TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. A mysterious, if notional, entity present within the Nixonverse. how whatever it ended up doing messed with the borders in the first place, turned into a Canyon Crown by the Statue of Freedom. My dad said the reason we went on this trip was so he could find his sister. James Dean, instead of dying in a car crash in 1955, lives and goes on to run for presidency in 1968. They would quickly, during the same day, establish the US Department of Technology (DoT) to assist in the project. Washington strikes the tree, but ends up falling through the earth and landing in a parallel world, before his image is stretched into the shape of the Special Trees. Given what they have done to his extensions, including using. both it and Wonderland appearing to be separate, yet also one and the same, the Sphinx "Mothership" never actually existed, how fellow living statue Freedom took up their role in the Grand Canyon. as the Last Son denies joining their kingdom and becoming their new king. This would cause the Last Son to awaken his superpowers and become inspired to help those in need, effectively setting in motion the events of THE NIXONVERSE. Can be seen remarking upon the Last Son of Alcatraz, Luna, and The Moon God. You won." Heavily downplayed. Special Tree acted as this to George Washington, even depicting it as an apple tree. The story about the Lincolnlookers, as well as certain other details, turn out to have been partially exaggerated by the ADA to discredit the US government and make them look bad; while the government certainly aren't flawless, they seem closer to. Nathaniel's daughter. Advertisement Coins. Dean actually does care about the American people and actively tries to help them, whether personally or by rousing the government into action, but also uses his opposition as sacrifices for Special Trees and Freedom, and has likely elected someone to be a Lincoln Looker as per tradition. It was a cover story. brutally torn apart and incorporated into the Statue of Freedom, By 2003, the United States of America is now legally called the United, The Advocates for the Division of America want to accomplish this by using The Angel as a, by 2022, it has replaced the entirety of the United States with copies made by itself, all the way to the buildings, the populace and down to the, currently surrounded by thousands of pyramids, each with an unknown number of "Special Trees" within, provided they're not an ADA hoax, The entire Deanverse becomes this at the end of, seeing the destruction of the universe we've been watching this whole time. After transforming into the Crescent King, Alice reveals his backstory through radio signals in hopes for him to remember his true identity. during the "Evolution of the Last Son" in the final scene, the camera pans first past a figure of a man, then a figure of a person in a cape, then to the immense form of Christ on the cross that the Last Son turned into during the Vietnam War and then further past that to the even. To the Deanverse's James Dean. The D-Day Knight sadly returns and kills her before this could be possible, though. The series ends on this note. If the Special Trees are an extension of the Horned Serpent (as Wonderland's classification as the "Horned Serpent Metastructure" suggests), then it is responsible for turning George Washington into itself. Drew President Washington. The US government, upon seeing a literal living representation of Freedom, ordered a slave against his will to strip her of that flesh. Since counterparts of people exist and the two met in some sort of limbo between worlds, this could have very well been some version of her not-even-close-to-existing son, or even the exact same person that the lost fetus grew into. In a similar vein to the Last Son, he has. They first appear in CANYONCROWN, and are implied to be the being spotted in FALLENFATHER. We never learn anything about "Her" in the Nixonverse's finale, or if she even exists at all. False children organize into the STARRYSPHINX. falling in love and then becoming pregnant, Nixonverse to spread the word about his universe. She first appears in FREEDOMFALLER. Alluded to being the only survivor of the Apollo 11 Mission, since John Glenn was "evicted from reality" and Ed Dwight was killed by Nixon. As "Jesus," he made the people of the United States his chosen people, and was willing to destroy anyone that stands in its way. which is made out of a substance similar to baby powder, this prevents the Great Division from happening. By July 4th, 1969, deafness was cured in America. After causing the Great Division, the Angel commits suicide out of guilt. It's implied they are responsible for the graffiti on the monuments just before their fateful flight on Air Force One. Previously a normal human who unsuccessfully ran against President Dean and became his best friend, surviving the Great Division gave him otherworldly powers. You've unleashed another Great Serpent that's headed towards Earth now. It would take three hours after the broadcast to shut down all