Victor Van Dort (
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Short Version: An AU version of Victor Van Dort from Corpse Bride, crossed with "Alice: Madness Returns." After the events of the movie, his parents sent him to Dr. Bumby to forget "that corpse girl," leading him to meet Alice Liddell and become her friend (and gradually fall in love with her) shortly before the events of "Alice: Madness Returns," which he then proceeds to live through with her (or, more accurately, goes mental trying to keep her from getting into trouble while SHE lives through the events of A:MR).
Long Version:
This is an alternate universe Victor from my fanfiction series The Forgotten Vows Verse (also available at Archive of Our Own here) - a crossover between Corpse Bride and the "Alice" games put out by EA and American McGee (not "Otherlands," since this was started way before the shorts). As of this writing, the series is not yet completed, with two main stories and two side stories up in full, and the third main story coming to completion. EDIT: First through third in the main arc are up, along with four side stories! It's pretty hard to avoid spoilers about what happens during the series what with the way I play him, but I'll be putting all the descriptions of what happens during the main arc behind cuts nonetheless.
The Original Canons:
◆ About The Movie on the Corpse Bride Wiki
◆ Alice's page on the Alice Wiki, which contains the most complete plot synopsis of the Alice games
The Forgotten Vows Verse:
Main Arc - The "_______ You" Cycle
◆ Losing You (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed)
Late January 1875 to late March 1875
After his adventures in the afterlife and setting Emily free, Victor Van Dort expected that, with any luck, he'd be allowed to marry Victoria Everglot and have his life go back to normal.
Luck, however, was not on his side. The elder Everglots were so terrified by the walking dead that, the moment Victoria came home from the church, they grabbed her and fled to a long-disused house in the country, where they started shopping around for a new suitor. Victoria made some valiant efforts to get back to Burtonsville and Victor, but was consistently thwarted.
Meanwhile, Victor’s parents finally returned from their inadvertent trip. Not having been in town during the rising of the dead, they refused to believe their son’s story, instead thinking he’d gone mad. When they went to discuss the situation with the Everglots, they found the house empty and abandoned. A frantic search was mounted to find the missing nobles, while Victor suffered through visits from multiple psychiatrists and continued to try and convince his parents of the truth of his story, to no avail. Not even the townspeople would back him up - most too intimidated by the furious Pastor Galswells, who declared Victor "damned" for his actions.
Finally, the Van Dorts located the Everglots, and the families met – only for the Everglots to inform them that Victoria was already married. Victor went to visit her and her new husband, Mr. Christopher White, and discovered Victoria had heard about Pastor Galswells’s declarations and had mistakenly believed he’d committed suicide (going after Emily again once she disappeared). Under that misconception, she’d agreed to marry Mr. White, who was fortunately a kind and loving man she’d come to love herself. Victor, knowing there was no chance with her anymore, let her go gracefully and wished her all happiness.
Back in Burtonsville, Victor briefly sought out Emily’s hand again, believing he really had nothing tying him to the Land of the Living anymore and willing to give their relationship another try. Upon finding it missing, however, he realized Emily was no longer looking for a husband and let her go as well. Having lost the two women he'd fallen in love with so quickly, Victor fell into a deep depression.
Around the same time, William and Nell, furious about what had happened with the Everglots, decided that the only way to salvage the situation was to make Victor forget Emily. Unfortunately for Victor, that was when they learned about one Dr. Angus Bumby, an innovator in the field of erasing painful and unproductive memories through hypnosis. A deal was made, and Victor was shipped off to the Houndsditch Home for Wayward Youth in Whitechapel, London.
◆ Finding You (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed)
Early April 1875 to late August 1875
Victor arrived at Houndsditch in early April of 1875. He almost immediately hated the place. Angry at being told to forget the unfortunate bride he'd help free, he refused to cooperate with Bumby’s therapy, only ever going into the lightest of trances. Bumby naturally developed a dislike for the young man in return. A battle of wills sprang up - Bumby trying to force Victor to forget Emily, Victor trying to convince Bumby he was either not mad or a lost cause so he'd finally be left alone. In between, the young man dealt with the mockery of the younger residents of the home and the disdain of the native residents of Whitechapel.
