#Preternatural

[katsigian]

━━━━━♡⊰⊹ // ᴅᴀʏᴡᴀʟᴋᴇʀ ʟᴏʀᴇ 4/∞

In the process of putting my lore down into an actual template/structure, I came up with some specifics and it makes me lose all my marbles. In other words, very normal things happening here

So I have both wolves and daywalkers/vampires and they've existed for thousands of years, evolving alongside humans from a common ancestor. And Night City is sort of a neutral safe haven where preternaturals can exist somewhat freely. They blend in for the most part

But there's certain things that set them apart from regular humans

Daywalkers (I'll just use this term since their vampire blood outweighs their human blood and they end up being closer related to their sire than mother so they end up being more vampire than human) look perfectly human until an actual human realizes they're not. They quickly realize the person in front of them has sharper teeth than they should. They meet someone on a dark street at dusk and when this person smiles, they have two sets of canines where they shouldn't

Or, a person sees someone standing in the shadow of a small side road and realizes their eyes are reflecting the dim light. They're seized with fear because humans' eyes don't shine in the dark. Staring at this human shaped entity who's keenly watching them with glinting predator eyes and knowing that it's useless to run

Other assorted non-human markers are; the way they can move too fast sometimes, or can be too strong sometimes. You think you see someone down the street, then there's a faint blur, and suddenly they're right there in front of you. Or maybe you witness someone rip a car door almost completely off it's hinges like it's nothing

While my daywalkers tend to be on the less bloodthirsty side, due to self-preservation and some historical events that helped them evolve to go longer between feeds, they're still "unnatural" to humans and can cause that fight or flight response. Since daywalkers evolved beside humans, and historically were a threat (they still are for the most part) most humans tend to be wary of them or outright fear them if they know they're faced with one

The same goes for my wolves when shifted; their howls sometimes sound faintly human and their eyes look a little too intelligent. Wolves don't usually know what you're saying when you talk at them, but these ones seem to understand what you're saying

Or maybe you pissed someone off and you could've swore that you heard them make some kind of animal growl at you. Now you're wondering whether they're a daywalker or were and if you'd be able to get away from them

I just love the slight horror aspect to them so much. Daywalkers and weres, but especially those with vampire blood, are top of the food chain in my lore. Vampires/vampire blood pulls very far away from Dracula type lore - they're much closer related to other animals/predators and aren't magical. They don't use glamours or tricks to get their prey. They hunt. And so they're gonna be sorta scary and horrifying and threatening. So very normal about this, I'm just a regular boy making regular lore < gnawing on the drywall at the thought of vampires

[megahorous]

Big Bob, Egon, and The Brain debate the existence of Ghosts

[abybweisse]

If Undertaker is Ciel's grandfather, could Ciel have any supernatural abilities?

Inherited abilities from granddad?

Either or both twins could, yes. I'd like to think that our earl's abilities would be stronger than real Ciel's. Like... sure, he's got asthma from his mom... but he's also got something special from the paternal grandfather.

Well, in ch103, our earl responds to Sascha saying his last name. Like he gets a chill and immediately turns to look where the reapers are supposed to be invisible. Sebastian can't even see them, at least not at first. But when our earl turns to look, he can see them, and they are surprised. If they hadn't mentioned his name or the family name, he might have never felt their presence at all. But it's still telling how that gives him a sensation and makes him look right at them. So, I'd say that is a trait he has acquired from grandpa....

And ch108 shows what could either be a reaper trait or simply an identical twin thing: sort of temporarily jumping into his soulless Bizarre Doll twin to see Undertaker by the bedside. Of course, we don't know what Undertaker was administering to real Ciel, but I have a feeling our earl and Ciel have a special twin connection, even though real Ciel's soul has been devoured. Also keep in mind that our earl wakes up to find Sebastian by the bedside, and he is the one who devoured that soul. Reminds me very strongly of Lucas and Claus in Mother3, since the mirror twins in that also make a psychic connection to each other without even trying... after the older mirror twin, Claus, was killed and turned into a Fascinating Chimera. Once he was turned into a Fascinating Chimera, Claus was referred to as "heartless" by the Magypsies (game's parallel to the reapers). So, the psychic connection only required minds, not hearts or souls. Could be the same thing here: our earl is connecting to real Ciel's mind alone.

But even if the mental connection thing isn't a reaper trait, seeing reapers who are trying to remain invisible probably is.

