Thread:Maddog98/@comment-4842541-20150606031801/@comment-4842541-20150609044538

I got this idea for a scenario, however I most likely won't write it as an actual story arc or anything:

In this scenario, the Rogue is a reality bender. At first he just seems like he can do small things, like turning inanimate objects into vicious weapons, but once he comes across Jack, he accesses Jack's memory and changes the reality of Mark forgetting who Jack was.

In turn Jack gets transported into a reality in which Mark never forgot who Jack was (and by extension Layla).

In this reality, Mark did not become Guardian yet, Roy is still the Guardian however his enemies have discovered that anti-dragon weapons do massive damage on Roy (since he has the Demon Dragon inside him), and Jack lives a happy life in which his family mourned for his death only for him to pop up at the door step.

So in this reality, because Mark became unstable for a few days due to thinking Jack was dead and never got his memory erased and then his huge relief that his brother was still alive, Mark never got that drive that would make him worthy of the full Guardian's blessings. In the actual reality, even with the memory of Jack gone, Mark still had the promise he made with Jack about becoming a real hero somewhere in his subconscious. Without the mourning, he never became unstable enough to the point that he would lose all hope and not get that drive. Because he forgot Jack but subconsciously remembered the promise, it made him stronger as a result.

On the other hand, keeping the memory of Jack and mourning for Jack caused Mark to lose all hope in his abilities, and even with Jack alive and sound, Mark was in too much relief and he ultimately didn't become as strong as he could've been.

So thus in that reality, Mark did not become the Guardian and is still a Guardian in Training. Which creates a ton of problems because the two years that Mark should've been a Guardian, it was Roy instead. And as it turned out, even in the actual reality, during these two years, one of Roy's old enemies found the power to make Anti-Dragon weapons, which in the real reality, was used against Mark who has no trace of Dragon on his body whatsoever (the Dragon's Eye is after all a technique). In the altered reality, it was used against Roy to terrific results, which then caused all of Roy's enemies to stock up on Anti-Dragon weaponry.

So within those two years, Roy had to be a Guardian, and the stress really got to him as this Roy has a lot of wrinkles all across his face. He even forgets to shave when Jack first sees Roy.

Jack also was never trained by Shadow. However even with the reality altered, Shadow still remembers all, and Jack remembers all as it is his reality that got changed. Jack still has the knowledge of all the techniques Shadow taught him, but Jack does not have the physical body to actually be able to pull off the techniques. He can move water due to basic principles but he cannot create a giant torrent. Luckily in doing so he can still modify liquid metal, and his Mask, which was actually a knife that Mark made for Jack, is graciously modified by Shadow into the liquid metal knife that Jack uses to make his mask out of.

Unfortunately, it also means Jack can no longer travel through the shadows, something that Jack finds out the hard way by bumping into a wall.

Also in this altered reality, Kya becomes evil, and as it turns out, if she had never met Jack, she would've been a vicious rogue that could potentially kill Roy without Anti-Dragon weapons.