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iluvroadrunner6) wrote2006-12-03 10:49 am
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Everworld Reference Post Part 1: What's NOT Mine
i really think i'm gonna do it. i'm absolutely insane for even considering it, but i really think i'm going to do it.
This is one of the reference posts for my CSI-verse/Everworld crossover. Now the Everworld end of this crossover is probably going to be a pretty loose one. I'm basically going to take K. A. Appelgate's universe, her main characters, and acknowledge the original storyline, but tweak it slightly, and throw in a whole bunch of my own characters. And when I say a whole bunch I really mean a whole bunch. So...anything mentioned in this post isn't mine. It’s also massively long, with a lot of information, so if you think it would be easier if I split it up, let me know.
Now this is a crazy sci-fi/fantasy AU. So if this really isn’t your cup of tea, don’t read. Well, read if you wish, but don’t yell at me for writing a crazy sci-fi/fantasy AU. I did give you fair warning.
Everworld (*spoilers*):
Everworld is a dimension created outside our own. In the dark ages, when people stopped believing in the gods of myth, Zeus, Odin and the other gods decided to form their own world where they would always be feared and worshipped by the people. They created Everworld, and left what then became known as the “Old World” forever.
Everworld is basically contained chaos. There’s one rule. Don’t anger the gods. Other than that the people/creatures/whatever are free to do as they please. They’ve also allowed alien gods and creatures to come in over the years, and that’s what’s gotten them into trouble. A god name Ka Anor came, and instead of eating the sacrifices offered to him by his people, he’s feasting on the gods instead. The other gods—aren’t so cool with that.
The way the book series starts out is the Norse god of chaos and destruction, Loki, sends his wolf son Fenrir to bring into Everworld a person who’s known as the “gateway witch” (Senna Wales). She was supposed to help him get out of Everworld before he became Ka Anor’s next meal. However, Senna brings along some of her ‘friends’ (and that’s a term I’d use loosely. Everyone but David actually hates her) from the Old World (Jalil Sherman, David Levin, Christopher Hitchcock, April O’Brien), and they make it their mission to find their way out of Everworld, alive, and with Senna.
Through that process they are made the champions of Everworld, completely unaware that Senna has other plans. She wants to rule Everworld, and she does so by bringing in her own arm of machine gun toting Neo-Nazis. Now, Everworld hasn’t advanced in technology much since the days which it left, so there’s basically swords and sticks up against modern day technology. They ain’t good odds.
While they’re in Everworld, they’re still in the Old World as well. The way they had gotten into Everworld involved the crossover not quite being complete, and whenever they’re asleep in Everworld, their conscious mind is also in the real world. There are also gods and goddesses who still remain in the real world. The one they refer to in the book was by choice, Brigid, but I think there might be other ones as well, and that goes under the “tweaked” section of the next post.
Anyway, the book series ended with Senna’s death at April’s hands, but with the gateway witch dead, her army (called the “Sennites”) was stuck in Everworld. The group of friends that she had brought with her initially were given the choice of whether they wanted to stay in Everworld or go back to the Old World, and they chose Everworld. Where my crossover is going to pick up is about five years from that point, so I can have a bit more of a defined battlefield.
For these, the initial summaries are directly from the official website for the books, and then I give my own interpretation. That way you get more direct information.
Senna Wales (deceased):
Senna is the one that started it all. Quiet and reserved, shrouded in mystery, she was the one who dragged David, Christopher, April and Jalil with her to Everworld. But once in Everworld, she began to act smug, teasing the group with small clues about her place in the grand scheme, yet never saying her part outright. She is often referred to as "my witch" by Loki. She has the ability to cast spells on others, making them obey her every whim, or making them believe something that is false. Her recently revealed goal is to become the newest leader of Everworld; because she is the gateway between the old world and Everworld, she is able to bring over a modern army to assist in her takeover — and possible destruction — of the world.
Senna is definitely one of my favorite characters. The story is rarely ever told from her point of view (the way K. A. Applegate wrote it is that each book in the series is told in first person by a different character, so we get a lot of different perspectives. It’s one of the reasons why I really love her work) but the one story that is, is my favorite book of the series. She’s not a good person, but I love the way she’s written. She’s conniving and manipulative, and just evil. She has so much resentment and anger towards her and April’s father, and her mother, and she’s got this crazy amount of emotion that she almost never shows. She’s kind of addicting in that respect. Or it could just be the fact that there aren’t that many female villains that I actually consider worth reading about/watching. I’m just sad I don’t get to write her. (…or will I?)
