Available supplied sources reviewed through October 24, 2026. Identity and chronology remain qualified where the sources do not resolve them. Two supplied texts are summaries whose original stories were unavailable.
33 sourced milestones
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Red with AngerSource date: 2019-03-13Original writing prompt — “Red with Anger” (moment reader)[SP] "Do you have proof?" "Look at me! Isn't that proof enough?"Original prompt source ↗
Billy warns Red that a woman monitors his vital signs and will appear if he is harmed, using her authority to deter the clown's attack. A later connected confrontation explicitly identifies the supposed protection as Vanilla's and says that Billy conceals her death. This resolves the earlier referent as a mention, while leaving the monitoring claim unverified and her exact death date unstated.
Original record’s chronology note — retained source group for “Red with Anger” (2 source readers): Earlier Red name-dispute confrontation; death is explicitly disclosed by the later connected Time to Think scene, with no exact death date. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Billy the KidSource date: 2019-03-18Original writing prompt — “Billy the Kid” (moment reader)[WP] You have the ability to stop time but you've never been able to control when time starts again. One day, you stop time and see someone else not frozen. Then, they un-freeze time.Original prompt source ↗
Vanilla finds Billy moving through his own stopped-time mall and explains that his hours-long, uncontrolled time stop marks a powerful slumbering #14 La Muerte. Without a separate consent exchange, she carves 14 into his chest during a blink. The painful awakening lets him restart time. She opens a portal and leaves it for him to follow, beginning the mentorship explicitly named in the next scene.
Original record’s chronology note — retained source group for “Billy the Kid” (2 source readers): Unknown relative to other readers; events follow source narrative order only. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Lessons in TraversingSource date: 2019-03-19Original writing prompt[WP] When I was 15, I found out I had superpowers.Original prompt source ↗
Vanilla introduces herself after taking Billy to a comfortable house she does not own or recognize. She stops its resident mid-protest and explains infinite universes, frequency targeting and portals that find what the traveler needs, admitting even a known frequency can miss. She says she sought a strong Unique to gather things and offers Billy that work, while warning that returning home depends on his Earth surviving.
Original record’s chronology note — “Lessons in Traversing” (moment reader): Unknown relative to other readers; events follow source narrative order only. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Classified DeathSource date: 2019-03-21Original writing prompt — “Classified Death” (moment reader)[WP] You one day get the ability to stop time. You start using it for everything from getting extra time for tests to thinking over tough decisions. For you time passes as normally, but for everyone else they don't notice, until one day you get stuck in frozen time and can't seem to get out...Original prompt source ↗
Vanilla uses Daniel, an awakened low-rank #14 La Muerte, to test Billy's lessons. She asks about stopping, rewinding and fast-forwarding time while Billy identifies the D, C and B ranks and says S-rank users like them control loops. As they leave to find a higher-ranked example, she tells Billy to return control to Daniel. Daniel can restart his Earth before both visitors disappear.
Original record’s chronology note — retained source group for “Classified Death” (2 source readers): Unknown relative to other readers; events follow source narrative order only. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
It's About TimeSource date: 2019-03-22Original writing prompt[OT] Friday Free-Form: The Danger ZoneOriginal prompt source ↗
Vanilla teaches Billy that creativity matters beyond S-rank time-loop access. On a prehistoric Earth she demonstrates rapid stop-start motion, individual-object reversal and an accelerating stone loop whose accumulated speed produces heat. She says a person in such a loop would remember the experience. She gives Billy a second stone and promises a more complicated lesson if he can make it glow.
Original record’s chronology note — “It's About Time” (moment reader): Unknown relative to other readers; events follow source narrative order only. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Ticket to ExpositSource date: 2019-03-28Original writing prompt[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge - Location: A park| Object: A ticketOriginal prompt source ↗
Vanilla confirms Billy's claim that time travel alone would not guarantee Percy the lottery jackpot. She allows Billy a quick demonstration: he returns a ticket bearing the previous winning numbers and the drawing date, but the newspaper now reports different results. The source does not explain the cause of the changed draw.