Fortunately for Victor's continued sanity, there was one person at Houndsditch that made living there bearable for him – a young lady named Alice Liddell. Dr. Bumby's oldest patient (recommended to him after her release from a ten-year stay in Rutledge Asylum following the death of her family) and maid/errand girl for the Home, Alice initially disliked Victor for his "lies" about visiting the afterlife. However, her anger soon turned to curiosity – both about the Land Below, and about Victor himself. As the months passed, the two opened up more and more to each other; Victor telling Alice about his adventures in the Land of the Dead, and Alice telling Victor about her adventures in her childhood imaginary world called Wonderland. The two became very close friends, to the point where, after five months together -
Victor realized he was falling in love with her.
◆ Forgetting You (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed)
Early September 1875 to early November 1875
Unfortunately, in September of 1875, things took a turn for the worse for both Victor and Alice. Alice, struggling with conflicting desires to forget her past and discover the truth about the house fire that claimed the lives of her parents and sister, toppled over the edge of sanity and fell back into Wonderland. The realm had changed during her time in Rutledge, from an innocent playland into a world where Alice could literally battle her psychoses - as Alice had done on a previous visit, killing the Queen of Hearts and her probing tentacles to free herself from her insanity and survivor's guilt. This time around, however, Alice found her inner world in peril from a different source - an Infernal Train, spreading oily Ruin that corrupted and destroyed the landscape and inhabitants. Alice quickly discovered that her only chance of derailing the train lay in fighting her way across Wonderland and recovering the memories she'd tried to forget for so long.
Unfortunately, doing so meant letting her body wander around without purpose or plan in London – something Victor Van Dort didn't like at all. As Alice battled her way through the various subrealms of her mind, Victor spent most of his time searching the city for her and doing his best to keep her out of danger (including, at one point, saving her from a burning building). He also fell deeper in love with her, although he refused to act on his feelings, certain they wouldn't be returned. (Little did he know that Alice would realize she loved him too on her journey through her mind.)
Finally, Alice recovered the last of her memories and learned the horrible truth – Dr. Bumby had been the one to kill her family, burning down the house after forcing himself on her sister (whom he was obsessed with). Around the same time, Victor discovered Bumby’s other dark secret via stumbling upon the doctor’s diary – the Houndsditch Home was in fact a front for child prostitution. Bumby was mindwiping and selling his young charges to the highest bidder, and had similar fates planned for Alice and Victor. Unfortunately, Bumby caught Victor before the young man could escape with the diary. Victor was mentally tortured until he finally submitted to Bumby’s mind control, having his memories erased and being turned into Bumby’s slave Thirteen.
On November 5th, 1875, the twelfth anniversary of the fire, Alice confronted her corrupt therapist at Moorgate Station, where the doctor was waiting for Alice’s replacement (having given up on her ever returning to the Home). Bumby summoned Thirteen (to Alice's horror) and tried to get him to kill Alice, but Victor recognized her and instead attacked Bumby. Bumby reasserted his control over Thirteen, only to be shoved in front of a train by Alice in revenge for all the evil he'd done. Alice managed to break Bumby's control over Victor afterwards, but wasn't able to restore the majority of his memories, leaving him an almost total amnesiac. Fortunately, one of the memories he did regain was finding Dr. Bumby’s diary. He and Alice retrieved it and brought it to the local police, discrediting the former doctor.
◆ Remembering You (FanFiction.net, sneak peek)
Early November 1875 to mid-December 1875
With Dr. Bumby dead, someone was needed to take over the Houndsditch Home for Wayward Youth. That someone proved to be Dr. Heironymous Wilson, Alice’s former psychiatrist, recently retired from Rutledge Asylum. Bumby's intended replacement for Alice, June Thatcher, also arrived, and together with Alice they began working on restoring Victor's memories. Victoria and her husband also paid a visit to the home to help – unfortunately to no avail.