[karmagicians]

finally putting a name to this comic. also i think chapter begins and ends will be colored

pg 1

[wierdartistmarcell]

So this is Preternatural. A silly title fan comic strip thing I started, where the lads find themselves in very silli and 💅 situations. Full of invisible dogs, a partially-corrupted Dean and a shared braincell between the four lads, now this can only lead to disaster and hilarity.

[theomnicode]

Emotional loneliness & the subconscious

One thing we must never forget with Genos.

He will always pay back with dividends whatever action has been taken against him. Be it with hatred, revenge or with his utmost loyalty, support and love.

Maksaa kalavelat takaisin potut pottuina.

(Potut means potatoes, potut pottuina means with equal measure) (Kala means fish, velat means debt, kalavelka means grudge borne from unfair treatment)

So because Saitama lovebombed Genos with the divine power core, Genos will pay it back hundredfold. He's just that kind of guy, prone to extremes.

Just surely as the moon orbits around the earth, does the earth orbit around the sun, it's the universal law that Genos cares for Saitama. You'd have to erase his personality and himself entirely for this to not be true. And man, do the forces that be, try to do exactly that. It's like he can tip the scales of justice in his favour, a balance breaker in this regard.

So, the time to perform is night because OPM God is practically breathing down on everyone's necks and surveying the battlefield from below and above this time around and he wants to wring out some riffraff.

There is very much plenty hints, the chapters are throwing an overabundance of clues around. The amount of subliminal hints, metaphors, allegories, idioms, visual cues, wordplay, etc. is extremely staggering and it's done on purpose to appeal on subconscious level. Murata-sensei and ONE throwing all eggs into the basket for a homerun.

I feel like I'm constantly becoming big brained by looking at new chapters and making all these possible connections with my brain and trying to predict future outcomes lol.

It's like blaring warning sirens if you're suddenly aware of it.

There are many things one can start to predict in OPM. So OPM God can play chessmaster with everyone's emotions as the puppet master he is and get desired results.

But there is...one person that is completely utterly unpredictable...and that person is Genos. Nobody can completely understand Genos and his line of thinking.

Nobody knows what the fuck Genos is doing right now, for instance. We can only make educated guesses.

Except for one thing: he can't turn away from justice. Because he loves people too much. An emotional vulnerability that can and will be exploited. One he is not personally logically seeing.

Large amount of monsters are being released in an area with lots of civilians and being actually called on duty? Trust Genos to race to the scene, no matter what.

And in this it is also a race against time, who can seal the deal with who first. Who can emotionally connect with who first with their emotional loneliness.

Because everyone in this small area, are probably Super Empaths, also known as Heyoka Empath and emotionally lonely in their own ways. They keenly feel when others feel and bleed when others bleed and they can't turn this off. Emotional wounds bleed heavily.

And once you make a deal with OPM God, the God of Death or enroach upon his territory within the preternatural spiritualism, you aren't running away that easily. 4 people in the area are practically glowing with divine power.

What it means is becoming immortal and spending the eternity with this guy. Dead or alive. Sorry Future Garou, your sacrifice was most valiant. OPM God rewrote the script for that, because he did not want Saitama to give Garou therapy and emotionally connect via that, since Garou would've ended up just ranting about everything and confessing everything.

(Also denotes quite a bit about that there will be rivalries between individuals) (Cough death note) (Nice Ninja village leader and Blast ref here)

Like a jealous lover, it wants all the pieces to himself. Probably for some eternity in torture kind of thing. Oh and Genos and Bang have to die, naturally.

So yea, the dimple reference would match, just wants some company because it's alone in the dark...but actually horrifying af. Eternity in pure despair ay...

(I'm so sorry Homeless Emperor, Orochi...)

There is one thing that Saitama is vulnerable to, it's his emotional loneliness. Trying to become a hero to find some kind of intimate emotional connection with a person with similar values.

A heart displaced is a heart swayed.

The choice Genos can make where he chooses to place his heart into, will make it complete or shred it to pieces. The twilight zone between night and new dawn of day is still up. In the front is the sun of the new horizons and behind...the shadow of the looming death, The torii gate.

This race is also portrayed in the OPM ED1.

A race for Genos to connect with Saitama's heart first with his love, before anyone else does and doing so would protect him as well, because they are safeguards to each other's hearts. Monsters outside and inside exploit the desire for kindness, compassion, love and other emotions and when the heart is full, that's when the monsters can no longer find footing.

