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sanctum-stinker · 1 year

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DEFENDER BACKSTORY AT LAST!!

Finally came up with a backstory for Defender for my re-write! Very very little of this is actually mentioned, and even less of it actually significant to the plot, but I do like to have it there anywho. Feedback, question and all similar things are always much welcomed!

I will be referring to him (Defender Strange) as Stephen just for convenience throughout this, and 616 will be used to refer to the MCU (even though I and many see it as the comic universe.) Anywho, let’s get to it!

- The differences in character between 616 and 617 begin on May 4th 2012, The Battle of New York. Doctor Stephen Strange is performing surgery at Metro general, leaving his usual post as neurosurgeon to join the ER nurses and Doctors as an influx of people is rushed in during this devastating attack. - The attack happened right after Stephen successfully completed a 10-15 hour long brain surgery, and thus midway through his work in the ER Christine and him have an argument about him taking a break. Stephen is required to take a 30 minute break so that he doesn’t collapse and can continue helping the steady stream of the injured, but being the stubborn man that he is he refuses to. -Eventually he leaves out of frustration, saying that he’d get some fresh air and then come back in knowing then Christine would be too busy with other patients to stop him from continuing his work. -When he goes outside, he’s horrified to face a swarm of Chitauri soldiers, the hospital has begun to be under attack. Stephen is attacked by one of the Chitauri, but is saved by the Hulk who shows up just in time to smash his way through the oncoming swarm and divert them from the hospital. -Unfortunately, during this Stephen gets fatally injured, wether by the Hulk directly, or by the Chitauri he couldn’t be sure through the pain and confusion. His hands end up being crushed, and parts of his body heavily wounded. -He manages to drag himself inside, and is forced to wait in line with the rest of the patients. This is agonizing, not just because of the pain, but because he knows the nerve damage in his hands will become irreparable while he sits there. -He develops a keen dislike towards the Avengers and their way of operating. Being a man who worked in the hospital he knew that the Avengers caused more ruckus than they stopped, and that these things were happening to earth because of their existence. -Stephen, while he was in the hospital tending to the wounded, spotted Jonathan Pangborn, a man he had refused to see due to the severity of his wounds. He couldn’t speak to him at the time, but seeks him out after his own surgeries to understand how he had miraculously healed. This is where he learns of Kamar-Taj. -Forced out of his job by his wounds, and fueled by anger and need for revenge, Stephen leaves to Kathmandu. He doesn’t wish to heal and take back his old life like 616 Stephen did, nor bring back something he had lost like 838 Stephen, he wishes to gain tremendous unfathomable power to overthrow the Avengers and protect the world in a way they could not. Now the whole Kamar-Taj spiel I haven’t figured out in detail because there is SO MUCH to work with, but something occurs and Tao is killed, but Stephen manages to pull through and put his thirst for power and revenge behind him to prove himself worthy of the title of Sorcerer Supreme, and thus after her death he replaces her. He basically has to go through a small amount of character development and gains the ability to use magic. It’s Defender’s equivalent of the 2016 movie and I’m yet to come up with anything concrete yet. Now, I’m aware that Doctor Strange 2016 (apparently) occurs in 2016, and the events of the next part, Age of Ultron, occurs in 2015 in the MCU timeline. However, in 617 Stephen becomes a sorcerer earlier, as his accident happens in 2012 during the battle of New York rather than 2016 when 616 Stephen goes on his journey to Kamar-Taj. Thus, during 2015 when Ultron attacks, Stephen in 617 is Sorcerer Supreme. That was unnecessary but I put effort into figuring that out so I’m putting it there. -Stephen has since mellowed slightly from his rage filled self who initially joined Kamar-Taj to overthrow the avengers, however his dislike for them still remains. When he hears of an attack in Sokovia caused by Stark Tech his personal bias causes him to disobey the Mystic order and he leaves to intervene. -Stephen wishes to be a force greater than the avengers, he wants to make sure that they don’t have to avenge because “If you’re avenging it means you’ve already lost.”

