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Fun insider info: the reason the end of Vale even exists the way it does is because since Vale has time-controlling powers I thought it’d be fun if Cephas got shot at one point and she could reverse the bullet out of his body but what would be even more fun is if it didn’t actually work because Cephas isn’t affected by her powers so the bullet would technically tear two wounds into him, one where it goes in, and one where it goes out as its trajectory is reversed (since Cephas has moved in the meantime cause he’s not affected).

There is, of course, a reason why Cephas isn’t affected by Vale’s powers (no, it isn’t love the way it is in Leaper which is still the best scene I’ve ever written don’t @ me) but I was gonna have Vale only control the bullet while everything else, including Ormandy who fired the gun, is going normal time, and then Ormandy would step forward in SHOCK as his bullet is reversed IN TIME, but where he would step to is the place his bullet left his gun (which he’d let down in the meantime) so then Vale just yanks at nothing and the bullet goes PFFLLLTTTT back inside Ormandy. And then Cephas falls on the ground and Vale ~lets go of ~the bullet and then BAMM it slams into the wall behind Cephas (from where he moved in the meantime you knOW WHAT I MEAN?).

I just thought that’d be too much and I kinda wanted to emphasise a lot that only Cephas isn’t affected so to have Vale suddenly be able to just pick a random object to control was a little ehh, she can’t even do that with her normal powers.

And like, it’s so stupid because if Vale literally does nothing then Cephas would’ve been better off with just the one gunshot wound but this way he somehow has two and poor girl literally just found out the thing (that chapter is online by the way :3), then fucking Morlene is there, and Cephas is gonna die and then she just panics and suddenly she can’t just stop but also reverse time (I didn’t steal this from Life Is Strange, how dare you… I stole it from Superhot, then I stole it from Life Is Strange, get your facts straight), and she also knows Cephas isn’t affected by her powers but she just had to do something.

Anyway, so I needed a reason why Cephas isn’t affected by Vale’s powers (a reason that isn’t love, I already used that) and that is how the rest of the story happened and I feel really smart but in fact I just wanted my OC to see her best friend suffer and almost die and that’s how I figured out why any of it even happened.