This blog is mostly a place where I talk about my fan fiction The Space Between, which is up on my AO3 along with a few other things. I may also talk about what I'm currently watching or reading at the time. (I'm currently making my way through The Far Kingdoms by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch)
First to introduce myself: I'm a 25-year-old married woman, who currently lives out of a closet, and is impatiently awaiting the day that the Automatron dlc for Fallout 4 drops. My husband is my editor, and has so far facilitated the re-write of just less than half of what has been written so far.
The story is about both DC and Marvel characters who have ended up in a place that they eventually dub The Space Between, because it is sort of like a pocket dimension that exists between already existing universes. As they travel to other dimensions they will meet up with both alternate universes of DC and Marvel comics, movies, shows, etc. and even other comic characters, like Dark Horses' Hellboy (Albeit based on the Hellboy movies rather than the comics) or other SciFi stories like Star Wars, Star Trek, Men in Black, Stargate, Halo, Fallout, Ender's Game, Ghost in the Shell, Niven's Ringworld, etc. Basically just a huge dump of whatever I want into a story of parallel-universe jumping. (And suggestions are always welcome, I already have a long list of things I want to watch that may or may not make it into the story itself.)
The story that is up now will eventually be re-titled as Book One, once it's finished, of course, and Book Two is already in the pre-planning stages.
The main characters of Book One are Martha Wayne, Tony Stark, J'onn J'onzz, Doctor Stephen Strange, Kal-L, Kitty Pryde, and Diana of Themyscira. (Other main characters have yet to join the crew, but there will be at least one more to join the 'Betweeners')
Martha Wayne is the Batwoman of her Earth, on an Earth similar to both Earth-11 (Where the Justice League has been gender flipped) and Flashpoint's alternate Earth. In this timeline Bruce was killed in Crime Alley instead of his parents, like what had happened during the events of Flaspoint. Instead of Thomas becoming Batman and Martha going insane, it's flipped, where Martha becomes Batwoman and Thomas becomes beyond help and is remanded to Arkham Asylum, and eventually dies.
Other notable differences include Kara Zor-El and Kal-El arriving on Earth at the same time (In the same ship, where Kara held her baby cousin) and were both found by the Kents. This difference in age makes it so that Kara becomes Superwoman and Clark becomes Superboy.
Tony Stark comes from an Earth that is directly parallel to the first Avengers Movie (Earth-199999), but during the climax of the film, when Tony goes through the portal to stop the chitauri, it changes time, so time on Earth continues, which allows the chitauri to ravage the planet to human extinction even though the mother ship has been destroyed just a few seconds earlier. When Tony falls back through the portal he's in fact in the future, and has to come to terms with the fact that he is the last of his planet.
He then pours his time into creating a portal to another dimension, after remembering a theory (By Reed Richards) he had heard during his college years that there were Earths parallel to them. It takes him more than twenty years (Plus a few robotic replacements for lost limbs/extremities) before he is able to make any sort of trip with his machine. When the rest of the group meets him, he is not the same man that everyone knows him as.
J'onn comes from an Earth that is set far into the future. He lives in isolation from the rest of the world, though not for lack of trying. He no longer knows any of his friends from the Justice League days, the only one who has lived as long as he has is Superman, who lives off-world with his children and grandchildren. J'onn, during the re-settlement of the Earth, is still vying to be a hero, but is brushed off by the newer generation of heroes and humans.
Doctor Stephen Strange lives on an Earth that is closely related to Earth-2772 (The universe of Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme animated movie of 2007). He meets and befriends a Doctor Strange of a parallel universe, who teaches him to jump through the universes to gain his trust, then destroys Stephen's Earth. He is only able to escape by expending all of his magic (While also being fed magic by the Sanctum Sanctorum itself) and transporting the whole Sanctum into the Space Between, where all of our heroes meet.
Kal-L is the last of the main group, who comes from Earth-30 (Red Son). There isn't that much to explain about him if you've already read it, but it is a parallel Earth where instead of landing in Kansas, he ends up landing in the Ukraine. (SPOILERS) At the end of the story, Kal-L disappears in an explosion during a fight with Brainiac, but returns later, disguised, and never comes back as Superman to the public again. In my version of it, Kal ends up teleporting to the Sanctum Sanctorum, like the rest of the group, but his suit is badly damaged, so no one knows that he isn't actually American. (END SPOILERS)
These five, through one way or another, find themselves in the 'Space Between', and even further, they find themselves in the Sanctum Sanctorum, and must work together to jump from parallel world to parallel world to sustain themselves. The only one who has a clear and decisive motive is Martha, who wants to find her way back to her own Earth.
Kitty Pryde and Diana of Themyscira, who join the others later (In part two and part four respectively) couldn't be more opposite. Diana is a very traditional sort of take on Wonder Woman, with a combination of both comic book and tv series (Justice League / Unlimited, and Young Justice) personalities. Kitty could not be further away from her counterparts, where she is orphaned, hunted, and turns to thievery just to survive. What I believe to be her core character is intact: She is a young genius with an incredible sense of curiosity (That hopefully won't kill this cat ;P).
And after relating all of that, I must confess that I only began to write for this project/universe because I hoped that by doing so I'll become a better writer. I was originally inspired by AuraChannelerChris, who began and still writes The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest, the longest piece of fiction to date with now over 4 million words.
I haven't personally read The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest, but only because I'm not really a player/fan/follower of Super Smash Brothers. I have, however, read an interview with AuraChannelerChris, where he says that he first began to write for it to learn English. He really inspired me to actually begin writing down the dreams I had that eventually became The Space Between. It may never reach 4 million words, but hopefully it will help me become a better writer.
The original version of the story wasn't going to start off the way it is, it was going to begin in these characters' futures, and would follow their children (Or, in particular, one of their children) as he worked his way through the world that The Space Between will eventually become. I wrote the first five chapters (Part One: 'Prologue') to gain a better understanding of the origins of that universe, but decided that their story was too good to just skip over.
So, to conclude this post before it gets too long, I've got a fan fiction, and I'm going to talk about it here.
-EDR
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