A Different Trail: Oli in Seattle

Hey folks! Just a short series of 4 drawings I am working on, focusing on alternative endings 5 years after Imuas arrival where Imuas Long Hike could have reasonably taken a turn into an alternative ending, some are good, some are bad, and lets get into a good one!

Oli arrived 5 years ago on a mission to survey the lost Americas for SEAC, a mission that would have them made out to be a hero but, after a catastrophic first few days in the dragonscape involving an encounter with a trout, one of the locals informed them that there would be no escaping the DragonScape and their journey and the hypothetical extraction waiting in Boise was nothing but a lie.

Shattered by this revelation, Oli would accept an offer to live with the Seattlens for a time to get back on their feet, perhaps await a potential rescue. Though that rescue never came and 2 weeks become 2 years, which became 5 years and, through thick and thin Oli stuck with the Seattlens of Olympia and slowly came around to their life, settling into the local community for the long haul.

So yeah basically, assuming Sarah didn’t have the same motivations that they did in TLH to see Oli head off, they might have allowed Oli to live with them after the whole trout incident and explain the probable manipulation SEAC was doing against Oli. So in this case Oli never leaves the Cascadian Dragonscape and thus the story diverges almost instantly from TLH, they never run into the Scorchers or Broncens of the Dragon’ve Paradise or anything of that sort and also thus, are still known as Oli

Also wanted to take some time to ‘update how olympia as a village is seen as to be honest, chapter 1 of The Long Hike is a bit off canon, even after several edits made to the comic to help bring it in line, it was just unfortuneately part of a transitional period between canons.

So yeah a good ending! At least I think a potentially good ending