okay okay i cant not talk about potential vale sequels so here. BUT I MUST WARN YOU if you ever just even considered reading vale (i know what are the chances, none) please do because this post will RUIN THE WHOLE THING. a slightly revised version of it is online here if you want to give it a go, its a fun supernatural assassin/fun buddy detective story with twists and turns, its my favourite story i ever wrote so. maybe give it a go? if you’d like? then tell me how you like it? if at all? cooLm,  @ MY SISTER DONT READ THIS

so because Vale ends with Vale and Cephas separated for EVER but… since the multiverse theory is all but confirmed its like bloody undertale/deltarune i get to do whatever the fuck i want,. there could be inifnite cephases and vales and… so when i was originally thinkina bout sequels i had this thought in my brain like… the beacons somehow fuck up and they literally MERGE the two worlds featured in the first story. Cephas and Vale would meet again and together theyd have to figure out what happened. i didnt really have a direction for it i just wanted them to meet again.

but so then… now… i was thinking… and i also dont have a lot of direction for this as well but im thinking… because cephas told vale he would never stop trying to find a way back for her. what if he fucks up majorly… or does something that lands him in a world with vale… but a different one. like, have you guys seen the show sliders? bloody same thing (almost) like when they get to a world thats like theirs but then the main dude is like “our fence gate used to make a noise if it doesnt make a noise its not our world” and then the gate doesnt make a noise so they leave the world and then a minute later a dude comes out of the house like “hey i fixed the gate” so it turned out it was their world but… whatever you know what i mean.

so cephas would seek out vale’s help except this vale doesnt know about anything. the blight was never a threat there, maybe her parents could be alive (but most importantly i could finally write her in a poly relationship with morlene and lourdes whih would be tOIT AS SHIT). AND on top of it all it could be from cephas’ POV which would be interesting as all hell. hes my naive and good-hearted boy, in ways hes so similar to vale but so different as well. plus i could play with so many different things in this world. since theres no blight i could introduce the mainland which had never been too elaborated on.

further brainstorming included them not being versions of each other but literal twins, except in one version of the universe the girl gets born in the other the boy does, but maybe… mAYBE they were both supposed to get born but then they didnt or whatever but it also involves the blight actually being a force similar to destiny and it connecting the worlds and trying to pull them into each other would be it trying to fix its mistake of both twins never ending up in the same world (but that not being able to work of course because then there would be two of everybody else so inevitably they would always have to end up apart from each other)

this would also tie in to how i consciously never mentioned a god or religion in vale. the people of caelmoor are only familiar with the concept of hell, not god, though there is one church mentioned in the story. so you know… like…. that could be a connecting motive. like the blight being… you know, a Force, a higher power, that manifests as a cancerous infection when not in-between dimensions.

idk why i got such a boner for destiny being twisted and changed and shit happening that both kickstarts the events of the story AND gives the main characters the devices needed to fix the course of events. that was what leaper was about as well; chase was never supposed to live past the age of four but because she did she got all these supernatural powers that eventually led to her being able to go back in time and let herself die.

yeah, that was a fun one.

but vale is the same, like vale accidentally ended up on the wrong side and was left only tethered to her own world hence giving her the timey-wimey powers thad led to her being able to pull herself back through the gate in the past hence restoring the order.

damn, i liked doing a smart thing so much once in my life that i did it TWICE