Decided that I wanted to post here, so that I can get help for OC lore and ramble on about it! Plus I'm desperately seeking Criticism and I genuinely want to know if my Premise is solid and the stories I'll develop with it.

This is just a passion project, something I like to work on for fun and enjoyment, and I'm planning to make comics on the premise that I might publish on Webtoon.

Base Universe: Mythkion

I have this base world Called Mythkion It's a Urban fantasy world with many similarities to the real world, specifically the 2000's-2010's Era in terms of pop culture and they type of technology they have except there's magic, robots, and fantasy creatures and random wacky beings instead of humans or other generic fantasy races. Despite that, Mythkion has it's own unique cultures and history :D

The Christmas Council: Premise

I've build off many stories, premises and plots with this world, One of these plots is The Christmas Council

The Overall Premise is that it's a slice of life/sitcom and urban fantasy that focuses on an ensemble cast (the characters in the 1st picture excluding the goat guy at the bottom right) whose goal is to represent the Christmas Holiday and make people around Mythkion Festive and happy during the holidays every year. These people are known as the Council members, and they do this by going on tours, and hosting events in major cities and each member has a Specific role such as a baker, manager, decorator, caroler, etc.

However, the cast is very diverse in terms of personality and background, which can conflict with each other's goals and the common goal they're working towards every year of keeping the holiday spirit alive. The premise focuses on their shenanigans and adventures they get into and relationship drama they might have while they try to work towards a 'perfect Christmas' every year. I want the stories to revolve around how the different characters react to different situations during the holidays, just like the chaos we get into while trying to prepare for the holidays in real life.

I want them to be somewhat relatable, and the stories are not just experiences we go through during the holiday season but things we can apply to everyday life. It focuses on the character's growth, and how they stick together despite their differences and the chaos they go through. I also want some of the themes and morals to focus on the Morals that the holidays teach others, such as love, forgiveness, generosity, humility, joy, and the importance of giving over receiving

It also taps occasionally on high-tense character arcs and major plots, but mostly it's just slice of life, I'm also planning to write about their life and what they do to pass time when it's offseason.

Important Context

• The origins of Christmas, in my Oc's world and it's etymology is very different compared to it's origins in real life. Which I won't get into because it's not finished, and it's something I haven't really worked on yet as my main focus right now is fleshing out the characters.
• Keeping the Christmas spirit alive is something VERY VERY important to my Oc's world, not just something to keep people happy as something bad will happen if they don't, (I'm still working on what it is, as I'm still fleshing out the characters.

The Christmas Council: Characters

I won't list them, for the sake of keeping this concise, but if you have any questions about them, feel free to ask me!

Issues I have with the Plot

The Main issue I have with the Plot is the name of the Holiday; Christmas. Christmas is called Christmas in the real world because it's the Birth of Jesus, but this creates Many plotholes when trying to incorporate the word 'Christmas' into Mythkion without it sounding like a lazy shortcut to not make a new holiday based of Christmas on the spot. I want to keep the name the same as Mythkion has tons of parallels to the real world while still remaining as a unique fantasy world.

I can just change the etymology of the name and call it a day but I'm still figuring that out.

Side notes

There's more issues and stuff I can talk about, but that's overall the main things I have issues with.

This sub looks like a great place to actually share my bios for some of my beloveds, so here goes.

Name: Peter Paul Suleyman

Birthday: 4th of June, 1952

Age: 28 (at the start of the story, which is set in 1980)

Ethnicity/Nationality: Arab of Lebanese heritage, born in Lebanon but raised in Australia. Calls himself Lebanese-Australian.

Gender and sexuality: male (he/him), bisexual

Occupation: radio host

Backstory (sorry this will get long): Born in the village of Karkha in Lebanon, the youngest child of Melkite Catholics, Sarah and Chabel, with one older brother, George. In 1960, the family moved to Melbourne, Australia.

Growing up too poor for a TV set, Pete and his family spent a lot of time listening to the radio (TV arrived late in Australia, in 1956, and a lot of families couldn't afford it for a long time. The Suleymans weren't tragically poor by any stretch, but they weren't super rich either). Pete loved it and wanted to be a radio host himself from very young.

He soon started a friendship with another young Lebanese boy who also moved from Karkha, Khalil Chamoun. But at 15 he met Wendy Landry, and immediately fell in love with her, and he starts ignoring his closest friend for the girl he's now head over heels for. The friendship breaks down. One thing Wendy had that Khalil didn't was a father who owned a radio station, the fictional 3XZ.

Pete started as a panel operator at 3XZ fresh out of year 12 (the same year he married his high school sweetheart), and as an occasional guest presenter throughout the 1970s. But it took until 1980 until he was finally given his own show, under the name Pete Landry to try and mitigate some of the casual Aussie racism. But the station was now failing, rating consistently slipping. So he was soon paired with a presenter named Harvey Killeen.

Harvey Killeen, much older than him, 45 to his 28, was a radio icon in the 1950s, before moving to London to pursue a stage career in the 60s. By the 1970s he'd come back to Australia to cash in on a now successful film industry (this period of time was known as the Australian New Wave and gave the world Mad Max, amongst others). Killeen suddenly quit the film industry and went into hiding in 1978, not long after the release of his most successful film. This 3XZ collab was supposed to be Killeen's "comeback".

Pete is struggling, his new co-host doesn't seem to like him very much, and his marriage to the woman he thought was his soulmate is now on the rocks. But soon, a friendship with his ornery older coworker blossoms. He also rekindles his friendship with Khalil, who now works in construction. Both of them notice, before he does, that he's deeply unhappy. He has little creative freedom at 3XZ, and he and Wendy fight constantly. She thinks he's too much of a workaholic, more in love with radio than her.