sirens in America. ", Grant told me that he used to be normal like us, breaks the rules of the game by drifting to another square outside its move. On April 20th, 1969, Dean would attempt to broadcast to Americans about his first 90 days in office, not before being cut off six seconds in. Cure deafness after the Anti-Dean Disaster and imprison and replace all ADA members using Special Trees.Re-establish the Giza Guardians using Freedom to kill captured ADA members in the Grand Canyon (all succeeded). he created The D-Day Knight, The Last Son and the Queen of the Lunarians, and it ends with the Last Son of Alcatraz suffering a. in order to save his universe from the destruction that fell the Deanverse, Richard Nixon fictionalizes it by making an alternate universe counterpart of Ed Dwight overwrite his universes story into a comic book, hence saving it from The Horned Serpent who is reborn as The Crescent King. She would be used for assassination of ADA members by Maize and the US Government. He's the Deanverse's Nixon (or at least, an Alcatraz replica of him) after being imbued with powers during the Great Division. James Bryon Dean He was generally considered one of Americas most beloved presidents. After what he was brainwashed into doing in the Vietnam War, he retired to the ocean and became this. James Dean (THE MONUMENT MYTHOS) Wiki Article. Thrown off the Chrysler Building by the D-Day Knight and falls to her death. It is my great honor to declare the Games officially open. Sightings of swordsmen in the Grand Canyon continue to this day. but they're a bunch of invading aliens who erase the human language and turn New York City into a hellhole. For a given measure of "offspring." He is nearly identical to his Real Life counterpart, with the sole exception of him being the artist behind the Nixonverse comic book. Alice Avenue, the reporter heard in this video, determines that the Knight is the only being in the Nixonverse who has free will, due to the universe which determined his fate being destroyed, allowing to him saving soldiers that were "destined" to die at Normandy Beach. Mandela Catalog is ok but it's become the white bread to the Analog Horror community (personal take). It's likely that Dean was referring to his car, nicknamed Little Bastard and renown for being allegedly cursed, but the Last Son interpreted that as having finally "won," like the woman in his visions told him to. It's heavily implied that, after Nixon's fictionalization, the Nixonverse was overwritten by a reality that is exactly the same as ours with the sole exception of the events of the series being a work of fiction. The Lunarians disallowing humanity to use their own languages and replacing them with their own through the usage of schools is a clear parallel to cultural erasure. Dean would win the election with 75% popular vote and 395 out of 538 electoral votes. Luna has no problem with ordering the Last Son's abduction and turning him into the Crescent King, while the Knight also has no problem. The Monument Mythos is an Analog Horror series created by Alex Casanas/Mister Manticore who also created CORNERFOLKLORE and The Trinity Desk Project. He revealed some parts of the process of designing the Statue of Liberty, namely constructing the pedestal, in 1889. However, when Ed Dwight shoots her on the orders of John Glenn, she ends up turning against humanity and allows the Lunarians to brainwash the Last Son into becoming the Crescent King and ends up mangling the English language in America. and seek to do so, to release the Horned Serpent. A local astronomer who after attempting to investigate a phenomena with a friend, turned into a "Container" for something he couldn't even fathom. the implied founding member of the Arnoldson family. She had the Lunarians kidnap the Last Son and turn him into her king, ordered the Lunarians to invade earth that results in the events of, After she's proven wrong not once, but twice in both moon missions, Luna adapts a. one of the soldiers who became the Angel, Allan D. Arnoldson. He would then mobilize the military to shut down the sirens, and the military technicians would fine the cones of bodies around the sirens. The Last Son into becoming their new king. But he chooses not to, as he perceives that interacting with humanity will only result in more chaos. They stay around the Grand Canyon and require a supply of Vinegar to keep them from mutating further. H.P. Or is there something underneath it? One is inside the Washington Memorial, while another was at the Rockefeller Center, and larger groups of Special Trees appear later in the series. In our world, Ed Dwight never went to the moon. The English Language appears to return to normal in. The Great Division gave him godly powers, and turned him into whatever he is now. The various entities that crop up around the monuments- including the Horned Serpent, Great Sphinx of Giza, and, James Dean confuses the issue a bit by applying the label to more mundane threats like global climate change and, Alcatraz doubles as this, being a single celled organism, The