History WMG / Nightside

The story "The Big Game" has John using the Portable Timeslip, yet Taylor is also still working as a P.I. and another character refers to Walker as if he's still running the Nightside. John first learned about the Timeslip-pocket watch in ''Just Another Judgement Day'', and yet Walker still has both his job ''and'' the watch at the beginning of ''The Good, The Bad And The Uncanny''. As word of [[spoiler: Walker's death]] spreads like lightning between ''Uncanny'' and ''A Hard Day's Knight'', with the latter starting out mere moments after the end of the former, the only way that John could be in possession of the watch before [[spoiler: he killed Walker and took it]] is if he stole the thing, and Walker didn't reclaim it from him until after "The Big Game" happened. As Walker was distracted by [[spoiler: his medical issues]], and still hoped that John would be tempted into accepting his job offer by the perks of owning such a watch, he let it slide for a while, but took his Portable Timeslip back in the short time between ''Judgement'' and ''Uncanny''.

''[[AC:[[Nightside]]]]''

The story "The Big Game" has John using the Portable Timeslip, yet Taylor is also still working as a P.I. and another character refers to Walker as if he's still running the Nightside. John first learned about the Timeslip-pocket watch in ''Just Another Judgement Day'', and yet Walker still has both his job ''and'' the watch at the beginning of ''The Good, The Bad And The Uncanny''. As word of [[spoiler: Walker's death]] spreads like lightning between ''Uncanny'' and ''A Hard Day's Knight'', with the latter starting out mere moments after the end of the former, the only way that John could be in possession of the watch before [[spoiler: he killed Walker and took it]] is if he stole the thing, and Walker didn't reclaim it from him until after "The Big Game" happened. As Walker was dealing with [[spoiler: his medical issues]] and was feeling generous towards John for saving the day, he let it slide for a while, but took his watch back in the few months between ''Judgement'' and ''Uncanny''.

We know that the [[DoctorWho Travelling Doctor]] is a regular visitor to the Nightside. We know that there were many horrible things sealed away in the Time War, and it stands to reason that the Nightside is one of the few places they could cross over. Now this one requires a bit of a stretch, but we've seen John grab things from alternate timelines. Is it possible that, in the Bad Future, he became the Could've Been King, and his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres are things pulled from side timelines? On another note, a Dalek invasion of the Nightside would be a trip and a half...

The story "The Big Game" has John using the Portable Timeslip, yet Taylor is also still working as a P.I. and another character refers to Walker as if he's still running the Nightside. John first learned about the Timeslip-pocket watch in ''Just Another Judgement Day'', and yet Walker still has both his job ''and'' the watch at the beginning of ''The Good, The Bad And The Uncanny''. As word of [[spoiler: Walker's death]] spreads like lightning between ''Uncanny'' and ''A Hard Day's Knight'', with the latter starting out mere moments after the end of the former, the only way that John could be in possession of the watch before [[spoiler: he killed Walker and took it]] is if he stole the thing, and Walker didn't reclaim it from him until after "The Big Game" happened.

We know that the house was sent by John's Enemies to try to eliminate him. However, we later learned that the Enemies who sent it probably ''couldn't'' have summoned it up from some far-distant dimension, as John assumed, because [[spoiler: they were the last survivors of the BadFuture Lilith nearly brought about, barely able to strike at John in the past; had they still been capable of bridging the barriers between realities, you'd think they'd have ''fled to one'' rather than hung around in a desolate wasteland trying to change history]]. We know from the [[spoiler: Lilith]] War that Walker cloned himself another house, which was killed by its intended prey, and that John's Enemies created the Harrowing from human corpses. So why couldn't they have created the house from the first novel out of the mangled remnants of Walker's clone? They send it after John in the past, he kills it with help from Suzie, Cathy and [[spoiler: what-little remained of]] Joanna, and Walker's people collect the samples from which they'll clone the ''exact same house''.

We know that the house was sent directed by John's Enemies to eliminate him. However, we've also learned that the Enemies who sent it probably ''couldn't'' have summoned it up from some far-distant dimension, as John assumed, because [[spoiler: they were the last survivors of the BadFuture Lilith nearly brought about, barely able to strike at John in the past; had they still been capable of bridging the barriers between realities, you'd think they'd have ''fled to one'' rather than hung around in a desolate wasteland trying to change history]]. We know from the [[spoiler: Lilith]] War that Walker cloned himself another house, which was killed by its intended prey, and that John's Enemies created the Harrowing from human corpses. So why couldn't they have created the house from the first novel out of the mangled remnants of Walker's clone? They send it after John in the past, he kills it with help from Suzie, Cathy and [[spoiler: what-little remained of]] Joanna, and Walker's people collect the samples from which they'll clone the ''exact same house''.

We know that the house was sent directed by John's Enemies to eliminate him. However, we've also learned that the Enemies who sent it probably ''couldn't'' have summoned it up from some far-distant dimension, as John assumed, because [[spoiler: they were the last survivors of the BadFuture Lilith nearly brought about, barely able to strike at John in the past; had they still been capable of bridging the barriers between realities, you'd think they'd have ''fled to one'' rather than try to change history]]. We know from the [[spoiler: Lilith]] War that Walker cloned himself another house, which was killed by its intended prey, and that John's Enemies created the Harrowing from human corpses. So why couldn't they have created the house from the first novel out of the mangled remnants of Walker's clone? They send it after John in the past, he kills it with help from Suzie, Cathy and [[spoiler: what-little remained of]] Joanna, and Walker's people collect the samples from which they'll clone the ''exact same house''.

We know that the [[DoctorWho Travelling Doctor]] is a regular visitor to the Nightside. We know that there were many horrible things sealed away in the Time War, and it stands to reason that the Nightside is one of the few places they could cross over. Now this one requires a bit of a stretch, but we've seen John grab things from alternate timelines. Is it possible that, in the Bad Future, he became the Could've Been King, and his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres are things pulled from side timelines? On another note, a Dalek invasion of the Nightside would be a trip and a half...

Jude suggests that, because they ''are'' the good ones, the hosts of the Shimmering Plains would repair the destruction and injuries they'd wrought, although restoring the dead to life was beyond their power. The next few books, however, establish that the Angel War did have lasting effects on property (e.g. the Cavendishes' financial loss from destroyed real estate) and people (Count Video needing to have his skin stitched back on). This doesn't necessarily have to be a CanonDiscontinuity, if Heaven's angels only repaired the harm ''they'' had caused, leaving whatever destruction Hell's agents had wrought for mortals to clean up.

John overhears the BadFuture's Larry Oblivion wishing he'd died for real, like his brother Tommy, rather than (un)live to see the Nightside brought to ruin. If Hadleigh Oblivion had also been killed outright, Larry no doubt would've wished he'd died like ''both'' his brothers, which rather implies that the eldest Oblivion brother met a fate even worse than Larry's. Lilith's minions probably weren't strong enough to take Hadleigh down by themselves, which means she more than likely defeated him personally.

His name obviously wasn't always Dead Boy, but that's all anyone ever calls him and no one acknowledges that he was ever called anything else. He may not even remember what his original name ''was''.

His name obviously wasn't always Dead Boy, but that's all anyone ever calls him or acknowledges that he was ever called anything else. He may not even remember what his original name ''was''.