-With his new moral compass molded by Tao’s kindness and wisdom he is able to put his hate aside to help the Avengers and offer them his mystical help during the attack. As such they are somehow able to lower the floating island back down as opposed to destroying it over the ocean with the help of Stephen and the forces of Kamar-Taj who have not been in the public eye since the creation of the mystic order. - After everything subsides Stephen offers his two cents on the way they are operating, stating that earth needed to focus on its defenses. He did not want to prepare for a war by creating armies, but rather prepare so that they could avoid it. He offered a partnership with the Avengers, the mystic order would offer their help and services when needed and in turn they received the full cooperation of the avengers and their resources. Due to Sokovia never being destroyed the accords are never created, the band never splits up. With this new mission to Defend earth as opposed to creating a team ready to fight for it, the team grow much closer and manage to work a lot better. Where are my 2012 Avengers fam folk. I know you’re out there. -Thor and Stephen work together the most. Thor tells Stephen about his vision of the infinity stones during a dinner they were having, telling him that they should likely investigate potential enemies looking for them now that three of them were on earth. Tony overhears this and offers the knowledge he received during his own vision about Thanos. This initiates a mission to create a plan to defend the stones, with Tony sending out Stark bots around the world for surveillance and security and the Mystic order strengthening their barriers. On top of that Thor searched the cosmos for any signs that Thanos, their potential enemy, could be about. -All in all Stephen’s Intervention with the Avengers, and everything that came after manages to prevent Infinity war from happening. Because he never got blipped out Stephen remains Sorcerer Supreme and once satisfied with the way the avengers are operating he returns to the Sanctum and Kamar-Taj full time to focus more on his part as Sorcerer Supreme.

Anywho! That’s the most of what I have so far. I have some random bits and bobs of info which I’ll list down below. I wanted to have Defender be what 616 Stephen ideally wanted to be. Sorcerer Supreme, wiser and stronger, and able to protect what he cares for. Also because infinity war and endgame are such a big weight in Stephen in my re-write, having Defender avoid such events would lead to an interesting conflict within Stephen because he didn’t know he was capable of such things. However! Unlike 616 where he sort of repressed his feelings because his main conflict was his love and inability to express it, 617 Stephen was forced to be more emotional with him becoming a very angry and hateful man. Because of this, even later on, he finds himself jumping to conclusions and doing things before he thinks them through, he is a more emotion driven man as opposed to the logical thinker that we know Doctor Strange to be. This later on leads to him trying to take America’s power. He has as much to learn about himself as 616 Stephen does in my rewrite, and I found that really interesting to play around with.

Anywho, random facts.

-His hair is a symbol of his growth. It was shaved off after his accident so that the doctors could patch a cut on his head, and he grows it out when he becomes sorcerer supreme. -WONG IS A BIG PART OF HIS BACKSTORY! He is, I just haven’t figured out what part he plays. I really want to weave in influences from the Origins one shot which I ADORE and puts a cool ass twist on his character. I’ll make another post just for him when I come up with it. -His robes are never blue. They remain red like the Master’s robes with black highlights. The change of red with black highlights to Black with red highlights is meant to sort of symbolise his growth and ability to control his anger, with red obviously symbolizing his anger. -The robe designs which I attached above has elements from the original Comic Defenders Stephen. The chest symbol, the flap at the back and the slicked back hair are all influenced by his original appearance, but they change once he becomes sorcerer supreme and his hair obviously gets longer.

Anywho, that’s all for today! I know it’s messy but I really just needed to get this down. It’s not really important at all regarding the actual plot of the re-write, so I’ll probably alter details and bits and bobs here and there just for funzies. I’m in no way an expert about the Avengers, so if you have any ideas or comments about their incorporation here please do tell me!

Thanks for your time!

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sanctum-stinker · 1 year

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SU🅱️REME TIME.

Cannot express the joy I feel in reading some of the tags you fellows leave. I wish I could reply to every single one of them with my gratitude, but unfortunately I don’t know how.

This is a post explaining 838 lore! There is literally too much text from what I have so far, so I’ll break the 838 involvement into two parts: Lore/Backstory and Involvement in the actual re-write. Yet again, most of what’s written here is only thought out for my own enjoyment and is never mentioned in the actual re-write.

This post will explain how 838 Stephen varies from 616 and the others, the change in the timeline because of this variation, the forming of the Illuminati and Supreme’s downfall and how that leads into the plot, as well as details of various supporting characters like Christine, Tony (Yep. He’s here because I said so) and Mordo.

I apologize for any spelling errors. I cannot proof read when there is more than three words on screen.

