History Sandbox / DocFuture

* RationalFic: The plot’s advancement or resolution never relies on an IdiotBall, and the only times when a character makes a rash decision is when it fits their general personality. Conflicts are often resolved through conversations and attempts to understand the other side’s stance on the matter. Situations which could be easily dramatized by using tropes like petty jealousy or revenge also graciously spare the readers from the nausea and move in other directions instead.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Doc was in university at age 15, and several women who were explicitly a few years older flirted with him. He rejected them all, but not a single person in story seems to be concerned with the fact that women who were legal adults were interested in a teenager who wasn't old enough to drive a car. Compare and contrast to Flicker's sexual experience with Donner, where a lot of emphasis is placed on her relative youth. [[spoiler:Yiskah does end up having sex with Doc's memory of being 15, and the real Doc implicitly lost his virginity at 17, which is legal in some states. One could argue that he's mature and intelligent enough to deal at 15...but when he had a breakup he built and almost ''used' a world-destroying doomsday device as an elaborate form of suicide.]]

* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Doc’s prolonged sleep deprivation makes his mental augmentations to gradually fail, which affects his intellectual capabilities. [[spoiler: After his augmentation platform gets destroyed, he even loses some of his edge in quick-thinking and reaction, which becomes especially noticeable to him during his interactions with Flicker.]]

* HijackingCthulhu: Stella’s ability allows her to hijack pretty much anything (e.g. a MonsterOfTheWeek-godzilla or a high-tier demon from pocket dimension) if its nervous network is in position of direct physical contact with her.

%%* ImmuneToMindControl: Stella.

* SaveScumming: Doc, to some extent. [[spoiler: Wanderer]].

* ArtificialIntelligence

* CloneByConversion: Among Dendrite’s abilities.
* DemonicPossession
* {{Deprogram}}: Amond Donner’s abilities.

* DreamWeaver: Yiskah.
* EmotionSuppression: Flicker almost gets burned by this.

* TheHecateSisters

* ImmuneToMindControl: Stella.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: To some extent.
* ManipulativeBastard: Wanderer.

* MindManipulation
* MindControlDevice

* Myth/NorseMythology

* {{Telepathy}}

* NorseMythology

* Deprogram: Amond Donner’s abilities.

* MentalTimeTravel: Doc’s future selves, from branches of timeline in which the world met its end [[ApocalypseHow in various ways]] send him cautionary visions to help him avoid the mistakes they’ve made and save the planet with its inhabitants.

* MindVirus: In certain situations Dendrite is able to convert other people’s mindd into dormant copies of her own.

* ScrewYourself: [[spoiler: In a SexyDiscretionShot, Stella and Yiskah who is more or less the same person, sleep with Doc.]]

* StoryBreakerPower: Protagonists’ abilities are so powerful in many ways that in many other stories it would’ve been difficult to preserve the conflict. Here, however, the author manages to keep it interesting by carefully choosing what types of problems the protagonists will be solving (usually [[ApocalypseHow Class 2]] Apocalypse scenarios and higher), ''how'' they will be solving them (e.g. Flicker is discouraged from toppling governments known for humans rights abuse because in the larger scale of things it would only destabilise the world and make things worse), and what limiting factors are attached to those powerful abilities (e.g. Flicker could, in theory, travel at speed of light, but doing so would cause severe damage to her surroundings).

* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: The possible bad outcomes for the human civilisation are so many that Doc’s warnings about them from his future selves had essentially become indistinguishable from a stream of never-ending nightmares.

''The Fall of Doc Future'' (completed,) ''Skybreaker's Call'' (completed,) and ''The Maker's Ark'' (ongoing) is an web serial trilogy about the "Smartest Man In The World" Doc Future, and his adoptive daughter "The Fastest Woman in the World" Flicker. Together, they save the world repeatedly, from super villains, natural catastrophes, demons, gods, wizards, alien invasions, and themselves.

In ''The Fall'', Doc Future's mind is failing him, endangering the world through all the superheroes who depend on his work. The palaces of thought he spent his youth cultivating are slowly crumbling, and it is killing him. The reason for this, is something as mundane as sleep deprivation caused by a sudden barrage of prophetic nightmares. Unfortunately Doc is too private a person to even tell his daughter about it, and she is more than smart enough to read between the lines. Desperate, Flicker reaches out to Dr. Stella Reinhart, a mind control specialist, in order to save Doc. It turns out that the plot against Doc runs much deeper, touches the pantheons of Nordic mythology, Doc's former lover, the mysterious origin of Flicker and her powers, and the actions of himself in futures that will never come to pass. He falls into a deep coma, and it is up to Flicker and Stella to save him.

In ''The Call'', Flicker must rise to her birthright when the repercussions of inter-dimensional skirmishes in ''The Fall'' once more exposes Earth to the interests of aliens. The first visitors happen to be old friends of Doc's, and come with glad tidings of a system of market economics that has the potential to solve every problem of poverty and scarcity. The second visitors have a holy crusade to execute, a fleet of unimpregnable warships, and the only one who can stop their planet-spanning siege and save the world's farm animals and pets from extinction, is Flicker.

In ''The Ark'', Doc unveils his plans to carry humanity into a safe future by a roundabout scheme of changing fate itself. His life's work, an AI who is more dear to him than the woman he loves, creates an avenging angel who descends upon the international corporation conglomerates with the fury of the heavens in order to free the world from the danger of AI-aided corporate finance decision making, and bring about an era of plenty and financial freedom for all. At the same time, in the strange corners of the multiverse, unknown entities stir, and it seems Flicker is not the only one who can circumnavigate the Earth in a microsecond.

The tumblr on which it is hosted is is [[http://docfuture.tumblr.com/ here]].

Table of contents: ''[[http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/82363551272/fall-of-doc-future-contents The Fall]]'', ''[[http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/111819789111/skybreakers-call-contents The Call]]''.

Prologue of ''The Ark'' is [[http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/116360879621/the-makers-ark-prologue here]] (no table of contents yet.)

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: ''She Who Waits, Eater of Demons.'' Also ''Skybreaker'' and ''Eyetaker'' qualify when you realize just how literally those epithets are meant.


!! ''The Fall'' provides examples of:

* ScrewYourself: [[spoiler: In a SexyDiscretionShot, Stella and Yiskah who is more or less the same person, sleep with Doc.]]

In ''The Fall'', Doc Future's mind is failing him, endangering the world through all the superheroes who depend on his work. The palaces of thought he spent his youth cultivating are slowly crumbling, and it is killing him. The reason for this, is a sudden onset of prophetic nightmares. Unfortunately Doc is too private a person to even tell his daughter about it. Desperate, she reaches out to Dr. Stella Reinhart, a Mind Control specialist, in order to save Doc. It turns out that the plot against Doc runs much deeper, touches the pantheons of Nordic mythology, Doc's old lovers, the mysterious origin of Flicker and her powers, and the actions of himself in futures that will never come to pass. He falls into a deep coma, and it is up to Flicker and Stella to save him.

In ''The Call'', Flicker must rise to her birthright when the repercussions of inter-dimensional skirmishes in the previous book once more exposes Earth to the interests of aliens. The first visitors happen to be old friends of Doc's, and come with glad tidings of a system of market economics that has the potential to solve every problem of poverty and scarcity. The second visitors have a holy crusade to execute, a fleet of unimpregnable warships, and the only one who can stop their planet-spanning siege and save the world's farm animals, pets and megafauna from extinction, is Flicker.

Table of contents: [[http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/82363551272/fall-of-doc-future-contents ''The Fall'']], [[http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/111819789111/skybreakers-call-contents ''The Call'']].