You, most unlucky one, have been tossed from the cult that had cradled you for almost a decade. Left to survive in a world that over the years has become largely unfamiliar to you you're forced to seek help from the only other living heretic.
Play as one of a small population of enchanted people. Gifted with the ability of identifying other abilitants and their potential at a glance, you have been blessed with a power most useful. Making it all the more confusing why you've been abandoned.
Monochrome is an 18+ dystopian horror story and contains sensitive themes such as explicit violence, child soldiers, religious trauma, religious psychosis, depression, mentions of suicide, kidnapping, cults, and body horror. This list will be updated as the story progresses.
Customize your character including their appearance, personality, and background
Choose one of five major cities to originate from allowing you to customize your MCs story
Romance one of six (for now) ROs
Stalk a cult
Decide whether you'd see them fall, die, or be released from this cult
Or maybe you'd rather join them? Rule over them even
Be hunted by a "God"
Be stalked by cultist
Discover secret tunnels, labs, and castles and long forgotten cryptids
Romance Options
Caine Crow (F)
Caine is the third born leader of a very powerful crime syndicate tasked with keeping tabs on you. Her branch specializes in theft, and thus Caine herself is known to be one of if not the single most talented thief in modern history. Mean and sardonic, she can be very difficult to get along with if you fail to provide her with something she deems entertaining or useful. She's notoriously clever and cunning and will do almost anything to get what she wants, no matter how small and petty that want may be.
Caine is a very pale woman, she stands at five-foot six with extremely long (and often tangled) black hair. She has grey eyes that compliment her permanent eye bags. She has heavy shadows around her eyes and wears black lipstick to match them.
Atticus Crow (M)
The second born of the Crows, Atticus is known to be cold and unbelievably intelligent. He leads the charge of a huge network of mercenaries beside his siblings. Despite being considered very physically attractive and undeniably intelligent Atticus lacks the social prowess his siblings have been able to demonstrate, which doesn't seem to bother him too awful much anyways. He does at the very least seem less malicious than them though. . .
Atticus, like his siblings is extremely pale, he has brown hair so dark it's almost black and dark brown eyes. He has freckles scattered across his nose and cheeks and stands at six-foot he can usually be found bearing a hardened expression.
Xaphan Lienth (M)
Xaphan is the heir to the lethal cult you've been cast from and the subject of your vicious boss's wrath. He's charming and seemingly kind in spite of what his "Organization" as he calls it has done. He is endlessly loyal to the leader of his organization and loves his followers dearly.Even if they don't all seem to feel the same way about him...
Xaphan has tan skin with a gold touched hue. He has long straight blue hair and beautiful yellow-gold eyes. He stands at five-feet and nine inches. He often wears make-up and has an extremely diligent skincare routine. He could easily pass as a prince straight out a fairy-tale.
Arthur Crow (M&F)
The first born of the Crows, responsible for their rise to notoriety and wealth. She serves as the face, manager, and leader of the family. Known to be a ruthless business person there are few that have the kind of notoriety, wealth, and fear factor Arthur does. She as the leader of the family hoards the most wealth which he uses to create extravagant looks for his drag races. As their leader Arthur is the by far the most assertive, cruel, and manipulative of the Crows. Despite this Arthur seems to truly adore his siblings and they love her just the same.
Arthur is the tallest of the crows standing at six feet and two inches, with pale blue-grey eyes. He has long curly hair dyed an assortment of peacock themed colors. When out in public she can be found in a full face of makeup and expensive and clothing, only a select few know what he looks like in his leisure clothes.
Clay (M)
A resident of the most poverty ridden city and an obvious abilitant. Held together by staples and stitches Clay is one of the more relaxed cultist and seems to be a bit more socialized than his peers. Cool headed and goofy, Clay is easily the amongst the friendliest of his peers. When hes not "Working" he's usually at home taking care of his older brother.
Clay stands at a whopping seven feet, his shaggy brown hair covers the bulk of his face. Underneath the hair Clay is a heavily pierced Korean man who often applies eyeliner (Not that you can see it most of the time). He is covered in bandages and stitches and his skin is a tan with a sickly hue due to his ability. He has dark brown eyes.
??? (F)
The last person to turn her back on the cult before your boss. Her legacy now serves as a warning for anyone who would consider following her footsteps.
This RO has long black hair and narrow brown eyes. You've often seen her depicted as an Asian-American woman.
Can you tell me something about Atticus? What’s his love language if he has any? Does he have any hobbies? 🤍
Thank you! I can tell you lots of things about Atticus!
His love language is acts of service. His hobby is primarily building new inventions in his home office usually it's just the manner in which he burns up time between visits with his siblings and work, but he also builds gifts for people close to him if he notices they've been struggling with a specific task.
