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5 years ago
To start, this was all inspired by some character images. (may or may not be provided later, tbd) One is a human, one is what I believe to be some sort of demon. Suffice it to say the rights of these characters/their appearance/etc now belong to myself. I knew I wanted to write something involving them after I saw the demon. Over time I started coming up with a few little details as to who they were, their day-to-day life, etc. (If you're worrying this is some sort of nsfw thing it a'int.) I figured they'd be connected somehow but wasn't really sure, figured I'd just stew on it. Then I had a bit of a shower-thoughts-epiphany earlier and I've got a whole story.
SO. Toby [male, early 20's, human] and Julia [female, mid-20's, half-demon] are half-siblings. Same human father, two very different moms. At the start of the story they live together in a downtown apartment. It's quickly explained that Toby's mom died in childbirth and Julia's mom didn't stick around. They lived with their father until he was killed by a drunk driver. Toby sometimes struggles with the memory of his father's death and Julia does her best to take care of him.
I've thought of a handful of comedic early-arc filler content for their everyday life but most of the good stuff comes in after Toby gets some kind of tipoff that their father might not actually be dead. He does some digging and hides his research from Julia until he has near-concrete proof that their father is indeed alive. After a lot of convincing, Julia agrees to help track him down, if only to put Toby's mind at ease.
Their search leads them somewhere far northward to an old cabin. They discover it belonged to their father and was set up as a bugout base...but from what? Further searching leads to something between a cult and an evil scientific organization and their father's attempt to blow the lid off it. The trail leads to an old church...but due to her "allergy" to all things holy Julia is unable to enter without sustaining continual injury. Toby goes on ahead and finds more evidence of the cult/org in the lower levels, as well as several gun-toting members. The sound of gunfire motivates Julia to come to her brother's aid despite the searing pain and smoke.
It's at this point as she marches down the aisle she attempts to talk to God (or rather call him out for being a dick) and ask for a brief reprieve from the holy justice so as to rescue her brother. Rather than the hissing and smoking subsiding Julia finds she feels less pain from the "divine retribution". She finds Toby in the lower levels and helps him back to the sanctuary while dodging a hail of bullets...only to encounter one of the masterminds of the scientific side of the evil group.
Using some holy/unholy/mad science methods the villain is able to restrain the two as a fire set earlier by Toby in an attempt to "lessen the holy influence" to help Julia begins to consume the building (It's only now as I type this that there could be some imagery that would righteously piss off a more religious audience, i.e. Toby setting fire to holy stuff in the sanctuary to make it less holy/more anti-holy). Then, as doom seems nigh, their father bursts into the building and manages to fight off the villain (but not kill him, he gets away). They escape back to the cabin where their father explains that he had to fake his death if he wanted to get closer to the villain's group. Julia lays into him for abandoning both his children, explaining how Toby looked up to him only to have that taken away from him (she misses him too, of course, but her hate outweighs her other feelings at the time). She takes Toby and leaves their father at the cabin, returning to their apartment and their old life. For about a week Julia tries to cope with her reaction to finding their father as Toby notices her usual grit fading. He does his best to help her deal much as she had for him, asking if she has any idea what may have become of her mom.
Unable to sleep, Julia makes some minor preparations for Toby to spend a weekend on his own while she returns northward. Toby awakes to find a post-it note on the fridge with money for pizza and soda and some phrase like "Be good" or something. Meanwhile, Julia arrives at the old church, the flames of the previous ordeal snuffed by heavy snow. The holy influence still remains, and her skin still hisses and smokes as she enters. She briefly considers letting the influence reduce her to ashes for good before a hiccup from the front pew breaks her thought. Her father lies slumped over the bench with a half-empty bottle of whiskey and barely looks up as she approaches.
"I didn't come to forgive you, if that's what you're thinking." Her father slurrs something about her coming back to rub it in or how she hates him. "No, you don't need my help for that." She takes the bottle and indicates the blackened wooden cross behind the altar. Placing the bottle on her opposite side, she sits down next to him. "I think it's time we talked about mom."
SO. Toby [male, early 20's, human] and Julia [female, mid-20's, half-demon] are half-siblings. Same human father, two very different moms. At the start of the story they live together in a downtown apartment. It's quickly explained that Toby's mom died in childbirth and Julia's mom didn't stick around. They lived with their father until he was killed by a drunk driver. Toby sometimes struggles with the memory of his father's death and Julia does her best to take care of him.
I've thought of a handful of comedic early-arc filler content for their everyday life but most of the good stuff comes in after Toby gets some kind of tipoff that their father might not actually be dead. He does some digging and hides his research from Julia until he has near-concrete proof that their father is indeed alive. After a lot of convincing, Julia agrees to help track him down, if only to put Toby's mind at ease.
Their search leads them somewhere far northward to an old cabin. They discover it belonged to their father and was set up as a bugout base...but from what? Further searching leads to something between a cult and an evil scientific organization and their father's attempt to blow the lid off it. The trail leads to an old church...but due to her "allergy" to all things holy Julia is unable to enter without sustaining continual injury. Toby goes on ahead and finds more evidence of the cult/org in the lower levels, as well as several gun-toting members. The sound of gunfire motivates Julia to come to her brother's aid despite the searing pain and smoke.
It's at this point as she marches down the aisle she attempts to talk to God (or rather call him out for being a dick) and ask for a brief reprieve from the holy justice so as to rescue her brother. Rather than the hissing and smoking subsiding Julia finds she feels less pain from the "divine retribution". She finds Toby in the lower levels and helps him back to the sanctuary while dodging a hail of bullets...only to encounter one of the masterminds of the scientific side of the evil group.
Using some holy/unholy/mad science methods the villain is able to restrain the two as a fire set earlier by Toby in an attempt to "lessen the holy influence" to help Julia begins to consume the building (It's only now as I type this that there could be some imagery that would righteously piss off a more religious audience, i.e. Toby setting fire to holy stuff in the sanctuary to make it less holy/more anti-holy). Then, as doom seems nigh, their father bursts into the building and manages to fight off the villain (but not kill him, he gets away). They escape back to the cabin where their father explains that he had to fake his death if he wanted to get closer to the villain's group. Julia lays into him for abandoning both his children, explaining how Toby looked up to him only to have that taken away from him (she misses him too, of course, but her hate outweighs her other feelings at the time). She takes Toby and leaves their father at the cabin, returning to their apartment and their old life. For about a week Julia tries to cope with her reaction to finding their father as Toby notices her usual grit fading. He does his best to help her deal much as she had for him, asking if she has any idea what may have become of her mom.
Unable to sleep, Julia makes some minor preparations for Toby to spend a weekend on his own while she returns northward. Toby awakes to find a post-it note on the fridge with money for pizza and soda and some phrase like "Be good" or something. Meanwhile, Julia arrives at the old church, the flames of the previous ordeal snuffed by heavy snow. The holy influence still remains, and her skin still hisses and smokes as she enters. She briefly considers letting the influence reduce her to ashes for good before a hiccup from the front pew breaks her thought. Her father lies slumped over the bench with a half-empty bottle of whiskey and barely looks up as she approaches.
"I didn't come to forgive you, if that's what you're thinking." Her father slurrs something about her coming back to rub it in or how she hates him. "No, you don't need my help for that." She takes the bottle and indicates the blackened wooden cross behind the altar. Placing the bottle on her opposite side, she sits down next to him. "I think it's time we talked about mom."
