The Plan…Part 1
I was chatting with a fan/reader/patron and they asked me to explain how Ascension ties in with Game of the Gods and the New Angels/Earth Y4K/CAVEGIRL (NAEC). They’d read the original manuscripts (Find them at https://discord.com/channels/696557556553875556/711401597753622610) but didn’t get how they fit with NAEC. This is a good question, and so far, the answer has probably only made sense to me.
In the original manuscript progression, it went Ascension, Return of the Fallen Angel, Children of the Emperor, Irruption, and Game of the Gods. This would complete the story arc of how Kita became God. And that’s where it was supposed to stop. When I went to publish, I combined Ascension, Return of the Fallen Angel, and Children of the Emperor into one series. This was done for a couple of reasons. Those three series are one story arc of Kita vs. Angus. The first three published Ascension books are the same as the original manuscripts, with some tweaks. Return is where I started to rewrite. The rewrite wasn’t so much making a new story as taking the disjointed and incomplete story that was Return of the Fallen Angel and making it flow, coherent and complete.
If you’ve read Return of the Fallen Angel and the new Ascension, you’ll find 90% is the same, just polished. The biggest change is the introduction of Babydoll (Kerri) in Price of Glory. Before, she wasn’t introduced until Irruption. It was decided that Babydoll being a high-ranking legionnaire, would have been noticed by Kita went she took over the Legion. Kita and Babydoll as best friends has been expanded to a relationship taking place between Kita’s relationship with Snowy and Sarin. Kita and Babydoll will span time and space. Sarin will still happen in pretty much the same fashion. She’ll help Kita raise Spike and Quill. The events in Children of the Emperor will see the most rewriting in the new Ascension. I remember it being very disjointed, incomplete, and missing elements.
Irruption will become Empire of Angels. I haven’t thought much about what needs to happen with this story. The original manuscripts for Irruption are in good shape. I’ve got some changes, like not having Kita run off twice in four chapters. EoA will link Ascension and Game of the Gods.
Game of the Gods is published but needs a rewrite, but I’m not going to do it….except for parts of Li’ve…until I’ve finished EoA. For the most part, the story and characters of Game of the Gods are good. There are a bunch of continuity errors, and background information has changed. The end of Li’ve will change, well a detail. A big detail. Currently, Kita destroys the Infinity Reality over Sarin. That’ll change. Kita will destroy the Infinity Reality over the loss of Kasey Bush, AKA Defiance. Sarin and Kita will be together for a long time, but Kita desperately wants Kasey. She wants Babydoll, too, but she turned Kita down when asked to partner. If you’ve read Incompatablitly or CATHOUSE you’ve gotten a hint of Kita’s relationships with Apacolypse, Babydoll, and Darkness. In the WHAT IF Reunion, you can see where Sarin fits in or doesn’t.
Death vs. Deletion. This is a concept that causes a lot of confussion. In the Infinity Universes (GotG) ceasing of existing can happen in one of three ways. Killed. If an Angel is killed, say Snowy on the transfer station in Li’ve. Her equation has stopped but her data (Spirit?) is still stored in the universe’s memory. In CATHOUSE Ryan and others find Snowy’s data (Spirit) and copy it into Kita’s Reality. With deletion, when the Angel is killed by deletion, like Defiance, her data (spirit) is removed from the universe’s memory. It was like she never existed. Finding these Angels will require searching other parts of Kita’s Computer. Kerri was found storied in temperary memory. The problem is, no one knows when these caches and memory stores will be overwritten. So, there’s some urgancy. Truncation. This is what Kita did to Tina. It’s not evident in GotG’s or the other books how much Kita hates Tina. When an equation is truncated, it stops and hangs in limbo between life and death. Forever waiting to be processed but never will.
Continued in Part 2 next week
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