Original record’s chronology note — “Ticket to Exposit” (moment reader): Unknown relative to other readers; events follow source narrative order only. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla BeanSource date: 2019-03-31Original source context — “Vanilla Bean” (moment reader)[WP] Smash 'Em Up SundaysThe original event or thread heading is preserved; a separate writing prompt is not recorded in this source.Original context source ↗
After Billy completes the hot-stone loop, Vanilla teaches finer control by shifting only half a stone through time and restoring it whole. She says someone taught her similarly, but his lessons were harsher and he had a less smart student. She tosses the rock at Billy, declines further questions about her teacher and vanishes while he is left working.
Original record’s chronology note — retained source group for “Vanilla Bean” (2 source readers): Unknown relative to other readers; events follow source narrative order only. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Time to ThinkSource date: 2019-04-07Original free-write context[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!This is an open-writing context rather than a standalone writing prompt.Original context source ↗
The narration explicitly states that Vanilla is dead. Billy nevertheless tells Red she will intervene if he is harmed, fearing he would lose leverage if the prisoner knew the truth. Her death's cause and date are not provided, and she does not appear.
Original record’s chronology note — “Time to Think” (moment reader): Unknown relative to other readers; events follow source narrative order only. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla TreatsSource date: 2019-04-11Original writing prompt[WP] There are actually 8 days a week, but only a few special people know about Hveday, the one day a week where the world stands still. Except for them, of course.Original prompt source ↗
Leo introduces Steven to an extra twenty-four-hour 'eighth day' by having a clerk implant a small orange wrist marker just before the normal world freezes. Leo says Vanilla forbids stealing, killing and other trouble, tracks participants and withholds the treatment from clerks to prevent late enrollment. He presents her offworld origin and charitable motive as rumor. Vanilla then appears in her white hair and orange dress, tells Steven she is glad he signed up and vanishes with him during Leo's blink as ordinary time resumes. Steven's destination and fate are not given.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Treats” (moment reader): Unknown relative to other readers; events follow source narrative order only. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla OriginSource date: 2019-04-26Original writing prompt[WP] This is the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world.Original prompt source ↗
Billy says Vanilla accidentally stopped everything around her at eight while still Slumbering. He recounts that her tears could neither fall, absorb nor evaporate, that she eventually drowned that Earth over roughly a thousand years, and that her body then let her traverse elsewhere.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Origin” (moment reader): Billy's recollection places this in Vanilla's childhood before her death; duration is his qualified estimate, not an exact chronology. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Waking up DeadSource date: 2019-05-19Original free-write context[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!This is an open-writing context rather than a standalone writing prompt.Original context source ↗
Vanilla pauses her tour with Billy to fetch Steven, a Slumbering Muerte she has been monitoring, in an orange mine cart. She explains that some Unique soul gains require specific methods, then plans to awaken Steven and have Billy kill him while both manipulate time.
Original record’s chronology note — “Waking up Dead” (moment reader): Living mentor/student tour; proposed ritual is future relative to ending, not a completed murder. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Unique AnswerSource date: 2019-05-26Original free-write context[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!This is an open-writing context rather than a standalone writing prompt.Original context source ↗
Vanilla, whom Billy has noticed growing sadder for months, uses a telescope and portal to teach him after the previous night's soul absorption. She explains why unfamiliar soul information prompts questions, says portals travel through the Void, and introduces Ballisea's name as another learning step.
Original record’s chronology note — “Unique Answer” (moment reader): Living mentor era after the prior night's victim; sadness is Billy's observation, not an invented explanation of her motives. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla brings Billy to one of Ballisea's conquered Earths and demonstrates that its skeletons are protected by magic he cannot yet overcome. After he asks for her broad account, she describes Ballisea's Void origin, marriage, assault and pregnancy, bodily transformations, husband's death, and claimed motive for slaughtering Zeros.
Original record’s chronology note — “Summary B.” (moment reader): Current mentor lesson; embedded history is attributed to Vanilla, who says she has met no one able to explain Ballisea's formation. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla SuggestionSource date: 2019-06-09Original free-write context[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!This is an open-writing context rather than a standalone writing prompt.Original context source ↗
Vanilla warns that stopping one of Ballisea's skeletons draws her notice, briefly stops Billy, then says she asked Ballisea a favor. She brings him to a hilltop overlooking skeletons and says she asked Ballisea to pick a fight so he can learn her power.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Suggestion” (moment reader): Immediate continuation of Summary B.; omitted conversation occurs during Billy's few frozen minutes. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Death's MysterySource date: 2019-06-11Original writing prompt[WP] You suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. Still sleepy, you check the time which was 2:49 AM and went back to sleep. After what felt like hours of sleeping, you woke up again to check the time. It was still 2:49 AM.Original prompt source ↗
Billy recalls that Vanilla showed him a phenomenon she promised to discuss later, but says she died before that conversation. He now seeks Alliane's explanation of the telescope question.
