Cya, Leo, and Boom - untangling the timelines

[aldersprig]

So, it turns out, when you get inventrix and I together, what you end up with is a whole lot of different timelines for the same characters.

This is as comprehensive as I can come up with a list of Cya-Leo-Boom timelines we might have posted stories for.

inventrix, if I’ve missed something, misrepresented something, or mislaid something, please let me know!

It appears that the turning points are:

1) When Leo (and thus Cya) gets sane. In canon, and in timelines that could be canon, that happens after Cya builds Cloverleaf, which itself is ~40 years after they attend Addergoole (see Ghost Story).
2) Whether Cya Keeps Leo or he swears an oath of obedience and service to her.
3) If/When they come to the realization that what Cya wants from Leo is not what Leo can provide

“Cya cried,” he says, a little too matter of fact, “because she’s accepted I’m not going to love her back.”
“…The fuck you say?”
“Not the way she wants, at least.”
…
“So, the basics are simple enough, you’ve got me,” he holds out one hand, “and Cya,” he holds out the other, “and we both care about each other way too much. The problem is, Cya has like a tragic romance thing going on because she wants me to be in love with her back, but like… whatever the hell I feel, it’s not that, and I don’t care what that stupid kid says,” he adds in an annoyed mutter, “I’m not going to go pretending to feel something I don’t when it’s just going to fuck everything up in the end and it’s none of his fucking business anyway.”
Leo pauses and clears his throat a little awkwardly. “…anyway, so. Her side, nice, fairly straightforward, normal romantic obsession. My side, some kind of weird martyr Kept knight thing. Which would be fine except like, the one thing Cya wants more than anything in pretty much the whole world is to be attached to just one guy who will actually, you know, love her back? You’d think after--” He stops himself from tangenting this time. “So since I’m obviously not that guy, I talked her into trying dating so she’s at least meeting people who aren’t fresh Addergoole grad Kept with issues.”

4) Whether they all flip the F out and kill everyone their first year.

Is Absolutely Canon
Addergoole: Year Nine
Addergoole: A Ghost Story

Probably Canon
That story about Cya ordering Leo not to die.

Could be Canon but aren’t Yet.
The Sword and Lady Timeline — this includes most of the currently-posted stuff on DW/LJ, where Leo gets punched by Carew, Luke tries to apologize to Mike, etc.

The Thistle Timeline — hey, it couldtotally fit within canon! This is the one in which Cya dies but resurrects(reincarnates) and Leo has to cope with all of that while Thistle-Cya copes with being 10 years old with memories of a 100-year-old in love with Leo.
I’d just re-read Thief of Time.

Definitely Not Canon
Sane!Cya Timeline — I think the only thing posted of this is something called “Sane!Cya and Panlong,” in which the man who unwittingly participated in Cya’s son Yoshi’s torment as a Kept, Panlong, actually doesn’t end up getting TOO horrid of a deal…
This is the timeline where Leo has a psychotic break after Cya locks him in the barn (this is a fixed moment in time) and comes out the other side sane.

Black Knight/Chess Timeline — In which Leo gets an army, starts taking over the West Coast, and achieves godhead. Also in which Luke ends up Kept by Cya, flappy wing bongage, and such things.

Expelled Timeline — in which we’re not entirely sure what happened but Boom gets expelled in their first year, their memories wiped, and sent home, or in Cya’s case, to a foster home.

Leo Dies — in which we misread Inventrix’s rp, Leo suicides, Cya tries to blow up the earth with Abatu Eperu (destroy Earth), and in the end Howard talks her down and she and Zita heal Leo’s body, find his soul, and shove it back in.
Cya feels strongly about Leo dying, okay? :-)

Fixed Moments in Time
These happen in pretty much everything but Expelled

• The Ranch: As the end of the world looms, all of Boom, their kids, and their closest allies (and some allies’ kids) go to live on a ranch in wyoming and slowly take over the territory.
  
• Cya Locks Leo in a Barn: She has a cell for such things, because Cya believes in being prepared. So when delusional!Leo decides he’s going to leave them all so he can go fight monsters and probably die but they’ll survive, the crew tracks him down, literally force him into the van, and tie him up in the cell until he promises not to do that
  
• Cloverleaf and Doomsday: Cya gets sick of putting Addergoole people back together after the fact and builds her own school in what was once Montana. Because she’s like that, she also builds a city around it. And then starts trade routes. And then…

I might add links later. I might bribe people to add tags to things later - I’m totally willing to do that! But for the nonce, this is what I’ve got.

Comments

[inventrix]

I really like exploring possibilities. >.>

[aldersprig]

Turns out I do, too!

But I got a comment that people were a little lost by the timelines so HERE WE GO. Many timelines.

[kelkyag]

Exploring possibilities is fun. Unlabled AUs leave continuity fanatics somewhere between cranky and head-splody.

So, when and how do 1, 2, and 3 happen in canon?

[aldersprig]

I’ve been pretty good to label everything, just not TAG it…

Let’s see. 1. I’ll put out the inventrix symbol for but there’s a story…

2. Is sometime after 1 and usually about 50 years after the forming of Cloverleaf.

3. is during the apoc because Leo believes he’s an anime hero at the time.

[kelkyag]

And which way do 2 and 3 fall in canon?

[aldersprig]

We’re still sorting that out!

…what was I talking about with 3 in that last answer? Three looks like it was to the fixed moment in time about Leo being locked in a barn.

I think canon will probably end up involving Leo swearing the oath, not being Kept, and will also probably have that happen some time around them realizing that they love each other in completely different ways. Sigh tragic romance.

[kelkyag]

I'm not sure what thread you were on with 3, and couldn't quite figure out how it followed from what I meant to ask. I meant to be asking about 3 from your initial post: "If/When they come to the realization that what Cya wants from Leo is not what Leo can provide." It is not impossible they sorted out the romantic mismatch then, but doing so when Leo is not delusional seems more likely to stick.

[aldersprig]

http://inventrix.dreamwidth.org/21055.html

http://inventrix.dreamwidth.org/21424.html

[thnidu]

No wonder I'm confoozled...

[aldersprig]

Man, I’m a little confuzzled, and it’s my character and my setting :-D

[clare_dragonfly]

Whee!

i was confused by the current stuff with Leo Keeping Jeska and Cya dating, but you guys have filled in enough gaps in the story before/after/during that I'm following now.

[aldersprig]

Good good!

OTOH, the Thistle timeline is ENTIRELY stories, and ditto the um… Expelled.