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Update on my Cyberpunk Universe (and other things, for my three followers)

hi.

So. My original plan was to have written and released the very first part of my cyberpunk universe, like, a year ago. Somewhere along the timeline I lost interest and started working on other projects. Randomly, recently, out of nowhere, I picked it back up! I rewrote the heck out of what I had and decided I wanted to at least finish the first part. If I finally decide to finish it, which I might sometime during this summer, and if it gets good reception, I’ll probably continue working on it.

My interest mainly diverted into this semi-realistic sci-fi world I started working on called (Lights) Within Lights Amongst the Veil. I was working on a comic for that, and apparently I was more committed to that then my cyberpunk because I actually managed to hastily make the first issue and then, in my disappointment with it, immediately revamp it like the next week. AND THEN I started working on the second issue…but it was around there when the commitment issues and burnout hit. I also “tried” making two games for WLATV—one that I announced recently only to immediately drop once I realized it was far out of the scope of my ability to do things. Then another one that was meant to be like the Oregon Trail which I recently picked back up…with Scratch. I actually have semi-high hopes for that, assuming I don’t lose interest again.

On more general things. I was lowky thinking of hosting a website for all my stuff so I could have one comprehensive place of my “releases.” But idk if the (non-existent) traction i get makes that worthwhile. I also kinda wanna to make an album—I have the instruments, just not the knowledge. I have a gazillion novel ideas (the majority of them following the WLATV storyline) and like five universes in the tank. Sometimes I will be looking through my art and find characters and settings I can barely remember, but still recognize, and I’ll be surprised that I put the effort into even visualizing those worlds.

Anyways, I made a really cryptic poem thingy with a weird picture that I released in my last post and it’s got a really interesting psychological meaning if you analyze it CHECK IT OUT!!!

I’m sorry for the poor soul who randomly encounters this post and potentially reads my incoherent rambling. I have no idea when or what I will post next. Bye now.

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Destination

Flayed across the landscape on the last plane he laid; 

The explorer knows what he wants. The explorer knows he’s ignorant. The explorer goes anyways.

where the mountains loom over a land of ash and soot.

The explorer loses track. The explorer gets lost. The explorer searches for anew.

Where the sun hides behind the smog and the hills.

The explorer is indecisive. The explorer feels alone. The explorer is sick of looking.

The sky is pockmarked,  reflecting dim, drained light onto the scarred, sore surface.

The explorer is tired. The explorer is starved. The explorer loses himself.

It’s all that’s left, as the comedown ends, and the darkness bleeds over, drowning everything into black.

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new oc dropped…

Since birth, Rue was always an oddball. He didn’t show much with his words or face—but most people could tell you that he knew how to put his dukes up. Both his inability to express emotion and his self-defense related skillset grew as he aged. Rue was matured by the time the Great Folktran War hit, and so he took it upon him to join the troops as a machine gunner; meaning he got to sit with the big guns. He fought in an almost crudely violent manner. Not excessive or brutal, but sudden and loud. A few punchy noises breaking a still silence followed by the quiet stream of liquid was all the sound that Rue had to make.

After the war, his remaining friends insisted that Rue stay with them during his reincorporation into society. They were afraid he would not adapt properly. For the most part, he was still just “him.” Generally monotonous, always spaced out. Only a few short years after the Great Folktran War, the majority of governments had aligned into a three way truce, forming the Supreme Folktran Government, or SFG for short. With the onrush of technology introduced in wake of the war, the SFG began the Folktran Space Program, beginning the very first “Interfolk project”. Similarly to the way humans created the Mercury Seven, the SFG selected their top candidates, all veterans of the Great War, to become pilots for the space capsules. They became the first “Interfolk project” crew.

Among the selectees was Rue. His accolades—on paper—made him an easy pick. None of the selection committee knew of Rue’s mental illness. It was never diagnosed or realized. Bystanders simply figured it was trauma from the war, a side effect of the soldier life. Upon receiving the letter of selection, Rue interpreted it as required service and a way to escape his friend’s supervision. He signed without much thought, even though his friends were hesitant to allow him. Legally, however, they could not stop him.

At least a third of the original Interfolk crew had stepped down after realizing the dangers of the experimental program. The solar maximum at the time showered Orzshabin in a dangerous amount of radiation, and by the time Rue had even stepped out of the training capsule and into a real one, at least several mishaps happened during the ascent of prior missions. The tensions of another war starting between small militias were also rising at the time, leaving many citizens unsure and uneasy. Rue, among it all, couldn’t have thought any less about any of these issues. To him, he had an assignment to do, and that was all. If he died, so be it. Rue went on to be the most successful pilot among the first Interfolk crew, but also the most stress-inducing for those on the ground.

DeltaCuries (meaning change in radioactivity) is a spaceflight simulator and story game I am “working on.”

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So I remade the comic I put together a few days ago.

I knew I could do better, so I did.

WITHIN LIGHTS AMONGST THE VEIL: Investigations. “Cycles.”

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the two guys from my last post (and some context)

Serris is a Folktran Interstellar Pararescuetran (F.I.P.T.) auxiliary member. He keeps information up to date and works in reporting.

Ohata is a private investigator. He used to be on a combative F.I.P.T. team. He wants to figure out what happened to the Cycles.

This is what Harch Point is.

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The Queen of Venus spots Venus

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

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Intervention

there’s not much context I’m just bored

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How To Identify Your Xenobathosapiens! (during a time of crisis)

can’t stop making…

This would be the fifth world I start building… I need to start writing…

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instead of working on the shard I ended up doing other shenanigans

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"just write the story you want to read!" they said. well, guess what, now i have 14 unfinished drafts because apparently, i want to read 14 different stories at once.

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so it turns out I have terrible commitment problems

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Delay for the first shard.

I’m back from being sort of super busy. Something happened in the middle of these three weeks that absolutely sapped my motivation, so progress has been nonexistent. I’ll try to finish that first shard before the next school year starts, and then I’ll go from there, trying to ride that wave of accomplishment I may or may not feel.

anyways. In the mean time, here’s some neat artwork I made for the space thing I posted about before. I decided to name *that* universe, “Within Lights Amongst the Veil”, assuming that name isn’t already taken.

this event happens late in the timeline of the world, hence why it says “Part Eleven”.

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here’s some more artwork for my story.

I had really good progress on working on this but I’ve slowed down. I was planning to release the first “Shard” this week, but I am completely busy these next two weeks so I’ll have to finish it sometime in July.

I’ve also figured out a name for the universe this is in, if I wanted to make more stories in it. It’s called: “When We Lost Luna”. In an alternate reality where the Apollo missions made it to the 90’s and technology was developing at incredibly speeds, a war broke out between two corporations helping out with space travel. During this war, the Moon was launched into an extremely high orbit around the Earth, raising tides extremely high. This is what prompted the lack of will and hope, along with the development crazy inhumane and artificial technology.

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Art for the cyberpunk-themed story in writing. I will release it in “Shards”, basically chapters. The story follows a mercenary by the alias of “Azure”, as she struggles with multiple conflicting views and values she has. Eventually she gets a hold of a gig that changes the course of her life, and the underground world of South Kōtō, all the while helping her understand herself better.

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something for a little cyberpunk-themed story I’m writing.

Yes. It is just a weird map of the Koto ward in Tokyo.