gifts of constellation

((I want it to be known that these stories/mine and my partner's characters are in fact "cringe" and I don't care- stuff like 'overpowered' characters are in my stories, and so is a multiverse. if you don't think it's cool, that's fine. but keep your opinion to yourself. constrictive criticism and compliments are always welcome though!!!!)) There are known to be 6 different types of Dar. The first and second most common being the animal Dar, simply turning a person into that of a hybrid with any animal in the world. The second type is the hardest to spot in a crowd, shapeshifters, who can change their form, are much less common. The third most common type is elemental dars. A dar of the elemental type can mean a lot of things, typically it has to do with creating and/or controlling some type of element. Minor dars are the most common, and often this dar could be counted as someone without a dar. Location-shifting dars are somewhat rare but not uncommon, and oftentimes they create little transportation businesses that run on their teleportation abilities please give me asks about my characters I love talking about them (you likely don't care about knowing who I am, but here's my personal blog if you wanna see >:3 @personalstuffswithoutthewings )

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into for the authors!

hi! my name is Sage. me and my girlfriend, Echow, made this story about Zee and Chi! it's been in the works since 2021, and our characters have gone through many changes over the years. if you have any questions about either Zee, Chi, or the multiverse of Zees and Chis, ask us anything! I plan on releasing new parts when I can. thanks for looking into our work!

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Feathers & Fur, pt.2

Zee closed his eyes and held his breath slightly as he went through the portal, opening his eyes slowly and blinking away the dark spots. He found himself in a nicely furnished bedroom with posters lining the walls and a girl sitting on the bed.

she was super short. maybe 4'11. crimson eyes, black hair, that was super long. fell onto the bed, and down, reaching the floor, with... at least a few feet more of hair. she had long, scaly dragon wings more than twice her height. She also had this- inky substance covering the right half of her body and face. she had an arm-length glove on the right side, and a thigh-high boot on that same side.

despite the girl, Zee completely glazed over her, mesmerized in the room itself. "your room is- woah- I- I've never-"

Chi smiles as she steps through the portal behind him, nodding a little. "not bad, isn't it? we're hoping we get to keep the same dorm all 4 years-"

Zee's eyes were sparkling, still trying to take it all in, as Chi tilted her head, one ear slightly flopping to the side.

"I'm sorry, I just- this- I've never seen a room this cool!"

"no? I honestly think It could be better with time, but it is kinda nice?"

Zee looked at her with a look of complete confusion "Better? 'kinda' nice?? how could you do any better than this-?? I don't- even remember the last time I saw a bedframe-"

"oh- er- I suppose. we have to share the bed, swapping out for the couch. we're hoping to get a bunk bed..." when Chi said this, it made his eyes light up even more

"you have a couch? like- all to yourself? and- you can be on it after sleeping hours?"

she smiles "Yeah- and a lot of other stuff..."

Zee finally finds himself calming down, if only slightly, his wings shifting slightly. "wow... things really are a lot different here, huh?"

"so- then what are things like there..?"

"not like this, that's for sure... you saw my bedroom- I've had that same mattress since I got there. and I was 3 then."

Chi's ears droop ever so slightly "Aw- that's no good."

"a-and- I mean- what did you call these things again-?" he gestures to his wings "I've only ever heard them be called 'genetic mutations'..."

"oh- dars! I'm honestly not sure if all the legends are true- cause- I mean, I have the ability of Darce- but I mean, what other explanation is there for where they came from?"

he shifts slightly to look out a window. "so... there's.... others?"

Chi nods. "not one person who doesn't have one these days. about 50 years ago the last few who were thought to have no dar at all were confirmed to have minor ones. we're learning about it in history right now, actually."

he looks back at her, hope in his eyes, and a slight flutter in his heart. "everyone? that- you can't be serious, right?"

she grins happily at him "Why would I lie?"

he shrugs "People lie for a lot of reasons, I guess. most of the time just to make me look stupid."

"Well, I'm not like those people."

"promise?"

"promise."

he relaxes slightly. "so you aren't being- trained?"

she hums "Well I chose the hero course, so I am, kinda. but Eji didn't. she's doing culinary."

he looks down. "all of us are being trained. to kill in war. they call us 'super weapons'... if you aren't strong enough, aren't able to kill with your power, or can't heal with your power, you're killed. well- I guess Kai is an exception. she's more of a tracker."

