History WMG / ReflectionsLostOnADarkRoad

[[WMG: The EDC-FTL (Extended Dimensional Contact Faster Than Light) Drive is going to be used to build a cyborg like usagi from millennium]]

In ''The Titans and the Lost Boy'' and ''Fanfic/DarkTitans'', Jinx pulled a HeelFaceTurn because she felt guilty for what the Headmaster was doing to Ryouga due to being in love with him. Jinx was in love with Ryouga because the Headmaster brainwashed her. Raven undid the Headmaster's brainwashing. Already we're seeing signs of her reverting to form, complete with a comment that she "can't remember why (she) joined the Titans". All this seems to be leading up to a FaceHeelTurn.

When the HiveMind started conquering, they were just the Sectoids, an empire of mad scientists who enslaved and experimented on other species. Then they tried to enslave the Ethereals and lost. In the process, the Ethereals became as amoral, bloodthirsty and entitled as the Sectoids. After the Ethereals seized their databases and technologies, they continued conquering and enslaving and experimenting due to the xenophobia they developed in the course of defeating the Sectoids. If Humanity doesn't start caring that they're becoming exactly as monstrous as what they are fighting, they will simply take the Ethereals' place atop the hierarchy and continue the cycle. This might even be an intentional element of their civilization: a {{Darwinist}} BatmanGambit - lose to them and become their cattle, defeat them and make them even stronger as their new leadership. HeadsIWinTailsYouLose.

Therefore, the most likely person for this is Kodachi.

All this indicates that his new apprentice is someone that has information regarding Ranma Saotome and his fiancees, and in ''Fanfic/DarkTitans'', Kodachi went missing.

When they arrived in the X-COM universe, the Titans discovered they were a year into the future. This isn't because the dimensions are misaligned timeline-wise. The reason Robin hasn't put together a rescue team for them is because he did. But since they went into the future, the Titans literally vanished from existence for a year, and thus could not be found because they didn't exist anywhere. Or alternatively, the dimensions are misaligned and they went back in time, in which case the reason he hasn't searched for them is because they haven't left yet.

The Teen Titans in ''The Titans and the Lost Boy'' and ''FanFic/DarkTitans'' are the incarnations of them from the tv show. Meanwhile, Tresspasser seems to be from the comic book universe. While there's a lot of overlap characterwise, even the X-COMverse from ''FanFic/TheRoadToCydonia'' has some characters in common with ''FanFic/DarkTitans''. The point being that if the Titans try to get home by going to Tresspasser's universe, it's not going to work.

When they arrived in the X-COMverse, the Titans discovered they were a year into the future. This isn't because the dimensions are misaligned timeline-wise. The reason Robin hasn't put together a rescue team for them is because he did. But since they went into the future, the Titans literally vanished from existence for a year, and thus could not be found because they didn't exist anywhere. Or alternatively, the dimensions are misaligned and they went back in time, in which case the reason he hasn't searched for them is because they haven't left yet.

It's just that XCOM erases the short-term memory containing the rape when they perform it on humans to spare them the trauma. But by the time they decided ''not'' to vivisect Starfire, the window had already closed as it had become part of her long-term memory.

[[WMG: Psychic interrogation is ''always'' hyper-traumatic MindRape.]]

It's just that XCOM erases the short-term memory containing the rape when they perform it on humans to spare them the trauma. But by the time they decided ''not'' to vivisect Starfire, it had become part of her long-term memory and the window had already closed.

It's just that XCOM erases the short-term memory containing the rape when they perform it on humans to spare them the trauma. But by the time they decided ''not'' to vivisect Starfire, the read/write transaction had occurred and the window had already closed.

...Only ''smarter''. Instead of trying to break the wills of the spiral races, their attacks are carefully tailored to make the defenders break their ''own.'' You and your fellow soldiers are cannon fodder; don't cling to life when there is a mission to accomplish. Your loved one could converted into a Trenchard at any time; don't get attached so watching what's left of them suffer doesn't break your concentration. There are no super-heroes, just psionic puppets; lock them up and torture them so they can't get in the way. Your ethics prevent you from learning about your enemy's capabilities; abandon them so you can tear secrets from their flesh. Your strongest soldiers have brutalized themselves for their entire lives to become strong; MiseryBuildsCharacter, and everyone should embrace it. The result is a species that could ''never'' understand [[ThePowerOfLove Spiral]] [[RightMakesMight Power]].

