The Good Timeline
Trace and Saria let godmother Rose hold the baby during the Festival of the Beasts celebration in an AU where Saria never died, suggested by DarthKeidran!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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While Trace and Flora are meant to be (by order of the Gods!) Saria definitely deserved better.
I think this is the first time I've seen Templar Trace smile. I feel like every other time we see him (even while Saria is still alive) he looks so dour and/or apathetic all the time. Man, what could have been...
I personally think he seems a lot more happy with Flora but that’s probably because we’ve seen more of that timeline by a lot
So cute
This is vary cute
in this timeline trace gave Rose extended life.
Considering how many options there are to do this i am genuinely surprised tom has veered away from addressing it anymore.
Trace got back to the cabin in time to cure Saria of the poison, This affeceted the unborn child, who is now immune to poison.
Could be that. Could be he simply attended to her rather than chasing (and presumably combusting/thanos-snapping) the attacker. Could be anything.
This is sweet 😌. Not sure which part of this timeline I'm more curious, what their child looks like or what is gonna be like as a godmother? 🤔
I dunno either, but what I know is that Trace is living happily with his family.😌
(And then Rose woke up) Rose: Ahh! What a horrible nightmare! I'll never get back to sleep... (She goes back to sleep and snores)
OH! If only this could've been canon! Heartbreaking! 😭😭😭
😭😭😭
Beautiful. Combining the two Thanksgiving sketches would have Nora and baby Flora both appreciating the turkey.
This is the best what if i ever seen 😭 this is the best fr
If I remember right, this festival takes place only in Wreathwood, while Trace lives in Edinmire.
Also, I'm wondering are there some religions in Mekkan other than Masks? Must be different for different nations. Regarding concept of godparents... Is it Christianity?
D'awwwwww
Saria looks beautiful here. Hope it gets coloured~
Awww, this is just... so wholesome. 🥹 . . . Wai- NORA! NO! BAD DRA- WAIT. Just... no!
The fruitful harvest of this timeline~ 🥰
Trace: this is my wife, and my wife's girlfriend
You know I wonder how the world in this timeline would look
In this timeline, flora is dead
But... But what about Flora? And all our friends? And Racoon Girl? And Flora?!
Flora is giving Birth to Scyths kid here I guess
good timeline is it? I wonder what did I miss?
This looks great, Tom. Keep up the amazing work.👍 ((And Happy Thanksgiving too.))
Cooked Turkeys tend to not survive to dinner in Tom Sketches. Some rascal always get to them first
Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for Tom's Pizza. Lot of last-minute dinner rescues as turkeys mysteriously go missing and the smallest family members mysteriously turn into food-balloons.
This is the most wholesome sketch there ever was. Happy Thanksgiving!
This makes me sad for this to be real, maybe it is a dream that tortures evil trace
Oh no, Nora is near the baby! I hope he won't be too powerful when he becomes adult… or maybe she already did something to the baby during the pregnancy? 😅
They. Since we don't know their gender. And I'm fairly certain Nora is instead drooling over the baked chicken or turkey on the table! 😉
Would Laura still be alive in this timeline then?
It's hard to say what butterfly effect would happen if Trace hadn't gone insane and usurped Mary as Grand Templar. He did save Laura from slavers (inadvertently) while attacking a wolf village. Perhaps Laura would be a slave somewhere. Or perhaps so much would be different she wouldn't have ended up captured by wolves in the first place. So much could change.
Nora, thirty seconds later: "*BURP* I regret nothing."
This is super cute! Yeah if Saria had lived it more than likely would have lead to a way better timeline
And nothing Bad happened in this time line again. Certainly no blonde Templar trying a conspiracy...
Let Trace live that happy reality, for her sake and ours.
what a wishful world of imagination of what if and it looks like a wonderful time but alas dreams may not be reached as other dreams may develop
I wonder how Flora and Sythe would be during this AU timeline? If I recall, they were supposed to be married together to strengthen both their tribes together. Perhaps with Trace having a happy marriage and child, maybe his opinion on his treatment of non humans would slowly change and perhaps he would be more accepting of their freedom.