Original record’s chronology note — “Death's Mystery” (moment reader): Posthumous recollection of an earlier teaching moment; do not reorder from source-date position. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla ChildhoodSource date: 2019-06-16Original free-write context[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!This is an open-writing context rather than a standalone writing prompt.Original context source ↗
Vanilla brings Billy to her sunlit Mount Everest home, surrounded by water and icebergs, to discuss her father before answering his question about Ballisea. She says her mother died in childbirth, her father grew bedridden and missed time with her, and her wish that time would stop so he could recover caused it to stop.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Childhood” (moment reader): Present lesson includes explicit childhood recollection before the flooded-Earth aftermath described in Vanilla Origin; exact interval not supplied. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla VisitSource date: 2019-06-23Original free-write context[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!This is an open-writing context rather than a standalone writing prompt.Original context source ↗
Vanilla confirms the water covering her home Earth is her tears. She tells Billy her father and the other inhabitants remain stopped beneath it from her first time stop, that she cannot undo what she did to time, and that this at least prevents her father's death.
Vanilla brings Billy to a dragon beach, playfully freezes Ruby mid-leap and releases her into lava, then pays the child coins and sapphires for Flutter's whereabouts. She says Ruby's family knows dragon matters and wants Billy to test his time control against Flutter before facing Ballisea.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Visit” (moment reader): Childhood catastrophe's ongoing aftermath; inhabitants are explicitly frozen, not declared drowned dead. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Visit” (moment reader): Continues Vanilla Childhood's visit; Flutter meeting and successful time stop are future, not completed here. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla LifeSource date: 2019-07-08Original free-write context[OT] Smash 'Em Up SundaysThis is an open-writing context rather than a standalone writing prompt.Original context source ↗
Vanilla introduces Billy to Flutter as the strongest Muerte she could find and her chosen trainee. After Flutter says goodbye and leaves, Vanilla uses suspended water to explain granular time control and tells Billy his new power makes him able to kill her.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Life” (moment reader): Direct sequel to Vanilla Visit, before Vanilla's death; no completed killing or explicit cause of death supplied in this body. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Mourning SunSource date: 2019-07-09Original writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to see people's true potential in the form of a 3 to 4 minute movie trailer like vision. Mostly you ignore it as it's best not to involve yourself with fate. However, today you saw something horrific and you cant just let this person walk away.Original prompt source ↗
After Vanilla's death, Ballisea tells Perla she mourns her as a sister-like friend and feels she has lost part of herself. This is Ballisea's description of their bond, not proof of biological kinship.
Original record’s chronology note — “Mourning Sun” (moment reader): Scene-local sequence only; wider fictional chronology unknown. Source date is not an in-world date. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla BurialSource date: 2019-07-25Original writing prompt[WP] Flash Fiction Challenge! A Garden | A pillow.Original prompt source ↗
After her death, Billy places Vanilla's orange-dressed body in a shallow grave on a flower-ringed hill she had shown him as a favorite place, with a T-rex-leather pillow beneath her head.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Burial” (moment reader): Explicitly post-death; source shows placement, not completed covering of grave or cause of death. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla SecretSource date: 2019-07-29Original free-write context[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!This is an open-writing context rather than a standalone writing prompt.Original context source ↗
After Vanilla's death, Billy draws on her absorbed soul knowledge and says her plan included introducing him to several people. He feels certain she met the missing male Luna, while Peppermint calls her effort an experiment and worries she left its reasons untold.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Secret” (moment reader): Posthumous grave meeting; certainty is Billy's interpretation of inherited knowledge, not direct appearance of Luna. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Stone-cold NervesSource date: 2019-07-31Original writing prompt[WP] One man obtains the power to stop all time at will, but everyone can see and think like normal while frozen. The government soon realizes this man must be taken out. On the assassination attempt, he freezes time and is promptly killed. The agents are frozen in horror, and the days start passing.Original prompt source ↗
After her death, Ballisea tells Billy that Vanilla previously helped with her time problems and that, since Billy killed her, that responsibility now passes to him.