TIME TO GO TO FLAVORTOWN!

838 Stephen lore.

In this Universe, Stephen sought Kamar-Taj to try and bring Donna back. He was still in his early days of being a Doctor, and learns of Kamar-Taj through Jonathan Pangborn. After seeing him walk as if his spine was not snapped clean in two, Stephen’s curiosity led him to questioning John and leading him to Kathmandu.

This means that he became a sorcerer at a younger age and making him the youngest Strange out of the four main variants (Sinister is oldest, then defender, 616 Stephen and then 838).

As a result of his premature arrival Kaecilius was still a Master of Kamar-Taj and finds Stephen’s motives in learning magic to mirror his (death of loved one/s) and attempts to become his mentor, but Tao assigns Mordo to him instead.

Kaecilius is angered that Tao is allowing another student to be led blindly into joining the league of sorcerers and attempts to pull Stephen onto his side with his Zealots. Stephen agrees with his cause, believing this was the way to get Donna back and joins the zealots for a short period of time, learning of Dormammu and the dark dimension.

Later on Kaecilius and the zealots overthrow Tao, and Stephen is forced to betray Kaecilius to fulfill his Hippocratic oath. Tao sees the good in Stephen and gives him the title of Sorcerer supreme before she dies.

Stephen was not ready to have the title, and thus he is assigned Wong, who aids him as a sort of mentor, ally and bodyguard to ensure he is led on the right path.

Stephen, Wong and Mordo put a stop to Kaecilus’ operations, but Mordo, enraged that Tao would so impulsively gave the title to Stephen, leaves Kamar-Taj.

A short break before we get into the 838 lore that’s directly important to the plot. This break is bought to you by….

Wong’s new physical form!

He looks like that because I like comic Wong and he deserves the world. Benedict Wong is a god I will worship forever till death, but comic Wong is my uncle. Because of the pre-existing lore with the Peters looking different I thought it would be reasonable to have this Wong be different too. Stephen also has a couple of Variants which differ from the uniquely molded alien shape of Benedict Cumberbatch. My variant from universe 001 is Vincent Price to pay respects to the likeness they pulled from the actor in the comics.

ANYWHO, BACK TO IT!

The forming of ‘The Illuminati’

Because 838 Stephen was Sorcerer Supreme earlier, the world was introduced to the sorcerer’s and mystic order a lot earlier, as Stephen’s personality won’t allow him to work from the shadows.

As a result he helped in the ‘Battle of New York’ (naturally since he lives in the sanctum), and became acquainted with the Avengers.

After the battle ended Tony, who became paranoid of out of the world threats, created ‘The Illuminati’, a secret group of people who could handle these threats with their differing abilities.

Now, I haven’t exactly pinned who is a part of the group and why, and it doesn’t really matter as only Tony needs to exist for the re-write plot, but so far I have Reed Richards, Tony Stark (a variant inspired by Superior Ironman), Professor X and Bruce Banner/Hulk.

Tony still creates Ultron, though the details of all that I haven’t bothered to come up with. All that matters is that Vision exists now. [^^>] Also Wanda is there. Yeah.

Infinity War / Endgame

Timeskip to Infinity War because this is where shit goes DOWN.

Thanos has come for the stones on earth, and the black order were sent as a warning. When The Avengers failed, The Illuminati banded together as planned and manage to deal with the order, leading to Thanos’ direct involvement.

Stephen attempts to use the book of Vishanti to find an answer to the crisis, but only finds tactics which involved sacrificing half the universe, or extremely dubious methods.

Naturally he turns to ✨Dark magic✨ instead. Because he, at one point, was a zealot, 838 Stephen is more drawn to the Dark Dimension as he knows the raw power it offers.

He devises a plan with Wong, telling him that he would create a pact with Dormammu, selling a small portion of his soul for a sum of power. After Thanos is dealt with, Wong will use the book of Vishanti to remove the darkness from him and hopefully restore his soul by breaking the pact. Wong, knowing Stephen will only turn to worse methods if he refused, agrees to this plan and leaves to find the book which the two built a waypoint to.

Stephen makes the pact successfully, arrives at the battle at the last minute, and absolutely obliterates the shit out of that grape.

Unfortunately the use of such raw power weakens his physical and spiritual bodies, meaning the energies he absorbed from Dormammu become volatile and uncontrollable. He, ironically, becomes the threat as bursts of dark magic explode out of him as he tries to contain it somehow.

