Universe Series
#22 I Will Rise
“In the darkest chapter yet”
- Published real world
- Story time in-universe
- 1980 · the hidden sanctuary Canon · strongly implied
- Appears
- Sadina, Jack T. Cohan, the drummer
What happens
In the channel's own words. Nothing is paraphrased into new lore.
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #22.
Sadina and Jack fall into the hands of ruthless forces determined to harvest her extraordinary power & psychic essence.
YouTube descriptionAs Jack is pushed to the brink and tortured in a brutal attempt to break her will, something ancient and unbreakable awakens inside the Violet Empress.
YouTube description“Every tear has a name.”
lyric · 1:43
Across time
Inside this episode
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #22.
- Canon "As Jack is pushed to the brink… something ancient and unbreakable awakens"
Causes and consequences
- Caused by #20 One Thing Leads to Another causes Canon · strongly implied
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #20, #22.
See the source.
Evidence: #20 One Thing Leads to Another at 5:13 · #22 description
- Caused by #21 Time continues Canon
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #21, #22.
#22 opens "Previously on the series" with #21 dialogue
Evidence: #22 I Will Rise at 0:00 · #21 Time at 0:01
Interpretations and unresolved links (2)
Dashed on the World map, and only when you ask for them.
- Unresolved #23 Luminflux – I Choose to Stay Unresolved
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #22, #23.
Sadina "arrived alone and as a refuge from the past" in 2026 NY; how/why not stated
Evidence: #23 description
- Interpretation #11 Retroactive Causality foreshadows Interpretation
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #11, #22.
#11 (Mar) describes a reunion after separation; #23 (Jun) shows Sadina alone. Not stated as the same separation
Evidence: #11 description · #23 description
Revisit
- Canon After this one, revisit #21 Time.
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #22.
#22 opens “Previously on the series” with #21's lines. The album rescue at sea becomes the prelude to the capture. - Something later changes how this one reads.Canon Revisited after #31 I'm a Pleiadian Alien: #31: “I don't do empires. I don't do the harvesting.” The abdication, restated as a vow.
Open questions
Unresolved, or open on purpose. The site does not answer them.
- What happened between #22 and #23?
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #22, #23.
Captured in 1980, then Sadina is alone in 2026 New York, “a refuge from the past”. The fate of Jack and the drummer is not told. - Who is hunting them?
Spoiler: unlocks when you have watched #17, #21, #22.
“Corporation forces” (#17, #19), “ruthless forces” (#22), “dark forces” (#21), and a robot from the future (the #21 Short). Whether these are one enemy is not established.