✨️Intro Post✨️
Hello and Welcome. I'm JJ, aka Shrimp, aka Mx. Maledictus/Mal (Post explaining Shrimp/Mal lore + Mal ref sheet here), an artist and writer with way too much imagination for his own good, and this, my friends, is where I share my mad ramblings.
This blog is for my OCs, art, and writing. My personal blog (reblogs, interactions, shitposts, rants, vents, etc) is @shrimp-lord-of-hell
I'm also on Artfight
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!! Quick Facts About Me !!
☆ he/they (agender trans man; masculine and neutral terms only with a preference toward masculine)
☆ aroace
☆ massive biology nerd and lover of gore
☆ primarily a fantasy artist/writer, but have dabbled in horror and sci-fi
☆ some flavor of neurodivergent (undiagnosed)
☆ occasional dissociative issues + struggles with concept of self :>
☆ poor social skills/social anxiety
☆ tone tags are appreciated
If you wanted to know more about me... too bad :D I'm here to talk about my creative projects, not myself (and I'm too lazy to do a proper intro for shrimp-lord)
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Disclaimers and Warnings: many of my stories include a variety of dark or mature subject matter. Individual content warnings will be applied on a post-by-post basis. Viewer discretion is advised.
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!! My Projects !!
Each of these gets their own tag. Posts relating to these stories will be tagged with the name of the story as stated here, as well as with the names of any characters mentioned. These are all 100% original stories and characters. If the character has a finished reference sheet, it will be linked (ref) at the end of their description.
☆ Major W.I.P.s ☆
Mortalis - dark fantasy; comic format; set in a fictional world most similar to ~1800s Europe; a demon and a necromancer, childhood friends, embark on a mission to find and return the demon's father, who had gone missing months before, only to get wrapped up in secret plans and challenged by powers far beyond them; more info @mortalis-comic-shitposts and finished pages @mortalis-comic-archives
Cassian Bauer: a demon, summoned and raised since childhood by a wealthy widower; a stubborn, flashy, and overconfident young man
Finnian del Pierre: a necromancer tutored and partially raised by Henry Bauer alongside Cassian; a quiet and solemn young man with a pale, sickly appearance and an unfortunate childhood (ref)
**More characters to be added as they are introduced
The Moth Crown - a w.i.p. fantasy novel; when the goddess of prophecy's crown is stolen, it falls on an unlikely troupe of misfits and outcasts to retrieve it.
Aveline Lyborne: a young woman selling fortune-telling services from a back room in her wealthy cousin's mansion; she initially recieves goddess's call for help (although it wasn't intended for her).
Marion Haile: a woman living in monster-infested woods; she has a detailed knowledge of magic, although she can't use it herself, and is an excellent fighter.
Parley Bartholomew Pine: an anxious young man studying at a prestigious institute of magic; well-equipped for lecture halls and essay writing, not so much a grand quest...
Kamryn Carlisle: an undead siren with the blood of hundreds on his hands; a secret in his past may be the key to their mission's success
Entropy - horror fiction with fantasy elements; intended for an audio/podcast format. When the lines between fact and fiction blur, your mind is the last thing you can trust. Entropy is one of my newest projects, so I don't have too much to say about it yet, but rest assured I will say more when the time comes
Elliot Hughes: the main pov character; a pretty average guy who is recording an audio journal on his therapist's request after a major nervous breakdown when odd, impossible, and often horrifying things start happening.
**More characters to be added as the story develops
Alvaria - not a story but a world, a fantasy world I have been developing, complete with a map, 35+ original humanoid species, a pantheon of gods, and various countries and cultures; I intend to set several D&D campaigns in it.
Purple is the Color of the End of the World - horror (mainly psychological and cosmic horror); intended for a written/novel format. One day, the world will end. Maybe the vessel of the apocolypse already walks among us. Maybe they don't even know it.
Remi Nichols (they/them): a high school student with an attachment to their purple-tinted that help them cope with the everything of the world; they're trying to live a relatively normal life after they're brush with a cult, but something is different inside them.
(More characters to be added as the story develops)
☆ Minor Stories ☆
Jewel Circus - (fantasy) August is trying to hide from his family and his past. Qariev is trying to make a life for him and his brother. When their stories collide, both these dreams may be thrown into peril.
Kheii Jahl: the optimistic, charismatic, and occasionally naïve ringmaster of the Jewel Circus; Kajaudi (fish people based on striped marlin) (ref sheet)
August: a Gryffonei (bird people) boy hiding from his toxic family and checkered past; constantly anxious
Qariev: Kheii's older brother, the owner and secondary ringmaster of the Jewel Circus; very protective of Kheii and the circus
Orchid: August's older sister; the only decent member of August's family; outwardly cold but gentle with August in private; tries to be the perfect daughter
Iris: August and Orchid's younger sister; the favorite child; flirty, obnoxious, and utterly free of empathy or remorse
Sarina: August's abuser who wants him back and manages to capture Kheii along with him
Shadows of Arbellyn - (fantasy) the city of Arbellyn is infamous for its criminal underworld, with North Arbellyn having a variety of casinos and other illicit pleasures and South Arbellyn crawling with gangs, bars, and violence.
