Rothko Ladhiffe always figured he was a normal kid. He never wanted any
special abilities, and he never intended to leave his mid-sized city of
Springfield, Kansas. He was special, however, and he would have to leave
Springfield, and by the time he managed to get back to Kansas at all, the city
was completely gone from reality. For now, though, he was just a teenager who
was stuck with a group of friends in the middle of a hidden dimension. The
portal that went from Earth to the rogue planet of Durus wasn’t simply a
straight line from one to the other. There was a limbo in between them, where
the laws of physics were difficult to pin down. Time didn’t always move at the
normal rate, space was virtually impossible to navigate, and reality was
confusing. When he finally did make it all the way through, he was the only
one left. The rest of his group managed to cross back to Earth, and all but
forget about their time with Rothko Ladhiffe. Savitri and Escher knew he would
be coming, so they were prepared to help him cope with his new life. They
dreaded having to humor him as he did everything he could think of to get back
home, but almost found what really happened worse. Rothko had already been
through a lot before making his way to Durus proper. He wasn’t too concerned
with getting back to Earth, because he knew some things about the future, and
felt like he had to stay on this world until its problems were all resolved.
He was almost excited about the prospect of living on a new planet, and
fighting time monsters, which were only getting worse by the year. While it
wasn’t the life he would have chosen, it was a lot more interesting than the
one he was leading before, and he figured that was sort of the goal. Together,
they formed the Triumvirate, but just like the Twoarchy and Solocracy of
before, they didn’t have anyone to rule over. They just had themselves, and
their enemies. Fortunately, for them, Rothko came with a real time power; one
which allowed him to alter some of the laws of reality within a certain range.
He vanquished the monsters with ease, using only a fraction of his potential,
and for the next couple of years, they lived together in relative harmony.
Effigy appeared a couple of times too, but for the most part, there weren’t
any major events. It couldn’t last forever, though, and Rothko would
ultimately be responsible for the Trimvirate’s demise.
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