Finally, while napping one day, Victor had a dream about Emily, who told him that his best chance for getting his memories back was to ask Alice to lend him her strength – specifically, those weapons she owned that were good for getting through walls. Alice, looking for alternative medicine for her beloved, got much the same advice from Dr. Fixxler of Dr. Fixxler's Mysterious Elixirs. Alice drew pictures of her sturdiest weapons to help Victor in imagining them, and that night, Victor used them to smash through the wall in his mind, defeating Bumby's influence on him and reclaiming his memories. Ecstatic, he declared his feelings for Alice via a kiss -- she reciprocated, and the two started on the journey to having a proper relationship.
◆ Fixing You
Early January 1876 to February 1876, with an epilogue set in July 1876
After Christmas in Houndsditch, Alice and Victor still find themselves struggling a little with their respective problems. Alice doesn't quite feel she's achieved the closure she so needs with her family's deaths, and Victor's fighting a sudden temperamental streak and the shame of being under Bumby's control. A rage-induced lash-out at Jack Splatter leads the pair back to Dr. Fixxler, who takes them under his wing and informs them of the existence of magic. The pair see great potential in becoming mages and ask if they can a) visit the Land of the Dead so Alice can finally make her peace with her family and b) have Victor visit Wonderland. Dr. Fixxler confirms both are possible, though he'll need to help them with the first (they don't have the magic power necessary to cast the spell needed).
Later in January, the three friends travel to Oxford and visit the Land of the Dead to see Alice's family. The group gets a surprise when they encounter Bonejangles with Alice's sister Lizzie -- turns out the pair met in the Land of the Dead while Bonejangles was touring with his band, and have started a relationship. Victor's happy to see his old friend, and Alice has a warm reunion with her sister and parents. Talking with them relieves the last of her guilt over their deaths, and Victor is accepted as a potential member of the family.
Shortly after that visit, Victor plunges into Wonderland with Alice. The pair explore all the Domains together, and while Victor finds the trip amazing, his experience is marred a bit by Slithering Ruins. For some reason, the last remains of Bumby's influence on Alice seem attracted to him. It's not until they hit the Dollhouse and encounter the Insane Children that they find the truth -- they're not attracted to Victor, they're coming from him. Victor is naturally horrified, as is Alice, but decide that the proper response is to go into Victor's brain a couple of nights from now and battle whatever remains of Bumby's influence.
At the agreed-upon time, the pair head into Victor's brain, encountering a fog-filled, ruined (and Ruined) Burtonsville packed with enemies for Victor to fight. The young man bravely takes them all on with Alice at his side, eventually coming face to face with the "end boss" -- Thirteen, a Dollmaker-like version of himself. Victor fights Thirteen, and after a bad start seems poised to kill the monster, but Alice stops him, explaining that Thirteen isn't really the bad guy. Rather, it's Victor's secret fear that he didn't do enough to repel Bumby and fight back -- his inability to admit he was a victim. Victor finally lets go of his irrational guilt and purifies Thirteen back to what he was before (which is, a bit embarrassingly, the manifestation of Victor's libido). He also restructures the town outside into a sort of Wonderland of his own, naming it BurtonDead. The pair emerge from the battles with their issues finally taken care of, and they make their status as boyfriend and girlfriend official.
And the epilogue? Them finally getting married.
Side Arc - "A Lady And Her Knight" Chronicles:
◆ For You Were Not The One: (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed) Victoria's POV on some of the events of "Losing You," set after Victor visits her in Chapter 5.
◆ Card Castles In The Sky: (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed) Victoria's/Alan's (her manservant) POV on the events of Chapters 16 & 17 in "Forgetting You," starting right after Alice faints on Victoria and running to when Victor leaves the White hotel suite.
◆ Something Old: Alice's POV, set after the main arc and concerning a special gift Victoria bestows upon her.
Side Arc - "Dead Old London Town" Chronicles:
◆ In The Land of the Dead: (FanFiction.net, completed but in need of final edits) Alice's deceased family adjusts to the Land of the Dead, and around the time of "Forgetting You," Lizzie finds herself going on an adventure with a surprisingly-familiar face.
