Monday DE: Okay, one more childhood question

[bjornwilde]

In honor of my visiting one of my childhood homes and seeing that the preschool I went to has now become a liquor store, what is something that changed from your pup’s childhood to their present. 

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[student_of_impossibility]

Everything is now covered in sickly green vord wax, the steadholt (farm, basically) he grew up on is completely destroyed, several cities including the one his family lived in and ruled from for a thousand years are just gone (one got Pompeii'd, one got sunk in water/probably lava but there may be some ruins there somewhere for underwater archaeology one day), one got turned into a baby volcano and literally annihilated completely no archaeology possible sorry), two cities are still trapped under wax and won't be liberated and re-settled until they can clear it, a different civilization is down to maybe a tenth its population and a third to a half of the Aleran population is dead (they need to do a census, really they do), what isn't is in large part displaced and somewhat overcrowded or else trapped behind wax and kind of barely making do, his grandfather is dead, the weather and furycrafting are kind of going haywire and probably somewhat destructively out of control for a little while...

On the up side, that civilization and two others are now at peace with Alera for the first time literally ever, slavery is officially abolished, freemen enfranchised, the nature of furycrafting changing, any number of other political and social reforms, the civil wars are emphatically over for a little while, Tavi's family has a lot more comfort and his uncle has remarried and having more kids and his mom's finally out of mourning and also remarried so he has a stepfather now who's basically awesome, and Tavi has furycrafting and status and power and friends and answers (and also a lot more questions and headaches).

So, uh... it's not all apocalyptically bad?

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: The Temple she grew up in is now the Emperor’s palace. Also, the school she taught at on Mandalore is now the Imperial Academy.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve: Ah ha ha ha ha.

[death_gone_mad]

Is it glib to say everything and nothing at all at the same time?

Well, specifics, then. In the beginning, the Kharidian subcontinent was lush and green, part of it dense forest with plentiful fine timber and fruits and the rest was savanna, and it was full of animal life too. The rich soils of the Elid river shores provided what couldn't be found in the forests and savannas. Civilization thrived, built ships, sent out exploratory caravans, and traded with the rest of the world. Life, and morality, was simple. Good was rewarded, evil was punished or outright destroyed, and gods didn't war with eachother. There was no such thing as elder gods, only gods that claimed to be ancient and wise and the true creators of the world.

The Kharid is mostly desert now with desertification eating away at the few bits of green near the coasts and the swamp that once was the grand city of Ullek. But the Kharid is just a subcontinent on one world in a vast universe/multiverse, and gods have been warring over worlds for eons. Gielinor, the planet that the Kharid is only part of, is only special be cause it is the main course in a feast the true Elder Gods, the true creators of the universe, have left cooking since the universe was young. And this is not even the first time they have done this. So everything has changed in the details, yet nothing has changed.

From Amascut's vantage point at least. She may be trying to break a seemingly unbreakable cycle without noticing how broken it already was in order to produce her in the first place.

[thebattycakes]

For most of my pups not a whole lot has changed. New people live in Barry's old childhood home, but since he hasn't been there since the night his mother died that's not something that really comes up for him. Joe's house, his second childhood home, hasn't really changed at all. Squeaky pipes and all.

Logan and Hellboy have seen a lot of change, sure, but they're grouchy old men so they've moved along with the world around them, sometimes begrudgingly, but they're each survivors.

Matt is probably the one to have his childhood digs undergo the biggest changes, and boy does he not like it.

A lot of Hell's Kitchen was ripped up and destroyed by an alien invasion, so there's that.

Then there's the gentrification that's taking place at the hands of rich people, big corporations and a mysterious figure in the shadows moving all the pieces and pulling all the strings.

The 'Incident' helped push these efforts through and Matt is doing his damnedest to fight against them. While he is all for improving his neighborhood and making the city a better place, he is violently strongly against letting that happen at the expense and ousting of the people already living there. He is not going to stand idly by while his neighborhood loses its soul.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Humans and robots aren't locked in a global war anymore!

[iprotectyou]

Baze's whole world was destroyed, literally and figuratively.

[sticktothemission]

For Gabriel: Humans and robots are locked in global war.

For Reaper: He appears to be assisting in starting a second global war between humans and robots. But really that's more Doomfist's goal than his own.

[archmagetrust]

Khadgar's worldview as a kid was seven human kingdoms who sometimes traded with dwarves and elves.

Those seven human kingdoms are now three. Three were sacked by zombies and the other fell because its king decided to parlay with an invasion from another world (that was due to the machinations of a demonic army bent on destroying all of reality). The city he grew up in currently floats over the northern continent, which is also where Azeroth rediscovered half of its races are technically descended from magic space giants, including humans. Or at least creations of the giants, not the giants themselves. The giants left their creations to imprison the various Old Gods that infest Azeroth and keep them from corrupting the world and everything on it, but sometimes they break loose anyway.

...some days he really misses when the biggest concern anyone had were trade disagreements.