Pithy Summary: An introspective look into how Clockwork was formed along with the tiny shreds of their past that history books have to offer.
Warning: none
Drabble Notes: This has connections to my Pronouns AU.
Word Count: 424
Time has existed since the beginning of creation and everything else came afterwards. Time proceeds Dreams, Time proceeds Reality, Time proceeds all.
Time is wild, chaotic and will do as it pleases unless there is someone to control and guide it. There were, as many may or may not know, the Observants. The Observant High Council were a group of ghosts that watched over Time but they were not able to properly watch and guide Time properly as they were designed with several fatal flaws:
The Observants first and foremost fatal flaw was that they could only see one outcome. Time as a whole is not fixed. It is fluid and while some events in the progression of Time are fixed, Time is nonetheless very fluid and requires someone to see all outcomes. Secondly, they see Time as a linear movement. This is obviously very incorrect as Time constantly branches out, recording the all possible outcomes of every action and reaction. Thirdly, their ability to see only the present outcome causes them to be biased, judging others for their current actions, not by their future actions or even their character.
Something had to be done about this. The High Council had convened and after many days of conference, they had finally reached a decision.
They needed a Time Master. One who see everything they could not.
Time answered their request, and from the plethora of temporal energy unleashed from Time, a master was created.
The youth emerged naked from the fabric of Time, and when an Observant rapidly covered the child in a purple cloth, the child clung onto it. Minutes later, the child was named Clockwork.
Clockwork grew, their knowledge and power growing every day. They also became friends with several great(and notorious) ghosts: Nocturne(Master of Dreams), Vortex(Ghost of Weather) and Pandora(Unsung Guardian of Hope). As a child, they were not exempt from making mistakes, as all children do. They preserved, going onward, despite the Observants deprecation, bullying and abuse. Not much is known about this particular aspect; perhaps the only ones who truly know are Pandora, Clockwork, Nocturne, Vortex and the Observants.
A terrible tragedy occurred sometime after Clockwork turned eleven. Any records on this incident have been destroyed and has been kept atight lipped secret. In addition, the have been reports of sighting a child Clockwork and weeks later, the occasional sighting of an adult Clockwork in the Ghost Zone. No one knows officially what happened afterwards except they continued to watch over the time stream.
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