My bugs began to gather like a dark cloud, their mass casting a shadow on the already gloomy surroundings.
There’s a storm a-brewing.
“So I end the world? Interesting.”
You’re more like a catalyst, somehow, but yeah.
“The source is a little unreliable,” I lied.
You think that’s gonna deter him, Taylor? I’m pretty sure that’s just gonna make him more intrigued.
“Still, I would love to see how that comes about.”
I’m interested in that too. I think I’ve got a fairly decent pet theory on it that doesn’t actually require you to leave the city (”in every timeline where Jack leaves the city alive the threat is catalyzed” doesn’t mean that every timeline where he doesn’t leave the city alive is safe), but who knows. That theory doesn’t fully explain it anyway, so exactly how that would play out is also interesting.
Actually, I should probably recap in case some of my readers have forgotten this theory: I think Jack already did the thing that catalyzes the threat, all the way back in Interlude 11b. He set Theo on a path to become a cape in two years, and I suspect that this somehow leads to the threat. Perhaps if Jack hadn’t done what he did then, Theo would’ve triggered later, explaining the difference in timescales. Exactly how Theo becoming a cape leads to the future threat is a bit up in the air, but there are certainly ways it could happen. The simplest of them being that his power is ridiculously strong and uncontrollable.
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