READ CALDERA HERE
What does forgiveness and accountability entail? What does it mean to learn and grow, and how does integrating your past in to your future entail? Caldera tries to balance themes of self reflection in full spectrum, with no character truly embodying a defined Good Pure Hero and Evil Unredeemable Villain. This is not a story to find a villain to want punished or a hero to be victorious; it's a story to challenge such notions to begin with. To learn to pick up your pieces and take a different path at any time, both for worse or better, and the careful line between the two and how recovery often wavers. Everyone no matter where they were before can change who they are, and caldera very much pushes and tests these situations and people and notions.
A mixture of various historical periods, subculture movements, and time/magical travel, from 1800s england to ancient greece to mid 2000s emo, alongside various fantasy elements such as faeries, elves, zombies, magical forests, etc. There is no defining genre per say, at least that i know of. The story is mostly a sort of Man vs Self, symbolically portrayed as dual protagonists/mirrored selves/dissociation allegory.
Content warnings (major) would be abuse and the recovery from it (religious, physical, emotional, societal ie fatphobia or transphobia or ableism, sexual, domestic, generational, etc), toxic relationships/on and off couples, cults/RA/programming, death, violence, cannibalism, decomposition, n/ecro, cults, religious elements Cw (minor) would be symbolism of ballerinas/music boxes, broken mirrors, curtains, checkerboards, dreams/magical interpretation, mold, disease, and characters reacting to situations in ways the average viewer might not (incase seeing characters behave that way would annoy you lol).