I assume Saria's relationship with Rose and Saria's attitude in general would probably cause a regular change for the better in Trace, similar to how Kathrin ended up forcing Eric to reconsider his opinion of the Keidran by calling out the hypocrisy of seeing her like a person but not affording Mike or Evals the same treatment.
What could’ve been...
"GrandMaster Trace Legacy 'The reformer' known for his vast achievements in the field of magic studies,would rise to the rank of Grandmaster after helping to uncover an internal conspiracy. He then made it his mission to remove corruption and return the Templars to its original goals of helping mankind. Notably with his wife's help he would pioneer more peaceful relationships with Keidran tribes and even opened up diplomacy with the Baisitin. "
Alas, if only it had been!
Aww. Also, Nora, stop touching the turkey, already.
Nice! But now I’m starting to ponder this question: What if Trace was the one who got killed instead of Saria?
It's an interesting question! Though I admit that I don't really know enough about Saria to answer that, and I also surmise it would heavily depend on who it was a why because she's not predisposed to hate the Keidran but she might have other rage buttons (Templars perhaps, also I remember she had a rather low opinion of Nora during the Dragon Masquerade but I really doubt Nora would do something like that). Something similar which I've been pondering about in turn is a timeline where Eric would end up being killed/murdered in a way which was traumatic to Kathrin before she would be able to square her feelings about him - although it feels redundant due to the evil AU timeline, I've had plenty of musings about a futuristic "dark Kathrin" AU where she would end up being an expy for the evil canon Trace in a way which would be much less insane and much more chilling.
RAD
I guess one consistent thing is Trace's child will have bright blue hair like him.
Now show where aunte Rose teaches Saria how to cary the child by gently taking them by the scruff of the neck...🤣
It's a terrible shame that Trace's baby had to die for the sake of the original plot. Or rather, for the plot to continue, one had to disappear.
Its always interesting to "alter" the parts of a plot that made terrible things happen in a story and see what results. One of my favorite concepts was removing the Horus Heresy from Warhammer40k. You change the whole setting completely and this usually extremely dark universe is suddenly a noble bright setting...for mankind at least
I thought lady Nora would have been a godmother... Guess Saria insisted.
But if you forget about mother's whim, it would be cool as F and help the child a lot in their life.
WHOLESOME!!!
Is Nora helping cook the turkey in the background or plotting to steal it for herself? Could be both, I guess.
I wish that Kedrian had a more human length of lifespan...
Somebody's been peeking into alternate timelines
One day Trace/Sarias child is gonna play dimensions hopper with Lady Nora and find Trace/Flora hybrid kid. Both will notice eachothers bright blue hair
Esperen, if they are there, who is taking care of the slaughtered guajolote on the table?
I actually really love this. This is a beautiful sight to see.
A very beautiful piece, Tom.
Aww this is so sweet and tragic, at the same time, for everyone involved Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! :)
Happy thanksgiving to you too :)
I love how this turned out. Thank you Tom. All of them (including the hungry derg eying the turkey) look so happy.
Festival of the Beasts, the Mekkan version of the Thanksgiving. Perfect for today. I wonder if this was a personal choice. Edit: I just reread the description, 'Twas a suggestion.
Nora! Down, girl!
Raine and her parents pull up outside to visit just a few minutes later
Mary Silverlock starts gushing to Saria how Proud she is that Trace succeeded her and what a great leader he is going to be as Trace Blushes in embarrassment from her praise
🥹
For trace yes but not for the rest of the cast
It’s hard to say. If Saria taught him to be tolerant of and kind to Keidran, the rest of the main cast might live happy lives also. It really depends on what is different in this AU verses, say, the “Broken Legacy” AU.
OMG