Seeing the damage Stephen was causing, and thinking there to be no other way out, Tony kills Stephen. He does it swiftly, shooting him through the heart with a repulser blast.

Wong, who had retrieved the book of Vishanti, arrives to see Stephen hit the ground and draw his last breath.

The Illuminati take Stephen’s body, as a shocked Wong is unable to move. Believing it was the best thing to do they cover up Stephen’s outburst, creating a fabricated story of sacrifice to save his honor and public image.

The Illuminati disband after their conflicting opinions on Tony’s actions.

Kamar-Taj Post Endgame

Mordo, much like 616 Mordo, that’s begun a moral mission to wipe out the sorcerers. Believing the finite supply of earth’s magic is I rightfully being wasted on people who don’t deserve to wield it, he begins picking off previous students of Kamar-Taj, slowly working up his power and gaining a reputation for his actions.

Wong has taken up the duty as the Master of the New York Sanctum, but spends a lot of time at Kamar-Taj fortifying and ensuring the waypoint to the book of Vishanti is not opened by anyone else.

With the Sorcerer Supreme gone, many insist Wong take the mantle, but he refuses out of guilt (and a healthy dose of self depreciation). The mantle remains open.

Mordo, after years of collecting magic and slaying (yass) sorcerers, returns to Kamar-Taj after Stephen’s death to take the position of Sorcerer Supreme. He shows his strength by battling the forces of Kamar-Taj and overthrowing the battalions. Wong and the masters immediately have Kamar-Taj evacuated, as they know battle would be futile. They scatter to temples and safe houses around the world, leaving Mordo free to take the title of Sorcerer Supreme. He finds no use in staying at Kamar-Taj and moves into the New York Sanctum.

Wong remains at Kamar-Taj after collecting what he could from the (formerly his own) Sanctum. He protects the waypoint he and Stephen created knowing now more than ever that people would likely come looking for it.

This all happens a couple weeks after Stephen’s death/murder, so Wong is unable to contact the Illuminati or move against them. He doubts he could make a difference regardless, and hides in Kamar-Taj afraid of what the outside world is doing to Stephen’s reputation.

Christine

Because Stephen stopped being a doctor at a younger age he never really reached the peak of his arrogance because he never really became powerful enough. Thus his relationship with Christine went a lot better.

The Ancient One also teaches him to overcome his grief and guilt regarding Donna (much like 616 being taught to overcome his disability), as that’s the conflict that lead him to Kamar-Taj. Because he accepted that part of his life he was more open to letting people in and facing his fears of being loved or loving, thus he continues his relationship with Christine.

Even after becoming a sorcerer he keeps in touch with her, and the two remain in good terms. She is, of course, his emergency nurse when shit hits the fan.

After he becomes Sorcerer Supreme he teaches her some of the basics of magic in hopes it could help her to protect herself in the possibility that his mystic life put her in danger. He teaches her most about the relics, as some of them can be used regardless of wether you have magic knowledge or not

They were engaged at the time of his death.

One of the members of the Illuminati (maybe Reed?) tells her about the true story as to what happened to Stephen, believing it was morally wrong for her to think Stephen simply sacrificed himself. She feels betrayed that Stephen would turn to Dark magic so quickly despite being so against it, and is left conflicted about her feelings towards him. She cuts everything off and buries herself in her work.

Wong is too overwhelmed with the pressures at Kamar-Taj, and then the overthrowing of the mystic order to talk to her, and is too scared to leave Kamar-Taj, as well as being afraid of compromising Christine and getting her killed.

Christine contacts Tony, and starts developing tech based around the relics Stephen had given her to potentially stop another mystically dangerous event such as Stephen’s outburst from happening again. This includes holding chambers, magic absorbing handcuffs and restraints and other paraphernalia.

She comes in contact with Mordo who admires what she’s doing and allows her to use some of the more ‘useless’ relics around the New York Sanctum. She makes him a sword (which isn’t used in the re-write but appears in the og movie), and cements herself in Mordo’s good books, as he knows he can use this to continue his mission which Christine is not aware about.

She later branches out into Multiversal studies, and that’s where we find her when she appears in the re-write!

