I’m not so sure about everyone else (MrGhostGamer and Sylveevee don’t even use them, Moon has joined too early for me to decide however Neddy’s dialogue was accurate to his TAOH self). First of all I explicitly state all information about my characters regarding certain topics, one of them being how they viewed Samuel. So it is absolutely despicable that Star was used the way she was in Chapter 42 of TAOH. First of all, it was very clear from the get go IN CHAPTER 40 that Star was absolutely hopeless. She was curled up in a ball and seemingly had no desire to do anything or go anywhere. Yet for some reason in Chapter 42 she gets teleported to the Black Obelisk to deal with Samuel? First of all, this makes no sense because of previous statements. And second of all, she’s a dodo bird why in the WORLD would Jay, Jack, and the others consider bringing her in to help fight off Samuel. They would consider bringing in a trusted adult. To me it was extremely obvious the intent of this chapter was to throw shade at Samuel (a very pathetic attempt by the way), and to make him start crying (which is also extremely out of character by the way). The only reason I refrained from even speaking about this is because I didn’t want Wyvernian to rewrite the chapter and waste any more of our time. This is perhaps the most disrespectful thing that has occurred to me and it’s especially shameful considering I have not mistreated ANYONE’s characters in TOT so far.

Article IV: Poor Communication Between Some Members

This Article also ties in with the previous one, somewhat. Misuse of my characters has occurred because of this. One example is Jerry. For some reason asking me on my Message Wall on a more in depth explanation of his blood bending was too difficult and now he was battling people in a crude unorthodox and frankly inefficient way which was completely out of character. This once again is disrespect on my characters. Jerry is a vicious, ferocious fighter who hates beating around the bush. Using others as a puppet would go against his ideals of strong and weak. Jerry also just won’t stand around and get frozen by Sheeri that easily. And if Jerry can puppet whoever he wants why doesn’t he just puppet all the heroes that come at him? Make it make sense if we’re going to go forward with this goofily made fight. This is just poor fight writing in general. At least make the fight somewhat memorable and respectful toward the characters. This is just one of the examples of one of my characters being misused because of poor communication. This is also occurred to other writers before as well, although I won’t list the examples now because I don’t feel like it.

Article V: Sylveevee

To be blunt I am not a fan of Sylveevee’s characters. They are difficult to write and their overpowered nature put them at an unfair advantage compared to the rest of the cast, especially mine (who have no notable abilities in terms of the heroes). This is honestly one of the reasons I don’t care about the children. Quite frankly every single character has some overpowered ability that magically pops up for the convenience of the plot and story. For instance, Milo. Milo was explicitly stated in Queen of Aberration that his shapeshifting abilities came from his implant. After Samuel destroyed his implant, now Milo magically still has it because apparently it was in his bloodstream all along and he THOUGHT that it was his implant power. Another instance of this is Skyocean. Not only is Skyocean’s ability never explored in Queen of Aberration, but his shapeshifting into other humans also gives him their powers??? Finally, I would like to go over the original character herself Queen Sylveevee, and her ability to summon “elemental” balls. She has only used this ability ONCE in Queen of Aberration and suddenly now it’s explored… Clearly these characters are given overpowered abilities so that they could easily overpower other characters from other franchises (more specifically the evil ones) and have that dopamine rush of “oh my character’s stronger and better”. These overpowered characters actually influenced some of the characters I brought in for TOT. For a long time I considered bringing in Mr. Ma and Loki. I thought it would have been amazing having their morals intertwine with others, but I settled with Jerry and June because they were the only counters to Sylveevee’s characters. Most of you may believe that it was unnecessary to go down this decision, however I really had no other choice since the main heroes have no notable abilities. I don’t want to feel a rush of having stronger characters than others, I just want to make an interesting story that deals with the twisting morals and ideologies of characters bashing and mixing in with one another. Not a contest to see who’s the stronger one.

I can also go over the fact that some of my story elements are blatantly placed in Queen of Aberration but I will not go over that now because that is not relevant to the current topic. I am generally very tolerant of others taking inspiration from my stories as long as it builds upon or adds on it but if it’s blatantly copying and not adding anything to it I will not be afraid to defame you.

Article VI: Direction of the Story

The direction of the story has taken a turn for the worse. Rather than dive into the “What If”s of how characters would meet and react to one another, it has just delved into a giant ‘war’ between heroes and villains, and other inconvenient poorly thought out plot devices. PrimalApex has done an amazing job at some of these “What If”s and I suppose Sunny and Sylveevee too with the Aragorn-Sylveevee conflict, but I’m not too sure about everyone else. The original point of The Omega Timeline was that it was a party place for characters to meet and interact with one another. The conflict would be some of the conflicting ideals that characters would harbor, or villainous characters wishing to cause mayhem. But for some reason the White and Black Obelisk got introduced and plot convenience after another has been introduced. The direction of the story has taken a turn for violence and fighting between one’s characters rather than meaningful interactions and plot points.

One plot point I really enjoyed was Chapter 24 by PrimalApex. The conversation between Andrew, Erica, and Ruby about the implants was REALLY good and an excellent example of what The Omega Timeline should have been about. Another one is Chapter 15 by what do you guess ME, where Samuel and Aragorn talk about working together to return home for the sake of their loved ones.

Article VII: Conclusion

In conclusion, I’ve become a slave to The Omega Timeline. I get nothing in return and I’ve contributed too much for me to consider this a project I love. There’s no chance I’m going to return to this project. There’s no convincing me otherwise. So don’t bother trying. I don’t care if any of you say “oh don’t worry we’ll try our best to change”, that never works out. I’m appointing @PrimalApex as the new Crossover Council leader. Now I’ve tried my best to give you all the freedom to write whatever you want for your chapters, but since that clearly doesn’t work out I’m giving him the ability to work out the plot for the rest of The Omega Timeline since he knows what he’s doing best. I trust that he will carry out my vision. If he sees it fit he can change the vision. I can even see him potentially leaving TOT next after me. He’s put in the most effort and most of his hero characters also get sidelined for no reason at all. Anyway, since I was pretty much the backbone of TOT I predict that The Omega Timeline will collapse and will fail to be a thing in the foreseeable future. I’ve given all my advice to ensure it stays as neutral with its writers as possible but without me I see that difficult to achieve. Goodbye, The Omega Timeline. It’s time for me to work on something actually meaningful.

Side note: just have all my characters magically disappear off the face of the Omega Timeline. It fits with the convenient plot devices anyway so there's no point in trying to make up something. Reminder since some of you might have even forgotten my characters (which is even more pathetic)

Samuel

Aurora

Neddy

Ruby

Star

June

Jerry

Lil Jack

TOT Ben

Paul the Bartender will stay, however the TAOH version will not be a part of the fusion anymore.

If I catch any of you using my characters in The Omega Timeline without my permission I will nuke that chapter down into the ground and also a chapter from one of your stories of my choosing.