Cassie's chronology:
So I'm thinking that, rather obviously, the scenes where Shilo and friends are tying him up in the alley are fundamentally real, and in flashback. Ending with the shot at the ice cream parlor. Next event is the death of Aaron, shown only briefly. We know that Scott Free was sent to protect Shilo following his brother's death by gangbanger, but is here the first time we learn that Shilo was interested in escapology before meeting Scott?
So Shilo continues to adventure as Mr. Miracle 3, and ultimately leaves that life to persue a job as a warden at the Slab at the age of 20(?). While there, he works with Dina Bell(Do we know anything about this woman?), and is confronted by the seemingly malevolent Oracle/Omega. When Darkseid and Desaad show up at the Slab wearing fleshsuits, Omega/Oracle fuses himself to a depressed and questioning Shilo, and as Shilo, escapes the Slab's prison and death sentence.
Shilo, with Omega/Oracle in him, then persues fame and a career as a super-escape artist. Shilo begins seeing Dr. Dezard, Desaad's fleshsuit, as his therapist. He becomes very successful in a very short time, and decides to escape from a Black Hole. Upon reaching the event horizon, Shilo is greeted by Metron who informs Shilo that they are now where even "he" cannot listen. "He" was assumed to be Darkseid, but is now more accurately described to be the sentience of Omega. It's also assumed at this point that MotherBoxxx merges her "soul" to Shilo as well, leaving the motherboxxx device a "hollow shell"(7S:MM4 p17)
Shiloh escapes the Black Hole, and continues with his career as Mr. Miracle in issues 2 and 3, all the while being attacked by the fleshsuited forces of Apokolips. After confronting his usurper, Baron Bedlam, backstage at the Dome Show, Shilo is held down and is whispered the Anti-Life Equation. He breaks its hold through force of will.
One could assume that this is when the evil in Omega is activated, responding to the Anti-Life Equation. Shilo is beaten and mutilated. Finally, he commmits suicide.
This is when Omega really kicks into action, taking Shilo back and running him through alternate lives. The original life, of him as a celebirty superhero escape artist and ending in pill-suicide, is assumed to be fundamentally real - as it intersects with Klarion's and Guardian's events in NYC.
He is immediately thrown into the following sequences, as part of the Life Trap:
1) Suburban family life, wherein his granddaughter becomes Miss Miracle, and he is met by Rabbi Dezard.
2) Life as a hero again, this time dying in some great heor war, only to be mourned by Superman, Wonder Woman, GL, and some other hero.
3) An unspecified life, wherein Shilo is shot in the head.
*) It's at this point that MotherBoxxx is finished incubating Shilo's soul, and Shilo's Selfsense emerges separate of the consciousnesses that also inhabit his lifestream. He again hears Metron, and percieves Omega/Oracle as an entity separate than himself. But Omega isn't done yet!
4) Another unspecified life, wherein Shilo dies while trapped in a car underwater.
5) A rather sudden death, as Shilo dies of SIDS.
6) Again unspecified, Shilo dies of a heart attack in the arms of a Caucasian man. (His gay luvr?)
7) A repeat of his early original life. This time, Shilo throws himself in front of the gunfire that were directed at his policeman brother Aaron.
8 + *) A life in which Shilo is a sad, old man. Only also perceptive, in that he's able to activate the latent Motherboxxx'd Self that could percieve Omega/Oracle.
In that wierd timeless space where Omega and Shilo are separated, Shilo suggests that they work together to escape Darkseid's programming. The result is Omega/Oracle generating one last fantasy life: One in which Shiloh is a child, younger than the age he was when Aaron was killed.
In this life, young Shilo speaks to a child psychologist about how all his guilt and sadness is due to repressed emotion and loss from Aaron's death. The now-reassured child Shilo cracks the through Omega's final Life Trap to see that the child therapist is a representation of Metron, and percieves him as that.
Using Omega/Oracle's repetitious reality/time/space-bending Life Trap powers, Shilo finds himself back inside ther Black Hole Trap, and escapes it again, seven days after his initial escape.
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It's still not clean, but that's where I'm at. Oracle/Omega entity is still messy as I don't know enough to be sure about the sequencing, and the structure of Darkseid's involvement in activating Omega is problematic as well. Still working. Thoughts? |