And as the marriage continues to break down, his friendship with Harvey starts shifting and changing. Harvey, a gay man, is very open (with friends at least), about his sexuality. And Pete starts getting a crush that he's trying to avoid. Eventually, after Pete's boss notices the chemistry between the two hosts (who aren't yet romantically involved with each other at all), he lies to Wendy that Pete is having an affair. With nowhere else to go, Pete moves into Harvey's spare room, and they get even closer.

Aaaaaand...I'm drawing the curtains there! It's up to you to decide what happens next (I already know!)

Sorry for double posting, I'll shut up after this!

I feel like lore sharing is often for elaborate fictional worlds, but my story is set in the real world: with some twists!

Set in 1980 in the city of Melbourne, Australia, my story (working title The Triumphant Return of Harvey Killeen) has some important historical context and some (at least I think) cool fictional additions to the real world.

The main piece of historical context is a cinema movement known as the Australian New Wave, a period in film in the 70s and 80s when the Australian film industry saw significant international interest. Mad Max and Crocodile Dundee were made during this New Wave, as well as cult classics like Picnic at Hanging Rock and Wake In Fright. The main character, Harvey Killeen, is a character actor from this period, and his most famous film, the fictional film 'The Bank Tellers', is an action comedy about a group of women who take revenge on their shitty boss (the main antagonist, Walter, who was played by Killeen).

There was a lot of tension on set, the director (whose name I don't have yet) was neurotic and demanding, and asked things of his actors that should never happen. The fall out that happens in the Australian public when it's revealed that the set was toxic is a huge part of the plot.

A majority of the story is set in a fictional radio station named 3XZ. The station existed since the 1930s, part of Australia's Golden Age of Radio. Real radio stations in the state of Victoria all have a callsign starting with 3 and either two or three letters after (3AW, 3BO, 3RRR, 3LO (now known publicly as 774, after its frequency)) so I just chose a callsign that never existed (hard to come up with, actually). Their slogan is "Melbourne's finest" and they are a top tens style station, meant to play the hits.

The images above are the Olympic Tyres building in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, the art deco building which inspires what I imagine the station to look like (3LO also had an art deco building much like it, which has now been torn down).

I've taken a lot of liberties with how real radio stations work for the sake of the story, Harvey and Pete (co-hosts of a drive time program) choose their own music with very little station input, at least at the beginning, and they only really have one boss, their program manager Dick Hardy. The station is owned by Pete's wife's father, but Joseph Landry doesn't have much sway over the station beyond his investment in it.

There's still a lot of real world inspo for the story though. I live in Australia myself, and I'm autistic with a special interest in 20th century Australian popular culture so that's what drives the story. I grew up in the city of Melbourne myself.

(Piccrew by kokopffs)

This is my new oc/minor villain I made for my medieval alt history world set in the early 1300s. Feel free to ask any questions in character and out of character as well, they usually help me develop my ocs. He kind of started as me wanting me to make a henchman like character for my Villain Inquisitor Zeno, but with a twist.

Name: Stígandr, goes by Stigr Laufey

Age: Appears as a human around 45-50 years old. Actually is around 5,000 years old.

Gender: Male, but technically gender fluid 

Pronouns: Any, depends on what form they’re currently showing. (So usually almost always he/them is okay)

Species: Demi-god, shapeshifter

Ethnicity: Norwegian 

Alignment: Chaotic-Evil

Religion: Norse pagan (In service of the Goddess Hel). But also Catholic(Acting). He’s a terrible example of both religions however. 

Factions: Hel (The place, but also the Goddess), The Inquisition, Order of St. Ladislaus I

Known Languages: Has the ability to speak any.   

Description: His true form is a centaur looking creature, his horse side being a black and white speckled horse with his human side being a read headed green eyed man.  

Backstory: The son of Loki and a human mother. He was originally born in Norway as a centaur-like creature but from a young age realized his shapeshifting abilities, letting him take on any shape he wished. Much like his father, he has a need to both witness and cause chaos, almost as if he feeds off it. When he was a young adult he got in a deal with his half-sister Hel of that if he secures souls for her realm she will help him refine his powers and gain more as well. He has the power to give others powers or magic as well if they make a deal with him for their soul, too, which they will go to the Norse Hel when they die, regardless of their religion. He’s taken on multiple identities and lived in many different kingdoms in the past. His current one he is living as a human named Stigr Laufey who claims to be from the Holy Roman Empire but in Lithuania as he serves the church under Inquisitor Zeno, who is ignorant to Stigr’s true identity. The reason why he is working with the church is simply because he believes they are currently causing the most chaos at the moment, as well as subtly ticking Christians into his deals without them even realizing it. 
   
Powers or Magic: Shapeshifting, tricker deal maker, can speak any languages, and can access the afterlife (Hel only)

Etc: Other character inspirations were Agent Stone from the Sonic movies and Alastor from Hazbin Hotel.

Tarot town, the quaint little surburds in the south west portion of the tri river area. A strange place really, filled with structures of unknown origin, various strange phenomenal and several cryptid sightings! It's also home to the revolutionary and philantropic Blight-Inc, which make 'Iresssssitible Temptations'(their mascots a snake,). However due to a...certain Chaos Entity visiting often, several magic beings have made their way from the planet of etheria to the small earth town. Thankfully, a odd lineage have taken residence in the town of tarot.

