Changing Fate In Depth

This chapter was sort of a tough one to write, because three of the Betweeners' (Martha, Diana, and Kal) were out of it for this one. I had originally written this with Diana, but when I wrote her out of the first and second part, so I switched Barbara in Dianas' place. (I'm explaining away Barbaras' competency in the fight as her having heightened senses due to her lycanthropy.)

The only other thing to talk about is Zero, the strange girl who Lacey brought into the fight. For one, this is not my own character, this is my Husband/Editors' character. He dropped the project that he was working on that Zero was from. Her name comes from 'Patient Zero', and hopefully we'll be able to explore her backstory in depth. Her backstory and power set are all from him, so almost nothing about her is my own creation.

An update on just the general chapter postings is that there might be a little hiccup with the next months' chapters. We're moving across country, (2.2k miles!), and I don't know how our internet situation will look once we get out to where we're going. If I miss any, I'll update them as soon as I'm able to, and then resume the schedule. (If you haven't seen my schedule for Space Between, I have them in my profile on Ao3)

I don't know which days we'll be moving, but the estimate will be in about 3 weeks. If that is the case, there'll still be a few more updates before it will happen.

-EDR

Damage In Depth

There isn't much to say about this chapter unlike other chapters with short In Depths in that this particular chapter is a bridge chapter in between Part I and Part III of Battle of Fate.

One major change that I had to do was the exclusion of Diana in this part. When I had written all three parts of Battle of Fate, Diana had been there, and Peppers' chapter in this part had originally been Dianas' where she reconnected with Inza. This was changed when my editor suggested changing the power of the dagger to something else than what it had originally been (Which was next to nothing at all, to be honest), and with it, Diana had to be sacrificed from this chapter and the next one, resulting in her chapter in this part to have to be completely rewritten.

The Kryptonite dust was directly inspired by The Dark Knight Returns, wherein during a two-on-one battle (Batman & Green Arrow Vs. Superman), Green Arrow shoots an arrow at Superman, which he catches, then the arrow releases Kryptonite dust, which Superman accidentally inhales.

(The Dark Knight Returns, Book Four)

I did this for two reasons: One, because it's actually doable as long as you have time and money, and two, because the enemies of the Betweeners have that amount of time/money/resources to pull something like that off, and I really wanted to highlight that. These aren't just villains that stumbled upon these guys and thought that they'd just fuck up their days, but more on that much much later in the story. :P

Also, the thing about it taking very little to break a timeline, but it being nearly impossible to fix a timeline, all you'd have to look to for that is the Flash. One of my favorite comics is Flashpoint (Despite my not liking the outcome that followed it. Damnit Barry, why'd you have to make New 52?) and I've watched a lot of The Flash (I haven't recently due to internet issues).

(Damnit Barry, stop breaking the timeline)

But the point is, is that because they know the future (via the comic book), then once the future is broken, it will be impossible for the Betweeners to line it back up perfectly to how it was before. This actually caused a lot of things that I had planned for the future to be changed (A lot of it had to do with complaints my editor had about how some things in the future of the Space Between didn't make sense).

I also just realized that I had more to talk about in these three chapters than I had actually realized when I had started to write this. :P

-EDR

Fate's Design In Depth

I can't really talk at length about this part, since it's the first part of a three-part storyline. And besides that, it is very clearly a much more direct chapter than most. I, however, am very fond of the exchange between Diana and Tony, when she notes that a larger group might travel single file to hide their numbers, and Tony dramatically whispers "Tusken Raiders".

There is legitimately almost nothing to talk about in this part, because it's so short, and because of just how much of it is very straightforward. 

The one thing I can talk about is the Tower of Fate. I based it mostly on the Young Justice Tower of Fate, since there's an entire episode dedicated to going through it, and if there was an episode similar in Justice League / JL Unlimited, I don't remember it. Whenever I see the Tower in comics though, it's only briefly. I'm probably just not reading the right comics.

But the Tower of Fate from Young Justice is the one that I'm most aware of, and has the tower as its setting for the most amount of time that I'm aware of. Even including that, I've noticed that the Tower of Fate hardly ever changes between the differing mediums.

With that, I didn't really feel that it would be much different across the multiverse, because it seems to keep its same general shape, style, and level of danger.

But be reassured, that there is a reason why Inza knew that they were in trouble. (Yes, it was because she's also from Dianas' Earth, and therefore connected to the Tower of Fate there)

:P

-EDR