Wanda and Vision

Because Stephen killed Thanos Vision is still alive! Thus Wandavision never occurs and Wanda is doing very well.

They got married!!

Vision and Wanda are still both Avengers, and work with the variants of whoever I decide is a part of the Avengers in 838 (if I ever do), but prioritize a normal life and time together over missions.

Vision becomes aware of 616 Wanda’s dreamwalking because of his abilities with the soulstone, and is confused as to what could be happening to his wife.

Vision, not just 838 but as a concept, is a much bigger thing in my re-write. He was the soul reason why WandaVision happened, and I feel should be Wanda’s driving motivation. The children are not real, and even if they were they only exist because of Vision, thus he should be the priority.

Bits and bobs

Because Tony is alive, and half the universe didn’t disappear, 838 is far more technologically advanced than 616.

Every Sorcerer after becoming a Master of the Mystic arts gets a metallic armor piece to symbolize their ranking.

838 is a lot more experienced with magic just existing because there isn’t as big of an effort to hide the sorcerers after Stephen’s debut in the Battle of New York.

Wong 💚

Thought it was interesting to have Tony kill 838 Stephen, because it’s a vice versa to 616 and offers our Stephen a look into a possible universe where HE was the one that died. Again, his guilt regarding Infinity war/ Endgame is a huge thing in this so I thought it would be fun to add some flavor with this.

Also, wether Tony is an RDJ Tony or not is undecided. Obviously it doesn’t matter because it’s never going to be made into a movie where actual critics will blast me for disrespectfully recasting RDJ after Tony’s death, but sometimes I like to think it through as if I really am a director (and the whole team). I think that the existence of a multiverse leads to a widow where we can look at different aspects of a character that couldn’t be shown in a linear storyline, so that’s how I (unnecessarily) justify the existence of this Tony variant.

Although his suit is inspired by Superior Ironman, Tony is in no way as malicious or evil as he is. He’s only inspired by him, he isn’t the character directly. He may have some of the qualities, but nowhere near enough to be considered evil or even bad.

Well, that hurt my head to write out. I hope it doesn’t hurt yours when you read it!

Asks are always welcome, as well as pointing out any plot holes you may see. The rewrite is all planned out solely by me, and thus I know I would’ve overlooked some parts that may be glaringly obvious, so please shout them at me!

If you read through all of that, first of all “wow”, second of all thank you *firmly shakes your hand*.

Thanks for your time! Laters!

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sanctum-stinker · 1 year

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Still trying to navigate this site, so sorry for the janky formatting. This is a post about my Re-write Defender Strange! He is much more integral to the plot, and accompanies Wong for the most part. He serves as an ally against Wanda and also as a window into the way Stephen Strange works, for us the audience as well as for Wong

Some of these concepts are outdated because I didn’t officially start making my re-write until after I compiled a bunch of disconnected ideas and headcanons, so some of them are very old and irrelevant but I still like them so I’ve attached them anywho. I have his backstory filled out now, but it isn’t fully fleshed out yet, so I’ll instead write about the changes to his character and involvement in the re-write in chronological order. I’ll upload his backstory later on hopefully! Here we go!

He is Sorcerer Supreme of his universe (617) because the blip never happened, and therefor the title never got passed onto anyone else. This means he’s also five years older than our MCU 616 Stephen.

He is very independent as Sorcerer Supreme, where MCU 616 Wong is very connected to Kamar-Taj, Defender is not. He operates from his Sanctum and has Defender Wong as his only real constant ally.

He has a guinea pig called Patchwork Quilt, and she is his pride and joy.

Cyttorak (I assume is it’s name?) is not controlled by Wanda, and instead is just a creature from a different dimension that he managed to piss off. America is also with him, having taken refuge in universe 617 after she fell into it.

Defender gets very badly wounded by Cyttorak, and with no other choice he decides to sacrifice America and absorb her power in hopes that he could control it and banish the creature before it did anymore harm. This causes America to panic.

At the same time that this is occurring, Wanda (616) is trying to dream walk. As a result of the many many multiversal tamperings 616 has been up to (Endgame, Loki, NWH etc etc) mixed with Wanda’s dreamwalking and America’s uncontrollable power going haywire, the Multiversal barrier between 616 and 617 rips open, and Defender, America and Cyttorak fall through into 616.