...Only ''smarter''. Instead of trying to break the wills of the spiral races, their attacks are carefully tailored to make the defenders break their ''own.'' You and your fellow soldiers are cannon fodder; don't cling to life when there is a mission to accomplish. Your loved one could converted into a Trenchard at any time; don't get attached so watching what's left of them suffer doesn't break your concentration. There are no super-heroes, just psionic puppets; lock them up and torture them so they can't get in the way. Your ethics prevent you from learning about your enemy's capabilities; abandon them so you can tear secrets from their flesh. Your strongest soldiers have brutalized themselves for their entire lives to become strong; MiseryBuildsCharacter, and everyone should embrace it. The result is a species that could ''never'' understand [[ThePowerOfLove Spiral]] [[RightMakesMight Power]].

[[WMG: Starfire's MindRape is a GameBreakingInjury]]
In Dark Titans, Starfire exhibits far greater levels of power than Reflections. Though upon her entry to the X-COMverse, she is able to singlehandedly stop a dozens-of-stories high clocktower from collapsing, she quickly has to face three {{Sociopathic Soldier}}s with DragonBall-level powers while she is still in ThouShaltNotKill mode, who recognize her hesitation to kill and take full advantage of it to beat her into a short-term coma. After X-COM's initial MindProbe only produces "[[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids obviously false]]" "superhero" memories, they subject her to TwoPlusTortureMakesFive to get the "real" memories... but instead succeed in [[InterrogatedForNothing proving the "false" memories true.]] The point? Tamaranians in general and Starfire in particular have PersonalityPowers; To fly she must feel "unbridled joy", to throw starbolts she must feel "righteous fury", and to utilize her superhuman strength she must feel "boundless confidence". She now has enough "righteous fury" that her starbolts are able not only to incapacitate the ArrogantKungFuGuy who gave her to rapists with ease but ''initiate a nuclear explosion through sheer force of will''. However, it's highly unlikely she will regain enough "unbridled joy" to go FTL or the "boundless confidence" to pick up a skyscraper while she's forced to ''work'' for said rapists.

...Only ''smarter''. Instead of trying to break the wills of the spiral races, their attacks are carefully tailored to make the defenders break their ''own.'' You and your fellow soldiers are cannon fodder; don't cling to life when there is a mission to accomplish. Your loved one could converted into a Trenchard at any time; don't get attached so watching what's left of them suffer doesn't break your concentration. There are no super-heroes, just psionic puppets; lock them up and torture them so they can't get in the way. Your ethics prevent you from learning about your enemy's capabilities; abandon them so you can tear secrets from their flesh. Your strongest soldiers have brutalized themselves for their entire lives to become strong; MiseryBuildsCharacter, and everyone should embrace it. The result is a species that could ''never'' understand [[ThePowerOfLove Spiral]] [[RightMakesMight Power]].

...Only ''smarter''. Instead of trying to break the wills of the spiral races, their attacks are carefully tailored to make the defenders break their ''own.'' You and your fellow soldiers are cannon fodder; don't cling to life when there is a mission to accomplish. Your loved one could converted into a Trenchard at any time; don't get attached so watching what's left of them suffer doesn't break your concentration. There are no super-heroes, just psionic puppets; lock them up and torture them so they can't get in the way. Your ethics prevent you from learning about your enemy's capabilities; abandon them so you can tear secrets from their flesh. Your strongest soldiers have brutalized themselves for their entire lives to become strong; MiseryBuildsCharacter, and everyone should embrace it.

When the HiveMind started conquering, they were just the Sectoids, an empire of mad scientists who enslaved and experimented on other species. Then they tried to enslave the Ethereals and lost. In the process, the Ethereals became as amoral, bloodthirsty and entitled as the Sectoids. After the Ethereals seized their databases and technologies, they continued conquering and enslaving and experimenting due to the xenophobia they developed in the course of defeating the Sectoids. If Humanity doesn't start caring that they're becoming exactly as monstrous as what they are fighting, they will simply take the Ethereals' place atop the hierarchy and continue the cycle. This might even be an intentional element of their civilization: a {{Darwinist}} BatmanGambit - lose to them and become their cattle, defeat them and make them even stronger as their new leadership. HeadsIWinTailsYouLose.