David Levin:
David was Senna's boyfriend - in the real world. In Everworld, he is the leader of the group. He was the one who said that all of them would return to the real world, or no one would return at all. Completely trusting of Senna and driven by his love for her - and the spells she has cast upon him - he follows her when no one else will and searches for her when no one else wants to. And this blind faith may eventually lead to their destruction.
David—I don’t like so much. More for his detachment from everything else. He tries to put more emphasis on his duty and his obligation to Everworld, rather than how he actually feels about the situation. He’s the one who feels most at home in Everworld, (he was actually the first to cross over fully when they were given the choice), and has been appointed Athena’s champion to try and save their world. He doesn’t know how he’s going to do it, but he wants to.
Christopher Hitchcock:
Senna's ex-beau, Christopher is always the first to crack a joke. He provides the humor in the sometimes bleak, often strange world they are in, although it is often very sarcastic and derogatory. However, his humor has another purpose as well: to help constrain and categorize a world that is often confusing to him. Even though he is a comedian, he is by no means a happy-go-lucky person. He despises Everworld, is very distrustful of Senna, and is sick of David acting like the macho man of the group. He would like nothing more than to go home and live a normal life again. And he is willing to do it with or without the others.
Christopher is my favorite character out of all of them. (Then again, the sarcastic, knows-this-is-crazy-and-going-to-complain-about-it-until-blue-but-doing-it-anyway characters usually are.) He’s sarcastic and funny, and he really does not fit into the whole Everworld scheme of things, but he’s also very loyal. He’s not going to abandon April and Jalil to get themselves killed to wherever David may lead them, so he also crosses over and stays in Everworld. He isn’t necessarily friends with any of them in the beginning, and tends to knock them down rather than be nice to them, but deep down he’s a good guy. Reminds me a bit of Danny in a sense.
April O'Brien:
April is the level-headed half sister of Senna. In the real world, she is much more outgoing than her sister - David says that you could spend ten minutes with her and feel as if you've known her all your life. Although she desperately wants to get back home, she rarely complains and tries to shed the best light on the situation as possible. She is possibly the most mature of the group, and gets annoyed with the others being at each other's throats during tense moments. She claims that it will hinder their progress of returning home.
I’ve always felt that you can’t help but like April. Maybe it’s just me, and the fact that she’s a thespian like myself that makes me love her, but she really is a likeable character. She’s actually one of the last ones to fully cross over, I think, because she has such a strong connection to the real world. She’s flat-out hates Senna, right off the bat, and she doesn’t trust her half-sister as far as she can throw her, especially after what taking Senna in did to her parent’s relationship (Senna was the product of an extra-marital affair by her father). Needless to say, she isn’t as concerned with the ‘saving Senna’ part of the adventure, but moreso on the ‘going home’ part. While April isn’t necessarily a favorite, I do like her, but slightly resent her because she, after all, is the one who killed Senna.
Jalil Sherman:
Jalil is the brains of the group. When the others wonder why something is happening or what something is, they usually turn to him. Sometimes, though, he will rationalize something aloud to drown out his own panic or fill a heavy silence, which leads to Christopher's opinion that he is a know-it-all. A firm believer that magic does not exist, he is determined to find a logical explanation as to why Everworld exists. His constant rationalizing is quite possibly a by-product of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder he suffers from in the real world - he feels that if he can control and make sense of the world, he will be able to control and make sense of himself.
Jalil, while he can be a know-it-all prick at times, is the character that interests me the most, because of the way he sees Everworld and how it effects him. Jalil has really severe OCD. There’s this one scene in one of the books, towards the end, where Senna just manipulates him and his OCD by telling him that his hand were dirty, and he just starts clawing at them until they bleed. With Everworld, though, since the world isn’t orderly and didn’t make any sense, the OCD is focused less on the more mundane things, and more on giving this world an order and making it make sense. Firmly atheist and definitely not a believer in magic, Jalil is looking for a scientific explanation at all times, but as far as I know he has yet to find one.
as i said, there’s a lot of information here, so please feel free to ask any and all questions. i’m here to help.