◆ Triskaidekaphobia: (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed) Multi-POV story covering a certain painful week in Victor's life. CREEPY AND NSFW
So Where & When Is Victor From?
This got longer than I expected, so a quick short answer before I get into the meat of things: Victor's usually from early January 1876, between the fourth and fifth stories of his canon. His most common variants for memes involve him having a pet, typically his fire lizard Moonlight.
◆ Games: For anything like his old haunt
mallowhallow, Victor's canon point will always been around early January 1876, not long after the events of "Remembering You." I figure this is the best point to pull him from -- while he's in love with his version of Alice, he hasn't yet put any "official" labels on his relationship with her (although he has kissed her a number of times), he's just off a relatively pleasant Christmas, and he's still got plenty of character development to go (aka, I can mine the events of "Fixing You" for plots as necessary).
◆ Memes: Victor's canon point is much more flexible here, though I tend to default toward that same "between 'Remembering You' and 'Fixing You'" era in any that don't require a specific twisting of reality. However, I'm willing to play him from a number of points, including:
-->His preliminary Houndsditch period (April-September 1875, "Fixing You")
-->His "Thirteen" period (in-fic as the last bit of October/first bit of November 1875 ("Forgetting You," "Triskaidekaphobia"), but can be extended as necessary)
-->His amnesiac period (November-December 1875, "Remembering You")
-->Official relationship/married (March 1876 on, post-"Fixing You"); these can include Victor's future dog Bayard (a wedding gift from Dr. Wilson)
There are also a few "variant" universes that sometimes reappear over multiple memes:
-->Mental World -- technically canon to the main verse, but as these all happen inside Victor's head. . .here you can see Victor in his own version of Wonderland, complete with themed suits.
-->Meta-ish -- Victor may be aware of the fourth wall, or he may just not be questioning things like why he's receiving anonymous questions or in random appropriately-themed support groups. This is also his standard for
dear_mun, of course
-->Houndsditch Bayard -- Inspired by his tumblr adventures, where he got Bayard as a gift from Dr. Wilson while he was still living there. Bayard will most likely be an adorable husky puppy in those instances.
-->Pern Crashed In -- A new one that will no doubt see a lot of play, as I want to use Victor's fire lizard. Victor found the egg somewhere during his adventures, and now he's raising a miniature dragon. Moonlight (the dragonet in question) may range from hatchling to (more likely) full-grown (2'7" if you're curious).
And now I hope you know exactly what you're in for!
Long Version:
This is an alternate universe Victor from my fanfiction series The Forgotten Vows Verse (also available at Archive of Our Own here) - a crossover between Corpse Bride and the "Alice" games put out by EA and American McGee (not "Otherlands," since this was started way before the shorts). As of this writing, the series is not yet completed, with two main stories and two side stories up in full, and the third main story coming to completion. EDIT: First through third in the main arc are up, along with four side stories! It's pretty hard to avoid spoilers about what happens during the series what with the way I play him, but I'll be putting all the descriptions of what happens during the main arc behind cuts nonetheless.
The Original Canons:
◆ About The Movie on the Corpse Bride Wiki
◆ Alice's page on the Alice Wiki, which contains the most complete plot synopsis of the Alice games
The Forgotten Vows Verse:
Main Arc - The "_______ You" Cycle
◆ Losing You (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed)
Late January 1875 to late March 1875
After his adventures in the afterlife and setting Emily free, Victor Van Dort expected that, with any luck, he'd be allowed to marry Victoria Everglot and have his life go back to normal.
Luck, however, was not on his side. The elder Everglots were so terrified by the walking dead that, the moment Victoria came home from the church, they grabbed her and fled to a long-disused house in the country, where they started shopping around for a new suitor. Victoria made some valiant efforts to get back to Burtonsville and Victor, but was consistently thwarted.