Rockefeller airships are effectively indestructible, not due to their construction, but because the gas has been substituted out for, Possibly everything produced by Maize Technologies, or at least their early computers, seem to have been made, The recording of Mt. And of course, every once in a while a more general piece of alternate tech appears, like a Concorde jetliner being used to represent a 2021 airliner. using materials or energy from the Horned Serpent underneath the United States. In truth, he had managed to place his whole body into the statue itself. Nixon has to destroy the Crescent King, one of his "extensions," since he will become one of the most dangerous leaders in the universe. The true motivation of the Angel is this, being all seventeen men who were dissolved and fused into one, and thus seeking revenge for having their lives taken from them by Rockefeller. Both are monarchs in their colonies, which are composed by human-like beings created/given the blessing of gods, the Amazons and the Olympian Gods in Wonder Woman's case and the Lunarians and presumably "Her" in Luna's case. a barely visible silhoutte of her corpse falling from the Chrysler Building in. First appeared in CANYONCROWN. Both of them sent their "children" to "test" humanity, and their children end up meeting some horrific fates, A powerful, formerly human entity likened to being God, who ultimately becomes disillusioned with humanity and resigns himself to live away from them on another celestial body in the solar system. Rushmore on Saturday in. Both of them live above the Earth, with God living in Heaven while Richard Nixon lives on the Moon. Bring back the American soldiers in Vietnam via winning the 37th presidential election. It seems their theory was correct (or at least someone in the government didn't want them talking about it for whatever reason), because the journal that aired the news story shut down the very next day. Instead, he creates monuments. the Air Force One Angel breaching his bunker door with a high-powered heat ray and making him disappear. A French diplomat and the developer of the Suez Canal. Virginia Arnoldson's unborn child, whom she named after her mysterious protector who traveled with her during her interdimensional interregnum. Due to repeated assassination attempts on John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Party debates were postponed until two weeks before the election, where Dean would invite Nixon to a race car race. both the Cornerfolk and the Special Trees share multiple similarities. He also killed Ed Dwight for reasons only known to him. Later on, it is shown how the Lunarians abducted the Last Son to make him become their king. and how can we forget the 37th president of the US, James Dean. James Dean (THE MONUMENT MYTHOS) President James Dean is a major protagonist in the alternate history analog horror series THE MONUMENT MYTHOS and a posthumous protagonist in THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: THE NIXONVERSE. Screams at the top of her lungs as she falls from the Chrysler Building in, The official name of the Last Son after being freed of Lunarian control. Is James Dean just a walking, talking cognitohazard in the Monument Mythos or is he just a . He has been the subject of hate by the Anti-Dean . This also applies for his abilities, as there's limited, released not one, but three threats to the universe in the form of the Last Son, the Knight and the Queen. 2 15. Powers and Abilities: Peak Human Durability, Social Influencing, Extreme Luck and Inhuman Charisma . Or something like that. One night during a ABC evening news broadcast, anchor Frank Reynolds told viewers that they " will witness the start of a glorious adventure." Whereas. Enemies Nixon is basically stuck on the barren Moon without any of his friends or family and without any of the human luxuries he had back in the Deanverse (including, Apologizes to Ed Dwight before he murders him, as, Goes from an unsuccessful presidential candidate and Dean's friend in the Deanverse to being the literal. Said cloud ship is even used to perform mass lobotomies. According to a Discord Q&A by Alex, she apparently has knowledge of what happened in the Deanverse and is implied to be aware of who the Horned Serpent is. It is instead the misdeeds of humanity that, or at least recreations of them in the case of the Trinity, The D-Day Knight would later return in the aptly-named. His first appearance is LINCOLNLOOKER. Alice Avenue lives through her own statue, or even that he put her in there. Origin: Monument Mythos. . The soldiers disintegrated by an advanced military construct lose their form and drift as free consciousnesses until eventually reuniting and forming up as an ethereal brain and nervous system, just like what happened to Manhattan shortly after his death. at all pleasant or healthy from their time in their state. THIER IS ONLEE ME. leaning just out of the doorway to glare at who's likely a soon-to-be-victim. Premium Powerups Explore Gaming . by Patient_Jello3944 President of the UZA MUSKMARS | The