SETTING
canon swallows her pride and asks janna+leica to help save addie…
BATTLE STUFF HAPPENS ADDIE+NESS DIE. SILAS DIES TOO. CANON CRIES BECAUSE SHE CAN’T SAVE ANYONE.
then janna character develops and SLAPS CANON. and she tells canon that THEY’RE FRIENDS (@LEICA+JANNA). then she cries.
then canon cries too. and they all hug… with canon thanking janna and calling leica a dirty old man.
THE END.
- THE SETTING IS FANCY BRITISH VICTORIAN.
- THE CITY IS A CITY OF CANALS
- THE ACTUAL BUILDINGS ARE FANCY GLASS WITH GOLDEN GILDED FRAMEWORK!
- IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS UNIVERSE, alchemy is the magi-scientific process by which a person manipulates and reconfigures chemical bonds and molecules to create new compounds. Homunculi can be created along with other things such as metals and medicines! (the former is heavily regulated; see notes on homuculi) In order to conduct alchemy, one must be both knowledgeable in the sciences and in the ancient arts!
- Also, it must be night time.
- During the day, all alchemic changes are reversed! One of the particularly terrible side effects is that homunculi must feast on human flesh to stay together.
- ALCHEMY is seen by non-alchemists as LAMENTABLE DEVIL’S WORK that gives power to the UNSCRUPLOUS. Thus, during the day, non-alchemists often attempt to flush out alchemists. But! During the night hours, alchemists come back out DECKED IN FANCY VENETIAN MASKS to continue their operations!
- So, it’s kind of like an ebb and flow of people depending on the time of day *___* The daytimers are ordinary people; the nighttimers are masked alchemists!
- ALCHEMISTS try to keep their true identities a secret. HOWEVER, their system is pretty centralized/organized. There is an obvious ruling body of alchemists that make decisions as to what is legal and what is illegal, and they keep track of all registered homunculi.
- There are rumours of alchemists planning to destroy the daytime and ushering eternal nightfall HOHOHO.
- ONLY THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS scientists are allowed to create homunculi! A homunculus’ creation must be approved by the board before performed. The most common homuculi are known as ____ and come in the form of beautiful women with odd skin colours who do nothing but giggle and hold tools.
- The more advanced the homunculi/the more complicated its tasks/complex its mental processes the greater knowledge of human anatomy+alchemy is needed. That is, a homunculi with the ability to speak and perform mathematical functions is by far a harder thing to create than a ____!
- To tell a homunculi apart from a regular person is only a matter of touch! Most alchemists can do this. There’s also a visible signature somewhere on the neck of a homunculi which details its owner and function.
- AU!JANNA is a scientist kept in a lab researching homunculi. She is 14 years old and is something of a prodigy! Her lab is guarded by AU!Silas and run by AU!Pardu. AU!Sun works under Pardu as part of his apprenticeship— because, in order to become a fully recognized alchemist, one must learn under a licensed master! However, Pardu possesses no interest in Sun, thinking of Sun as nothing more than an air-headed ____ who is good for nothing but holding tools.
- Pardu is also madly in love with a particularly advanced homunculus he created himself— AU!Nida! AU!Nida is fully sentient and capable of complex thoughts and speaking. She is also… perfect….
- Sun hates Nida for being *~GIVEN~* this power (power she didn’t earn!) and he hates Pardu for his ideals/not teaching him! SO, Sun plots to ruin Nida (via alchemy). She gets driven insane through just a simple chemical modification and Pardu is forced to kill her!
- Sun kills Pardu who is emotionally compromised, but only after telling Pardu that he was stupid for loving a *~FANCY DOLL~* that could easily break anyways.
- SO THE AFTERMATH IS NOTHING SHORT OF DESTRUCTION AND DESPAIR… AND WE SPLIT FROM HERE BETWEEN PROTAGS AND ANTAGS!! WH00.
- ANTAGS FIRST.
- Just as Sun saunters away he sees Silas struggling in the rubble to LIVE!!! Sun admires this dedication and thinks that Silas would make a great protege/example of his teachings. Sun drags Silas out of the rubble.
- Sun takes Silas under his wing, teaching Silas that TRUE STRENGTH is having the WILL to do what it takes to become strong! It is by no means a genetic trait at all!
- ALSO SUN GETS IN HIS SPACE+INITIATES HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITIES IN ORDER TO GAIN SILAS’ TRUST. because sun is shameless and does /whatever it takes/ to be an inspiration. Yes.
- SUN’S TEACHINGS REALLY HIT HOME WITH HIM BECAUSE Silas has lived his life in an incredibly repressed manner FOR TWO REALLY SAD REASONS! One being his guilt and sense of duty to his family and two, being his old, deep-rooted and one-sided feelings towards his male childhood friend (NIM)… Silas also finds Sun subconsciously drawn to Nim who too was blonde and charismatic.
