Good evening everybody! This is Aifos coming to you alive from.. From.. Eh.. Where am I? Relius: "From my dungeon." Gasp! Relius Clover? Why am I in your dungeon? Relius: "I noticed you jumping between several different unverses, and thought you'd make an interesting test subject. By studying you, I hope to obtain that power." Papika: "Aifos!" Papika? Now I'm confused.. Papika: "Relius captured me, but I had Kokonoe bring me the Skull Heart, which I used to make a wish to bring me the Summoning Key, but realizing I'd turn into the Skullgirl I sent the Key to an alternate timeline version of myself, with a message to find a Staff of Eden, and combine them. Afterwards, Good Me brought them to Bad Me, and we fused together, so I was in control of myself again, then I came to rescue you! We have to go though, because fusing the Staff and the Key caused a spacetime rift, that caused Dr. Wily to meet King Dedede, who was then possessed by Dr. Eggman, and the two are creating a massive doomsday device that'll mechanize the entire multiverse!" And let me guess, when we go to stop them, Relius is going to steal the Summoning Key/Staff of Eden thing, gaining the power to jump through dimensions, then separate you into your good and bad halves, and you'll have to sacrifice yourself to defeat yourself, and I'll stop the machine last second, by throwing the interdimensional Relius into it, sending it flying acrosd multiple dimensions? Papika: "Uh huh!" Rather than talk about how stupid that sounds, and how I'm surprised you had the mental capacity to send the Key to an alternate timeline, I'm just going to move on with the post. Ahem, convoluted plotlines. When done correctly, I find them to be much more fun than straightforward ones. Generally speaking, they tend to be about time, dimensions, or both, but not always. When they're well written (like BlazBlue) it creates this really cool sense of granduer, and importamce. You're not just saving your timeline, but all timelines. When they're poorly written (like Bioshock Infinite) it feels like the writer was hoping to be too confused to follow what they were writing, and just hoping your head hurts enough that you thought it was good. But good or bad, I find these types of plotlines to be the best types of plotlines. So let's hear about them! [u][b]Tl;dr? Here's my point![/b][/u] What are your favorite convoluted plotlines? Why is it your favorite? Third question? My answer: [spoiler]Probably either BlazBlue, or CoD Zombies.. Hm.. Probably BlazBlue. I love how they're trying to stop time from looping, from inside said timeline. Usually that involves leaving the timeline and fixing it from the outside.[/spoiler]