Unfamiliar, a ZnT/[Prototype] Crossover

I'm hoping that the character you play is under the impression that Mercer is LolEvil, but that you slowly find out otherwise throughout the course of the game. And they making him seem only evil to avoid spoilers.

Had anybody considered that Prototype 2 could be following the Viral cycle to it's logical conclusion?

Yeah, supposedly there is an "Evil" Alex Mercer. . .but. . .is he the original Blacklight Alex Mercer? or, like the virus he is, he replicated into the token Evil Clone? For all we know, there is a relatively good Alex Mercer around fighting his way to solve yet another crisis, meanwhile a replicated "evil" self, decides to do like his Virus nature dictates and spread and replicate, being the origin of the new outbreak.

Maybe what survived the Nuke wasn't a single Blacklight Biomass, but 2, while we saw the "Game's" Alex Mercer rebuild itself, somewhere else a different Alex Mercer was rebuilding itself in the same fashion, maybe using a person instead of a crow, leading his different view.

See it like this, if Portal and Portal 2 makes you think with Portals, maybe for Prototype 2 you'll need to think like viruses to realize the truth behind this "Alex Mercer".

That sounds interesting, in a mind-bendy brain-breaky sorta way.

I actually had a fic idea like that a while ago; there were multple pieces of Mercer that were blasted to shore by the nuke, and for some reason, they'd each represent a different facet of his personality.

But what do you mean by viral cycle? The "life" cycle of a virus just involves finding a host cell, infecting it, causing the cell to replicate the virus until it bursts, then repeating on more and more cells. Nothing but infection and replication.

Given what you've done to grimdark!Louise, I'm scared to see what you'll do to grimdark!Tiffania. Broken and jaded is my guess.

"Get out of my sight or be crushed under my heel."

She takes care of orphans right?

Yes... Threaten them and be prepared to be annihilated.

Follow FreemanMercer!

Pretty much, Infection and Replication, but in a bigger scale, not in the microscopic scale, since, Alex Mercer is basically a viral colony, or if you prefer, a human sized virus. He's not a "Queen PlagueBearer" or anything but the Virus itself, so Infection and Replication could easily happen to him, even more if it's an "accident" like Evil Mercer's Birth could be.

I am positively salivating at all this juicy goodness, my good sir.

I can't wait!

Since everyone here is all raging at how Alex is LOL! Evil in Prototype II I thought I might leave these here.





Stay classy Blackwatch (and Alex).

I'm not insulting you, I'm just annoyed by the fact that the idea of 'dot void mage' exists. Although I'd like to argue that yes, I do have most (not all, just most) of the facts about ZnT canon, as I've read the novels (in Chinese).
Trusting the wiki might be easy, but by no means is it 100% accurate when anyone, when people that haven't read the novels and just learned about canon from hearsay, can edit.

I do apologise if it came across if my words was taken as a delibrate insult to you. That was not my intention (the intention was saying Void doesn't have dot/line/triangle/square class distinctions like human elemental magic).


And @Cpl_Facehugger: thanks for the info on the army matchup That was interesting to say the least, and now I'm hoping for a scene where these armies clash happening in the fic.
You've mentioned Tristain can even the odds by using D-Codes... so does that mean Romalia doesn't use them for some reason? Or are those ones not included in the army and more along the lines of covert-op?

It's more likely that she's some sort of femme fatale, flirting with the baker for some extra bread or whatever and acting sweet and innocent when that suits her purposes better. She'd be, uh, very good at it, too. It'd fall flat on Mercer, though.

Regarding the Prototype2 Protagonist: *my* money is still on him *being* Mercer and not realizing it.

Makes for a helluva mindfuck if that is the case, because Alex Mercer(Blacklight/Zeus) is clearly seen infecting James Heller (Gonna call him Hades for simplicity, hmm...) before moving away from him.

And Hades has a completely different Armour form than Mercer/Zeus, it's slightly different in colour, and there's some sort of tentacle on his right arm, somewhere at his elbow IIRC. The trailer is a bit clumsy, though it does show it danglin' when he jumps over a vehicle.

Aside from that, Hades would have far less voices in his head after being infected, because he's not yet consumed anyone as far as we know, unless he's inherited a fat load of psychic baggage from Zeus at the time of his conversion... which means the whole thing pretty much got worse, despite Hades motives for wanting to kill Zeus becoming much more personal than they already are.

Nah, keep Tiffania the same, it would be a good contrast to the rest of the world.

No, whether she gets crushed by the World or provides hope is the question.:drevil:

Plucky!Tiffania then? How long could she possibly last?

Plucky!Tiff would last quite a long time, unless Facehugger has Alex mentally break her.

Plucky!Tiff: I seem to have gotten your blood all over my hands while I was healing you. Tee hee!

Alex Mercer: I'm so sorry.

Tiff: Oh, it's not so bad.

Alex: Yes, it is. And I'm sorry.

Tiff: Oh, I'll just wash my hands-

Alex: 'Claws.'

Infected!Tiff: AAAAAHHH!

That is far too mean.

Sorry. I've always felt that Tiff was the Carrot of FoZ. Not that I've got anything against the good Captain, of course, but he's a bit boring. Mr. Carpenter is more interesting, imo.

Captain Carrot rocks! He's one of my favorites! (After Mr. Vimes, of course, which is where he belongs.) There is nothing wrong with being the nice guy (or half-elf girl) in a not-nice world.

Didn't say it's bad inherently, but it can be easily mishandled. For a good example, take Michael: he knows that there's evil in the world better than most, and he's convincingly made himself a bastion against it./gushing

Now I want to see Tiff in Shining Armor.

We've only got about 100 posts left until the end of this thread, better make them count.

Good point. Alright, something new: what will happen to Mercer when/if he consumes:

an Elf

another Void Familiar

a Void mage (completely consumes; my guess is he'll learn their spells and teach them to Louise while still being unable to use them himself)

a magical creature (on a case-by-case basis, starting with...maybe a dragon?)

The way I see it, if Mercer consumes a dragon he'll probably just get some generic flame-controlling powers. That or wings, but IIRC there's a chance he already has those as a result of consuming that crow at the end of the game.

I don't think that ended up happening. What about the void familiar? Its possible for Saito to be the familiar to both Tiff and Louise, right?