I've become a fan of the fan-dev story that's posted around here somewhere. But it's still more confusing than that for me. 
Silhouette, my title character, was always based on Evil Ken's IST-Marvel game, and as a result, she's from a world which is a combination of the two source materials. She was on Thibor Sawchyk's London-based team, and fought a combination of villains ranging from evil cultists to M. Bison and his calendar of mind-controlled assassin girls. She's teamed with Reflector and the Great and Powerful Turtle. Run with Jubilee and Wolverine.
Then she's contacted by Thibor, and told about this door that another reality opened into IST HQ. And they're looking for a heroic ambassador. So that's where Silhouette came from. She's already a dimensional traveler even before Paragon city. So in Millenium city, she's the same person. Just continuing her job traveling from place to place, representing her reality and ideals.
As for Paragon, between Disney and the possibility of a private server emulation at some point, I like the player-dev ending because it suggests that Earth was sharded into Dreamspace. Everyone's still there, they're just inaccessible for now. So until then, Sil continues representing her Earth parallel wherever she goes.
Sunspot, and many of the "native" characters, are from Primal Earth, and are (as I see it,) traveling these other places to research new technologies which will make it possible to bridge back to the new "Incarnate" Earth in Dreamspace. She, and any others I make from Primal, got to MC sort of the same way Rose did in the Doctor Who series. Incarnate Earth's Portal Corps built a dimensional cannon to send a small group to a nearby parallel reality, so as to build a bridgehead to connect the realities, and open up access again. Eventually, hopefully, they'll succeed, and we'll be able to go back to Incarnate Earth. For the moment, they're on places like Millenium Earth, researching tech, making contacts, generally being heroic, and building their portal system. (Sunspot: "An old moonbase with a defunct death ray? I can SOOO use that!")
So that's my complicated headspace, if that helps any.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
Silhouette, my title character, was always based on Evil Ken's IST-Marvel game, and as a result, she's from a world which is a combination of the two source materials. She was on Thibor Sawchyk's London-based team, and fought a combination of villains ranging from evil cultists to M. Bison and his calendar of mind-controlled assassin girls. She's teamed with Reflector and the Great and Powerful Turtle. Run with Jubilee and Wolverine.
Then she's contacted by Thibor, and told about this door that another reality opened into IST HQ. And they're looking for a heroic ambassador. So that's where Silhouette came from. She's already a dimensional traveler even before Paragon city. So in Millenium city, she's the same person. Just continuing her job traveling from place to place, representing her reality and ideals.
As for Paragon, between Disney and the possibility of a private server emulation at some point, I like the player-dev ending because it suggests that Earth was sharded into Dreamspace. Everyone's still there, they're just inaccessible for now. So until then, Sil continues representing her Earth parallel wherever she goes.
Sunspot, and many of the "native" characters, are from Primal Earth, and are (as I see it,) traveling these other places to research new technologies which will make it possible to bridge back to the new "Incarnate" Earth in Dreamspace. She, and any others I make from Primal, got to MC sort of the same way Rose did in the Doctor Who series. Incarnate Earth's Portal Corps built a dimensional cannon to send a small group to a nearby parallel reality, so as to build a bridgehead to connect the realities, and open up access again. Eventually, hopefully, they'll succeed, and we'll be able to go back to Incarnate Earth. For the moment, they're on places like Millenium Earth, researching tech, making contacts, generally being heroic, and building their portal system. (Sunspot: "An old moonbase with a defunct death ray? I can SOOO use that!")
So that's my complicated headspace, if that helps any.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.