Meanwhile, Victor’s parents finally returned from their inadvertent trip. Not having been in town during the rising of the dead, they refused to believe their son’s story, instead thinking he’d gone mad. When they went to discuss the situation with the Everglots, they found the house empty and abandoned. A frantic search was mounted to find the missing nobles, while Victor suffered through visits from multiple psychiatrists and continued to try and convince his parents of the truth of his story, to no avail. Not even the townspeople would back him up - most too intimidated by the furious Pastor Galswells, who declared Victor "damned" for his actions.
Finally, the Van Dorts located the Everglots, and the families met – only for the Everglots to inform them that Victoria was already married. Victor went to visit her and her new husband, Mr. Christopher White, and discovered Victoria had heard about Pastor Galswells’s declarations and had mistakenly believed he’d committed suicide (going after Emily again once she disappeared). Under that misconception, she’d agreed to marry Mr. White, who was fortunately a kind and loving man she’d come to love herself. Victor, knowing there was no chance with her anymore, let her go gracefully and wished her all happiness.
Back in Burtonsville, Victor briefly sought out Emily’s hand again, believing he really had nothing tying him to the Land of the Living anymore and willing to give their relationship another try. Upon finding it missing, however, he realized Emily was no longer looking for a husband and let her go as well. Having lost the two women he'd fallen in love with so quickly, Victor fell into a deep depression.
Around the same time, William and Nell, furious about what had happened with the Everglots, decided that the only way to salvage the situation was to make Victor forget Emily. Unfortunately for Victor, that was when they learned about one Dr. Angus Bumby, an innovator in the field of erasing painful and unproductive memories through hypnosis. A deal was made, and Victor was shipped off to the Houndsditch Home for Wayward Youth in Whitechapel, London.
◆ Finding You (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed)
Early April 1875 to late August 1875
Victor arrived at Houndsditch in early April of 1875. He almost immediately hated the place. Angry at being told to forget the unfortunate bride he'd help free, he refused to cooperate with Bumby’s therapy, only ever going into the lightest of trances. Bumby naturally developed a dislike for the young man in return. A battle of wills sprang up - Bumby trying to force Victor to forget Emily, Victor trying to convince Bumby he was either not mad or a lost cause so he'd finally be left alone. In between, the young man dealt with the mockery of the younger residents of the home and the disdain of the native residents of Whitechapel.
Fortunately for Victor's continued sanity, there was one person at Houndsditch that made living there bearable for him – a young lady named Alice Liddell. Dr. Bumby's oldest patient (recommended to him after her release from a ten-year stay in Rutledge Asylum following the death of her family) and maid/errand girl for the Home, Alice initially disliked Victor for his "lies" about visiting the afterlife. However, her anger soon turned to curiosity – both about the Land Below, and about Victor himself. As the months passed, the two opened up more and more to each other; Victor telling Alice about his adventures in the Land of the Dead, and Alice telling Victor about her adventures in her childhood imaginary world called Wonderland. The two became very close friends, to the point where, after five months together -
Victor realized he was falling in love with her.
◆ Forgetting You (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed)
Early September 1875 to early November 1875
Unfortunately, in September of 1875, things took a turn for the worse for both Victor and Alice. Alice, struggling with conflicting desires to forget her past and discover the truth about the house fire that claimed the lives of her parents and sister, toppled over the edge of sanity and fell back into Wonderland. The realm had changed during her time in Rutledge, from an innocent playland into a world where Alice could literally battle her psychoses - as Alice had done on a previous visit, killing the Queen of Hearts and her probing tentacles to free herself from her insanity and survivor's guilt. This time around, however, Alice found her inner world in peril from a different source - an Infernal Train, spreading oily Ruin that corrupted and destroyed the landscape and inhabitants. Alice quickly discovered that her only chance of derailing the train lay in fighting her way across Wonderland and recovering the memories she'd tried to forget for so long.
Unfortunately, doing so meant letting her body wander around without purpose or plan in London – something Victor Van Dort didn't like at all. As Alice battled her way through the various subrealms of her mind, Victor spent most of his time searching the city for her and doing his best to keep her out of danger (including, at one point, saving her from a burning building). He also fell deeper in love with her, although he refused to act on his feelings, certain they wouldn't be returned. (Little did he know that Alice would realize she loved him too on her journey through her mind.)
