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#tho that scene with you know who from the trains favourite group of murderish vandal children was what cemented the idea fully
kai-borg · 3 years
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Infinity train character idea I gotta write up sometime:
A passenger who’s number broke so he can’t leave
Whatever his lessons were that he needed to learn, during the final one something happened that caused his number to skip past [0] to [-1] or something in the negative range (and yes the colours are like that for a reason, just love red=code error/etc stuff)
He was with a group of other passengers at the point who’d also been completing their last lessons and whatnot, so he hid his number and told them he must’ve had another lesson or something, but he’d catch up with them later (y’know, like a liar)
The issue is, even though he kept trying things to fix his number, trying to figure out new lessons, doing the opposite of old ones, helping out other passengers, it just kept getting lower, and spreading (like with you know who’s group), and as he later realized, somehow his number breaking like that had changed his connection to the train/the pocket dimension it was in and he’d not only started gaining abilities that could alter and/or outright damage the worlds inside carts, eventually developing into the ability to modify himself in various ways as his connection between the two realities corrupted even further, he’d also stopped aging.
By this point he’d have already gone through multiple teamups with solo/groups of passengers before finding out how much time had apparently passed outside, and his number would’ve long since begun covering the majority of his body, not enough he couldn’t hide it, but enough he needed full to wear clothes that provided a lot of skin coverage, but with this discovery it’d be enough to finally push his number into covering all of him, and also breaking him in the same moment.
Whatever’d happen he’d end up driving whatever team he was with away, and most likely permanently taking over and corrupting the environment of the cart he was in, and possibly also it’s connection to the train and mini-universe itself.
I pretty much just have this idea of some ageless, reality warping, and highly unstable passenger who’s covered in glowing red, constantly changing numbers (cycling especially rapidly whenever he alters the reality of whatever environment he’s in in a particularly dramatic moment, or modifies himself), and terrorizes the inhabitants of the train, and while not actively trying to kill passengers, more than willing to torment, terrify, and toy with whatever passengers he comes across out of a hatred for the fact he still can’t leave, while collecting whatever items, landscapes, and even creatures that he either might have old memories of, or just interest him which he drags back to his corrupted cart to create some sort of hall of memories/comfort-esque ‘new home’ seeing as how he’ll never return to his old one
Basically, big disturbing antagonist with creepy powers, a flair for the dramatic, and a bit of mental instability that came about from having to contend with the fact he 1) will never return home, and everyone he knew is probably dead, 2) is stuck in a weird surreal train dimension of outright terrifying at times mini-worlds in every cart that come in every flavour of whatever random combination for a setting you can think of, and are filled with countless sapient, but entirely non-human beings, many of which are less than friendly, and all of which you can never escape no matter how many carts you go through, and 3) has to come to terms with the fact he’s practically lost his own humanity in everything except form, and even that is entirely up to his own desires (and also because it’s what he’s still the most subconsciously used to regardless of how he temporarily changes it), and has resulted in a tendency to lash out both physically, and verbally with the same vitriol he felt about the situation he was forced into before he began to lose it entirely.
In other words, very cruel, scary antagonist at this point, but not entirely irredeemable if you can somehow actually get through to him in a way that settles at least enough of his fractured psyche that some of his old self pulls itself back into the forefront.
#infinity train#infinity train character idea#character idea#character idea I gotta write out fully sometime#I'll try and clean this up into something coherent sometime just needed to lay the idea out in a post somewhere at least#in all honesty infinity train is a fun show but it doesn't exactly pull my interest in as much as other shows#it's plots just kind of loose and all over the place even if it's coherent enough to tell what's going on#I also prefer when there's consistent MC's over new ones every season#not that I dislike how it's being done just not my usual cup of tea#which is also why the fact that this idea has been sticking with me for as long as it has is an odd one#did not expect to get a character idea my brain'd get invested in enough to keep from a fandom I'm never really going to be a part of#like this guy's been bouncing around since mid season-1/early season 2#tho that scene with you know who from the trains favourite group of murderish vandal children was what cemented the idea fully#sure numbers came before it but the idea that they gave you powers the higher they got flipped my brains creative switch all the way on#especially with the idea of what kind of differences there would be in powers if the numbers weren't going up from 0 but down#and so I of course had to start going the eldritch abomination reality altering monster man route#it's mostly centered around the thought of how reaching 0 means your connection to this pocket universe is pretty much cut#so if your connection reaches the point where it was supposed to be cut but then somehow skips over it#what does it mean when you're still stuck there but technically not connected to it any longer#and what does that mean for the connection to the dimension you should now be in#and I went this means you're connection to both is now so screwed up the reality your in is no longer compatible with you and vice versa#but because your also still a part of it neither its or your existence can reject the other and they also can't properly incorporate either#and because of this conflict reality around you starts pretty much tearing apart at the seams#now whether you can benefit from this tearing much less control it'd be another thing but in this case I'm saying he can#with the... mental fragility that came with being forced to acknowledge what was happening to him he pretty much ended up in the perfect#mentality to adapt to the newfound abilities his impossible existence had spawned as if they were just basic instinct#the minimal training he had in using them at their much weaker when his existence was not as altered by his screwed up connection#(i.e. a negative number that didn't cover all of him and constantly altered)#also helped his mind and body adapt to them as he fractured
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