Brian

ToIA from Brian's Perspective

(This has information from ToIA V4/V3; as many sections in V3 had to be removed because of the part count/length)

(There also is some information I am adding here that doesn't explicitly happen to clarify stuff better)

Brian is a teenager suffering from depression and loss of purpose in life. As he aged, he slowly lost his few friendships and bonds between his parents; ending up to the point where he left school and ditched everyone.

Brian moved away to an apartment, where he started to work minimum wage jobs to earn enough to buy food for himself; but it wasn't enough to fully pay his rent. Eventually Brian stopped working due to his declining mental state, and it became obvious that he wasn't going to be able to afford the apartment much longer. On the last few days before his rent ran out, Brian decided to explore the mountains that surrounded his city.

As Brian walked through the snowy mountains, he eventually found a place to rest.

Unknowingly though, someone else was watching him. The figure seemed to have some sort of power to dematerialize and the figure submerged into Brian's mind. There is a possibility of Brian noticing this and becoming extremely scared; but the figure erased all memories to conceal his presence. (Basically meaning Brian doesn't remember it, if that did happen)

Soon after, a robot comes flying into Brian's planet; it seemed to be looking for something... or someone. And of course, the robot took notice of Brian sitting in the wilderness and approached him. The robot seemed to know the creature that was inside of him.

When Brian sees the robot, he believes he is hallucinating and ignores it. The robot introduces itself as Protega and tries to understand why Brian is all alone. Brian then tries to push the robot away by telling him to focus on someone else that isn't as worthless as him. The conversation continues but, eventually Protega offered him an opportunity to go to a new world; and Brian reluctantly accepted the offer. This was mainly because he really had nothing meaningful back in his world, so it didn't matter what could happen from this.

This then transported Brian into another series of snowy mountains; yet something was different and that was for him to find out. Eventually Brian stumbled across some signs asking for help to find a lost bird... But, from the picture it looks different from a normal bird; like a furry or something? Soon after Brian gets startled by a man asking if he was alright. Apparently this man had blue flaming hair which was really off-putting despite the fact that Brian was aware he was in a new planet. Brian tried to go away because he hated the awkwardness he had with meeting new people, but the man assured him that he has no bad intentions.

The man, Blitz, was just looking around the forest to try to find the bird that was mentioned in the signs. However, there was another figure sitting alone near an icy opening. And as Brian got closer, the figure turned out to be some sort of arctic fox human hybrid thing? At this point Brian just accepted that everyone he sees here is probably going to look very weird. When the "fox" noticed Blitz, he told him to go away. Brian then noticed that something was wrong and awkwardly sat next to him to ask what's wrong.

The "fox" Josh, claimed that "Lucas" the bird, fell into the ice cave, and said it was all his own fault for letting him check what's inside. Josh seemed to be really distraught, even after Blitz kept trying to reassure him that everything will be okay. Josh begins to fear that he would be the cause for Lucas' inevitable death. Brian tried to console Josh and towards the end he was feeling a little better.

Brian then decides to take a flashlight to look into the cave to see if he could find anything. Josh tries to warn him that he doesn't want anymore people to fall in but Brian assures him he is fine. As Brian peers into the cave to look more, the icicle snaps and Brian immediately falls down hundreds of feet. Josh is then seen thinking he killed Brian as well, and decided to run away into the forest.

Brian falls down to his death; but apparently some glowing figure snatched him before his head hit the hard bottom of the cave. Brian was very confused to how he was even alive, but started to become extremely pessimistic about his hopeless situation. The purple figure stood beside him and rolled his eyes, stating that he should be grateful he is alive, and that he should at least try to get out. After a few minutes of mumbling, Brian starts his journey out of the cave.

Eventually Brian reaches a point in the cave where he saw another figure. As he and Furner (The purple figure) moved closer, they saw that it was the bird'ish person that Josh was mentioning that fell within the cave. Furner wakes Lucas (The bird) up, and Lucas gets really surprised. Lucas explained that he was sleeping and that he is too scared to go up anymore, because he might fall down more. Brian and Lucas both sit down to reflect on what happened and their hopeless situation, before Furner angrily tells them to continue moving while they still can.

