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2 months ago
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This will be a good year, or else!
Started up depression/anxiety meds, and they're slowly kicking in. Good days last for longer, and bad days seem less frequent. Still have bad times where it's like "welp this day is shot", but it's progress.
Trying to get back into writing properly, and the improved energy/motivation levels should help. Need to finish Perchance rather than letting it languish.
That said, the sort of obsessive brainrot I leaned into while trying to come out of my funk is another setting called COMPANION. I may have done pokes at it here before? My settings tend to be iterative, where I come back to them with renewed purpose and refinement until they're actually good.
It is a world where Divinely Chosen Heroes are a thing. A mortal may receive a fluffy fairy companion(generally a nimbat sort of shape, but less eye and a floofy tail instead of an otter one), who takes them to a shrine to properly become a Hero. Linked up with the power of the heavens greatly amplifying their natural magic, they go on mighty quests and save the day.
Being me and my love of Reconstruction style stories, this premise gets taken apart in short order to show that there's definitely some problems under the hood, but it's still a positive one where cool things can happen.
The protagonist is NERI, a human of ambiguous gender who lives on a backwater port island. She has a problem, specifically that her little orphan friend THEO has manifested his werewolf heritage and gone all fluffy. Due to general misunderstandings of 'all werewolves go crazy in the end' and not wanting to deal with the situation, he ends up locked in a cage by monster hunters to be shipped off to the mainland, possibly for spare parts.
Neri tries to free him, fails, and runs off to the Shrine of the Hero in a huff, demanding the power to set things right and help people in need. Whether heaven has chosen or not, they need to do something.
And so Neri receives... a transformation into a fluffy companion.
This is a stringpull that destabilizes the setting at large, being the wrong person in the right place.
* Mortals are not supposed to be able to become Divine
* Companions aren't usually the magical blasty type, rather empowering their hero.
* Vigilante justice is frowned upon in the first place, given the structure.
Thus, a laser spewing, spectral fist smashing nimbat with chronic hero syndrome is deeply alarming to many, many people. You can't do that. You shouldn't exist. People will get the wrong idea. What even are you?
It has a sort of Out Of Placers(Oops!) feel where the characters tend to be people who are uniquely suited for their current situation while absolutely wanting to be Anywhere else. Weaponized awkwardness and making things right because no one else will. Also a bit of a Xenogears setting unravel of "the world you are presented is not how it looks behind the scenes". Add a touch of My Hero Academia inspirational "You too can be a hero!", and you're in for a good time. Lots of lasers and pewpewpew, at the very least.
I'm still pondering it out, but it will probably be the next novel after Perchance to Wake. Looking ahead to new fun things!
I hope you are doing well, and that you defeat anything that is making your year bad.
Paypal for donations: https://www.paypal.me/SuperTaster
Metamorphosis at the Magic Manor - Male Version TF Choose Your Own Adventure(NSFW)
Metamorphosis at the Magic Manor - Female Version TF Choose Your Own Adventure(NSFW)
Perchance to Dream - YA Urban Fantasy Novel(SFW)
Started up depression/anxiety meds, and they're slowly kicking in. Good days last for longer, and bad days seem less frequent. Still have bad times where it's like "welp this day is shot", but it's progress.
Trying to get back into writing properly, and the improved energy/motivation levels should help. Need to finish Perchance rather than letting it languish.
That said, the sort of obsessive brainrot I leaned into while trying to come out of my funk is another setting called COMPANION. I may have done pokes at it here before? My settings tend to be iterative, where I come back to them with renewed purpose and refinement until they're actually good.
It is a world where Divinely Chosen Heroes are a thing. A mortal may receive a fluffy fairy companion(generally a nimbat sort of shape, but less eye and a floofy tail instead of an otter one), who takes them to a shrine to properly become a Hero. Linked up with the power of the heavens greatly amplifying their natural magic, they go on mighty quests and save the day.
Being me and my love of Reconstruction style stories, this premise gets taken apart in short order to show that there's definitely some problems under the hood, but it's still a positive one where cool things can happen.
The protagonist is NERI, a human of ambiguous gender who lives on a backwater port island. She has a problem, specifically that her little orphan friend THEO has manifested his werewolf heritage and gone all fluffy. Due to general misunderstandings of 'all werewolves go crazy in the end' and not wanting to deal with the situation, he ends up locked in a cage by monster hunters to be shipped off to the mainland, possibly for spare parts.
Neri tries to free him, fails, and runs off to the Shrine of the Hero in a huff, demanding the power to set things right and help people in need. Whether heaven has chosen or not, they need to do something.
And so Neri receives... a transformation into a fluffy companion.
This is a stringpull that destabilizes the setting at large, being the wrong person in the right place.
* Mortals are not supposed to be able to become Divine
* Companions aren't usually the magical blasty type, rather empowering their hero.
* Vigilante justice is frowned upon in the first place, given the structure.
Thus, a laser spewing, spectral fist smashing nimbat with chronic hero syndrome is deeply alarming to many, many people. You can't do that. You shouldn't exist. People will get the wrong idea. What even are you?
It has a sort of Out Of Placers(Oops!) feel where the characters tend to be people who are uniquely suited for their current situation while absolutely wanting to be Anywhere else. Weaponized awkwardness and making things right because no one else will. Also a bit of a Xenogears setting unravel of "the world you are presented is not how it looks behind the scenes". Add a touch of My Hero Academia inspirational "You too can be a hero!", and you're in for a good time. Lots of lasers and pewpewpew, at the very least.
I'm still pondering it out, but it will probably be the next novel after Perchance to Wake. Looking ahead to new fun things!
I hope you are doing well, and that you defeat anything that is making your year bad.
Paypal for donations: https://www.paypal.me/SuperTaster
Metamorphosis at the Magic Manor - Male Version TF Choose Your Own Adventure(NSFW)
Metamorphosis at the Magic Manor - Female Version TF Choose Your Own Adventure(NSFW)
Perchance to Dream - YA Urban Fantasy Novel(SFW)
He's just a little guy!