Wednesday DE: Who tells your story

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Nabbing something from the suggestion box today, with thanks to childofrebellion.

Since I've been thinking about history and archives a lot in my work and fic writing. How will your character be remembered in their world?

As an example, I think Cassian's someone who because of doing work that kept him very much hidden, his work was all about blending in, he's known in odd ways. The Rebellion has their own memorials and ways of honoring Rogue One but I love this thought of Poe Dameron in learning how to be a spy reading old reports of his.

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[run_barry]

So... as the timeline stands right now, the Flash will vanish in a crisis while saving the world. He'll be remembered as a great hero on this Earth and maybe others(?), but as Barry Allen only to those who knew the truth.

The Flash will be commemorated and memorialized with the usual statues and plaques, but he'll also have the grand honor of having an entire museum dedicated to him.

Time travel shenanigans being what they are, this may or may not still happen. In canon this event gets altered by Barry and others into not happening, happening in other ways or bumped up from happening in the future to... soon (eyes the pending Crisis on Infinite Earths).

Most likely though he will still be remembered as a hero regardless of his ending.

(Unless it's the one timeline where he falls into a miserable emo depression and stops being the Flash while his own time remnant becomes a murderous speed god... )

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Eden will ... probably go down in history as a nameless Dandelion? It's increasingly unclear, both because KHUX's placement in the timeline isn't as straightforward as it seems (looking at you, Mickey and Maleficent), and because there's something very wrong with the protagonist that makes it more and more apparent that they're not who the game initially presents them as. It's entirely possible that they've already gone down in history under a different name, or are going to have will have had gone down in history as someone else.


By the time of Tri, the public status of the Chosen is ... weird, because the world knows about them and has seen their faces, but doesn't know who they are (or ... sort of don't? At the very least, their classmates seem acutely aware that Taichi, Yamato, Sora, and Mimi are all Chosen), and there's a general public suspicion about them that has turned into out-and-out hostility by the end of the show, with no signs of abating any time soon.

Twenty-five years in the future, though, the implication is that everyone knows who they are, and they're widely considered heroes, or at the very least as the guardians of the worlds. I can't imagine that that suspicion would ever go away fully, but at the very least, they're going to go down in history as heroic figures.

Yamato specifically is also going to eventually end up transitioning into working for JAXA, and eventually going to be a part of an early mission to Mars (although not the first, I think? It's described as the first mission to Mars with a Digimon on the crew, so I assume there were all-human missions prior to it), so he'll also be part of history books for that.


Gabumon is going to be the first Digimon on Mars, man.

Space Lizard.

[ceitfianna]

I never knew that detail of going to Mars with Gabumon, that's so cool. I love that and that Yamato gets to go to space in his own verse.

[they_see_me]

SPACE LIZARD

SPACE LIZARD IN A WOLF SUIT

[aberration]

I think I've given something like this answer before, but - I imagine Hera's legacy as somewhat complicated, with the Empire and the First Order viewing her as his inhuman (literally) monster, who slaughtered Imperial pilots and was operating terrorist cells since she was a teenager. Within the Rebellion I think it's sort of been confirmed that she becomes something of a legend, and is generally thought of as a hero. But I also like to imagine that she had her share of admirers and, if maybe not detractors, those who didn't feel entirely comfortable with her. People came to the Rebellion with numerous reasons and motivations, and I imagine some not being entirely comfortable with the radical politics associated with the Syndulla name, or the tactics she used especially early on, or simply a Twi'lek woman in her position.

And whether thought of as a hero or a monster, she was certainly a renowned pilot. Which might have also engendered some level of resentment.


And Kanan is again more difficult because what can have been known/remembered about him is... canon-murky. But aside from being among the last of the old Jedi Order, he was also one of the most actively involved with non-Jedi, and so I like to think his particular relationship with the Force and how he ultimately chose to take on that role was something that influenced how the Force and maybe the Jedi were subsequently understood.