Original record’s chronology note — “Stone-cold Nerves” (moment reader): Posthumous statement by Ballisea; other sources establish Vanilla chose Billy and her intended fate, so do not relabel as unqualified murder. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Cherry SoulSource date: 2019-11-19Original writing prompt[SP] "They said it couldn't be done..."Original prompt source ↗
In her explanation to Cassie, Cherry identifies Vanilla as the number14Muerte born from one fragment of Ballisea's divided soul. This is Cherry's reported origin account; Vanilla is not physically present.
Original record’s chronology note — “Cherry Soul” (moment reader): Scene-local sequence only; wider fictional chronology unknown. Source date is not an in-world date. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla SnackSource date: 2019-12-31Original writing prompt[WP] You've always been able to freeze time at will with no consequences. When time is unfrozen, no time has passed for the rest of us. One day, just after you freeze time, you hear a voice say "What the hell do you think you're doing?"Original prompt source ↗
Vanilla confronts Albert after he stops time to avoid being late to a movie. He shows off rewinding and pausing pedestrians; she explains that his use of time powers alerts her to his ability and smiles that she then comes to eat his soul. The scene ends at the threat.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Snack” (moment reader): LivingVanillascene; publicationorderalonecannotplaceitafterherdeath. Widerfictionaldateunknown. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla DeterrentSource date: 2020-04-06Original writing prompt[WP] Every day, at 10:45, he sits there. The same man, the same suit. Waiting. If you look again, he's gone. Then one day, you sit in his spot and wait.Original prompt source ↗
Arnold's camera records Vanilla intervening after he stalks Billy and aims a tranquilizer gun at him. She says Billy needs a quiet moment to mourn, shows the frozen park and repeatedly stabs the frozen observer while warning she will not heal him next time. When Arnold later watches the footage, he finds tiny scars on his stomach. Her appearance is through the recording.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Deterrent” (moment reader): Scene-local sequence only; wider fictional chronology unknown. Source date is not an in-world date. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Death's FavorSource date: 2020-04-17Original writing prompt[WP] You're having trouble sleeping when you realize your clock has stopped ticking.Original prompt source ↗
Billy explains that Vanilla gave him his white suit and orange tie to wear when he inherited her power, and says her soul within him is warning of a major approaching event. Alliane also recalls Vanilla advising him against making an AlterNet character; she is discussed rather than separately embodied.
Original record’s chronology note — “Death's Favor” (moment reader): Scene-local sequence only; wider fictional chronology unknown. Source date is not an in-world date. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Lonely SunSource date: 2020-12-21Original writing prompt[SP] The snow is black this year.Original prompt source ↗
Billy and Ballisea discuss Vanilla after her death: she kept Blueberry hidden, watched black snow with Ballisea, and passed a role and felt memories to Billy. Ballisea says Vanilla failed to find Blueberry in this run; no new death scene or exact cycle chronology is shown.
Original record’s chronology note — “Lonely Sun” (moment reader): Scene-local sequence only; wider fictional chronology unknown. Source date is not an in-world date. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Sharp MoonSource date: 2021-02-03Original writing prompt[WP] You are a programmer, but not in the usual sense. Your job is to root through the coding of the universe and eradicate any bugs you find. Whether it e an otherworldly anomaly, or a cat that got glitched inside a wall, you've been able to fix it. But this... you weren't prepared for a hacker.Original prompt source ↗
Aurelio tells Norma and Sol that Vanilla gave him a node, demonstrated time control and explained Lunas. He says he avoided touching her and programmed his own full-stop workaround after seeing her abilities. Vanilla is a reported prior mentor/contact, not physically present.
Original record’s chronology note — “Sharp Moon” (moment reader): Scene-local sequence only; wider fictional chronology unknown. Source date is not an in-world date. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Recording. Ruined.Source date: 2021-04-27Original writing prompt[WP] You are part of a cult that believes the end of the world is near. Unlike most doomsday cults your group is made up of ex-scientists who discovered an ancient evil deep within the earth, and found that it was due to awaken in a few weeks time.Original prompt source ↗
Source-era account
Billy names Vanilla as Ruin's jailer and acts in her place when releasing him; Ruin describes the confinement as time to reflect.