This is one of the reference posts for my CSI-verse/Everworld crossover. Now the Everworld end of this crossover is probably going to be a pretty loose one. I'm basically going to take K. A. Appelgate's universe, her main characters, and acknowledge the original storyline, but tweak it slightly, and throw in a whole bunch of my own characters. And when I say a whole bunch I really mean a whole bunch. So...anything mentioned in this post isn't mine. It’s also massively long, with a lot of information, so if you think it would be easier if I split it up, let me know.
Now this is a crazy sci-fi/fantasy AU. So if this really isn’t your cup of tea, don’t read. Well, read if you wish, but don’t yell at me for writing a crazy sci-fi/fantasy AU. I did give you fair warning.
Everworld (*spoilers*):
Everworld is a dimension created outside our own. In the dark ages, when people stopped believing in the gods of myth, Zeus, Odin and the other gods decided to form their own world where they would always be feared and worshipped by the people. They created Everworld, and left what then became known as the “Old World” forever.
Everworld is basically contained chaos. There’s one rule. Don’t anger the gods. Other than that the people/creatures/whatever are free to do as they please. They’ve also allowed alien gods and creatures to come in over the years, and that’s what’s gotten them into trouble. A god name Ka Anor came, and instead of eating the sacrifices offered to him by his people, he’s feasting on the gods instead. The other gods—aren’t so cool with that.
The way the book series starts out is the Norse god of chaos and destruction, Loki, sends his wolf son Fenrir to bring into Everworld a person who’s known as the “gateway witch” (Senna Wales). She was supposed to help him get out of Everworld before he became Ka Anor’s next meal. However, Senna brings along some of her ‘friends’ (and that’s a term I’d use loosely. Everyone but David actually hates her) from the Old World (Jalil Sherman, David Levin, Christopher Hitchcock, April O’Brien), and they make it their mission to find their way out of Everworld, alive, and with Senna.
Through that process they are made the champions of Everworld, completely unaware that Senna has other plans. She wants to rule Everworld, and she does so by bringing in her own arm of machine gun toting Neo-Nazis. Now, Everworld hasn’t advanced in technology much since the days which it left, so there’s basically swords and sticks up against modern day technology. They ain’t good odds.
While they’re in Everworld, they’re still in the Old World as well. The way they had gotten into Everworld involved the crossover not quite being complete, and whenever they’re asleep in Everworld, their conscious mind is also in the real world. There are also gods and goddesses who still remain in the real world. The one they refer to in the book was by choice, Brigid, but I think there might be other ones as well, and that goes under the “tweaked” section of the next post.
Anyway, the book series ended with Senna’s death at April’s hands, but with the gateway witch dead, her army (called the “Sennites”) was stuck in Everworld. The group of friends that she had brought with her initially were given the choice of whether they wanted to stay in Everworld or go back to the Old World, and they chose Everworld. Where my crossover is going to pick up is about five years from that point, so I can have a bit more of a defined battlefield.
For these, the initial summaries are directly from the official website for the books, and then I give my own interpretation. That way you get more direct information.
Senna Wales (deceased):
Senna is the one that started it all. Quiet and reserved, shrouded in mystery, she was the one who dragged David, Christopher, April and Jalil with her to Everworld. But once in Everworld, she began to act smug, teasing the group with small clues about her place in the grand scheme, yet never saying her part outright. She is often referred to as "my witch" by Loki. She has the ability to cast spells on others, making them obey her every whim, or making them believe something that is false. Her recently revealed goal is to become the newest leader of Everworld; because she is the gateway between the old world and Everworld, she is able to bring over a modern army to assist in her takeover — and possible destruction — of the world.
Senna is definitely one of my favorite characters. The story is rarely ever told from her point of view (the way K. A. Applegate wrote it is that each book in the series is told in first person by a different character, so we get a lot of different perspectives. It’s one of the reasons why I really love her work) but the one story that is, is my favorite book of the series. She’s not a good person, but I love the way she’s written. She’s conniving and manipulative, and just evil. She has so much resentment and anger towards her and April’s father, and her mother, and she’s got this crazy amount of emotion that she almost never shows. She’s kind of addicting in that respect. Or it could just be the fact that there aren’t that many female villains that I actually consider worth reading about/watching. I’m just sad I don’t get to write her. (…or will I?)