Monument Mythos. Had one with a man named Everett, who she met in Wonderland and played with for what seemed like "500 years." In order: Lauren and Quinn Arnoldson (the former revealed to be the second Doctor Disturbing), Leonard W. Morlin, the, How the US Government ultimately disposes of both Freedom and the Air Force One Angel, in a bout of "mutually assured destruction.". Premium Powerups Explore Gaming. A lifetime of being brainwashed and used to harm humanity ever since. The documentary would narrate Dean's rise to power, from the original transmission of the DEANDEMOCRACY ad, to the foundation of the ADA and to the DEANDISASTER. We never find out how, why or when she found out about the other universes. He had a painfully lonely childhood, with his parents blatantly neglecting him and his classmates not treating him any better. Alcatraz, as many already know, is a prison island situated near California. Both also learn the cruelty of the humans first-hand, but react to it very differently. The United States government nuked it to smithereens. They seem to be performing a particularly subtle version, by destroying human language and replacing it with their own. He decides to reject the offer with destructive results. We never really see what happens, exactly. A pulsating warmth from those Crescent Creatures. And then there's what he does as The Crescent King Espouses the Peace Equation to justify his. The truth being that I designed an abattoir. This would lead to the US transforming the Last Son into "Jesus" using a stolen Lunarian eye. She first appeared in CANYONCROWN. hides from Maya underneath the tarp, we can see what is very clearly a second shadow creep in next to hers. Prior to the Great Division, he was just a regular man who was friends with President Dean. THE ADVOCATES WERE DERANGED. "Heroic" is a bit of a stretch, but Nixon is content to leave his rogue "extensions," the. The ADA claim that they became a "walking atomic bomb," and they will use them to divide the three zones into as many states as they can. This triggered his transformation into a deranged parody of Christ, who was used by the United States to perform a "Sweep And Redeem" of Vietnam. During an ABC evening news run, anchor Peter Jennings mentions "a special broadcast of national significance." Luna initially started out as a benevolent queen who was willing to welcome humanity to her kingdom. In 2002, a documentary about Dean's presidency titled "DEANDEMOCRACY" would be released to the public. The most prominent family in the first two seasons, who often encounter and end up as victims of the various paranormal anomalies in the Deanverse. While its origins and true identity are currently unknown, one thing is certain: it's awake and heading for Earth. The first victim of the Knight's "Alcatraz Checkmate," which involves being consumed whole by Alcatraz matter. her initial encounter with the man she would call Everett, carrying a captured Freedom to the Babylon Forest. He could have interfered all this time, he certainly has the power to. Over 60 million Americans would watch the broadcast due to the hype it would receive. The Lunarians piloting the cloud ships are not safe from the Knight's "Alcatraz Checkmate," and are destroyed along with their ships. It is implied that this action ended up meeting the name far more accurately than the Dept of Technology could have ever feared, triggering the Great Division, ripping the world apart and releasing the Serpent. Four days before election day, Anti-Dean groups would hijack radio transmissions, saying that Dean ruined American television and youth, going on to cut power lines across the southeast United States. The truth being that I designed an abattoir, the conflict between Freedom and the Angel brings about the end of the world and the apparent "freeing" of the Special Trees and the Horned Serpent. he tried to hack down a Special Tree, most certainly without anything resembling an idea of what it really was. A lifetime of being attacked, brainwashed and used as a weapon by genocidal empires makes him finally snap in. Nothing. the foundation of the Department of Technology. The "Angel" is actually a fusion of the seventeen soldiers who activated the Death Ray on top of the Great Pyramid. He had no say. Drew President Washington. Given she met a grown man named Everett while she was trapped in the space between worlds, and the time and dimension distorting abilities that the Special Trees have, it would be a fair possibility that Everett or a counterpart of him has spent an eternity wandering around in limbo, or alternatively, was eventually released sometime as what's referred to as a creature within the Washington Zone. They would be brought to Special Trees near the Washington Monument to swap them for their Nixonverse selves, creating a drastic change in their personalities and memories. Even if the government is openly searching for them and arresting them by the dozen for forcible rehabilitation. For trying this, the Angel exterminated them. Far more notably, it appears that the Queen of