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essenceborn) wrote2023-02-26 02:53 pm
essenceborn) wrote2023-02-26 02:53 pm
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SECOND TITLE WORDS, QUOTE, OR NAME SECOND SUBTITLE WORDS, QUOTE, SOMETHING BACKGROUND(I will clean this up into something proper later on) World: -was probably on the same track to become like ours i.e. techno-based modern society buuuut -Society discovered this thing they call Essence and they became o b s e s s e d with it to the point where they sort of broke...the world -as in, They Broke Time & Space Itself. The same 13 days keep repeating themselves over and over, with the 13th day being the day the sun turns into a ball of black goop & begins seeping down into the world until it devours everything -THEN EVERYTHING RESETS  WELL it's because they Fucked Around and Found Out People found Essence and then immediately started using it to try and Improve Their Lives. They utilized it as a power source to power stuff like trams and blimps and all sorts of fun steampunkish stuff, but some people also decided to study it and see what other stuff they could do with it, including: -studying it -creating a religion out of it!! -worshipping it as a god-like entity -consuming it all sorts of fun things. The religious scholars were called Shem and dedicated their entire beings to it, while on the more science-y side of things they thought, can we use this to make particle accelerators. The scientists discovered that yes, you sort of can, but Essence's main thing is the fact that it can be used to reshape and redefine reality The Shem found out that if you drink it, Essence can enhance the body, making someone faster, stronger, or give them Power aka telekinetic-like abilities. The downside of this being that over time/the more of it one consumes, the more it erodes their bodies/minds to the point where they start to leak black...goop. and go crazy. And dissolve into goop. OR WANDER AROUND AS HORRIFYING MONSTERS called Stains (bc they look like the stain-like outline of a body on the ground in 3D form). So while they were doing that, creating what they called Superior Beings and getting all messed-up and getting people to ingest Essence for their religion, science Took Notice and thought 2 things: 1. We can fuck with Time & Space. Let's do that. 2. The crazy religious people have superpowers. We want superpowers too. Cue their plan to conduct a bunch of human experiments using Essence, trying to create a way to harness all the pros (superpowers) with none of the cons (going crazy and turning into black goo). Atrocities abound! They fuck around with exposing people to Essence in all sorts of ways: consuming it, having it injected, infusing it into DNA....exposing pregnant people and fetuses to it to see what it did. All sorts of fun stuff. At the same time they started building a machine to harness Essence on a large scale to use it to alter some of the world's laws and allow them to do stuff normal science couldn't. They built this giant-ass Essence Collector to power the city (on the surface), while using it to try and bend reality in secret. Through this, they were able to do stuff like erase certain things from their timeline. How do they know this succeeded? Because there are written accounts of things called "airplanes" and "computers" that no one has any memory of, but which seemed to existed at some point (yes, they erased modern-day technology from their history and altered their reality. LIKE GENIUSES. So this is actually timeline #2 for this world, they already erased proto-not!earth). So now the world was steam/Essence-powered instead of fossil fuel which would be yay, only by using their machine to mess around with time & space, the scientists started to Wear Out Reality. Meanwhile, the religious people are starting to contaminate the world with the Stained/Stains, are consuming more Essence, drawing it out so that it begins to contaminate & corrupt the world around them. Stuff begins to Rot, which is a fancy way of saying that Essence was causing stuff it contaminated to break down (but it looked kind of like a blight/plague, so people called it Rot & most people didn't know what was causing it). Throwback to those fucked-up human experiments the scientists did: turns out, you can't make humans able to use superpowers without going crazy/turning into goop. But they did succeed in creating an altered life form capable of withstanding vast amounts of Essence: the Essenceborn. Fetuses exposed to Essence/born from parents consumed by Essence looked human enough, but unlike their squishy counterparts didn't age the same and had Essence for blood/tears. While they couldn't consume vast quantities of it or chug it like milk or anything, they at least weren't affected by it in the same horrific ways; they didn't lose their minds or dissolve. They didn't manage to make a ton of Essenceborn before the world went belly-up, but they made...wait for it...thirteen ayyyyyyy Anyway, those bebbies make it to varying ages of life ranging from 6yo to 18yo, and all are either uni/no sex: they're kept in a sealed research tower built in view of the Essence Collector and basically only know the researchers growing up. They get an education, do tests, all that fun sort of human experiment stuff, and that's where PROTAG comes in: Nenonen!! They are one of the Essenceborn in the tower. Nenonen doesn't have superpowers as far as the researchers are concerned. None of the Essenceborn do: they can't move shit with their minds, they aren't super-fast or super-strong and this is kind of a letdown, but they're still thinking there's a use for these guys. So they keep up their experiment when the start of The Loop begins. Turns out, one of the scientists and one of the religious people has a conscience. And they're like holy shit, we're fucking everything up: there are Essence particles floating around in some parts of the city and this is Not Good. They decide to destroy the Essence Collector, and thiiiiis is what fucks everything up and starts the loops: they break in, make it to the Essence Collector, but they're seen before they can properly shut down the machine and destroy it: guards tell them to stop or they'll shoot, scientists tries to tell them what they're doing, religious person is holding The Bomb and tries to pull the lever to complete the shutdown, but they get shot