S2 Episode 13: This is The Re-write (Arthur-verse)

╔════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ WELCOME TO THE ARTHUR-VERSE · S2 ║ ╚════════════════════════════════════╝ Arthur is a self-created author and storm god. He believes he created this world. The City of Owl’s Walk (O.W.) — inspired by Gotham City — has become self-aware… and calls herself **Mother**. Arthur becomes trapped inside the **Hall of Memory**: a vast museum lined with interactive paintings, each one representing a defining moment in Owl’s Walk’s history. Each painting is a memory. Each memory can be entered. Each memory carries consequences that defined the city. Throughout this season, Arthur is guided by: • **Smokey Lois** — a sharp-tongued, time-keeping guide acting as Arthur’s tether back from memory. ──────────────────────────────────── **RULES OF THE HALL OF MEMORY** 🚫 Memories of O.W. must not be rewritten 🚫 Changing canon risks erasing the world 🚭 **NO SMOKING** 🚐🔥⚡📁 CANON MEMORY · ARCHIVAL RECORD 📁⚡🔥🚐 ──────────────────────────────────── This memory records the death of Jared—a moment Arthur witnesses in full and allows to complete. The grief that follows is immediate and catastrophic. Arthur’s restraint collapses under the weight of what he has chosen to preserve, and in that fracture he regresses into his original storm-god identity: Maerion, first named in the Two Gods prologue. Abandoning the role of witness, Arthur reaches for authorship, summoning the Four Pillars of Creation—Heart, Laugh, Rage, and Strength—as established in Two Gods: Creation, and attempts to force a rewrite of the memory to undo the death he cannot accept. The rewrite fails. As Arthur bends the memory toward resurrection, Smokey Lois intervenes—emerging from the vape and physically removing him from the painting. Her action preserves continuity itself, preventing Arthur from erasing the city’s history, collapsing the Hall of Memory, and unmaking both himself and her in the process. The memory remains intact. Jared stays dead. Arthur is pulled back into the Hall—alive, restrained once more, and now fully aware of what his power could destroy if unleashed without limits. ──────────────────────────────────── ⚠️🔥📎 MEMORY PRESERVED · REWRITE ABORTED 📎🔥⚠️ [Intro: wispered, low percussion, Dark Choir and lead vocalist] I’m not a hero…  (not a hero) I’m not a hero… (not a hero) I’m a… [rest: heavy breathing, inhale-exhale sound effects] [shout] I’m A God!!! [short intrumental with heavy, ominous tribal percussion] [verse 1: rapid delivery, driving rhythm, rapid fire sung delivery with intermittent gang vocals and subtle dark choir backing] My nostrils pack with smoke, my throat clamps down too tight. My chest begins to choke, I can’t pull air this night. Magma tears drop and spark on that black wet tar. Each hot bead leaves a mark, cutting thin new scars. This medic attire burns. My cosmic coat set free. That medic life turns, and stars pull hard on me. My galaxy coat flares, its starlight breaks the seams. These spirals catch your stares and drag you through my dreams. I raise my vape in hand and call the sky to light. I lay down my brand and drown the rules in night. This story’s mine, dammit! I take the full claim. I carve it in granite! I stamp my true name… [shout: angry, rage] Maerion! My stomach turns, I let Jared die. My eyes still burn, I let that boy fry. The rhythm falters, I’ve now broken time. My grip now alters, I take her song as mine. I am the gun, I call the drums. You’d better run before it comes! [pre-chorus: shout] Now run! [chorus: gang vocals, lead vocalist, Strong tribal percussion, build up, anger, rage, shout] Pillar One! Heart! Sharp mind, kind thought I cared, I fought [shout] Failed! Pillar Two! Laugh! I’ll Shift the gears   Just Joke through tears —tee-hee! ha-ha! [shout] Failed! Pillar Three! Rage! I’ll Burn this page!   [evil, maniacal laughter] HAHAHAHAHAAAAHAAAAA Pillar Four! Strength! Bear witness to my might [shout] This is the Re-Write!! [spoken: ominous, dark, flat] The writer’s room is now closed. Do not disturb. [bridge: rapid delivery, driving rhythm, rapid fire sung delivery with intermittent gang vocals and subtle dark choir backing] I summon pillars to settle the score. I call the killers and bar the door. Lightning draws a cage, writer’s room locked. I refuse your stage, tether now blocked. Lost stories rise and turn to stars. They seize my eyes and map old scars. My vape is my quill, I write new lore. Coat-stars won’t sit still, this story’s under war. I decree no more death. Hear this, Jared—breathe! You have more life left. Now return here to me! Beyond mem’rie’s veil, Lois screams to cease. But I will not fail, I deny her pleas. [shout] Nooo!!!! I calm down fire, stars burn so bright. I’ve tripped the wire, I’ll set this right. The flame all clears, the van snaps back. My face has tears running down in tracks. I’m not a hero. I’m not a fraud. I’m not a zero. I am a god… [pre-chorus: spoken word, calm, quiet, cold, flat] “Scene safe?… ESI... black to red… initiate…” [Final chorus: gang vocals, lead vocalist, Strong tribal percussion, build up, anger, rage, shout] Pillar One! Heart! Sharp mind, kind thought I cared, I fought [shout] Failed! Pillar Two Laugh! I’ll Shift the gears   Just Joke through tears tee-hee! ha-ha! [shout] Failed! Pillar Three! Rage… I’ll Burn this page!   [evil, maniacal laughter] HAHAHAHAHAAAAHAAAAA Pillar Four Strength! Bear witness to my might [shout] This is the Re-Write!! [outro: wind down] So close I am—I pull it tight. One more small step; I set it right. I am a god; this is my own. I seal the rewrite and make it known. My vape hisses, then flares like fire. Smoke pours through lightning—black-lung choir. Smoke takes Lois’ shape. She’s here and now she fights! She slams me to the ground. She locks my arms so tight, keeps my lightning bound. She steals my breath; the world goes dim. I hit the marble hard; my thoughts go grim. I wake again in my medic disguise. My rewrite burns while Jared dies.