Barbelith Underground > Comic Books > Billy Chang is the key to it all?

As I see it, the entire flawed universe was created by events in the 20th and 21st centuries. All else was setup and foreplay. This is my Invisiverse theory, which like my Phoenix Force theory, is probably wrong... but it makes perfect sense to me and I hope it might help deadgrrl.

In the early nineties, John A Dreams and King Mob entered a church basement and discovered a room with a huge writhing biomass, referred to in the text as "the orgy of the insect people". But that isn't actually what they saw -the biomass was only what thier minds generated from the information their eyes were taking in. The biomass was actually a fracture point in the continuum, a hole in spacetime, where the fifth dimensional "outside" intersected with four dimensional "universe". The information proved too much for KM and he wound up in an asylum. John A Dreams somehow understood what it really was, and "enterred the biomass", thereby physically crossing over into the "outside" fifth dimension.

Now we have to talk about the nature of the fifth dimension, which is highly theoretical and could spark endless debate. Let's cut to the chase and say one usable truth: the fifth dimension is "outside" of the temporal flow. If you were to be "outside" the four dimensions of our universe, you could potentially step back into it at any point in the timestream... and, you would be completely aware of the entire linear past, present, and future of the timestream, because it would be similar to us looking down at a map and seeing the entirety of a particular region.

This made John A Dreams a random element suddenly(wrong word -because sudden implies a before and after) in the fifth dimension. I theorized that his "sudden step" into the fifth ripped it somehow, causing all four dimensions to exist without the fifth. John A Dreams step "outside" reverberated back and forth along the four dimensions left and created the universe. "Once I was a little light" -he said as Quimper, but we're nowhere near that yet.

With John forever outside the timestream, he was also forever inside the timestream -as part of the entire thing. One could argue that John was merged with the fifth dimensional "universe entity" because of his trespass, but we don't have to talk about that just yet. John became conscious of his pan-dimensional state as more and more indivudals became self-aware and conscious. In this way, John assumed his role as the collection of universal awareness -the Harlequinade. He also retained some self-awareness of his individual human-sized will and found that attached to fifth-dimensional intelligence, thereby becoming another outside-the-game-player, known to some as Satan, to others as the Blind Chessman.

Using these two roles together over millenia, John sought to use the growing self-awareness and self-consciousness(actually aspects of the "healing" fifth dimension) of the remaining four dimensions of the universe to repair the damage he had inadvertantly done. So he stepped in at specific points in the timestream to create the Invisibles. The purpose of these Invisible agents were to push humanity toward the end of time and the repaired completion of the fifth dimension.

As John was everyone, in, out, and along the perimeter of the "universe", he was also all the Invisible College "greys". The alien-like agents that "abducted" certain humans like Dane and Mason, were deep down also aspects of John A Dreams. One of these greys was captured by some malicious human beings and was subjected to torture, rape, and severe burns. This grey was emotionally corrupted and developed the individuality of Mr. Quimper. Over time, this burned grey became affiliated with agents of the Outer Church, and as a telepathic agent of control, served the finite purpose in the timestream of escalating the force and form of human fear -these forces and forms would become known as the Archons.

Eventually, it became necessary to remove Quimper from the Outer Church's influence and return him to the fifth dimension perimeter where he belonged. An elaborate scheme was developed by the Invisibles of the late nineties to attack Quimper in his base at Dulce. But that attack relied completely on a gambit that they would make over a decade in the future -sending another telepathic agent into the past to help them. They found this agent in the form of Ragged Robin.

Okay, I'm getting carpal tunnel. I'm gonna write more later when I rest up.