Finally, Alice recovered the last of her memories and learned the horrible truth – Dr. Bumby had been the one to kill her family, burning down the house after forcing himself on her sister (whom he was obsessed with). Around the same time, Victor discovered Bumby’s other dark secret via stumbling upon the doctor’s diary – the Houndsditch Home was in fact a front for child prostitution. Bumby was mindwiping and selling his young charges to the highest bidder, and had similar fates planned for Alice and Victor. Unfortunately, Bumby caught Victor before the young man could escape with the diary. Victor was mentally tortured until he finally submitted to Bumby’s mind control, having his memories erased and being turned into Bumby’s slave Thirteen.
On November 5th, 1875, the twelfth anniversary of the fire, Alice confronted her corrupt therapist at Moorgate Station, where the doctor was waiting for Alice’s replacement (having given up on her ever returning to the Home). Bumby summoned Thirteen (to Alice's horror) and tried to get him to kill Alice, but Victor recognized her and instead attacked Bumby. Bumby reasserted his control over Thirteen, only to be shoved in front of a train by Alice in revenge for all the evil he'd done. Alice managed to break Bumby's control over Victor afterwards, but wasn't able to restore the majority of his memories, leaving him an almost total amnesiac. Fortunately, one of the memories he did regain was finding Dr. Bumby’s diary. He and Alice retrieved it and brought it to the local police, discrediting the former doctor.
◆ Remembering You (FanFiction.net, sneak peek)
Early November 1875 to mid-December 1875
With Dr. Bumby dead, someone was needed to take over the Houndsditch Home for Wayward Youth. That someone proved to be Dr. Heironymous Wilson, Alice’s former psychiatrist, recently retired from Rutledge Asylum. Bumby's intended replacement for Alice, June Thatcher, also arrived, and together with Alice they began working on restoring Victor's memories. Victoria and her husband also paid a visit to the home to help – unfortunately to no avail.
Finally, while napping one day, Victor had a dream about Emily, who told him that his best chance for getting his memories back was to ask Alice to lend him her strength – specifically, those weapons she owned that were good for getting through walls. Alice, looking for alternative medicine for her beloved, got much the same advice from Dr. Fixxler of Dr. Fixxler's Mysterious Elixirs. Alice drew pictures of her sturdiest weapons to help Victor in imagining them, and that night, Victor used them to smash through the wall in his mind, defeating Bumby's influence on him and reclaiming his memories. Ecstatic, he declared his feelings for Alice via a kiss -- she reciprocated, and the two started on the journey to having a proper relationship.
◆ Fixing You
Early January 1876 to February 1876, with an epilogue set in July 1876
After Christmas in Houndsditch, Alice and Victor still find themselves struggling a little with their respective problems. Alice doesn't quite feel she's achieved the closure she so needs with her family's deaths, and Victor's fighting a sudden temperamental streak and the shame of being under Bumby's control. A rage-induced lash-out at Jack Splatter leads the pair back to Dr. Fixxler, who takes them under his wing and informs them of the existence of magic. The pair see great potential in becoming mages and ask if they can a) visit the Land of the Dead so Alice can finally make her peace with her family and b) have Victor visit Wonderland. Dr. Fixxler confirms both are possible, though he'll need to help them with the first (they don't have the magic power necessary to cast the spell needed).
Later in January, the three friends travel to Oxford and visit the Land of the Dead to see Alice's family. The group gets a surprise when they encounter Bonejangles with Alice's sister Lizzie -- turns out the pair met in the Land of the Dead while Bonejangles was touring with his band, and have started a relationship. Victor's happy to see his old friend, and Alice has a warm reunion with her sister and parents. Talking with them relieves the last of her guilt over their deaths, and Victor is accepted as a potential member of the family.
Shortly after that visit, Victor plunges into Wonderland with Alice. The pair explore all the Domains together, and while Victor finds the trip amazing, his experience is marred a bit by Slithering Ruins. For some reason, the last remains of Bumby's influence on Alice seem attracted to him. It's not until they hit the Dollhouse and encounter the Insane Children that they find the truth -- they're not attracted to Victor, they're coming from him. Victor is naturally horrified, as is Alice, but decide that the proper response is to go into Victor's brain a couple of nights from now and battle whatever remains of Bumby's influence.
