So if anyone wanted to learn a possibly uncomfortable amount about Timekeeper...
She's no longer accustomed to paying attention to her physical needs, but here in the Grove she can't just hold herself in temporal stasis forever so oops, she needs to sleep and will perhaps conk out whether she wants to or not! But she's also not very good at realizing when she's dreaming, so she may very well need someone to come shake her lucid enough to help save Dipper. Here's some dream options for plotting:
Time rifts/temporal abyss! The space between timelines that Timekeeper normally spends her free time in, an unsettling, brightly lit vast golden space filled with clockwork and sewing tools. It's very dangerous. Also she lives here. Good luck finding her before finding yourself trapped in a time pocket or something. Might include getting sent through various parts of cookie history.
The Time Balance Department! Oops, Timekeeper hasn't told anyone that she's the Director of a secretive cookie organization tasked with maintaining the timelines, because why would she, it's a secret. Welp, you might find out. Hello new employee the Director herself is here to make sure your onboarding process is as weird as possible. Also you're a cookie now.
Or... you might meet someone who doesn't seem very much like Timekeeper at all. You might find yourself in a battered garage, talking to a young cookie who is eager to tell you of her dreams and aspirations, to answer your questions about the timecraft she's tinkering with. A cookie who perhaps seems strangely familiar, deep in your soul. Maybe you'll get to go on a time adventure with her. Maybe you'll get to meet her friends. Maybe you'll get to see when it all went sideways.
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She's no longer accustomed to paying attention to her physical needs, but here in the Grove she can't just hold herself in temporal stasis forever so oops, she needs to sleep and will perhaps conk out whether she wants to or not! But she's also not very good at realizing when she's dreaming, so she may very well need someone to come shake her lucid enough to help save Dipper. Here's some dream options for plotting:
Time rifts/temporal abyss! The space between timelines that Timekeeper normally spends her free time in, an unsettling, brightly lit vast golden space filled with clockwork and sewing tools. It's very dangerous. Also she lives here. Good luck finding her before finding yourself trapped in a time pocket or something. Might include getting sent through various parts of cookie history.
The Time Balance Department! Oops, Timekeeper hasn't told anyone that she's the Director of a secretive cookie organization tasked with maintaining the timelines, because why would she, it's a secret. Welp, you might find out. Hello new employee the Director herself is here to make sure your onboarding process is as weird as possible. Also you're a cookie now.
Or... you might meet someone who doesn't seem very much like Timekeeper at all. You might find yourself in a battered garage, talking to a young cookie who is eager to tell you of her dreams and aspirations, to answer your questions about the timecraft she's tinkering with. A cookie who perhaps seems strangely familiar, deep in your soul. Maybe you'll get to go on a time adventure with her. Maybe you'll get to meet her friends. Maybe you'll get to see when it all went sideways.