Blink, Breathe, Win — Defining the What If Protocol
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What If Protocol Series #0000: The Primer
Some patterns aren’t just recognized — they’re rewritten.
That’s the What If Protocol.
Where Prime is instinct reading the bones of reality, What If is instinct reassembling those bones into something new. It’s not discovery. It’s invention.
What Makes a What If Protocol
Alt-Lore Flips — Take the trope, snap it in half, and build chaos from the pieces. (Marian, once the damsel, becomes the villainous queenpin with Skullmageddon at her side.)
Hypothetical Universes — The “what if x was y” thought experiments. (What if Invader Zim actually conquered Earth?)
Playable Daydreams — Arcade posters for games that never existed, but should have.
Tone Consistency — Logged with the same filing stamp and pawprint approval. It’s part of the archive, not just a stray musing.
Why Log It?
Because imagination is pattern turned inside-out.
Because sometimes the trope doesn’t need to be recognized — it needs to be burned down and rebuilt.
Because “What If” is where chaos gets teeth.
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