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Threadmarks: Chapter 5: "The Rabbit Comes Home (And Bob Iger Plays Video Games On Stage For Twenty Minutes And Nobody Stops Him)"
Part 1: The Morning Of
D23 Expo 2013. Anaheim Convention Center. August 9th.
The largest Disney fan event in the world. Tens of thousands of attendees. Hundreds of journalists. Millions watching livestreams. The place where Disney announces its biggest projects, reveals its grandest plans, and...
Threadmarks: Chapter 4: "The World Is On Fire And Bob Iger Is Looking At Spider-Man Figures"
Part 1: The Timeline Of Chaos
To fully understand what Marcus had accidentally done to global popular culture, we need to establish a timeline. Because the ripple effects of "To Hell With The Rulebook" didn't just spread — they MUTATED. They evolved. They took on a life of their own that no...
Threadmarks: Chapter 3: "The Man Who Talked About Video Games Like They Mattered (And Accidentally Made Fourteen Billionaires Remember Why They Loved Disney)"
Part 1: The Song That Wouldn't Die
Marcus was on a plane to Salt Lake City.
He was not thinking about the song.
He should have been thinking about the song. Every single person in the world was thinking about the song. "To Hell With The Rulebook" had officially crossed 100 million YouTube...
Threadmarks: Chapter 2: "The Shanty Heard Round The World (Or: Why Bob Iger Called Johnny Depp At 2 AM)"
Part 1: The Idea
It was 2 AM.
Marcus was sitting at Bob Iger's home office — which was nicer than any apartment Marcus had ever lived in, which was nicer than any apartment Marcus had ever SEEN, which was nicer than some HOTELS Marcus had seen in magazines he couldn't afford — staring at his...
Threadmarks: Chapter 1: "The Death of a Fan, The Birth of a CEO"
Part 1: The End
The apartment was a disaster.
Not in the "I should probably clean this weekend" sense. In the "this is a monument to obsession and poor life choices" sense. Every surface was covered in something. The desk had three monitors, two of which were displaying spreadsheets full of...
Saïx's report was delivered in person.
This was unusual. Reports within the Organization were typically filed through the communication network—a system of Nobody-mediated channels that allowed instantaneous information transfer across any distance, efficient and impersonal, the preferred method...
Saïx came from above.
No warning. No announcement. No dramatic entrance speech or theatrical display of power. One moment the corridor was empty—white walls, warm light, the faint hum of the castle accommodating Ventus's presence—and the next moment the ceiling opened and Saïx dropped through...
Threadmarks: Chapter 5: The Man Behind The Man Behind The Man
In a place that was not a place, at a time that was not a time, in a location that existed in the margins of reality like a footnote that had gotten too ambitious and decided it was the main text, the Master of Masters was laughing.
This was not unusual. The Master of Masters laughed at most...
Threadmarks: Chapter 4: The Castle Has a Ventus Problem
Riku knew something was wrong approximately thirty seconds before something was wrong.
This was becoming a pattern. His time in Castle Oblivion had sharpened his instincts to a razor's edge—or maybe the darkness inside him had done that, the piece of Ansem that lived in his shadow, whispering...
Threadmarks: Chapter 3: The Chamber of Things Going Wrong
Lexaeus was not an impulsive man.
This was, perhaps, the single most defining characteristic of the person who had once been Aeleus and was now the Silent Hero and had been, across both iterations of his existence, the kind of individual who thought before he acted, who measured before he cut...
The Dusk discovered Sleights on the eleventh floor.
It happened by accident—most of its discoveries happened by accident, which was either a commentary on the chaotic nature of its existence or evidence that the universe had a sense of humor that it could no longer appreciate. It was fighting a...
There were Heartless in the sky.
That was the first thing he noticed. Not the screaming—there was plenty of that, coming from every direction, from neighbors and strangers and car alarms and emergency broadcasts that had devolved into static—but the Heartless. Dozens of them. Hundreds...