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Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere.
Ryan only sees different routes; and from Hero to Villain, he has to try them all. Only then will he achieve his perfect ending... no matter how many loops it takes.
A Super Hero story authored by Void Herald. It can be found here
on the Royal Road.
This story provides examples of:
- Color-Coded Wizardry: There are seven known groups of Elixirs. Each power is associated with a color: Red for Energy, Orange for Matter, Yellow for Concepts, Green for Life, Blue for Information, Violet for Space-time, and White for Meta-powers.
Elixir Distribution Ratio
- Great Offscreen War: The Genome Wars caused by the advent of superpowers from the Elixirs lead to a war that reshaped the world with a supervillain called Mechron being a major player.
- Ignored Confession: Ryan told everyone he met for the first time that he's immortal, but no one seems to believe him anyway. His Catchphrase is "I'm immortal, but don't tell anyone!"
- I Will Find You: Ryan dubbed finding his Childhood Friend Len as one of his most important Main Quest.
- Killer Rabbit: Ryan's ultimate weapon is a rabbit plushie he created in a deep-work trance session while in his underwear.
- Mass Super-Empowering Event: A mysterious someone sent Elixirs by package to a randomly selected population of the world, giving some people superpowers and changing the world overnight.
- Really 700 Years Old: A guesstimate from Pluto reveals that Ryan's real age is in the range of 550-1000 years old.
- The Precious, Precious Car: Ryan loves his Plymouth Fury to the point when Mosquito destroys it he immediately declares the current loop a failure and kills both of them with an atom bomb to reset the loop so he won't be in a world where his car is destroyed.
- Save Scumming: Ryan's main superpower is the ability to create a save point and whenever he dies go back to the point of time where he last 'saved'.
- Superpower Lottery: Augustus was part of the 0.01% of the population that managed to drink two Elixirs without degenerating into a Psycho. It made him so powerful that he turned his mob into an N.G.O. Superpower.
- Time Stands Still: The public use of Ryan's power allows him to stop time for up to ten seconds with it having a cooldown of how many 'seconds' time was frozen from Ryan's perspective.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Looping for a long time is making Ryan unhinged and impulsive, sometimes throwing crude jokes at inappropriate times, breaking rules left and right, and intentionally offending his allies and enemies Just For Fun.
