I wad stuck in Totsuka and Megan and in what their world looks like, so i had a talk to my brother/cowriter and now I have some ideas to work with.
First of all, the races. I used to think that it would be a lot of hard work to make lots of different races in a world, but man, that's fun
There are five races (for now, might add one or two later depending on how it goes): The dragons (although its probablybetter to refer to them as 'dragonborns'), the humans, the fae, the vampires and the shapeshifters.
The vampires get energy/their life force from blood (obsviously). The humans, from their stomach (may change that). The fae, from their environment (like. mostly anywhere). I haven't decided yet for the shapeshifters, but then the dragonborns get their life force from the sun.
I wanted to have a logic behind all the races, and then we decided to make a mithology: we are gonna inpire it on our favorite pantheons (greco-roman, nordic and japanese). The Main Deity (like zeus/jupiter or odin or amaterasu) is gonna be the Sun Deity and they blessed the dragonborns maaaany many many millenia ago, so that's why their energy comes from the sun. We still have yet to dig deeper into that.
Then we have the magic system: It's pretty simple, actually. There are two kinds of magic:
Spiritual magic (nonsense, clairevoyance, mind reading, anormal phenomena)
And Material magic.
Now, material magic has two subtypes. Chemic and Physical. Physical magic is manipulating effects of physic, like explosion and making things move, and Chemic magic is manipulating chemical phenomena. Like... poisioning. Degradation. Human body functions. I don't know much about it but I thinm most of the things that happen in the world are under one of these two things. So I divided magic like that! Each race has (generally) an inclination to either or another (Material or Spiritual). The fae are more prone to have ease with Spiritual magic (at least it comes easier to them), the humans, Material, the Shapeshifters, Material, and the vampires, Spiritual. The dragonborns are blessed so they have a natural inclination to both equally.
And lastly, the main idea behind having a lot of races is that my brother loves shonen anime and One Piece and draws most of his ideas from there. He wanted to have a powerful and officially extinct race, and kne of the main characters (totsuka) is a direct descendant of them.
He wanted the race to be like, the sun people, and when I questioned him about how they would be like and suggested a lot of things (werewolves, clairvoyants, elves...) we reached the dragonborn idea. They're not proper dragons nor dragonborns, but it's where I'm drawing their inspiration from. Prob gonna chanhe in the future
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Heyyyy Jester. As always I hope you are just living your best life! I really Do. 😇
I don't know if this has been asked but seeing as the story leans into it I was wondering how the ROs would react if MC took a hit for them and got hurt.
Tho i feel like... you are gonna tell me I'm asking spoilers aren't you....👀
aww, hello!! i've lost my voice so i can't say i'm living my absolute best life (i'm a big talker lol), but i'm mostly good!!
i hope you and your family are well too :)!
after a little bit of consideration i've actually decided that i should be able to safely answer this, if i don't go into too much detail, so you're in luck ;)
An active battlefield. Not quite what you were used to but, of course, that's likely why the Queen had insisted on doing a simulation (something about everyone having to be prepared, you honestly couldn't pay too much attention as you were hustled out onto the palace grounds). It had been going well, you could dodge and parry and strike, then rinse and repeat, until one guard got slightly too close to hitting your charge and all you could do was throw your arm in the way of their blade...
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A. Bellefleur;
It wasn't serious. MC was fine. It wasn't serious. MC was fine. It wasn't- There was blood. The blade had slice over your arm, opening a mostly superficial wound into it, though there was blood soaking into your sleeve. The guard was apologising profusely, you were ensuring them you were fine, there were no hard feelings...except. Except A. felt guilt, a burning in their chest that threatened to consume them. They knew it would come, they had felt it once before, as soon as they realised what had happened.
You don't see them again until their next meeting, and you can hear the scratch in their voice when they speak, as though they had been crying for a long, long time.
K. Valiev;
They're at your side in a second, hands hovering over your arm, not quite touching (as though they were afraid to touch you), worry creasing their features. The guard that had hit you, however, seemed petrified, his apology yelped out like a wounded animal's cry, before he scurried away from the two of you, pointedly avoiding your gaze.