In short, Genos has to show that he absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, loves him whole-heartedly and confess. So Saitama can show his own vulnerability, his weaknesses like his suicidal ideation and make him strong enough to withstand emotional manipulation and exploitation that OPM God will do, is doing, to him. And in turn, his heart will also find it's home in Genos.

Cuz, Saitama is playing chicken with his own emotional blind spots. They will soon catch up to him and everyone else. Insecurities, unreliability, immaturity, self-confidence, anger, feeling weak...maybe even rebirth.

Saitama just does not have the guts to confess yet himself, he's far from certain about what he actualy feels since INFJ are slow and steady like the turtles racing against the rabbit in love business...but time is running out too fast to actually wait for the turtle to win the race because the rabbit fell asleep.

Dawn of the Last day, 24 hours remaining.

Saitama would just chicken out. Like bugs bunny under the rock face. Get second thoughts from not being absolutely certain that his emotions are reciprocated and shy away with his insecurities.

Saitama has a bucket list to go with him, so there's that.

jänistää (jänis = bunny) (jänistää = chicken out and run away)

livistää arkuuttaan (chicken out and run away due to shyness)

luopua aikomuksestaan uhkaa koettuaan (give up on doing something due to a perceived threat)

(Ah the Tanabata)

You can see the deformity in Saitama's eyes when he goads Garou into trying to hit him by appearing vulnerable while looking at him directly in the eye and seeing a glimpse of his soul. I don't think he likes that at all, since he's not the violent sort.

And oh, does this paint a clear metaphor, about what else can be found from the blind spot, upon the forehead, if he were to delve far too deep into the rabbit hole of his own psyche.

No wonder he's uncertain about Genos. There's definitely some kind of preternatural phobia or something involved. About the third eye/mind's eye. Definitely eldritch.

(Think Shimazaki from Mob psycho)

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So, how does one Seal the deal with a God anyway?

A gesture in agreement, probably a hand gesture (since spiritual people seem to be doing that a lot) but also a sentiment with emotional attachment to that specific emotion, I would say. And wholeheartedly agreeing with the sentiment.

Genos already made a deal with a god by becoming his disciple and got an impartation of power; access to Saitama's emotional strenght via his empathy.

To seal the deal completely?

I mean, what else can it be but a kiss on the lips and a love confession from this utterly infatuated idiot.

To wake up the sleeping beauty like in the fairy tales. How romantic to soulbound with someone for all eternity. And cursed when their fates get twisted and they never find each other. Romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.

I say idiot fondly because it's exactly what he would want right now, but Saitama is not ready if he were to get a sudden influx of feedback loop of emotions. He would not know where he begins and Genos ends, like two people living under the same egghead, if he hasn't build up some mental walls first. Individualization would be almost impossible. The shadow snuck too close for comfort.

If Saitama the antenna, that makes Genos the wi-fi signal. As in the mural.

Oh and Genos is definitely not ready yet either, he needs more mental strenght first to handle it. Saitama's emotions, his divine power, are strong af. He would probably explode.

I can predict about as far as Genos arriving to the scene...but it remains to be seen what kind of actions he will take.

He will probably end up doing something stupid or crazy though. But he will have to, to flip the webcomic script on it's head.

That will determine their fates. Because Saitama will need affirmation that he's not going to be left in emotionally lonely hell when the time comes. And neither will Genos, because Saitama would not allow it.

Clear skies, full hearts, can't lose.

(The most hilarious and unpredictable thing would be for the romantic comedy to begin and Saitama and Genos make out in the base, in front of everyone else without any inhibitions, because Genos has the unholy hots for sensei and by sealing the deal, have this feedback loop.)

(Saitama would totally fall for Genos and even cosplay villain mafia boss if he had to and become anything at all for Genos.)

(ONE gonna go "Keep the change you filthy animals." when he feeds the shippers. But also because he's the biggest troll and it would be fucking funny to see the oldest joke in the series utterly dismantled and watch the fireworks.)

(Looks quite a bit to me that you're swinging that way indeed and walking in tandem. I don't believe that horsecrap saitama lol, nobody does)

(Tbh those also look like socks and or heels to me...Saitama & socks = sensuality and heels would def be sexuality.)