Chi hums and thinks "You've not been to school?" Zee responds by shaking his head, his wings drooping a little, looking down, slightly embarrassed. Chi smiles "Well- you wanna enroll here? I could tutor you, and help you catch up... technically you would need a boy's dorm, but it's only like- a 5-minute walk."

he looks at her "Oh... yeah, I think I'd like that.."

she grins and nods a bit.

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I apologize for the dely with the second part of the story :( still waiting on some information from my writing partner to be able to finish. I promise when I get the info, I will release the next part!! don't give up on me yet lol

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Feathers and Fur pt.1

Everything had always been normal. A normal world. Normal life. Normal toddler. Though by now that toddler barely remembers when things had ever been normal. The last thing he remembered outside of this hell he lives in, was his mother's screams when she saw the wings that sprouted from his back. He wasn’t normal. So they took him away. They were hidden. There had to be hundreds of them, but no one knew. All the kids inside knew was the treatment they had been given, and the training. They were meant to be super weapons for war. So when one was too weak, They would be killed off. This was all Zee had ever known. He had learned to get used to it. He got used to barely knowing any knowledge about the outside world, or even how it worked. Only being learned how to kill in the most effective ways, while nearly being killed himself.

Zee sighs softly as he enters what he was told was his bedroom, but it was more like a cell, after a longer training than he had hoped. Everyone else was already asleep. He sat on what was called a bed, but was just a mattress on the floor, with a few thin sheets as blankets as he looked at the blinding white of the rest of his room, that matched the uniform he was given, and his wings drooped ever so slightly.

then suddenly, a portal opened in the middle of his room. it was see-through, but slightly obscured what was on the other side. so he saw the blurry outline of a bedroom, and... a girl. she stepped through, who appeared to have.. wolf ears on the top of her head... she had two differently colored eyes, the right was white, with an odd, star-shaped pupil, and the other was blue, and a wolf tail to match her ears. freckles dotted her cheeks like stars. she tilted her head at him carefully, a curious, playful look in her eyes. Zee's eyes furrowed, and his wings puffed out slightly. cautious about the girl, though not hostile.

the girl only smiled and offered her hand for him to shake "Hi! I'm Chi. what's your dar??" her tail perked up a little, friendly, and curious about him. Zee's eyebrows furrowed slightly

"Sorry, my what..?" he backed away from her carefully.

she furrows her eyebrows, tilting her head slightly, one ear flopping as she did so. "your dar? gift from the stars..?"

he shakes his head quickly "Gift? No- no these are a curse!" he lets out a soft, dry laugh.

she blinks, before furrowing her eyebrows more, looking around, starting to realize how absurd the surroundings were. this- blinding white room, with nothing but a dirty, years and years old mattress on the floor, with old, ripped sheets... locked secure door, and a large window as the wall for the outer wall, showing a hallway full of rooms just like it, with more kids. most sleeping, getting ready for the long days ahead of them, dreading they aren't good enough to be kept alive.

she looks back at him "What is this place?"

Zee quickly shakes his head "Whoa- back up. Where did you come from?" he was so incredibly confused. he had never seen another person his age so cheery. the most cherry was the kids around 5, old enough to have almost forgotten how they were taken, but too young to really understand the gravity of their situation. plus, he had no idea where she had come from. for all he knew, this was a weird hallucination. he also still couldn't wrap his head around the whole "dar" thing.

the girl shrugs "Fair enough." she smiles "Another universe! I was in my high school dorm before now."

he shakes his head "No- no- that doesn't make sense. how is there... another... universe?"

she hums softly "It's hard to explain? honestly, I'm still new to it myself.."

he whines and looks down, shaking his head ever so softly.

"do... you want to come back with me?" when she said that, it shocked him. there was a slight hope in his eye, that this could be better than what he had. but also... if things were this bad here, how much worse could they be out there? but... what could be worse than this? maybe.. he would just check things out. see if things were safe for everyone else. he would have to come back for them though...

he nods, ever so carefully. She grins and offers her hand, her tail wagging.

he takes it softly, and the first thing she notices is how rough, and callaced his hands were. like he had been a blue-collar worker for 40 years. "I'm... Zee.."

she smiles warmly, and takes him through the portal, which feels like walking into the freezer section at a Costco. a cold chill across his body.

stay tuned for pt 2!!