An example is that it's common etiquette to wear gloves in Monochrome, but his sister's gloves were hindering her ability so he built her specialized gloves! He's also quick to run errands for others, invest time in his loved ones media and hobbies, and listen to them info dump about topics he isn't really interested in.
He also reads a lot, he has an entire library in the lower level of his house. (although much of it is covered in dust now)
Arthur is notoriously self serving. While he is sadistic and enjoys the suffering of others she's not particularly driven by it, however should the opportunity present itself. . . expect cruelty.
Atticus Crow- Lawful Neutral
Atticus is one of the gentler Crows. He has no shortage of self imposed limits. He's willing to bend and break the expectations of common society, but often stops short of the kind of cruelty that's come to be expected by his family.
Caine Crow- Chaotic Neutral
Like her oldest brother, Caine has a bit of a sadistic streak. Her actions too are very self serving. Rather than being motivated by the kind of greed that topples societies and destroys families, Caine's greed lies in more immediately rewarding areas. Theft, mean spirited pranks, and mocking other is usually enough to sate Caine.
Dove Crow-Neutral Good
Dove does his best to stick to whats "Right", he really does, but he understands that there is a great deal of nuance in between right and wrong. Not to mention Dove is often caught between doing what he believes is right and the pressure to live up to his siblings legacy. This leaves Dove to perform some dubious maneuvers in the pursuit of his own ideals.
Clay- Chaotic Good
Clay's way of thinking seems to swing between wildly straightforward and incredibly convoluted and odd. Both these thought processes however are in the interest of helping others. Clay want's to see the people around him succeed, he wants to see them achieve happiness and he'll resort to some weird routes to get them there.
Xaphan Leinth- True Neutral
Xaphan considers himself to be very good leaning, he is wrong. Xaphan is incredibly malleable just past the strong honorable mask he's been made to wear. The right person could certainly make a truly good man of him- or a real monster.
???- Lawful Good
Due to her circumstances, this character tends to practice very black and white thinking believing that her loyalty to this manner of mind will save her. That the coven will see how good she is and that will will purify her.
It will not.
Luna-Chaotic Neutral
A true "Freedom first" kind of woman. To that end nothing is ethical or unethical. Her cruelty is usually not based on likes or dislikes (Although she is not above occasional pettiness) rather her deep need to pursue vengeance and free herself from it.
Piper Howlett- Lawful Evil
Piper is loyal to the coven, she follows a strict code one would expect from knights. She's a true cultist, yes, but not one without honor. You don't get to her status by sneaking and sniveling like a Crow. She, unlike many of her peers, holds herself to a higher standard than that.
Daniel- True Neutral
As much as I love him- Daniel is defined by his cowardice. Fear rules over his every action, only occasionally releasing him for his work. Under duress there is almost nothing you can't push him to do.
DANG IT SOMEONE BEAT ME TO IT happy happy birthday!! may your days to come be filled with joy and passion for life and may you be as healthy as possible
This is really interesting, definitely following this project I can't wait to see where you go with it.
Bit of a request though, can you add an extra line break between paragraphs? Without indents at the start of paragraphs or extra line breaks, the whole story kind of blurs into one giant paragraph for me and gets hard to parse at times.
Either way though very fun read.
Yeah sure, I can't say for sure when I do that but I'll implement that later
Hello, I just found your blog and currently scrolling through it. All the RO's and non-RO's that I found out about are interesting, in particular the brothers and the boss mentioned in the non-RO list. I wanted to know how old is MC approximately? What about their height? Is it set in stone, set in a particular range or customizable? Also can you please clarify, what exactly did you mean that some of the non-ROs can become a RO in one of your earlier posts? I don't want to assume anything or unintentionally get my hopes up, just wanted to know if I perhaps misunderstood or misread anything.
So the potential ROs are ROs who do not have a planned route right now, but if there's interest in them from readers or I decide I want to write one they may get a route. They're just don't have a set direction I would have their route go right now. So if you're interested in one please let me know about it!
MC does not have a set age they are between 18-26 so you've got a lot of room to work with, the characters themselves also have a vague age range (with the exception of Arthur who is 28 making him the oldest)
MC's height, gender, and gender identity will be set next chapter those are also customizable
After an eternity of bug fixing the game (as far as I'm aware) Works! Chapter two is already written, it still needs to be revised and test played a billion times but it's well on it's way.
Enjoy! And tell me what you think!
This update includes:
Less typos (no promises)
Meet Clay!
and a cleaner version of the original demo content
All the prophets grew up together. At least this generation of prophets, they know each other as well as they know themselves. Even the ones that were left behind. Even Luna
They still think of her, they miss her, and they hate her just the same.