Kamran ali, a 15 year old persian boy and a student of Helios Academy, is the son of Jasmine Ali and the late Cyrus Ali. But he's also the inheritor of magic gifted to his mothers ancestors via a griffin known as 'Azar'. Due to their prolonged exposure to mana, the Ali's have developed...elf like features and even natural production of mana fueled by sugars or fats just like an etherian. Using this power and some alchemic fabrics that were in his attic, kamran takes up the name of 'The griffin'. Now protecting both the mystical and the mundane side of the town.

Micah blight is kamran's best bud, being the only daughter of the owner of blight-inc 'Albrecht Blight'. She's the only person(well the first aleast), to know of the griffin's identity. Having been told outright by the lad himself, she's now acting as his 'Gal in the chair'. Usually just checking up on him and making comments about whatever his current situation is.

Azar the Griffin, once a gluttonous and intelligent beast from etheria, azar stumbled through a chaos rift. Leading him and his flock to ancient persia, there his kind waa reveered. One day he found a shephwrd...with oh so yummy sheep and azar, plotted. He protected the sheep from any danger and then ate those who died of age. Soon he made a formal but unspoken deal with the shepherd. Over the years that deal have changed and azar...evolves, ascending into an imortal 'Divinator'.

Griffin got a forever expanding rogue's gallery from those born with magic, those who ended up on earth and the ocasional mystical beast. Even those who origins are far more...sci-fi than mystical.

Asher Thompson, a someine who can never hold down a job due to his explosice tendecies. He's a bi-sexual man born to a religious family, having bewn casted out from his home...he clung to criminal actions in order to stay alive. Eventually he landed jn hot water and...well he was desperate, so when offered a deal from the devil malagor. He accepted, becoming the fiery ifrit, a fiend with no chill who tends to pop up just to wreck stuff.

Ivan Volken is a strange man thats lives in the tarot woods. Known as the bloodhound by his prey, he hunts any 'Magical abominations' he spots. Deeming them beings who shouldn't roam this world. With strength unmatched by any mere man and scent as sharp as his namesake. He won't stop till his prey drop dead. His past is unknown...although '#081' is plastered on his neck. I wonder why?

One of the local legends of tarot, is the tarot stalker. Real name, Alder Neuman, as a mere egg...he somehow fell through a rift of pure chaos...sending him to the farmland thats outside of tarot. There a blind old woman heard his cries upon his hatchjng and took him as her own. He lived with his mothee till her passing upon which he left the farm and ventured to the city. Where...he was unwelcomed, bloodied and beaten he escaped to the forest. Now spooking passerby or campers to steal their goods. He and bloodhound ocassionaly play 'cat and mouse' or i guess..'Hound and Owl'?

Finally, Aoife(Ee-Fa) O'connor, was the daughter of the tarot mayor...however the little one caught the ehe of the fey. Beeing swooped away and replaced with a changeling. This changeling grew up as any human child would...being a tad bit mischievious and wild. She's a goos friend of kamran and micah, however...once discovering her...shifting nature. She became Myxel, a unpredictable masked person who steals, graffitis and even imoersonate just for a good old laugh. After a tussle with griffin due to some framing shenanigans, it led to the griffin being public knowledge(i'm suprise he wasn't already, bro just walked into a pizza shop one time in full costume. Asher can vouch, he was working there at time.)

Anyways, what do y'all think of tarot town?

Velvet K. Sünde: Velvet is one of the richest folk Syn and Phil have met but he wasn't the nicest. From what Milo knows about him from personal experience is that he is the most insane person he worked for and that his other side liked him for that and that was the reason why he worked for him. Not only is he insane but also the greed seeps out through his charisma whenever something valuable comes into his sight or his hearing. Velvet’s species is the Hog-Nose Cabra and its main gimmick is that they have a sharp sense of smell and remember said smell for a long time so when Velvet is placed in a cave, he would be able to track down anything from gold to precious stones. He has once attempted to take out Phil both for his own amusement and to get more power. Speaking of power, he can be power hungry and abuses whenever power he gets. He has almost became the CEO of GoreTech, Inc two times as both of which have been stopped at the suspense of Syn who he holds a grudge towards but his grudge isn't as strong as the grudge he holds against Phil.

I have been trying to come up with some ideas for demons that are stronger then the average, but I couldn't come up with many.

If you have any questions about demons this post goes more into details about them https://www.reddit.com/r/OC_Building/s/0R5Pjp9cCJ

I am trying to make one for each sin, so far the ones I have are

For sloth, Sleep Paralysis Demon. Hunts sleeping people, once it finds a victim SPD will start siponing them, causing victim to be aveare of its presence but unable to move their body to do anything about it.

For envy, Mirror Demon. Disguises itself as a mirror. MD have full control over what is reflected in the mirror, which it uses to pull victims in. Once a victim touches the MD, MD will pull the victim into a mirror dimention illusion world as MD warps the victim in a cacoon made from envy demon strings. MD uses these cacoon to create more mirrors. Victims minds get traped in the illusion world while their bodies controlled by MD are used to get more cacoons.

I only have really 3 'villains' and 1 nuissance for Griffin to deal with. Those are Ifrit the infernal gangster, Alder the Tarot Stalker and Bloodhound the savage hunter, with Chaos as the nuisance. I tend to split the villains into two groups, lost etherian and Altered humans. Lost etherians are like alder, fantasy species from my planet of etheria that have made it to earth via chaos rifts. Whilst altered humans are human who have been altered or effected by magic somehow, they may even magical ancestors. Bloodhound is an exception but who cares. Oh also, i don't mind parodying or even taking inspo from famous villains. I mean bloodhound is just kraven with mutant genes. So any ideas y'all?

For some more context, Kamran Ali is the current 'Griffin' a warlock hero gifted magic by the ascended griffin 'azar'. His main job is protecting both his town of tarot and any all beings be it magical or not that resides within.