At the agreed-upon time, the pair head into Victor's brain, encountering a fog-filled, ruined (and Ruined) Burtonsville packed with enemies for Victor to fight. The young man bravely takes them all on with Alice at his side, eventually coming face to face with the "end boss" -- Thirteen, a Dollmaker-like version of himself. Victor fights Thirteen, and after a bad start seems poised to kill the monster, but Alice stops him, explaining that Thirteen isn't really the bad guy. Rather, it's Victor's secret fear that he didn't do enough to repel Bumby and fight back -- his inability to admit he was a victim. Victor finally lets go of his irrational guilt and purifies Thirteen back to what he was before (which is, a bit embarrassingly, the manifestation of Victor's libido). He also restructures the town outside into a sort of Wonderland of his own, naming it BurtonDead. The pair emerge from the battles with their issues finally taken care of, and they make their status as boyfriend and girlfriend official.
And the epilogue? Them finally getting married.
Side Arc - "A Lady And Her Knight" Chronicles:
◆ For You Were Not The One: (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed) Victoria's POV on some of the events of "Losing You," set after Victor visits her in Chapter 5.
◆ Card Castles In The Sky: (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed) Victoria's/Alan's (her manservant) POV on the events of Chapters 16 & 17 in "Forgetting You," starting right after Alice faints on Victoria and running to when Victor leaves the White hotel suite.
◆ Something Old: Alice's POV, set after the main arc and concerning a special gift Victoria bestows upon her.
Side Arc - "Dead Old London Town" Chronicles:
◆ In The Land of the Dead: (FanFiction.net, completed but in need of final edits) Alice's deceased family adjusts to the Land of the Dead, and around the time of "Forgetting You," Lizzie finds herself going on an adventure with a surprisingly-familiar face.
◆ Triskaidekaphobia: (American McGee's Back To The Corpse Bride, completed) Multi-POV story covering a certain painful week in Victor's life. CREEPY AND NSFW
So Where & When Is Victor From?
This got longer than I expected, so a quick short answer before I get into the meat of things: Victor's usually from early January 1876, between the fourth and fifth stories of his canon. His most common variants for memes involve him having a pet, typically his fire lizard Moonlight.
◆ Games: For anything like his old haunt
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
◆ Memes: Victor's canon point is much more flexible here, though I tend to default toward that same "between 'Remembering You' and 'Fixing You'" era in any that don't require a specific twisting of reality. However, I'm willing to play him from a number of points, including:
-->His preliminary Houndsditch period (April-September 1875, "Fixing You")
-->His "Thirteen" period (in-fic as the last bit of October/first bit of November 1875 ("Forgetting You," "Triskaidekaphobia"), but can be extended as necessary)
-->His amnesiac period (November-December 1875, "Remembering You")
-->Official relationship/married (March 1876 on, post-"Fixing You"); these can include Victor's future dog Bayard (a wedding gift from Dr. Wilson)
There are also a few "variant" universes that sometimes reappear over multiple memes:
-->Mental World -- technically canon to the main verse, but as these all happen inside Victor's head. . .here you can see Victor in his own version of Wonderland, complete with themed suits.
-->Meta-ish -- Victor may be aware of the fourth wall, or he may just not be questioning things like why he's receiving anonymous questions or in random appropriately-themed support groups. This is also his standard for
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
-->Houndsditch Bayard -- Inspired by his tumblr adventures, where he got Bayard as a gift from Dr. Wilson while he was still living there. Bayard will most likely be an adorable husky puppy in those instances.
-->Pern Crashed In -- A new one that will no doubt see a lot of play, as I want to use Victor's fire lizard. Victor found the egg somewhere during his adventures, and now he's raising a miniature dragon. Moonlight (the dragonet in question) may range from hatchling to (more likely) full-grown (2'7" if you're curious).
And now I hope you know exactly what you're in for!