When the HiveMind started conquering, they were just the Sectoids, an empire of mad scientists who enslaved and experimented on other species. Then they tried to enslave the Ethereals and lost. In the process, the Ethereals became as amoral, bloodthirsty and entitled as the Sectoids. After the Ethereals seized their databases and technologies, they continued conquering and enslaving and experimenting due to the xenophobia they developed in the course of defeating the Sectoids. If Humanity doesn't start caring that they're becoming exactly as monstrous as what they are fighting, they will simply take the Ethereals' place atop the hierarchy and continue the cycle.
* Hell, that could be part of their {{Darwinist}} BatmanGambit - lose to them and become their cattle, defeat them and make them even stronger as their new leadership. HeadsIWinTailsYouLose.

* Hell, that could be part of their {{Darwinist}} plan - lose to them and become their cattle, defeat them and make them even stronger as their new leadership. HeadsIWinTailsYouLose.

[[WMG: The aliens are "[[CommandAndConquer a cult of addiction in the guise of a species]]".]]

[[WMG: The aliens are "[[CommandAndConquer a cult of addiction in the guise of a species]].]]

When the HiveMind started conquering, they were just the Sectoids, an empire of mad scientists who enslaved and experimented on other species. Then they tried to enslave the Ethereals and lost. In the process, the Ethereals became as amoral, bloodthirsty and entitled as the Sectoids. After the Ethereals seized their databases and technologies, they continued conquering and enslaving and experimenting due to the xenophobia they developed in the course of defeating the Sectoids. If Humanity doesn't start caring that they're becoming exactly as monstrous as what they are fighting, they will simply take the Ethereals' place atop the hierarchy and continue the cycle. Witness the birth of [[Warhammer40000 the Imperium of Man]].

[[WMG: The "AA" psychics are in a CuckooNest]]
What better way to deal with a world full of metahumans? The HiveMind learned its lesson with the Nerima Wrecking Crew - abducting Ranma and his allies simply made X-Com aware of SupernaturalMartialArts. Why do the same to demons, magical girls, garage super-scientists, etc... when all it takes is a few subtle memory tweaks and a hidden Ethereal or two to make X-Com lock up all of Earth's native superhuman assets and [[GoAmongMadPeople drive them insane by insisting they're insane]] - and them and their tasty DNA will remain safely on the moon base until the aliens invades en masse. NiceJobBreakingItHero.

What better way to deal with a world full of metahumans? The HiveMind learned its lesson with the Nerima Wrecking Crew - abducting Ranma and his allies simply made X-Com aware of SupernaturalMartialArts. Why do the same to demons, magical girls, garage super-scientists, etc... when all it takes is a few subtle memory tweaks and a hidden Ethereal or two to make X-Com is locking up all of Earth's native superhuman assets and [[GoAmongMadPeople drive them insane by insisting they're insane]] - and them and their tasty DNA will remain safely on the moon base until the aliens invades en masse. NiceJobBreakingItHero.

What better way to deal with a world full of metahumans? The HiveMind learned its lesson with the Nerima Wrecking Crew - abducting Ranma and his allies simply made X-Com aware of SupernaturalMartialArts. Why do the same to demons, magical girls, garage super-scientists, etc... when all it takes is a few subtle memory tweaks and a hidden Ethereal or two and X-Com is locking up all of its own native superhuman assets and [[GoAmongMadPeople driving them insane by insisting they're insane]] - and them and their tasty DNA will remain safely on the moon base until the aliens invades en masse. NiceJobBreakingItHero.

What better way to deal with a world full of metahumans? They learned their lesson with the Nerima Wrecking Crew - abducting Ranma and his allies simply made X-Com aware of SupernaturalMartialArts. Why do the same to demons, magical girls, garage super-scientists, etc... when all it takes is a few subtle memory tweaks and a hidden Ethereal or two and X-Com is locking up all of its own native superhuman assets and [[GoAmongMadPeople driving them insane by insisting they're insane]] - and them and their tasty DNA will remain safely on the moon base until the HiveMind invades en masse. NiceJobBreakingItHero.

They're stealing power from functional electronic devices. While they could be using it to power themselves, they could also be gathering it to transfer it to a main ship to keep the ship running and the survivors on board alive.