Original record’s chronology note — “Recording. Ruined.” (moment reader): Reading organization; fictional chronology remains qualified: Vanilla is recalled rather than bodily present; the account does not itself supply every motive for her choice.
Vanilla BunnySource date: 2022-04-17Original writing prompt[SP] There they are. Finally you found him. The person who murdered you.Original prompt source ↗
Vanilla appears as a guiding rabbit, then transforms into a white-haired woman with red streak and dress. She acknowledges Billy murdered her, thanks him and says she missed him. She gestures to Dana as the explanation for her restoration and asks why rather than how.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Bunny” (moment reader): Unknown order relative to other stories; source date is not fictional chronology. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla rejects Dana's proposed earlier starting point, agrees to the later prom-era choice and synchronizes golden pulses with Billy, Tim and cat Janet on Dana's node.
Original record’s chronology note — retained source group for “Sharp Retcon” (3 source readers): Unknown order relative to other stories; source date is not fictional chronology. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
Vanilla FavoredSource date: 2024-04-16Original writing prompt[CW] Take an excerpt from the lyrics to a pop song and then use it to write a fantasy story that recontextualises the excerpt.
Billy recalls Vanilla teaching him before giving him her soul, and says she performed earlier multiverse resets at Ballisea's insistence roughly every fifteen billion years. He describes her respect for time and treats her soul as part of his present self; she has no separate physical appearance in this interview.
Original record’s chronology note — “Vanilla Favored” (moment reader): Within the narrated scene; order relative to other stories unknown. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.
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Available supplied sources reviewed through October 24, 2026. Identity and chronology remain qualified where the sources do not resolve them. Two supplied texts are summaries whose original stories were unavailable.
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Original writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to stop time but you've never been able to control when time starts again. One day, you stop time and see someone else not frozen. Then, they un-freeze time.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You one day get the ability to stop time. You start using it for everything from getting extra time for tests to thinking over tough decisions. For you time passes as normally, but for everyone else they don't notice, until one day you get stuck in frozen time and can't seem to get out...Original prompt source ↗
Original source context[WP] Smash 'Em Up SundaysThe original event or thread heading is preserved; a separate writing prompt is not recorded in this source.Original context source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] There are actually 8 days a week, but only a few special people know about Hveday, the one day a week where the world stands still. Except for them, of course.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. Still sleepy, you check the time which was 2:49 AM and went back to sleep. After what felt like hours of sleeping, you woke up again to check the time. It was still 2:49 AM.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You have the ability to see people's true potential in the form of a 3 to 4 minute movie trailer like vision. Mostly you ignore it as it's best not to involve yourself with fate. However, today you saw something horrific and you cant just let this person walk away.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] One man obtains the power to stop all time at will, but everyone can see and think like normal while frozen. The government soon realizes this man must be taken out. On the assassination attempt, he freezes time and is promptly killed. The agents are frozen in horror, and the days start passing.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You've always been able to freeze time at will with no consequences. When time is unfrozen, no time has passed for the rest of us. One day, just after you freeze time, you hear a voice say "What the hell do you think you're doing?"Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] Every day, at 10:45, he sits there. The same man, the same suit. Waiting. If you look again, he's gone. Then one day, you sit in his spot and wait.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You are a programmer, but not in the usual sense. Your job is to root through the coding of the universe and eradicate any bugs you find. Whether it e an otherworldly anomaly, or a cat that got glitched inside a wall, you've been able to fix it. But this... you weren't prepared for a hacker.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You are part of a cult that believes the end of the world is near. Unlike most doomsday cults your group is made up of ex-scientists who discovered an ancient evil deep within the earth, and found that it was due to awaken in a few weeks time.Original prompt source ↗
Original writing prompt[WP] You are a necromancer, but not in the literal sense of the word, you do not revive dead people, you revive emotions of people who can no longer feel them, curiously outside of the goal change the process is quite similar.Original prompt source ↗
Implicit but individually corroborated recollection
Original writing prompt[WP] A long, long time ago a vile, unkillable tyrant was sealed away in a tomb. After millenia the tomb is opened, freeing the immortal who during the long imprisonment...has achieved enlightenment?Original prompt source ↗