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Zee's intro (written by me)

Zee has dark brown hair, and pale yellow eyes. wings spout from his shoulder blades, and resemble a hawk's wings, with brown on the outside, and a sort of speckled white on the inside. To go with his wings, he has tailfeathers that match the color of his wings and hair. he has tan skin, and vitiligo around his collarbones, arms, legs, hips, small speckles on his cheeks, and a diagonal spot that goes across his nose.

his father is Mexican and African American, while his mother is Vietnamese, making him half Vietnamese, quarter Mexican, and quarter African American.

his dar is from Zeme, or the star that gifts animal dar. along with his wings that allow him flight, he also has retractable fangs and claws with venom that are capable of killing a person within seconds. this is what he is most insecure about, and absolutely hates the idea of hurting people. many times he has tried to manually remove the fangs, or drain all the venom from himself, which has only succeeded in making him faint or hurt himself. he is immune to his own venom, and it can't be used to hurt him.

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Chi's intro (written by Echow)

Born into the family and looks of Jewel Okami, Chisana went most of her happy childhood believing she was gifted by Zema, when she turned 11 her father found her and was sure to make her watch as he killed her mother . . . a brutal end . . . but Chi also found out on that same birthday that she had the power of Darce, and her father? Well . . . her father wanted her to use it for evil. To take control of the world. He trained her while she wasn’t at school, leaving her to fend for herself with nothing but the money to survive . . so she got into an elite highschool. With dorms. Got friends. Made a life to distract herself from the hell her father made it. She ended up killing him, a week after graduation, and decided not to take over the world, though she knew she so easily could, and instead started a business with her power, keeping her friends and light in the light, while continuing on some evil entitlements. She had mostly blonde hair, fading to green, and her almost iconic wolf ears and tail, that match the colorscheme. One eye is colored Blue, her natural eye, her other, white, with an oddly shaped pupil, her mark from her father that he’d found her and passed the quirks she had in past lives. A powerful feature, that one was. And tricky too. If she were to just be given all that power in one go she’d die. Her body wouldn’t be able to handle that amount of Dar. its impossible. So they were in her, locked away. Instead she had Sky and Blood to help her unlock them. Beings she picked names for as a toddler in an early life, when she’d gotten the dar. Her face is dotted with freckled and she has an irresistible innocent smile, that makes it easy to keep her secret life, a secret.

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The History Behind a Dar...

There are known to be 6 different types of Dar. The first and second most common being the animal Dar, simply turning a person into that of a hybrid with any animal in the world. The second type is the hardest to spot in a crowd, shapeshifters, who can change their form, are much less common. The third most common type is elemental dars. A dar of the elemental type can mean a lot of things, typically it has to do with creating and/or controlling some type of element. Minor dars are the most common, and often this dar could be counted as someone without a dar. Location shifting dars are somewhat rare but not uncommon, and oftentimes they create little transportation businesses that run on their teleportation abilities. 

People choose to believe their power stems from the night sky. 7 stars form a constellation, named Zelena, each representing the different types of dar. Darce is believed to be the very first star that gifted dars. He worked day in and day out, gifting people all different kinds of dars and taking from a select few who decided dars would be best used for the bad. Eventually, Darce on his own felt it was too much of a burden, keeping track of all the dars that went in and out of the world on his lonesome. So he called out to the goddesses for help, and they sent him six girls. Zorum, who represents dars of the mind, is a bitter soul, cursed with a dar of her own to force her to hear the thoughts of those around her. Zeme, the kindest of them all, represents the animal dars, and those who hold them. Zema, who is cunning but caring, represents those who can change their form. Zivel, with a passionate and loving soul, represents the elemental dars. Kuraz is a sad soul, having lost her lover long before she became part of the sky, she represents the minor dars that aren’t normally widely known or praised like other dars. Finally, there's Zlome. Said to be the one with the illest intent and the darkest heart. However those who’ve done research online also believe that Kuraz is her sister, and that the lover Kuraz lost was once Zlome’s own.