Brian encourages Lucas to continue with him as Furner led both of them with his light. Then they finally saw the exit to the cave that they fell in. Blitz is seen looking down into the cave, and after a bit of surprise, he lowers a rope down. Furner noticed that the rope was low enough for Lucas to fly out so he forced Lucas to go, but Lucas refused. This continued until Furner had to use death threats to force Lucas to fly away to his own safety.

After that, Blitz looks down again and sees Brian sitting down; and walks away sadly. Blitz couldn't have helped anymore unless he risked his life by climbing down; not to mention he had his own share of problems, though that's not something that Brian would know initially. Check out the storyline on Josh if you're interested.

Brian starts to lose hope. However, Furner manages to get him to continue to the rope, and with a little bit a luck, skill, and a lot of risk, he managed to get out. Though by now everyone was gone; except for Protega (the robot) who was waiting intently for Furner to come out with Brian.

Apparently, Furner must have been summoned from somewhere to aid Protega, though it's unknown who summoned Furner. After that, Brian slowly starts to have a mental breakdown because of how useless he felt to everyone. This is because he almost died trying to save a person that didn't really even need his help; it was Furner who made it possible. Not to mention, him falling down must have made Josh feel extremely guilty himself; which is why Josh ran away from everyone.

After a discussion between Protega and Furner, they both begin to fly away. However before Protega leaves, the robot tells Brian that he should head to the forest to try to find shelter for the night. And so, Brian began on a tiring journey through the snow as he went through the forest. However, he was slowly becoming cold and hungry as time went by.

After an hour or two, Brian saw some footprints (or paw-prints) that looked to be from Josh; and he started to follow that which eventually lead to him seeing Josh sitting alone. Josh noticed his movement and started yelling at him to go away; thinking it was Blitz trying to get him back to the village, but Brian reassured him that he was not Blitz. After Josh sees Brian though, he starts to break down; with all the stress he put on himself over thinking about Lucas' and Brian's death.

Brian tries to apologize for all the trouble he had caused, but Josh starts to tell Brian that he wouldn't have had to come here if it wasn't for his negligence of Lucas. After that, Brian just looks down and said that he wished he could have been able to at least help with making Josh feel better but he shouldn't have even tried to help in the first place since clearly nobody cares about him either. Brian then gets back up and starts walking away before Josh desperately calls him to come back.

Josh explains that he didn't mean to push away Brian; and he explains how he felt like his life got ruined and how he has nobody to talk to anymore. Josh also mentions how he bit Blitz, even though he was only trying to get Josh back into the village. He wanted to be alone because he believes that nobody would be able to forgive him if Lucas died. Brian was the only person that he could feel comfortable talking to anymore. After that Brian realizes that Josh didn't hate him and starts to cry from all the times where he felt he was worthless.

After a while, Brian starts to get numb and tired; making Josh realize that something is terribly wrong. The weather right now is too cold for Brian, and Josh realized he needs to take him to the village before it's too late. After a few minutes, Josh helps Brian up and guides him all the way to the village after a few hours. Vickey sees Josh carrying someone, and then leads Brian to a cabin for the night. And as for Josh, he decided to not run away, and head to the place he normally resides in.

After Brian wakes up, he spends the next day with the people in the village and perhaps he made some friends. The people in the village seemed to care about what he had to say and didn't judge or mock him for his depression/insecurities. The only person missing though was Josh, as he was too scared to talk to anyone after the ice cave incident.

Near the end of the day Brian checks up with Josh to see if he's doing alright; and though this isn't shown, Josh began to break down with all the stress and guilt he felt from everything. Lucas, Blitz, and Seth then came in to check, and they made sure to tell Josh that they forgive him for what happened.

After that, everyone went into the mountain where a variety of buildings were carved inside from Blitz' and Sickle's ice magic. Brian was alone again for a period of time when he suddenly was again greeted by Furner who had some news. Apparently, Protega wants Brian to climb up the mountain so he can "go back home" to a portal Protega made. Furner tells Brian that this really isn't an option as he is concerned about what would happen if Brian didn't go. Brian starts to panick as he thinks he made a horrible mistake going inside the portal, but Furner reassures him that Protega just wants to send him back home better than before.