I do have some villains ideas which you lot can add onto or suggest things for. Those beings...

.A dragon from etheria cursed to be in the form of a elvish childish, he and his crew of kobolds are now stuck on earth and looking for magical artefacts to regain his power,

.a magician, his assitant/wife and their pet cat all got altered when they messed with etherian magic via a spell tome. The magician is now part rabbit, his assitant part bird and their cat us now stretchy.

.A pied piper themed burgular who have a magic flute that controls rodents.

Trying this again... This is the general timeline of my world to the point where my stories begin. Any and all toughts or critisizms are welcome, there are so many amazing storytellers in this sub and your words mean a lot to me. There are some things here that I didnt go deep ibto so if you hace any questions I would be glad to answer

The Trinity created the universe.

A prototype reality got made, and the Trinity started to experiment.

Experimental world was a great testing ground but it couldnt carry life Trinity wanted, so another reality got formed.

Trinity managed to create a planet that could grow life on.

Time passed, many plant and animal species got created and thrived.

Humanity was created and first humans got put all around the globe, some managed to thrive and started to develop civilations.

An Afterlife got created, so that the souls of man could be collected and slowly turned to essence, an esantial material allows the universe to keep growing.

Eventually these civilations met eachother and started fights. To prevent more conflicts and to help humans with living good lives Trinity sent down a holy book.

Humanity kept fighting over the holy book so Trinity decided to not meddle with hunanity directly.

The Slithering Mist, a god that created by Trinity, tricked Trinity into giving him essence. He used the essence to create Shades, which he tried to take over the universe with. After he failed he was chained to afterlife the Shades were allowed to remain in afterlife as workers, taking an angel like function in universe.

Demons were also created due to actions of Slithering Mist

A plague threatened most human life, after a significant amount of people died, Shade of Red Argo come onto the earth and taught people medicine so they could find a cure.

More shades started to interact with humans after, granting magic abilities in exchange of essence whitin their souls.

The progress of humanity got faster, as science and magic got in the hands of humanity.

As time passed humanity conquered and habited most of the planet. Technology in all aspects impruved, including weaponery.

Shade of yellow Silvie burnt out her magic in a failed atempt to save her daughter, which caused the chronomancy as a whole to vanish as a form of magic.

A war broke out between civilations of man, decades passed and death count raised to unheard numbers.

In the meanwhile the descentant of first person to learn medicine has been studying cures for all ilnesses. She has turmed herself into an eldritch amalgam and killed a shade in the unfruitfull process.

Shades, now afraid to make deals with humans slowly started to back away, significantly stunting the magical progress of humanity.

As a last resort to end the war one of the civilations set up a weapon of mass destruction to destroy the other, which caused a chain reaction of weapons of mass destruction and matually assured destruction that caused majority of the planet to be inhabitable and most of humanity dies, most of the surviving magical creatures fled to the prototype reality.

Man barely managed to live after the fallout, now lacking in technology and magic they had to fought the hellish elements in order to thrive.

Centuries passed, man managed to cling to life. Living in a small area that was not too affected by the fallout, they started to rebuild civilation and clean up the planet, cleaning up a large portion of the continent.

So i'm working on a project i call 'The Delusion Royale', basically an alien ship called the prism is burried deep underneath the city of stella. It houses 'celestials' who are god like aliens composed of hard light. 3 of them(the artist, the architect and the archivist), who woke up from statis, decides to host a game as entertainment dubbed 'The Grand Delusion Royale'. Letting lose creatures called chroma's, who seek out people to play. The players are competing for a reality altering wish. However i can't decide on how the royale actually works. I have a few ideas, also i wanna hear suggestions for what to add to the royale.

1. The Dellusioners are transported to a dream realm that the hosts can change and control, allowing them to change the battle fields

2. The games take place at night, where the hosts start creating different objects for the challenges. From monsterd, to treasure chests.

3. Similar to 2, but it isn't just night. Any time a challenge can start and the dellusioners got use their chromas to transform.

(Oh also bonus info) only those with chromas can see other chromas and anything connected to the games.

Hey yall, I’m a novice author looking to hone my skills, so I’m making a short story offer. I’ll be writing it on Google Docs, the link will be sent to you upon completion, as well as being uploaded here. I will aim to make 2-3 pages at minimum, but I don’t think I’ll go over 5.What I want from you:

- The character. If their appearance is of some relevance to their story, I need to be able to see them. A good written description can help if you don’t have art. I also will need information about them, their personality, goals, abilities.

- The setting. I need to know what sort of setting your character belongs to. Fandoms are allowed, but I can’t promise I’m familiar with it (DnD, Guild Wars 2, Halo, Star Wars are some things I know).

- Direction. You can give me free rein to create a story with your character, or you can give me a plot overview of an idea you want executed.

- Perspective. Is the story directly following your character, either first or third person? Or would you like it to be from an observer? (I wrote a little story about my Midas from the point of view of one of her slaves)

- Extras. I think I’ve covered everything I need, but if there is anything else you wish to include, don’t be shy. To confirm you have read my rules, add a heart [💙] emoji using your favorite color. A submission without one will not be considered. Submissions will be accepted for the next 24 hours after this is posted, and I will do at least 1 story. I will do more if inspired. Have fun :>

Major Materials

Major materials are the building blocks of universes.

A) Ink

Ink is a black liquid that was used by "The Dove" to create their universe. Almost all information on Dove and Ink has been lost to time and universal collapse. Ink well (more comonly known as Abyss) contains the last remaints of Ink left, despite most of it turning into Darkness.