Cyttorak has a sort of venom or corrosive quality to its tendrils which has begun to infect Defender. Due to his title of supremacy in universe 617 his body could use magic to subconsciously fight off this venom, much like he can with any other disease or illness. Unfortunately, now that he’s in 616, a place where the magic is slightly different and Wong is the Sorcerer Supreme, he doesn’t have this healing factor. If he has any hopes of surviving he needed to get back to 617.

After Stephen and America vanish into the multiverse Defender assists Wong in tracking down Wanda after Kamar-Taj falls, despite his injuries. Wong learns a lot about the way Stephen functions through Defender, and Defender learns a lot about himself through Wong’s perspective on Stephen. Defender also helps Wong with his insecurities and feelings of unworthiness as Sorcerer supreme, giving him advice and encouragement as a fellow man of supremacy.

Stephen (who is in sinister’s universe) uses Defender’s body to dreamwalk and communicate to Wong. He manages to tell him Wanda has America and that he needed to save her before the souls of the damned interfere and Defender’s body goes unconscious.

In the end Defender saves Stephen from the souls by sacrificing his soul, and thus gaining control over them. This allowed Stephen to take control over the body, and fight Wanda while Defender controlled the souls as wings/cloak/sheild.

Defender wants to right the wrong he made in trying to take America’s power and is the first to realize she’s the key to defeating Wanda. He sacrifices his life to save America.

Defender passes away after Stephen stops dream walking, as his soul and physical body were too weak to continue functioning. He passes his supremacy to Defender Wong (who was summoned into the final battle by America) and he takes his body back to 617 to be prepared for the funeral and following ceremony. All the parts of the plot are not concrete yet, as I’ve only written out the second draft, but this is what I have so far regarding Defender! It is still very condensed and brief, but I hope it gives y’all a bit of a glimpse into his character. I’ll be uploading concepts of all the other Variants and characters involved in the story and how they interact and add to the plot. I’ll be tagging all my re-write posts under MoMstinkycut which is also what I’ve tagged my Insta posts under. Thank you for your time, fellas!

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Stinky Sinister Strange Infodump!

Since you fellas seemed to like Defender so much I decided that I would upload more info about my re-write Sinister as well!

In the Movie Sinister has more character than the other Stranges, but most of his story is up to interpretation. I have some headcanons regarding his actual story in the movie, but for this post I will be focusing on my own version of him which is quite different. He’s the only Strange variant who I have gone out of my way to change the appearance of, and I will explain why in a mo.

He doesn’t have as big of a role as Defender does, but he has more of a backstory, so most of this will be explaining why he is the way he is. Most of his backstory isn’t explicitly shown in the actual course of the re-write, but I like to have it there anywho, just for my own enjoyment.

Let’s rip into it!

Universe 51 (there was no number so I made one up) is an identical universe to 616, being a branch reality where the same things occurred, but just at a faster rate. (I have a glossary and explanation for multiversal terms and how they work which I’ll upload later.) Sinister is basically a version of Stephen from the future if America and Defender hadn’t caused a multiversal interference.

Though we can never truly be sure that 616 Stephen would’ve turned out this way, everything in both of their universes leading up to America and Defender’s arrival is identical. Sinister simply continued on into a future where he never went through the developments in character that Stephen did in this re-write.

Sinister's universe naturally perished and died out. Nothing horrific, nothing sudden, just the slow and steady decline of mankind. Being Sorcerer Supreme he cannot age or die of natural causes, thus he remains the only living human being on earth after it’s collapse. (I also have a lore on magic and how this is possible which I’ll upload with the multiverse glossary)

After a lifetime of service and devotion to the mystic arts he feels that he deserves a happy life now. After a long long time of existing alone in his sanctum his desires begin to be drawn to the Darkhold. Eventually he caves in and dreamwalks.

Sinister tries to find a universe where he can slip right in undetected. A Universe similar to the one he used to live in. He only lingered in a universe long enough to find out wether it was like his. As time goes on and he dreamwalks more and more he slowly gets corrupted by the Darkhold. He becomes reckless in his dreamwalking, lingering too long, or being too careless in the variant’s body. As a result people start to get hurt, and people close to their Stephens notice his presence. It becomes harder and harder in his unstable state to be able to compose himself enough to dreamwalk undetected. However, with the Darkhold’s vice grip he continues his never ending endeavor, regardless of the cost.