Furner then states he will be waiting at the top of the mountain and leaves. Brian then walks into the mountain entrance where he is greeted by a neon plaza. Sickle, another ice elemental like Blitz, introduced him to the place, and basically stated that everyone is just hanging out at the top of the plaza. However, Sickle said it would be cool if Brian could travel through the obstacles to get there, and Brian chose to do that. At the plaza, Brian sees everyone, and tells them about his current situation.

After spending a couple minutes at the lounge he begins to climb up the ladder that goes to the middle section of the mountain. Lucas sees this, and tells Brian that he would like to talk at the Meggy cafe, but if not; he'll be waiting near the top of the mountain to say goodbye. Brian then goes to the Meggy Cafe to chat with Lucas and maybe get some Vickey Munch or the Meggy Sunday (which are Meggy Themed). This again isn't shown, but Lucas tries to make Brian realize that he really has helped a lot and he shouldn't be so hard on himself, because he doesn't want Brian to be depressed.

After that, Brian continued up the mountain until he eventually reached the top. And Lucas was waiting for him near the top. Lucas struggles to tell Brian that he doesn't really want him to go. Brian promises Lucas that he'll come back if possible. Before Brian leaves, Lucas gives Brian some letters from everyone. After that, Furner comes down to them both and tells Lucas to go back to the village. Lucas was deeply hurt about how Furner is always pushing him away, and got mad at him for that. Furner then explained that Lucas shouldn't go with them because it would be uncertain what would happen if he gets transported back to Brian's world.

After Lucas leaves, Furner transports him to a series of clouds, and Brian gets mad that he couldn't have done that when he fell down the ice cave. Furner then tells him that he is only assiting him when it is needed. Brian is then introduced to a series of trials that he must complete to prepare to be able to enter the portal that was located above the clouds. And ye, he does the trials lol.

As Brian got closer to the portal, everything slowly became darkened, and the ground became more scattered He finally reaches the place where Protega and Furner were waiting. Furner then prompts Protega to tell him why Brian was brought here of all places, and essentially Protega didn't plan on sending him home, but rather to kill him; or whatever was inside of him. Now that Brian was so high in the clouds, Protega would be able to launch an attack without damaging the landscape, but Furner flew and locked Protega to the ground, mostly because he realized that he was being lied to by the robot. Brian starts to realize that he really was being tricked and fell into a hopeless state. His vision started to blur, but just before he passed out Brian noticed Furner locking Protega to the ground to prevent Brian from its attacks.

Brian then wakes up in his subconscious/unconscious mind. He notices a strange but familiar figure lurking in the shadow of his mind. After questioning the figure for a while, the figure tells him that it's hopeless to try to do anything since his mind will be taken over by him regardless. After that, the figure left. Brian starts to become desperate and tries to find a way to get to the figure; because he didn't want to be left alone to die. Soon, a light illumated in his mind to find a path, and Brian was able to find a way to travel.

The figure notices this, and decides to put some distractions along the way to waste his time but Brian managed to get past those obstacles, and eventually found his way to the figure. By now the figure had revealed itself, and almost completely taken over Brian's consciousness. Brian starts to take his last efforts to try to talk to the figure, but he was pushed back again. Some of his distorted memories started to play.

The memories represented how he had left school, and his home to get away from everyone. The people there were faceless and unnamed, as their physical appearance was distorted to represent how Brian feels about everyone. The memories were also altered from what probably happened, to represent how Brian believed everything wrong was his fault, and his alone.

The figure suddently realized something, and at the last few seconds before Brian faded away, the figure decides to spare him. The figure never thought that anybody would be as hopeless as Brian, as everyone else that he tooken over only wanted to fight him until they couldn't anymore. All Brian really wanted was to talk to someone, which made the figure feel bad for him.

The figure introduced himself as Yggrus, and explained that he was an astral being. The reason why he came into Brian's mind was to try to hide from Protega, but he also wanted to find someone that wanted to be with him. Everyone else was either too scared or wanted to kill him due to his unsettling appearance.