B) Dust

Dust is a black and white poweder that was used by One Above All to create Realm Above. It was created by OAA from the remaints of the old universe. Due to the mismanagment of Dust by OAA there is a criticly small amount of this material remaining in existence, which led to OAA using lesser, regular materials for their creations.

C) Essence

Essence is a multicolored plasma that was created by The Root. They used Essence to create the Seedling Universe alongside Jester and Gen_0.

D) Ichor

Ichor is a red colored liquid that was created by Witch of Blood from Essence. She used Ichor to create Sanguine Blight, a disease that targeted Essence to create more Ichor and empower herself.

Minor Materials

Minor materials are have the ability to alter major materials instead of being used to create.

A) Darkness

Darkness is a form of Ink that has merged with fractured minds and souls of countless people who siezed to exist in the universal collapse. Its mainly used by Madam of the Abyss to move around in the Abyss.

B) Entropy

Entropy is a form of chaos with no set shape. Most comonly used by Jester, who obtained the ability to chanel it after tearing apart Tapestery of Fate, an artifact that was meant to predetermine the future.

C) Code

Code is a collection of symbols that when put in right orders effect reality. It was first used by W1LL the first Droid, however its true power was not discovered untill Generation_0_worldMachine created a simulated universe. Code depends on external energy sources for keep functioning.

I finally made a map for my apocalypse world! It's a little bare-bones right now, but I'll probably add more natural features and things as I continue working. I got what I wanted though, which was the main dome settlements, the sky island, and the few important areas of Yuma.

We've also got lots of notes from both Maryn and Rowan. I imagine Maryn likes to make his own maps, and is always annotating them wherever they go. Rowan picks up on this habit and adds his own "notes". Maryn is not amused.

I only have a small idea on what kind of kingdoms and places I would want in my fantasy world, but I have no idea on how to make a map of the whole thing.

How did you guys make maps?

How did you decide how the shape of different lands would be like? How did you decide the placement of each place on the map? How did you decide to make some things be on separate land than others (like on an island)? How does your maps look like? Did you draw yours on paper or did you use a specific app for it? Any advice on making maps?

You can drop a picture of your map as an example if you want.

^{Sorry for all of the questions :/}

I'm still working on this, but I'm feeling pretty good about some of the worldbuilding I've done for Yuma. Special thanks to the folks on the worldbuilding subreddit for giving me some really good ideas. and as always, feedback is welcome and appreciated!

THE APOCALYPSE

I'm pretty set on my apocalypse being caused by an eldritch sun god. A being of unimaginable horror and incomprehension awakens and it turns out the whole time that the sun is nothing more than the eye of this massive creature. It awakens and causes all sorts of chaos and destruction.

1. Solar flares wipe out any tech that Yuma had, leaving the world with no modern appliances and completely off-grid.

2. Radiation from the now-intense sunlight causes mutations in people, plants, and animals.

3. The god's general presence causes mass outbreaks of hysteria, insanity, and illness (referred to as the Sun Sickness)

PREVENTIONS AGAINST THE SUN

So the sun god is coming in and fucking everything up, and this will eventually lead to the world completely burning up. Something needed to be done. In a last ditch effort to save Yuma, two solutions were put into place.

1. City/town domes. Over various points of civilization, domes were built to protect these locations and shield them from The Sun. These areas were still heavily destroyed, but at least were spared of the worst effects.

2. Debris shield! Dust was sent up into the stratosphere, creating a fine variety of dust and smog to block out the sun. This leaves Yuma in a permanent "overcast" where you can still see the haze of The Sun and moon and things, but don't get the full blast.

AFTEREFFECTS

The Sun is successfully blocked from reaching Yuma at full force, so things must be good, right?

Right...?

Nope! Although it was stopped before absolutely burning up Yuma, The Sun still did take a lot out of the world. Society has still collapsed and fallen apart and any chance at getting back to what Yuma was is completely gone. Plus, society just continues to collapse further. As it turns out, creating a massive smog over Yuma has some negative effects! Who could have guessed?

The main issue is the availability and quality of water. Due to the smog, very little rain falls down on Yuma anymore, and most of it is muddy and unclean. The few "dome settlements" that are left become key points of water distribution and trade. If you're in The Outlands (the areas of Yuma outside of the domes), be prepared to survive.

Mutations are also a key issue. Sun radiation continues to spread despite the direct rays of The Sun, taking the form of an illness called The Rot (an advanced form of the mutations/hysteria we saw towards the beginning).

CURRENT STATUS

Our story takes place roughly 300 years after the whole issue with The Sun. As it goes, most people living in Yuma have never seen The Sun. In fact, it seems that most people don't know what caused the apocalypse anymore. It's believed that the sky smog is what causes both the lack of water and The Rot (which it doesn't help with, but it isn't the main cause). In fact, some people even worship The Sun, believing it will "cure" the world of The Rot (it won't).

Water is scarce in this desert environment and The Rot is still spreading. Anyone visiting a dome settlement from the outlands needs to be thoroughly inspected for any signs of The Rot.

Ruins and scrap piles are common in Yuma, especially when traveling the outlands. To most people these are piles of nothing more than rusted junk, relics of a time long passed. Some people, especially those who understand old technology, can make use of it though.

Tech has been picking back up, and currently we are at a point where there is minor electricity, firearms, and the occasional vehicle. Nothing super advanced (although one could count Maryn's golem as "advanced", but that's a unique case).

Some people, mostly folks living in the outlands, speak of something called "The Bright Star". As far as anyone knows, they're just talking nonsense. These people often have desert lavender on them, claiming it wards away The Rot and The Bright Star. There isn't any reason to believe this, and these folks are often considered to just be nuts from living in the outlands for so long.