Due to the Darkhold corruptive nature the healing factor of his supremacy becomes weaker, and he also starts to physically age. This is why he looks a lot older than the other variants.

For the die hard fans out there, he’s based on Stephen from Doctor Strange: The End! My all time favorite comic.

A short break before I get into his involvement in the plot. This break is brought to you by Sinister’s Harp!

I loved the harp included in the movie, so I decided to make him attached to it. Christine gave it to him as a last gift before she too passed away from old age much like most of the people he was close with. He enchanted it so it would never perish, and he gets distressed if it’s damaged. He plays it to sooth himself and clear his mind, it’s the only time when he can exist without the Darkhold’s influence.

Anywho, back to it!

He continues his rituals until Stephen (616) is thrust into his sanctum by Wanda after she captures America.

Sinister, at first is fascinated and afraid of Stephen, thinking that maybe the consequences of his dreamwalking had become due. However, after a brief chat he realizes Stephen is no threat at all, and instead turns to manipulating information about his universe out of him in hopes that he could replace Stephen by leaving him in the sanctum and taking his place in 616.

He asks about Christine and Wong, asking for information on how they are, or what they’re up to, pretending to look for comfort in the fact that they’re alive in his universe. Stephen answers, though he starts to grow suspicious of Sinister.

Eventually Sinister becomes malicious, realizing Stephen’s universe is ideal for his parasitic ideals, and he uses the Darkhold to try to possess Stephen.

Stephen is having none of it, and realizes that the Darkhold is probably the only hope he has in communicating with his own universe, and thus the two engage in battle.

YES I KEPT THE MUSIC BATTLE. I LIKED IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS SO COOL. SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE JUST MEAN.

I’ve altered it slightly so that Sinister plays the harp, and Stephen plays the piano. Both struggle to because of their hands, but because of the lack of core magic (magic lore coming soon!) in the earth, the two need to create their own runes using the energies from sound waves to create magical projectiles. This is also an opportunity to remind people that Stephen has a music related hyper-fixation which I am very passionate about.

The two go about battling and using different compositions to create different runes, but eventually Stephen uses an off key to create an unstable projectile which explodes, causing both of them to be disarmed. The Darkhold comes loose from Sinister’s grasp and lands on the floor between them.

Sinister is mortified, not at the loss of the Darkhold, but because of the fact that one of the strings on his harp has broken. This emotional distress allows him to break from the Darkhold’s influence for once, and he tries to warn Stephen about the dangers of using the book, explaining that they were copies of each other, and that Stephen would certainly fall into the same state of corruption as he did.

Stephen states that using the Darkhold is (drumroll please) ‘The only way’ to save America, and picks it up. The transfer of dark energies and magic from Sinister to Stephen is powerful and causes a huge shockwave to explode out of the book, sending the harp (that was put to the side as sinister tried to bargain) out of the nearby window.

With all hopes lost Sinister leaps after it, managing to grab it as he dangled off the edge of the Window ledge. Stephen rushes over to help him, and Sinister passes him the harp which Stephen pulls up to safety. He’s too slow to grab Sinister’s hand and he falls into the void. (Not onto a fence I prommy. It’s hard to explain, but that big void that his sanctum was being sucked into in the film? He falls into that.)

Stephen is in a state of shock, but he realizes he had more pressing matters to attend to.

Timeskip to the lead up to the big final battle. Wong has been captured by Wanda after attempting a 1V1 to buy Stephen time to do whatever he was up to. Wanda is about to kill Wong when America, who is also captured nearby, panics and opens her multiversal Portals. Three of them open, and outstep Defender Wong, 838 Christine and Sinister (who unfashionably falls flat on his face).

Because he was falling in the void he never hit the ground, and thus he lives to fight alongside those he lost to save America from Wanda.

He lives to return to his own universe free from the darkhold’s influence :).

The final battle and how that works out is a whole new bag of worms so I’ll leave that till later on. Man, that was a lot of writing, I hope you fellas don’t mind. I am so sorry (it will happen again).

Sinister was a favorite of mine from the get go, but I really hated the Christine obsession, it gave me the ick. Regardless, this is my version of him, and I hope you like him! I think I’ll be uploading stuff about 838 Stephen next, so look out for that if you’re interested in the smooth clean shaven baby girl.

Thanks for your time!

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