- GRADUALLY, Silas stops sending his weekly pay to his parents… He dresses much more nicely and lives his life the way he wants!
- He also begins to initiate sex w/ Sun!
- Sun views Silas as a success which fuels him onward to find new students to inspire…
- B…U…T…. SILAS… DOESN’T LIKE THIS…
- Silas gradually becomes much more and more controlling of Sun…
- THIS WORRIES SUN BECAUSE HE BEGINS TO REALIZE THAT HIS TEACHINGS WORKED /TOO WELL/. ALSO SILAS IS SO MUCH STRONGER AND BIGGER THAN HE IS.
- It gets to a point where Sun decides to run away.
- BUT SILAS CATCHES HIM.
- AND LOCKS HIM IN ONE OF THE GUEST BEDROOMS IN SUN’S MANOR.
- TIES HIM IN A CHAIR. Then all the skeevy in the world as Silas breaks Sun’s hands disabling him from using alchemy/trying to escape… And Silas otherwise lives the high-life/takes over Sun’s manor as SUN GETS TO THINK ALONE. IN THAT ROOM. ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE HAS DONE. ALL HIS LIFE CHOICES.
- It’s the ultimate ironic punishment for Sun who… TRULY DOES INSPIRE SOMEONE… but in exchange for the will he so prides himself in!
- ALSO LOL HE HATES NIDA FOR BEING A DOLL BUT THEN HE GETS TRANSFORMED INTO A GLORIFIED DOLL… HIMSELF… SITTING ALONE+PRETTY AND WAITING FOR SILAS TO COME HOME FOR gay and also to feed/tend to him. It also sucks for Sun because Sun had no friends otherwise who’d want to look for him!
- SUN EVENTUALLY DECLINES INTO A SLOW AND UNWAVERING DEPRESSION until he is unable to wake up one day. At this point, Silas doesn’t really care and turns his sights back onto the city oops.
- OK NOW PROTAGS
- CANON AND SAM in this universe are two rascally kids who venture out into the night time. They meet AU!Leica a *~reclusive master alchemist~* who specializes in bombs! His coloured bombs go off at specific times and according to the amount of magic he puts in. Leica protects them from danger and INSISTS THEY GO HOME. BUT THEY STICK BY.
- Later on Canon and Sam find Minox (who is a homunculous in this world) and vow to protect him. LITTLE DO THEY KNOW MINOX isn’t a person— he is just very well constructed homunculus created to store memory information. His creator died due to an attack on her laboratory…. She was going to kill him (and rid him of the information he stores), but she had begun to see him as her own child! And she couldn’t muster up the heart to do it!
- SO SHE SHOVED HIM OUT BASICALLY LOL.
- Minox smiles a lot when he knows the answer to a request! And he frowns! When he doesn’t! Sam and Canon are fooled into thinking he is a person and have great fun protecting Minox.
- THEN THEY MEET JANNA…
- JANNA REALIZES MINOX IS A HOMUN but plays along with Sam and Canon! BECAUSE JANNA HAS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO AND NEITHER SAM NOR CANON CAN HIDE JANNA, they decide to force Janna to stay with Leica. Leica tells Janna to let Sam and Canon play around with Minox for now…
- JANNA AND LEICA GET CLOSE. BECAUSE LEICA’S EASY/OFFHANDED/LOWKEY NATURE MESHES REALLY WELL WITH JANNA’S SKITTISHNESS. Janna takes up some self-defense teachings from Leica and learns to become her own person. Leica becomes a lot less lonely with Janna around! She’s someone to come home to!
- ALSO LEICA IS KIND OF W/E@THE WHOLE AGE THING… HA HA HA… when canon points it out he kind of scratches his side and goes “ok.”
- ANYWAYS.
- THINGS HIT THE FAN ON THE PROTAG’S SIDES when people start coming after Minox for the information he possesses! Sam+Canon+Minox get cornered and Canon ends up pulling Minox into safety! Sam panics and tells Canon that she’s stupid!! Minox doesn’t actually care!
- THEN SAM DIES. AND CANON REALIZES SHE IS POWERLESS AND SAM WASN’T A HERO AFTERALL. ALSO MINOX DOESN’T CARE.
- Leica and Janna come in at the last minute to save Canon thus making things worse! Even Janna, the girl she had thought was weak, is able to fight better than herself.
- Then she sinks into depression… Leica and Janna get to awkwardly take in Minox as this happens AHAHAHA.
canon swallows her pride and asks janna+leica to help save addie…
BATTLE STUFF HAPPENS ADDIE+NESS DIE. SILAS DIES TOO. CANON CRIES BECAUSE SHE CAN’T SAVE ANYONE.
then janna character develops and SLAPS CANON. and she tells canon that THEY’RE FRIENDS (@LEICA+JANNA). then she cries.
then canon cries too. and they all hug… with canon thanking janna and calling leica a dirty old man.
THE END.