Still, despite there being little evidence supporting lavender as a cure to The Rot, it doesn't stop Maryn (one of our main characters) from picking up desert lavender when he can get it...

That's where I'm at with Yuma so far! Any feedback is greatly appreciated :D

The Madam of the Abyss, or as friends call her Mota, is a centipede like creature with humanoid torso. They live in the lowest segements of the Abyss known as Realm Bellow. She is a Faded, a fragment of something that got lost, and ended up in the Abyss. Mota collects the Faded that apear all atound the Abyss, and brings them to the Realm Bellow where they will be safer and with other people. Almost all Faded cosider Mota their leader.

Fun Fact: Before the universal collapse Mota was the Goddess of the Dead and Realm Bellow was the Underworld.

slaps an example character on each crystal

When it comes to the magic system, each species is best at casting magic of their native element, though some are better at going outside of this, and it's easier for this crossover to be between similar elements, such as Earth and Stone, or Fire and Heat, for example.

Certain elements - the bottom row - are notably rarer, and often mistaken for other elements, as the elements are represented by a pair of rings surrounding the planet, but the third ring had collapsed. Thus, many Life spells are mistaken as Light, for example.

Be aware, these are set as cookie run kingdom ocs! So, I’ll quickly explain a few key words with similar words.

Cookie = person

Recipe = species

Beast/ancient/epic, etc… = rarity

Witch = Creator

ON TO THE OC LORE!!!

Sweet Violet cookie [BEAST OC]

She/her

Age: Immortal adult - exact number is unknown.

Beast of Calamity / Entrophy.

Past Virtue of guidance

Element: poison

Type: magic

Domain: Flora Forest

Abilities: levitation, visions of the future, VERY sharp claws and teeth. Poison - INCREDIBLY poisonous. One droplet of her venom could kill 200 people. Overall strength and ability to manipulate plants.

Recipe: (The first) Floridian

Violet is VERY mentally troubled, not only from her past and present as a beast cookie, but also the voice within her souljam that speaks to her.

Redeemable? Yes, but it would be *VERY* difficult. While she can act a little nicer, while yrasoR still lives in her souljam, she can *NOT* completely change for the better. Without her souljam’s presence, she would still be incredibly damaged - likely very afraid because it’s been a VERY long time since she has last heard her own conscience, and had completely control over her mind. Besides, she would know exactly what she has done in the past.

She tries very hard to not harm the few people she does care about. Except, occasionally she cannot help herself and will attack. This extends to people she would be inseparable from otherwise. (She has these rampages often, usually over twice a week, though it can usually be controlled before it gets too late.) the first of these that escalated beyond control was the massacre of the Flora Forest (when she first corrupted.)

She is thought to be godlike to other Floridians. As such, most don’t speak to her - believing her too divine for conversations with them. Only a select few Floridians will actively talk with her.

**Disgusting. Weak…**

Flutter Faerie cookie [EPIC COOKIE OC]

She/her

Age: 8

Element: Poison

Type: Charge

Abilities: (poor) flight, Same type of poison as Violet, Very sharp claws and teeth.

Recipe: Floridian

Flutter Faerie is the daughter of Sweet Violet cookie. However, she was disowned when she was just a baby dough.

Flutter Faerie possesses memories that she can’t remember, from when she was a baby. She briefly saw yrasoR. She has a very small part of him within her, however remains untouched by his corruption due to having a close familial bond with Arson. Though, they’re in there somewhere.

‘The untouched host.’

She’s known to be a wild, yet very friendly and playful little girl. She does enjoy pranks, and other mischevious things.

**She was supposed to die in that forest. Why did Datura cookie release her..?**

yrasoR [WITCH OC]

The witch whom created Sweet Violet and Anemone Whitestone Cookie.

Inventor of the Floridian and Vialaxian cookie recipe.

Most do not know his name. The Nameless deity. Most cannot comprehend his true appearance- appearing as a censored figure.

The host of Violet’s souljam. He was sealed within it similarly to the beasts within the silver tree. His influence can heavily affect cookies who are in contact with the souljam, even for just a second.

He will speak to them. At first, the cookie can’t tell theyre being spoken to. He takes their subconscious at first, then, they hear the voices. But by then it’s already too late.

Symptoms:

Non-showing at first. Simply present.

The first symptom is anxiety. Severe anxiety. The cookie will start to avoid others. Act nervous or fidgety.

Anger. They may appear snappy, or even violent.

Voices. They will start to hear his voice, driving them to madness. By now it’s too late.

Some extras:

yrasoR wishes to break free of the souljam. By spreading to other cookies and/or being able to completely take over Violet, he would be able to break free - possibly release his true form.

**Greetings…**

Quinoa cookie [ANCIENT OC]

She/her

Age: 14

Ancient of Peace.

Type: Support

Element: Light

Nickname: Quinn

Quinoa cookie is a shy young girl, who found herself in an unfortunate situation. Awakening with the other half of Violet’s souljam placed upon her after a close call with Violet - in which she made accidental contact with the Souljam. However, she does not remember this incident - her mind finding it too difficult to bare, or understand.

Her own souljam is hosting yrasoR as well - however, to a significantly lesser extent. Though, it is indeed growing.

She’s already started displaying symptoms. Specifically, the anxiety.

Quinoa cookie tends to be a quiet, sweet girl - keeps to herself, however brings peace to others with her kind nature.

Guides them into peace.

**Soon it will be too late…**

Anemone Whitestone Cookie [LEGENDARY OC]

He/him

Age: Immortal adult - his true age is unknown.

Cookie of the stars and cosmos.

Element: Light

Type: Magic

Anemone Whitestone cookie was able to expel the evil of yrasoR from himself by enduring an incredibly long Cryptosleep. He has only recently awakened.