and fall off the catwalk with The Bomb into the GIANT EFFING VAT OF ESSENCE BELOW. Bomb goes off, Essence explodes everywhere and a crack in reality is formed into which ALL THAT BEAUTIFUL HORRIBLE ESSENCE starts flowing out of. Nenonen is watching the Essence Collector from the tower when this happens and sees it p much explode in Essence before getting swallowed up. Scientist with a conscience, religious person with a conscience, and the guards are all erased from existence; which means they couldn't have been there to set of the bomb, which means the Collector didn't explode, which means they never erased themselves and...yup. YUP. Not Good Things. Those guys don't exist anymore, which means when the world jumps back 13 days...those days play out, only at the end, instead of the Collector exploding? All the Essence overflowing from that tear in the fabric of reality comes pouring out and swallows up the world. CUE REWIND. And no one. Notices. Except. The Kids. Obviously they try telling the scientists but it takes them a few tries to figure out a way to do it without a Bad End or no one believing them. The scientists try to find a way to stop it, but with each time loop there's less and less of them "there." Just because the world rewinds doesn't mean they aren't getting exposed to Essence every time the world loops. They start to deteriorate--and so do people outside in the city. Soon, there's more and more Stained. People vanish. The researchers begin to lose their minds and dissolve into goop, leaving the 13 Essencebound stranded inside the tower, stuck watching the world end itself over and over and over until even some of them start to succumb (not all of them were created equal). Because of the repeated time loops, their own "time" is wonky: sometimes they do things on autopilot, like a scripted event; sometimes their words are fast-forwarded or backwards. Nenonen is eventually one of the only people left in the entire city, left wondering how they heck they can stop this/break free of the timeline (spoilers, breaking free of the loop ends the world). PERSONALITYLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec vestibulum purus ligula, quis tincidunt dolor placerat quis. Nulla sagittis, magna vitae tristique dictum, mauris arcu cursus lacus, quis porttitor orci tortor et risus. Nunc pharetra eros at laoreet ullamcorper. Fusce non nulla sed purus hendrerit facilisis eget at leo. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus. Aenean eleifend rutrum egestas. Proin sed diam dictum, eleifend quam a, cursus orci. Sed lacinia est non sem rhoncus fermentum. Morbi vitae luctus augue, semper auctor purus. Curabitur pulvinar turpis vel augue tincidunt dignissim. Aenean malesuada quam mauris, sed mattis augue tristique non. Duis vehicula purus non mauris pretium, non dignissim massa laoreet. Donec fringilla augue non convallis sodales. In at interdum erat, non scelerisque libero. Duis blandit nulla et diam ultrices, in ullamcorper dolor sodales. Mauris lobortis velit sit amet elit malesuada, in rutrum turpis rutrum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque non libero convallis, faucibus nisl porttitor, ullamcorper lacus. Pellentesque elementum massa id magna ullamcorper, sed eleifend odio venenatis. Mauris tristique, sem at eleifend dapibus, magna elit ornare nisi, sit amet porta ante nibh ac quam. Duis tempus nisi convallis leo rhoncus tempor. Curabitur condimentum ipsum felis, at interdum nisl cursus hendrerit. Curabitur quis diam ultricies, tincidunt orci sollicitudin, viverra tortor. Integer mollis dui ut suscipit porttitor. Quisque aliquet nunc at est tincidunt gravida. Maecenas at leo vel magna tincidunt ultricies ut sed justo. Nunc fermentum nec tellus at varius. Sed at metus dignissim, pretium purus in, commodo erat. ABILITIESNenonen is not human. They are Essenceborn and have a fundamentally different biology. This includes:
Now you may also be wondering what do you mean when you say they have Essence for blood/tears?
Stage 1: No adverse effects; increased vitality, intellect, speed, strength. Sense of powerfulness/euphoria. Stage 2: Signs of mental deterioration; lack of impulse control, hearing voices (some interpret these as Essence Whispers, or Essence trying to communicate with them). Stage 3: Black discharge from eyes & nose. Decreased intelligence. Paranoia, inability to communicate. Stage 4: Person dissolves into black goop. "Stage 5": Person becomes Stain: physical being which looks like a stain outline on the floor. They attack any living creature and have no intelligence. (Not really a stage beyond dissolving; just an alternate path one can take). EXTRALorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec vestibulum purus ligula, quis tincidunt dolor placerat quis. Nulla sagittis, magna vitae tristique dictum, mauris arcu cursus lacus, quis porttitor orci tortor et risus. Nunc pharetra eros at laoreet ullamcorper. Fusce non nulla sed purus hendrerit facilisis eget at leo. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus. Aenean eleifend rutrum egestas. Proin sed diam dictum, eleifend quam a, cursus orci. Sed lacinia est non sem rhoncus fermentum. Morbi vitae luctus augue, semper auctor purus. Curabitur pulvinar turpis vel augue tincidunt dignissim. Aenean malesuada quam mauris, sed mattis augue tristique non. Duis vehicula purus non mauris pretium, non dignissim massa laoreet. Donec fringilla augue non convallis sodales. In at interdum erat, non scelerisque libero. Duis blandit nulla et diam ultrices, in ullamcorper dolor sodales. Mauris lobortis velit sit amet elit malesuada, in rutrum turpis rutrum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque non libero convallis, faucibus nisl porttitor, ullamcorper lacus. Pellentesque elementum massa id magna ullamcorper, sed eleifend odio venenatis. Mauris tristique, sem at eleifend dapibus, magna elit ornare nisi, sit amet porta ante nibh ac quam. Duis tempus nisi convallis leo rhoncus tempor. Curabitur condimentum ipsum felis, at interdum nisl cursus hendrerit. Curabitur quis diam ultricies, tincidunt orci sollicitudin, viverra tortor. Integer mollis dui ut suscipit porttitor. Quisque aliquet nunc at est tincidunt gravida. Maecenas at leo vel magna tincidunt ultricies ut sed justo. Nunc fermentum nec tellus at varius. Sed at metus dignissim, pretium purus in, commodo erat. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
