HIS BODY A BROKEN LAW. WIP INTRO & DIRECTORY
There’s a clock tattooed on Nemesis’s wrist, and when it reaches midnight on his 21st birthday, it will kill him.
It doesn’t help that his mother was the one who cursed him, and that the demon possessing his car ate her down to the bones before Nemesis could get her to break it. But Nemesis is nothing if not versatile, not when he’s only got a few months left until the big bad end. If a deal with the devil under the hood of his vintage car is what it takes to survive, Nemesis doesn’t mind selling what’s left of his soul.
But Judge doesn’t just want Nemesis’s soul. The demon has bigger, meaner plans than that, and he needs Nemesis’s help to see them through. After all, stealing the heart of a living city isn’t a one-man job, and for all Nemesis is cursed, he’s still the first True Witch in a generation. And with a centuries old turf war raging through the streets of the Veldt, Judge and Nemesis are going to need each other’s power if they hope to make it past every last exorcist, demon, and vengeful witch in their way―regardless of whether they can stand each other or not.
survival at any cost, morality versus the corrupt systems that raised you, the ugly path away from abuse
working on first draft, target goal: 90k
third person limited past tense.
A century ago, a city vanished off the face of the earth. No one knows where it ever went, and for most, the mystery of Carson has faded into obscurity and urban legend, the truth of it chewed down to the bone and spat back out as a bedtime story for bad kids.
Only a few know what really happened: that Carson got eaten by a demon, turned into something monstrous and mythical, wandering out in the wastelands of California, always on the move. Those that know of it don’t call it Carson anymore. The monster that it’s become is the Veldt now, and it’s always hungry for blood. Forget all the cute fables of quaint moving castles and serene floating cities―here in the possessed city, only the truly vicious survive.
Obscured from the rest of the world by the Mirage, a sentient otherworldly creature that shrouds the city and hides it from prying eyes, the Veldt is home to demons, derelict witches, and vengeful exorcists a hundred years into trying to find a way to exorcise the damned thing. All of them want to kill each other for the sake of controlling the Veldt in its entirety, and all of them are looking for a trump card to finish the job.
But there are darker things asleep beneath the concrete and cracked asphalt of the Veldt. Things that have been slumbering there for too long. Things that are beginning to wake.
❌ NEMESIS. trans he/him ― scorpio ― a true witch, the first in a century
The first True Witch in a century, Nemesis was born to Amaranthia, the Sanguine Witch. Greedy for a taste of eternity, Nemesis’s mother stole his immortality from him in the cradle and cursed him to die on his 21st birthday. Now, Nemesis seeks a way to lift his curse before it kills him, making a deal with the devil in a last ditch effort not to bite the dust.
🖤 JUDGE. ?? he/they/yikes that’s a demon ― ?? ― eternal, immortal, undefined by time.
An ancient archdemon from the Restlessness, Judge ate Nemesis’s mother after she summoned him for her own greedy use and found herself unable to control his appetite. Now set on bigger things to consume, Judge seeks out her son, Nemesis, for a taste of his blood and to use him as bait in luring out the monstrous things asleep beneath the skin of the Veldt.
🧨 HALLIDAY. cis he/him ― leo/virgo cusp ― exorcist; inheritor of the book of genesis
A formidable exorcist, Halliday has worked hard and long to prove his own merit beyond the imposing weight of his family name. The Inheritor of the Book of Genesis, one of the most powerful grimoires in existence, Halliday intends to live up to the expectations set upon him by his community and his family. Unfortunately, fate has other plans the moment a True Witch walks right out of a fairytale and into his life―by running him over with his possessed car.
🧥 DESMOND. cis he/him ― ?? ― exorcist; the Tower of Rapture
The leader of the Exorcists inhabiting the Veldt, Desmond is a ruthless, charismatic ruler that many follow without question, even into hell. Bored of the stagnation of the Veldt and desirous for a taste of something new, Desmond sees Nemesis not as the omen most exorcists beneath him do but as a key to unlocking his deepest desires. The only problem now is dealing with the demon with his name tattooed to Nemesis’s soul.
⏳ TARGET DATE: FIRST DRAFT; September 22 2022 goal date for finished first draft ⏳
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