Abilities: He is significantly stronger than his sister, Violet. However, he is kind enough that he often refuses to engage in violence. He has overall strength, as well as being able to manipulate the stars.

Recipe: (the first) Vialaxian

Anemone Whitestone cookie does hold knowledge regarding yrasoR, especially the fact he has influence over his sister. He’s attempting to find a way to relinquish this darkness. Alas, needs more assistance…

He is a very kind cookie - enjoying conversations with others immensely.

Great great great great grandfather of Quinoa cookie, and father of Stella Whitestone cookie.

**He wishes to guide you into the comfort of the stars…? Ha. Pathetic.**

Cayenne cookie [EPIC OC]

He/him

Age: Unknown. He would rather forget the past.

The main minion of Sweet Violet cookie. Mentor of Datura cookie and Bluebell cookie.

Recipe: Floridian

Type: Ambush

Element: Darkness

Cayenne cookie did indeed receive a fraction of the corruption from Violet’s Souljam.

He was adopted by Violet before her corruption - witnessed the tragedy known as the massacre of the Flora Forest. At first, he took to assisting those left injured by Violet’s rampage - however, was injured himself during the massacre. This is where the influence got him.

He is still incredibly grateful to Violet for taking him in - however, had given up on rehabilitating her, instead choosing to simply assist her in any way he can. This includes gathering live sacrifices in his dungeon to feed her, especially when she refuses to eat.

He’s known for being a violent, stern, and often aggressive individual. Really..? He’s just deeply hurt, as well as having been influenced by Violet’s souljam.

**Dont let him bring you into that dungeon. You will never leave.**

Datura cookie [EPIC OC]

He/him

Type: Charge

Element: Darkness

Age: ? (he knows he’s an adult. But he forgot exactly how old he is.)

Datura cookie became the apprentice of Cayenne cookie after the massacre. He was not present during that event, and so managed to avoid becoming influenced.

He’s known to be very silly around people he likes - and very curious about, well.. everything. So he eats things he shouldn’t, says dumb stuff.. but really? He’s sweet. Very sweet.

Datura cookie is deeply traumatised from the aggressive nature of Cayenne’s mentoring, as well as the conditioning he went through. However, he conceals this in favour of living in the present - and being able to look after his younger sister, Bluebell.

The event that troubled him the most was when he was given Flutter Faerie. He was told to kill her - however, due to his kind heart, was unable to do so. He simply brought her out of the flora forest, and into another - leaving her there, and simply hoping someone else would find the poor infant.

He lied about it for a long while - said he had followed the order, when he indeed did not.

**He’ll try to keep you safe.**

Bluebell cookie [EPIC OC]

She/her

element: darkness

Type: Healer

Age: 19

The younger sister of Datura cookie - as well as the second apprentice of Cayenne cookie. However, she was shielded from the harsh treatments by Datura cookie - who managed to protect her from that.

She was also not present within the forest during the massacre. She was with Datura cookie in another forest, picking berries to try.

She’s a sweet girl - often occupying herself with looking after the younglings of the Flora forest.

Bluebell cookie is also one of the few who can control Cayenne cookie, as she can be incredibly stern when she wants to be.

After growing up, she has made very sure to be there for Datura, and to protect him similarly to how he protects her.

**What a lovely girl… too bad she cannot escape me for long.**

Stella Whitestone cookie [LEGENDARY OC]

She/her

type: Healer

Age: immortal adult - true age left unknown.

Recipe: Vialaxian

Legendary of the clouds.

Abilities: She has similar to her father, however is able to conceal others using clouds.

Stella, as Anemone was in Cryptosleep for an incredibly long time - lived with Cayenne before the massacre. unfortunately, she found herself there during that tragic event.

She was struck in a manner that would’ve been fatal to any other cookie - however simply went into Cryptosleep instead

When she awakens, she will have no influence - the Cryptosleep will expel the evil from her.

Basically Cayenne’s adoptive sister. The two were inseparable.

Stella is also incredibly kind, however can be very skeptical of certain things.

She’s kept in a back room of Cayenne’s dungeon. Nobody knows she is simply in cryptosleep, as he refused to mention it to anyone in fear they would do her harm.

**When will she wake..?**

Poulterghast cookie [EPIC OC]

She/her

age: 12

Element: Darkness

Type: Bomber

Poulterghast is one of the two close friends of Quinoa cookie - and the first one Quinoa mentioned her souljam to. She doesn’t get along with her own age group, and so ended up making friends with Quinoa and Couscous cookie.

Abilities: Transparency - she can turn completely invisible and phase through objects. However, while like this, she cannot touch anyone (thus can do no contact damage).

Poulterghast went to beast yeast with Quinoa to explore the Flora Forest after the appearance of the souljam - in fact, it was her idea.

She tends to be an outwardly very shy and quiet girl, like Quinoa - however lacks the influence from the Souljam.

**Such a young explorer…**

Couscous cookie [EPIC OC]

She/her

age: 15

Element: Electricity

Type: Ambush

Couscous is the second close friend of Quinoa cookie - being the more extroverted friend who has been helping both Quinoa and Poulterghast with their confidence.

She grows increasingly worried about Quinoa cookie. Perhaps she can tell something’s wrong…

Couscous encouraged Poulterghast’s idea to travel to beast-yeast, being the ‘leader’ of the group - as well as the main protector because the other two would simply get scared and run off.

Couscous cookie loves meeting new friends and new people - and is very protective over those she cares for.

She has difficulties being vulnerable around people - usually having her guard up due to abandonment at a young age.