David Levin:
David was Senna's boyfriend - in the real world. In Everworld, he is the leader of the group. He was the one who said that all of them would return to the real world, or no one would return at all. Completely trusting of Senna and driven by his love for her - and the spells she has cast upon him - he follows her when no one else will and searches for her when no one else wants to. And this blind faith may eventually lead to their destruction.
David—I don’t like so much. More for his detachment from everything else. He tries to put more emphasis on his duty and his obligation to Everworld, rather than how he actually feels about the situation. He’s the one who feels most at home in Everworld, (he was actually the first to cross over fully when they were given the choice), and has been appointed Athena’s champion to try and save their world. He doesn’t know how he’s going to do it, but he wants to.
Christopher Hitchcock:
Senna's ex-beau, Christopher is always the first to crack a joke. He provides the humor in the sometimes bleak, often strange world they are in, although it is often very sarcastic and derogatory. However, his humor has another purpose as well: to help constrain and categorize a world that is often confusing to him. Even though he is a comedian, he is by no means a happy-go-lucky person. He despises Everworld, is very distrustful of Senna, and is sick of David acting like the macho man of the group. He would like nothing more than to go home and live a normal life again. And he is willing to do it with or without the others.
Christopher is my favorite character out of all of them. (Then again, the sarcastic, knows-this-is-crazy-and-going-to-complain-about-it-until-blue-but-doing-it-anyway characters usually are.) He’s sarcastic and funny, and he really does not fit into the whole Everworld scheme of things, but he’s also very loyal. He’s not going to abandon April and Jalil to get themselves killed to wherever David may lead them, so he also crosses over and stays in Everworld. He isn’t necessarily friends with any of them in the beginning, and tends to knock them down rather than be nice to them, but deep down he’s a good guy. Reminds me a bit of Danny in a sense.
April O'Brien:
April is the level-headed half sister of Senna. In the real world, she is much more outgoing than her sister - David says that you could spend ten minutes with her and feel as if you've known her all your life. Although she desperately wants to get back home, she rarely complains and tries to shed the best light on the situation as possible. She is possibly the most mature of the group, and gets annoyed with the others being at each other's throats during tense moments. She claims that it will hinder their progress of returning home.
I’ve always felt that you can’t help but like April. Maybe it’s just me, and the fact that she’s a thespian like myself that makes me love her, but she really is a likeable character. She’s actually one of the last ones to fully cross over, I think, because she has such a strong connection to the real world. She’s flat-out hates Senna, right off the bat, and she doesn’t trust her half-sister as far as she can throw her, especially after what taking Senna in did to her parent’s relationship (Senna was the product of an extra-marital affair by her father). Needless to say, she isn’t as concerned with the ‘saving Senna’ part of the adventure, but moreso on the ‘going home’ part. While April isn’t necessarily a favorite, I do like her, but slightly resent her because she, after all, is the one who killed Senna.
Jalil Sherman:
Jalil is the brains of the group. When the others wonder why something is happening or what something is, they usually turn to him. Sometimes, though, he will rationalize something aloud to drown out his own panic or fill a heavy silence, which leads to Christopher's opinion that he is a know-it-all. A firm believer that magic does not exist, he is determined to find a logical explanation as to why Everworld exists. His constant rationalizing is quite possibly a by-product of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder he suffers from in the real world - he feels that if he can control and make sense of the world, he will be able to control and make sense of himself.
Jalil, while he can be a know-it-all prick at times, is the character that interests me the most, because of the way he sees Everworld and how it effects him. Jalil has really severe OCD. There’s this one scene in one of the books, towards the end, where Senna just manipulates him and his OCD by telling him that his hand were dirty, and he just starts clawing at them until they bleed. With Everworld, though, since the world isn’t orderly and didn’t make any sense, the OCD is focused less on the more mundane things, and more on giving this world an order and making it make sense. Firmly atheist and definitely not a believer in magic, Jalil is looking for a scientific explanation at all times, but as far as I know he has yet to find one.
as i said, there’s a lot of information here, so please feel free to ask any and all questions. i’m here to help.
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