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https://i.imgflip.com/6x56aw.jpg imagine not being able to duplicate your stuff

yeah imagine

One day shadronia was just done with it
He was tired of his under recognization
So he made a grand plan that day he stole things
He stole Zanthors armor
He stole redis staff
He cut off one of inkmatas horns
He melted it all together and shaped it into some sort of monocle his eyes had begun to turn red from his rage

Then he stole the most important of all
The crystal
He fit the crystal into the monocle where a lens would be
By now his horns were overgrown and his eyes were red
The crystal was being affected by all this anger and was slowly becoming red
When it did become red it was now known as the vengeful crystal

Now if your like why didn’t he just kill everyone and take their stuff
Well shadronia is on another level of evil at this point
Now that he has the power he needs he can kill them over and over just to make them suffer
He will even clone them and hurt all the clones at once to multiply the pain

But this only happens if they go against him
He is now the supreme ruler of this timeline

Funny note
Crimson shadronia has been banned from game night with his au selves

Collector usually has mercy but if you're trying to steal the crystal of creation, the MOST POWERFUL WEAPON IN EXISTENCE

You won't be seeing mercy

What if collector was asleep

The collector barely ever sleeps

He has modified his body to the point that he can barely call himself human meaning if he does sleep if there is the slightest movement he will instantly be wide awake

And on top of that he only sleeps in the realm of creation, a place only he can enter because he has the crystal

And yes, I acknowledge he's done it without the crystal in other timelines

That's because of his strong connection to it

Also here's what he said to the last guy that tried to take it

"If you want this you'll have to rip it off my corpse"

Yeah but this is a alt timeline
You have no idea what this collector could be like

Ok, fine

We'll say he sleeps more often and the slightest movement doesn't instantly wake him up

But because of the crystals extreme power even a person who is blind and deaf knows when he enters a room

Collector has figured out how to conceal it's power but it only works when it's in his armor

However since it isn't in his armor he'd be woken up by the sudden change in power

Even then he hundreds of powerful weapon so he could still defeat shadronia with some difficulty

Well you see shadronia is capable of the most powerful mind control similar to how he links his clones
The mind control is basically putting a second conciseness in that person’s mind that can telepathically communicate with shadronia and is almost fully independent except for being telepathically linked

The downside is shadronia has to look at the person to activate it and in the main universe he can only do it to one person

This is where that monocle and his red eyes come in
They boost the power of it a lot

Collector can easily counter it

Sure he is kinda just a tank normally but because his armor is a symbiote collector can very quickly tell it to morph and adapt

One of the reasons he chose it over a mechamorph

however he's considering a bit of genetic experimentation

Anyway even if collector doesn't do it in time the best shadronia could do is a very loud voice in his head

It would be more annoying than anything but, because it's a different timeline I'll give him a debuff

It would simply take more time to get control of the collector even if his armor adapts

(Side note: my phone keeps trying to autocorrect to say arms instead of armor)

However even if all of this fails, his armor is stored inside the crystal, meaning if he gets a hold of it, he's pretty much dead

One of the upgrades the collector gave to the symbiote was extreme deconstructive capability. Meaning it can basically turn into living acid

Remember two things
Others could be under control
And Shadronia’s vengefulness is just tainting The crystal

Wait, vengefulness?

I thought he was just stealing all of this stuff because he was tired of not having much recognition

Well, collector does have one more trick

Running away

This is the last thing he would ever do because, well, he isn't a coward

But if he does run away one of the first places he would go is to check on inkmatas

She's the only being with similar power to him, being able to match 99% at her strongest

But shadronia doesn't know that and preferably shouldn't

Please stop shooting down my au idea

ok, i'm just trying to show you the extreme challenge of stealing the crystal

Yea I know it’s just that the crystal is becoming red because of the negative energy and it might physically hurt the user unless it’s got proper containment

No this is a au for a evil shadronia

Ah okay

Yea he’s not really the kind of guy to just kill people
He literally resurrects them and kills them over and over for fun or if they don’t listen to him considering he’s basically the ruler of this timeline

Not canon in main timeline