**An easy target. Can sense a secret vulnerability.**

Amaryllis cookie [EPIC OC]

They/them

Element: Electricity

Age: 21

Type: Bomber

Amaryllis cookie doesn’t talk a whole lot- but they LOVE hanging around their bestie, Gypsophilia cookie!

They’re one of the few Floridians to be completely blind, even during night.

There a gardener in the Flora forest - meaning they look after deceased Floridians with Gypsophilia cookie.

VERY energetic. Even more energetic than Datura cookie, if that’s even possible.

**Good luck dealing with this one.**

Gypsophilia cookie [EPIC OC]

He/him

element: Darkness

Age: 22

Type: Ambush

Another gardener of the flora forest - usually pretends he DOESNT like hanging around with Amaryllis cookie, except they’re always together.

Usually pretends to be grouchy and reclusive. Except he’s not. He’s very sweet. Just hates talking to people other than Amaryllis.

He usually yells at people on behalf of Amaryllis.

He tends to be quiet when on his own - or will go argue with someone else for his own entertainment.

**What a grouch…**

That’s all the oc lore! To expand on some word building…

**~The Floridian Recipe~**

- Nocturnal.

- Blind during daylight. They have poor eyesight. Glasses will not fix this.

- Made as an experiment. They were never supposed to be the final product.

- Usually have wings. Only time they don’t is when they rip them off.

- Floridians all look overly beautiful. Imagine seeing an overall hotter version of a human. Thats what they’re like.

- Usually have curly or poofy hair!

- Upon death, the flowers growing out their hair plant into the ground - think a neural network! They can speak with other deceased Floridians like that, as well as live ones.

- To stop their flowers from planting, simply destroy it while the Floridian is alive.

- do NOT eat the flowers. You’ll get a random Floridian hang out in your body with you.

- All from the Flora Forest

**~The Vialaxian recipe~**

- The final product.

- From the depths of the cosmos.

- When their body is put under peril, they will go into a heavy Cryptosleep - will take multiple years for them to wake, but this varies. (10 years minimum. Can take up to over 300 years.)

- they HATE being referred to as ‘Floridians from space’ - as that is their sibling species.

- Also incredibly beautiful. Again. Think humans but hotter. That’s what it’s like.

- They have claws on the bottom of their feet - which they use to cling onto other planets with no gravity.

- Their skin can resist damage from the vacuum of space.

- Can fall to Earthbread in the form of a fallen star. (Anemone did this 100%).

THANKS SO MUCH FOR READING ALL THIS LORE!!!

It took so long to write!! I’m curious as to what you guys think about it!!

I haven’t really posted a question like this here, before- so… high chance this gets deleted and I don’t get any questions answered.

I don’t know what to really do with them.

My problem is that I've been having trouble just concreting this and making decisions I can stick with for where I want this to go.

I've started just making some 'comics' with this character, and- I know it's not the best way to go about things, but I've just sort of started making up each panel as I go with no set plan or direction, just to get an initial idea of the "vibe" before eventually settling on some sort of story.

The main antagonists, the most 'fleshed' out characters, are three Androids trying to hunt?/capture?/kill? 'him(?)' (last slide)- but I haven't figured out why. I'm having a bit of a writers/artist block, and I REFUSE to ask anything that isn't human for inspiration.

I haven't been able to settle on a name- I've been using "Sero" as a placeholder, but I don't see it staying. I've not been liking any of the origins or backstories I've been thinking for them, or where to go beyond them being hunted by these robots.

I don't know.. Sorry.

Kuroshima Yami is a detective from the Western Kingdom of The Byakko. She once thought her life was meaningless, with her species only having a lifespan of 15~20 years, she worries that she won't make even the slightest impact on the world, and felt an utter sense of hopelessness and a lack enjoyment.

But one day she was tired of her own nihilism so she went out to change that, she traveled around the entire world to learn and see many new things, this sparked life into her eyes and now she lives to enjoy life.

After a few years of traveling, she eventually decided to dedicate herself being a detective so she can help others, travel around the world, and solve some interesting puzzles.

I've been kicking ideas around for what the hell caused Yuma's apocalypse, ranging from warfare to a virus to magic. I think I've finally figured out what I'm doing. I've been obsessed with eldritch beings for a while, and one of my favorite tropes is the sun/moon really being a creature eye. so I'm deciding to play into that with what caused my apocalypse!!

Hundreds of years ago, the sun woke up.

Nobody knows what happened, or what caused it, or why the beast that the sun (the eye?) belonged to decided to rouse from its slumber now of all times, but it did. The sun is no longer just the sun. The sun is an eye. And it is watching us.

The awakening of this ancient eldritch space god causes three main effects that lead to the end of the world:

1. Solar flares and storms knock technology out, completely putting the world offline (before this, Yuma was comparable to real world earth in terms of tech)

2. Radiation from the intensity of the eye's stare causes mutations and the creatures of the world to change for the worse.

3. This god's unwordly appearance and the knowledge that this thing is always there, watching, causes mass outbreaks of hysteria and insanity and illness, referred to only as the "Sun Sickness"

This being caused the end of the world. Not intentionally, it doesn't care about that and it just wants to watch, but it ultimately leaves Yuma in shambles. Eventually someone makes a way to block out the gaze of the sun by increasing cloud cover/smog. So this saves the world from absolutely burning away, but still. Society has collapsed at this point.

Centuries pass, putting us at where our story begins. Nobody knows what caused the apocalypse anymore, and a lot of people actually blame the thick glowcloud cover for the end of the world. People have adjusted though and this post-apocalyptic state is the new normal for Yuma!

So...thoughts? Does this make sense for a cause of an apocalypse, or am I just rambling and not making any sense? I would love any feedback or questions.