***THE NIGHTMARE NEXUS***
NU ENCORE
Exetior be Ballin'
Act 1 of the general storyline is NU Encore, a Sequel of sorts to Jaizkoy's NU story. the difference is the Characters, who have changed quite a bit:
Exetior: the Sharper has changed alot since the events of CS and FN. he no longer necessarily cares about fighting, he had long since killed the All-Father of the Highests and Stich-Lite was nowhere to be seen. he still had huge amounts of power to use, but no reason to use them. like a Veteran home from war, he was unsure how to adjust to peace-time. apart from the occasional scrap with Sark, he was mostly spending his days lounging around or experimenting with Pervision. when he wasn't trying to find something to work on, he relaxed and meditated with Negagen. that only made Exetior a tad bit scarier, as he now was so Calm, yet so lethal. he has one weakness, that being that he can get heavily attached to things or people, and protective instinct can overwrite sense sometimes.
Exetior with his Custom-Tailored, Impeccable Drip. this is very much Canon to him.
Negagen: after all he had been through, and due to a small part of Exetior's influence, Negagen had become even colder, while still a pacifist of sorts, his lethality had skyrocketed and he was not afraid to demonstrate.
Negagen as depicted in The Nightmare Nexus
Pervision: the Demon of Gap, after a long and faithful service, had achieved that status of Arch-Demon. he also had visually changed. he also now had access to his own rings like Exetior did.
Pervision's new Form
Sark: unlike his original self, Sark was now much more mature, instead focusing on Bloodlust rather than Carnal Desire. unlike the original NU, he instead had killed off his Cream due to her being so annoying. he also was able to Demonise most of the Males aswell as Corral them enough. similar to the dynamic of Dr. Eggman and the Metal Virus Zombots, Sark was able to direct them and order them around, but not control them directly. only some of his past Atrocities remain canon, while he is still fond of Women, he often kills off those that get too annoying.
Nightmare Nexus - NN Sark in a Crimson Suit
Biblio and Zeal: *Nothing fucking changed about them whatsoever other than they got older.*
Jina: *still dead, but was able to be restored partially in a Non-Corporeal Form. so essentially a Ghost made from a process Pervision called "Spectralisation"* Stich-Lite: has been Missing since FN, along with other Highests.
All-Father: killed by Exetior in a Final Demon-Highests War. a Conflict which occurred when remaining Highests attempted to shelter in the Tower of Millennium when Exetior had breached their Home-realm.
Richard: still harasses Sark in every way imaginable.
another difference between regular NU and NN, is that Exeller and Exetior's interactions are Canonised.
Exeller: is pretty much identical to his SoH counterpart, however now has existential Depression and a Hatred for anything Majin Sonic related. (if you know, you know.)
Artwork of the Nightmare Nexus' Version of Exeller
oddly enough, Menace and Brute, the other two Sonic.EXEs from Sonic.exe TD, (Brute being the nickname for Beta Kolossos) were canonised as separate takes from their original selves, these are both Sharpness demons that exist as a result of an Experiment by Exetior and Pervision to try and artifically create a Pure Demon, and not an Embrella like Jina, resulting in the first three, who became Exetior's Daughters, Lucia, Core and Eclipse.
CONFLICT X
Act 2 of the Nightmare Nexus Storyline is "Conflict X" which is when a collision in temporal pathways causes the NU to collide and encounter X, the old friend from 2011, which is why one of Exetior's Daughters, Core, was created using a vial of Void Essence.
X's arrival signalled a spiral of events that would bring the NU to a new playing field.
the Presence of X would change the course of the Nightmare Nexus' fate. he would prove to be powerful enough to outmatch Exeller and even challenge Sark. Exetior's match would occur in the event that became a Climax of the Conflict: the Arrival of Lord X.
Lord X: Lord X had arrived to get some entertainment out of his Younger Self's Conflict, however he met his Match in Exetior. the Nightmare Nexus' version of Lord X is even more decayed, bored and bold than the original, finding immense amusement in his Counterpart.
2011 X: quite literally just the regular 2011 X.
THE NIGHTMARE NEXUS
the present day Act 3 of the Nightmare Nexus story is after the Conflict, when Exetior uses the parts of his Timeline that lay in ruin from the Temporal Collision to create a separate Universe entirely, a Place similar to Marvel's iteration of Asgard. the Nightmare Nexus is a Haven of sorts, even acting as an Inter-Universal Pit-Stop for some, it has several areas modelled after it's permanent residents, similar to the Dimension from X's Chronicles by Madame Spyder.
Permanent Residents:
* Exetior (Runs the show)
* Exeller (helps pass messages and keep people up to date)
* Pervision (keeps everything under control or under surveillance)
* Sark (an Outcast of sorts, never really seen by the others)
* Lucia, Core and Eclipse (living in the Blood Temple Sector with their Father, they help enforce the rules of the Realm and doing tasks, while doing their own thing)
* Zeal and Biblio
*Negagen (can act as the Realm's therapist sometimes)
* X (lives in his Castle, rarely interacts with others)
* Lord X
* Lord Mortis
* Xenophanes
* 2017 X
* 2019 X (forgotten fella who resides there after a Universal Collapse)
* All-Father (Jack Gore)
* the Demonized SoH survivors
*the Demonized NU Survivors
*Sark's Servants
* X's Playthings, Alan, Paul etc.
Occasional Residents:
* Curse
* Rewrite
* Needlem0use/Sarah Henderson
* Faker/EXE
* Wacky the Erizo
* Majin Sonic
and that just about covers the content that is currently done...there's more to come. but that just about covers most if it.