the Lunarians was, The namesake of this trope has an interesting relation with the setting, as in the "Deanverse," Richard Nixon is merely a failed presidential candidate who befriends the winner and, The second is accompanied by video footage of, One confirming the implications raised in, Both events see the US Government attempting to use Superman (or a. It's the Anti-Dean Association! This Nixon is really a mass of Alcatraz matter taking on the original Nixon's form, with said original being old and senile (or even long dead, as in our world) by the time the Great Division occurred. Instead, electronic technology seems to be firmly stuck in the 1980s, with crude replacements for modern web apps like the Maize Movie Maker pseudo-computer and the TWTTR-Machine (or T-Machine) pseudo cell phone. ALEXKANSAS Channel: . james dean monument mythos. When the Lunarians ask him about what he is now - after his retirement - he replies that he is "Neither man or god," which possibly further convinces the Lunarians that they're dealing with their prophetized King, as it was said that those who were chosen by "Her" were beyond regular people and on their way to become gods. Subverted as of. Lovecraft . Vice President 1: April 30, 1789 . that takes the D-Day Knight to fully stop. The Monument Mythos is an Analog Horror series created by Alex Casanas/Mister Manticore who also created CORNERFOLKLORE and The Trinity Desk Project. All three of them end up losing their sanity. Humanity (the United States in particular) attacking them and causing them to lose their sanity is what turns them evil and makes them lose their sanity. While some people managed to get out, rescue efforts retreated because the structural integrity of the tower was compromised. Martin Luther King Jr. survived an assassination attempt back in April 1968, as did Robert Kennedy. The following list was made as fan content for the ongoing series titled "Monument Mythos". 1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson . Richard NixonMaizeUS Department of TechnologyUS Department of the InteriorSpecial TreesFreedom Justified in the spelling errors, as the English language was under a, After not appearing since her titular episode, she returns in, Both are superpowered royalty who encounter humanity by accident. The Queen of the Lunarians is a Lunarian. After the Great Division, whatever's left of its survivors transformed into this. the D-Day Knight throws her off the Chrysler Building. "Another World Egg was too cold and that Baby froze. Age: 37 at the time of his Election, 45 when he left office at the end of his 2nd Term. In 2000, we've learned from our mistakes. Dean would go on to self direct several more ads for after the ABC evening news, and it would become a weekly occurrence every Friday throughout 1967, and would become the highest rated show on TV. That last detail turns out to be VERY important later on. r/THEMONUMENTMYTHOS BALLOONFALLENANGEL. Despite it being many years since her death, Her middle name is literally Fate, and fate sure as hell has, The doctors and parents are able to quickly tell that she and the rest of her friends are not their children or even belong in their world at all, having slightly different bodily features and no memory of things that should be familiar to them, sometimes not even sharing the same name of their counterpart. ", Had shades of this as "Jesus" and The Crescent King, since he was a well-meaning superhero. to a gaunt and sickly man as result of his transformation into "Jesus." ", "In our world, Ed Dwight never went to the Moon.". The Special Trees are peculiar, otherworldly trees. A select group of unusually tall, Greco-Egyptian swordsmen who patrol the forbidden zones of the Grand Canyon, armed with fine blades of Giza Glass. Archivist's Note:-Excerpt from the 2002 documentary "DEANDEMOCRACY: A Look Back at America's 37th President."Narrated by Molly Chen(https://www.instagram.com. A popular joke in the fandom is that Dean survived The Great Division by driving away from it, racing with The Horned Serpent, or just tanking the blow. President James Dean is a major protagonist in the alternate history analog horror series THE MONUMENT MYTHOS and a posthumous protagonist in THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: THE NIXONVERSE. When the Apollo 11 mission lands on the Moon, she was more than willing to welcome them and treat them as equals. Nixon doesn't seem to be inherently malevolent, but his extensions eventually all lost their sanity and became a menace to humanity all in different ways, though Nixon does try to warn Ed Dwight about it, resulting in. Chaoslord: he is a chaotic MASTERMIND and we love him for it. after being manipulated into causing the Unification of 2003, the Angel destroys the ADA and offers America an ultimatum: Ultimately, it's also responsible for the events of the Nixonverse as well, as it's destruction/assimilation of the Earth caused Nixon to escape from it into the Nixonverse, While George Washington was admittedly not the best individual, he was far less villainous than the.