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In my prequel story, Connor was the one who had a brother who in turn had a son that was raised by his wealthy, maternal grandparents under the identity of an adopted kid after an attack from Clockwerk made him and Connor the last Coopers for a time. The necessity for survival forced the two cousins never to meet and in Sly's case, never learns about. While Sly was orphaned and found a new family with Bentley and Murray, his cousin eventually outlived his grandparents and find himself with a great amount of wealth and power, but was ostracized by his peers for apparently not being born into privilege and his "technical" association with the Cooper thieves and the controversial deaths that got them. Only opportunists trying to manipulate him tried socialize with him, but were rejected by the poor Cooper without love, family, and friendship who then took on the secret, Batman-like persona of a mastermind with the ultimate goal of getting revenge on Clockwerk. After a failed attack on his volcano base, Beowulf (as I call his alter-ego) then created technological windows to look into time and armor that would hypothetically withstand time altering before failing to create an actual time machine. Hoping to change history by destroying the owl who would become Clockwerk and manipulate events to allow Beowulf and Sly to live happy lives. When he started hearing rumors of the time machine Bentley and Penelope built, Beowulf came into contact with the latter in all his main identities to convince to use the time machine to create a better future, but she refused out of a belief that something bad would undoubtedly happed. Forcing Beowulf to plant mind controlling nanotech into her body that portrayed her as a typical opportunist. Acting as Beowulf's pawn in Le Paradox's crew to test the time machine's effects on history before using it himself, but after using it to bring Dr. M from being crushed and unto his side by the same nanotech. He even builds a superpowered suit based on Clockwerk for irony's sake. A little while after Sly disappears, Beowulf finds the time he was dropped in, makes a plan, and then approaches Sly's friends before going on another journey through time with Otto, Slytunkhamen, and others in order to create a scenario where the Coopers bait past Clockwerk and destroy him. Along the way, Beowulf earns the trust and friendship of the gang though helpful advice and helping Sly reconcile with Carmelita, helping return a disabled Penelope to the present after her nanotech gets jogged up before revealing his true colors, and after the penultimate boss fight with him, Sly talks him into standing down. Reminding him that cruel killing is not what a true Cooper would do. When M's freed, he fires a nanotech missile to kill the Coopers, but hits past Clockwerk who becomes the killing machine we all know. After he's defeated and everyone returns to their own time periods, it's revealed Beowulf himself was being controlled by nanotech of Clockwerk's own design whose mind still lives on and influences within Beowulf's body ever since the raid on the volcano. He then makes his leave with M who hates the Coopers more then he hates Clockwerk. Following that, they start making plans for the sequel where Beowulf is freed and makes amends, Penelope and Bentely reconcile fully, Carmelita quits Interpol to be with Sly, more details on the original Cooper Gang are canonized, and both M and Clockwerk get their due before the time machines are destroyed which then ends the arc. Then they can make a new trilogy that focuses on villainous officials and Sly taking a new level with Carmelita as Beowulf tries to find love on his own. What do you think?