They get you settled in the infirmary, and then disappear for a while. When they reappear it's like nothing has happened, they bring you food and drink, and watch over you carefully. You notice, however, that the guard who injured you refuses to approach you, and you could swear he looks afraid if you get too close...
A. Caras;
Their gripes echo over the sounds around you as they march over ("Are you stupid? This is a practice, I'm not supposed to get work during a practice!"), their bag of equipment thrown over their shoulder, having gone to collect it after you protected them. The guard apologises to both of you and scuttles off, and the fire in Caras' eyes turns on you. You don't dare move as they patch you up, disinfecting and wrapping your wound with a firmness that would have been a little frightening if you hadn't known for certain they were being careful not to hurt you.
You notice, being that close, that their hands are trembling ever so slightly as they work, and when they stand they make sure to get close enough so that only you can hear them.
"Don't ever do that again."
They don't sound like they're just being self-deprecating or protective this time.
T. Bellefleur;
It wasn't serious. MC was fine. It wasn't serious. MC was fine. It wasn't- There was blood. That whelp had dared to touch you, to injure you. Their claymore was at his throat in seconds, an almost cruel grin pulling at their lips.
"Aaaand you're dead, better luck next time, hey?"
You had never seen them so angry, their usual bored monotone becoming hard and threatening, mirroring the look in their eyes. It softened, ever so slightly, when they looked at you, but the majority of it morphed into shame.
You don't see them for the rest of the week.
M. Serrel;
You don't see them during the rest of the battle, and you don't see them until Caras has left you alone in the infirmary that evening, at which point they seem to just sort of...appear.
"Now, Dove, what did you go and do that for? You know I can take care of myself."
They are chiding you light-heartedly, but there is something sad in their expression, behind their eyes, as their gaze lingers on your wounded arm. And they know. They know that you know. You can see it in the way they pull back, the way they drop a lingering kiss to the back of your hand and leave you ("to rest", they say, though you know that's not it).
"I couldn't bear to lose you too."
You don't see them again until you've healed, and when you do, they seem intent on pretending that nothing ever happened in the infirmary that night
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What was Tiramisu like as The Cat Witch™? I’d like to imagine she’d have crazy stories or “mom lore” and she’ll just randomly say the most wack messed up shit that you’ve heard as she goes back to doing mom things.
Tiramisu: yeah there was this one time I got a discount from the Merchant, such a sweetheart he is. Anyone want brownies? They’re still hot!
Cut to the guild now shocked beyond disbelief knowing Mochi’s mom has done the impossible
HONESTLY IM NOT TOTALLY SURE WHAT TIRAMISU'S WITCH LIFE WAS LIKE!!!!!! i think she was the adventurous traveling type....definitely spent a lot of time in the desert region (where she met mochis father)
but certainly had more of a reckless streak than mochi...i think grandma mocha was quite hard on her after amanita disappeared (something about having to really be THE cat witch. owning it on a higher level since its not technically the bloodline. even though passing the magic to a non-relative isnt uncommon, maybe its less common for the coven families? who knows) anyway she was a lot more free spirited, methinks
(and settled down a lot more after she had mochi. her precious baby girl. her sweet little angel)
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Sissy likes to take Angie to hippie hangouts and other places she's found while just getting around. Angie doesn't care where they go, she just likes hanging out with Sissy lol. Sissy has a tendency to hold Angie's hand when they're alone and hangs on her a lot. Sissy is taller than Angie, so she's always hunched over to do it (tbh honest if we're going off the game, Sissy is hunched over all the time anyways lol). Angie calls Sissy, "Sunshine" and Sissy loves it! When they aren't going places, Sissy takes Angie to random clearings and shows her different flowers and shows her how to make different concoctions from flowers. It's all together a good time for both of them. When they're far away from the Family and whoever else may see, the ladies may share some affection. They wouldn't say they're girlfriends or dating but there's a lot of love between the two🫶
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Ok so back to brainstorming (totsuka and megan):
I'm gonna pick a part of that idea from my dream (the brands part). I was thinking on giving each race their own little curse :D (lmao) and also something literally sacred that they had to follow. For fae it's be deals. For sirens it'd be secrets. For humans, I don't reallt know yet and for vampires, why, it would be brands.
So I guess I want Noa and Donatello to be vampires.
They branded/marked Tot and Meg :)
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