(Hehe Genos fighting for his love against opm god because Saitama is the rose bride from utena ahahaha, that would be some tug of war)

(Funeral suspenders btw)

[thepolishlynx]

Lorraine - Victorian Goth Widow in a Preternatural Situation

[snappingthewalls]

[chaotic-polymath]

"If the UFO intelligence(s) have been trying to establish contact, then clearly it is not a top-down type of contact meant to involve appointed representatives of government institutions. The reports we’ve gathered tell us it is far more egalitarian: a grass-roots type of contact involving individuals from all walks of life, which only seems to make sense if we accept two propositions: 1. The intelligence(s) have little use for traditional social structure; and 2. it or they are possibly not bound by the constraints of space and time the way we are. If time is no issue, then perhaps the best way to establish a dialog with humankind is on an individual basis.

Of course, such a non-protocolary development would never sit well with governing authorities. The CIA-sponsored Robertson panel of 1953 concluded that reports of Unidentified Flying Objects were themselves more threatening to the stability of the country than the actual possibility of an extraterrestrial intervention. It recommended a smear campaign to minimize or ridicule close encounters in the press, and the monitoring of UFO groups for fear that they could easily be manipulated by Soviet agents. The same approach was taken with self-proclaimed “contactees”—individuals from all walks of American society claiming direct contact with the flying saucer occupants, whom they fondly regarded as our “space brothers.” In his 2010 book, Contactees, Nick Redfern writes how the most prominent figures in the contactee movement were closely monitored by FBI operatives who attended their lectures and made reports on what the speakers said to their audience. Imagine the consternation of J. Edgar Hoover when reading that George Adamski’s Venusian friends regarded socialism as the most perfect form of human government. It is my opinion the Cosmic Love propagandized by the Contactees of the 1950s paved the way to the Free Love counterculture of the 1960s, and the governmental authorities viewed both grassroots movements in the same manner: as a threat, graver and more insidious than an open confrontation with the communist bloc."

Anarchy in the UFO! - Red Pill Junkie

Essay from UFOs: Reframing the debate by Robbie Graham

[bxtsh1tmedia]

i hear u saying my name but ur not here.

[preacherpollard]

Spiritual?

Gary Pollard The word “spiritual” and the concept of “spirit” is something I’ve been trying to understand for well over a decade now. I wish it was possible to say, “I now understand it,” but that would be grossly inaccurate. But with the complexity of reality, with the multidimensional nature of scripture (and Christianity in general), with its relationship to the material universe, and with…

[theneondreaming]

Barbara Shelley

Village of the Damned (1960)

[trinityvuissent]

Chapter 2 - The Homeland, Part 6

This gave them a chance to break free of it all and to create a world that they wanted to live in, fresh, new growth from the old. A new chapter and a new future for them all. To become the writers of their own life stories instead of a byline of those that came before. Drawn together because they lived in a world that didn't understand as they seemed so different from the well known archetypes written about the races and didn’t know how to accept them. So they found that understanding within the community they were growing together as a family they never knew they needed.  Eventually the Core pulled siblings and good friends into the group, and little by little the Core became the Crew, who morphed into the Group and now has emerged as The Dynasty. 

The Dynasty of The Immortal Initiative.

At times it was a little touch and go as Trinity, and Vanity did everything they could to keep things running smoothly possible, but for the most part each group within the Dynasty… just.. Fit.  They expanded from the founding house, to four houses in total: The Immortal Initiative - House leader Trinity, Tenebris Stupri - House leader: Trouble, Dark Immortals - House leader Suraya and Deorum Umbrae - House leader Orion.  They stayed in touch and came together for important meetings, the rest were all done online, but for the most part each house was highly independent, one of the things that Trin loved about them. 

It was magic, seeing the land and the surrounding town build and grow.  They kept most of it as it came, overgrown and perfect in its wild abandon of being, and created a compound for the bulk of those within the founding House.   

[karmagicians]

pt 9

moment passed

[critter-eater]

preternatural - beyond nature (and beyond fate)

[marzipanandminutiae]

an unrealized sewing quest

The Ultimate Cozy Victorian Dressing-Gown/Housedress

Dark green light- or medium-weight SOFT wool

China silk lining- maybe silver or a pale gold?

Embroidery on the cuffs, hem, and collar. Probably something from Sewstine's Etsy shop; I have a friend with an embroidery machine

Princess-line

now if I could just FIND the damn FABRIC. but buying wool that's neither suiting nor coating is NIGH IMPOSSIBLE (let alone at a REASONABLE PRICE)