Myth's Bad Ending
, also known in its development stages as "Holomyth vs. Ina," is a hololive fan animation by Mazumaro, depicting, well... the worst possible scenario. Ina'nis Ninomae's body has been hijacked by the Ancient Ones, and her friends try their best to stop her rampage. However, the process to save the world may be more grueling than any of them expected...
Tropes included are:
- Action Girl: Seeing how this is a combat-focused animation about hololive of all things, this is to be expected.
- Ambiguous Syntax: After Ame rips out the projector tape a message appears that say a single "entity" destroyed the universe, while one might at first think the message is refering to the Ancient Ones, it's actually talking about Ame.
- Badass Normal: Aside from her Time Travel abilities, Amelia is the most "normal" amongst her friends in this universe. Which makes it all the more surprising when she ends up resetting the world.
- The Berserker: When Gura is in Gawr mode, she's considerably more aggressive and animalistic in her fighting, at one point ripping off Possessed Ina's arm with her teeth as she's trying to blast her.
- Bittersweet Ending: While the animation itself depicts something more akin to a Downer Ending, the story as a whole ends in this. When faced with the timeline in the form of a film reel, several other versions of herself with filmtape-esque burn marks across their hands, and a recording from another iteration of her telling her to not rewind the reel due to it merely creating an Alternate Timeline, Amelia tears the tape right out of the reel, hard-resetting the entire universe and giving up her own life in the process, for the hope that the next version of her may be able to prevent the cataclysm. And seeing how IRyS' symbol flashes amongst the clouds during the reset and Mazumaro has stated that the viewers are in the "good ending", it's suggested that Amelia's gambit succeeded... if only after many failed attempts.
- Brought Down to Normal: The Ancient Ones quickly ditch Ina's body once she starts to fight their control, stripping her of their powers and leaving to destroy the world on their own.
- The Cameo: There are a few cameos of English branch members other than Myth, both occurring during the ending sequence.
- In the movie theatre that Amelia ends up in, 5 symbols can be seen, which represent the second generation of EN: Council (an owl for Mumei, a leaf for Fauna, an hourglass for Kronii, a die for Baelz, and a planet for Sana). The fact that the symbol of Space is the only one glitching may either be referencing Sana's graduation, or the fact that the Ancient Ones (who had Sana under their thrall, according to official lore) are at fault.
- As the world is resetting due to Amelia's actions, we can see IRyS' mascot symbol flash in the clouds.
- Several different versions of Amelia from her streams appear during her time traveling sequence, including Smol Ame, Bee Ame, and Watoto.
- Dying as Yourself: Ina manages to break free of the Ancient Ones before they destroy her.
- Fighting from the Inside: When the Ancient Ones are about to kill Gura, the real Ina emerges and forces them to let go of Gura's neck. This causes them to leave Ina behind and simply destroy everything on their own, starting with her and Gura.
- Godzilla Threshold: The Ancient One-possessed Ina proves to be so powerful, Gura resorts to unleashing the violent and bloodthirsty Gawr in a bid to turn the tide.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: The corpses of the alternate Amelias all have scars in the shape of filmtape running across their hands, due to screwing with the metaphysical film reel of time to save their friends and their world. The Amelia we follow ends up joining them, and receiving that same scarring.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: The opening and ending sequences suggest one of these. Amelia tries to go back and save the world by rewinding time, dies in the process, and ends up not accomplishing anything. It's suggested that, by performing a hard reset as opposed to a relatively short-term rewind, the Amelia seen in this iteration managed to break the loop.
- Healing Factor: The possessed Ina possesses an incredibly powerful one, which is even capable of completely reforming her when Gawr destroys her body.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Amelia sacrifices her life in order to hard-reset the timeline and not only break her and her friends out of the "Groundhog Day" Loop she got them caught in, but to ensure that the events that caused her to inadvertently begin the loop to begin with never occur.
- Hold the Line: Myth's fighting to give Amelia enough time to reset the timeline.
- Instant Runes: Used by Ina and the Ancient Ones when about to unleash one of the powerful light blasts.
- Kick the Dog: When the Ancient Ones decide to kill Ina along with Gura after leaving Ina, an act that practically screams You Have Outlived Your Usefulness.
- Making a Splash: Gura shows off the ability to manipulate water, typically in the form of crating water shark constructs to either protect herself and her allies or trap her opponent to set them up for a devastating trident throw.
- Monochrome to Color: While most of the animation is in black and white, when Amelia uses her Time Travel powers, there's one part just before she lands in the projector room dimension where things go into color for a few moments.
- One-Winged Angel:
- Early on in the battle with Ina, Calli and Kiara take on their true forms, Calli becoming the Grim Reaper and Kiara becoming a powerful Phoenix.
- Later on, Gura unleashes her Gawr side, turning her from a spear-focused water-wielder and Barrier Warrior to a relentless berserker.
- Painting the Medium: The subtitles become fuzzy and unclear after Gura pushes herself to the brink against Ina and almost passes out.
- "Ray of Hope" Ending: Literally! IRyS' symbol appearing in the ending hints that the new timeline includes her and Council, who can help prevent this outcome.
- Shout-Out: Gura stabbing herself with her trident and absorbing it to unleash Gawr is a reference to the Devil Trigger from Devil May Cry, which Gura is a huge fan of.
- Superpowered Evil Side:
- The entire premise is the Ancient Ones acting as one for Ina, using her as a vehicle to bring ruin to the world. Their possession comes with enhanced physical abilities, an incredibly potent Healing Factor, the ability to fire destructive beams of light, and summoning Giant Hands of Doom to crush her enemies with.
- Gawr also makes an appearance, though in a rather unique twist, Gura absorbs her trident to bring her other side out. While obviously not having her trident anymore and seemingly being unable to control water, her physical abilities are amplified to the point where she's able to attack Ina with incredible ferocity, speed and power; maneuver around the giant hands of the Ancient Ones with ease and smash Ina's body into a giant puddle. Sadly, Ina's body can still be regenerated from that state, and Gura gets herself nearly choked out for her troubles.
- Theme Music Powerup:
- Calli and Kiara's transformation is done to an epic rendition of "Hinotori," Kiara's theme.
- Gura's assault on Ina is accompanied by a rendition of REFLECT.
- A remix of Ame's stream intro music plays as she finishes her preparation and escapes from the timeline.
- Time Master: Though it takes a while for Amelia's watch to calibrate, once it's ready, Amelia can not only stop time, but also Time Travel and enter into a timeless dimension where she can rewind or outright reset time, though doing this creates an alternate timeline and kills her current self in the process.
- Underestimating Badassery: Hard Averted, the Ancient Ones very quickly realize Ame must be the biggest threat, despite being the only normal human.
- The Worf Effect: Calli and Kiara, normally the most powerful members of Myth, with the ability to become the Grim Reaper and the immortal Phoenix respectively, are the first to fall to the Ancient Ones, though they're dealt with by being trapped in whatever dimension the Ancient Ones come from.
