Future story idea and poll:
Chained Stars - Chapter 1 :https://archiveofourown.org/works/88655091/chapters/235226486
I have a new story idea (shocker) that my brain is fiddling with the world-building on. Fantasy-esque world where magic is slowly dying out. As such, magical creatures are becoming rare and coveted, turned into pets under the guise of protecting them from extinctions. (And conveniently ignoring signs of personhood in said creatures.) None are more prized than angels.
Angels are considered demi-humans, which is a term to classify creatures that have human like features but aren't actually 'people.' "Wild" angels live in flocks that are extremely close-knit and highly wary of humans. It didn't used to be that way, but then the whole trapping angels to be kept as pets thing started up, which can range from simply being treated as status symbols and entertainment like an exotic animal to full on sex-slave. Most angels are naturally highly sociable and flocks are very physically demonstrative with their friendships and other relationships, so it made it easy to 'train' them to turn to their owners for physical affection.
All of these things have led to angels being rare and highly prized pets, so any flocks found in the wild are hunted to be trapped. The few that remain are generally capable of escaping because they have an extremely rare kind of angel in their group. Guardians. Humans have found they can train fledgling angels to be guardians, but it can be hit or miss and often times results in a volatile temperament. Wild angels that naturally display combative abilities and still maintain a graceful and calm personality are practically a myth, but that is because the few that exist keep their flocks from being found by any means necessary.
What almost no one remembers is that angels were servants to the divine tasked with helping to maintain the health of the world and its magic. Their immortality has been stolen from them as well as any knowledge of their origins and connection to the original deity of this world, who had to rest after spending so much of their energy to create the world and everything on it. The angels were meant to reawaken them if there was an emergency before they were done sleeping. The one that stole their ability to call to the god is now doing all she can to gain enough power to destroy that god before they reawaken on their own at full strength.
Villain: Roo - I still have a lot of things to figure out with her backstory and motivations in this one, but the basic idea is that she took advantage of the original Creator going to sleep and trapped him there while stealing a bit of power from him. She made sure the keys to waking him, the angels, were no longer capable of it and has been slowly destroying their society to the point that there is no history of how they were once direct servants to the divine aside from a few oral traditions in smaller cultures
Current options being considered for Roo:
- originally an angel who resented being tasked with helping to maintain the world when she saw humans as being left free to be lazy and selfish.
- originally a human who was jealous of all the beauty and power given to angels and distrustful of the fact that they were so happy to selflessly serve. She felt humanity was being left weaker and subservient and wanted to destroy that supposed imbalance without realizing that wasn't the reality.
- originally a fellow deity among several, each tasked with caring for their own living worlds. She brought hers to ruin via her games and was weakened for it, but rather than learning a lesson about responsibility, she instead decided she would just take over her siblings' worlds one by one and steal their power for herself
Origin of Roo
Resentful Angel
Jealous Human
Selfish Deity
Other: Comment
Voting ended onJul 19