Tianyu Jun: (she/her) the owner of a bar in the South End and leader of a section of one of the local gangs
Ancelin Direlle (Anci): (they/them) ex-military runaway with a crippling injury and fear of heights; works for Jun as a bartender and a lackey for the gang
Oriel: (he/him) a bar singer that works closely with Anci and Jun in the gang; the youngest and most cheerful of the three; romantic interest in Iri
Iri: (he/him) a violinist from the North End that likes to venture down to the south, particularly to Jun's bar; romantic interest in Oriel
Dianthe: (she/they) a dealer at the Silver Imp Casino and Jun's girlfriend
Leviathan's Guild - (fantasy) When Alistor finds his father, he's going to kill him. That's been his goal for years, and he finally gets his chance when a position opens up on the Scylla, a feared pirate ship with a mysterious and cruel captian. Joining this crew means a chance at revenge, but it also means leaving his best friend in the hell of a city he's trying to escape.
Alistor Morrows: a navigator on the crew of the Scylla; Ven's best friend; on a revenge quest to find his father
Jinan: the captain of the Scylla; a woman; sassy, temperamental, and ruthless
Malik: Jinan's brother; a sailor in the navy before his ship was captured and his crew slaughtered; only he was spared, taken prisoner by his own sister
Venytre Kosetski: Alistor's best friend that he leaves behind; major abandonment issues and a tendency to get overly attached to the wrong kind of people; a prostitute employed by a local gang in the coastal city that Alistor escapes from
Sciffy - (sci-fi) set in a futuristic world where the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and morals are no match for greed. Secret facilities have been recruiting volunteers and kidnapping those with no one to miss them to be the subjects of cruel experiments aimed at giving them inhuman powers. A small group of victims tries to escape, only to meet betrayal and maybe even death.
Koa: an orphaned boy who was plucked off the street and taken to one of these facilities; shy and anxious; gay
Margot: Koa's adoptive little sister; a clever and attitude-filled young girl who is nearly entirely paralyzed from the neck down; also taken from the streets to one of these facilities
Nikolai Levine: the son of a wealthy family and the embarrassment of the Levine name; essentially sold into one of these facilities by his parents; incapable of empathy or strong emotion
Lance: has been at the facility the longest, shows Koa around and gets involved in their escape plan; Nikolai hates him and he hates Nikolai
Archer Mills: a young man whose best friend disappeared, likely to one of the facilities; joins an organization trying to take them down in hopes of finding his friend Zaine; trans
Jean Lewis: Archer's best friend; works for one of the facilities as a manager; secretly has ties to the organization trying to shut them down
Zaine: Archer's friend that went missing; nonbinary (they/them; she/they modern au)
A.I.A.M.E. (aiame) - (fantasy) currently being rewritten; one of my oldest stories that's in desperate need of an update (and a plot);
Rhey: (he/him) an upbeat young air mage with a steampunk aesthetic, an affinity for dangerous experiments, and a disability that sees him using a cane, crutches, or even a wheelchair depending on the severity of symptoms on any particular day
Hart: (he/him) a young fire mage with an easygoing sort of attitude; isn't overly good at magic; awful family
Felicity: (she/her) a hot-headed fire mage with the unique ability to not only manipulate fire, but produce it
Demetrios: (he/him) son of the headmaster of the prestigious Ashbury Institute; a human with rather weak telekinetic abilities, intense anxiety, and a huge crush on Hart
Adira: (she/her) a talented young mechanic with the ability to manipulate metal; often works very closely with Rhey on experiments
Street Rats - (fantasy) connections are an important thing when you're living on the streets. Kruz is doing his best to keep him and his brother safe, throwing himself into a dangerous gang just to make ends meet, and despite his best efforts to keep Rat out of it, Kruz's brother wriggles his way into the mix. In the end it may be the greed of their boss that brings them all to ruin.
Riggie "Rat" Albert Burton: protagonist and main pov; a teenage boy with an affinity for danger being raised by his older brother; he may be more valuable than he or Kruz realizes...
Kruz: Rat's older brother and guardian; a grumpy and stern young man; hates Kit
Kit: the gang's medic; a sassy and bitter fae that was tricked into an undesirable deal with the gang's leader and is now forced to follow her every command; loves to mess with Kruz, mostly by flirting (he does it just to make Kruz mad); a talented tailor who spends most of his free time sewing; hundreds of years old and has powerful magic that has been mostly shackled by Seren
Seren Milos: the gang's leader; too clever for her own good
War for Humanity - (fantasy/historical fiction...ish) Set in 1947, almost two years after the conclusion of World War two, this story follows a pair of soldiers fighting in a new war: a war for humanity itself. Humans have just uncovered unequivocle proof of fantasy beings living among them, and now they're deadset on eradicating them. It seems the only thing that can unite the powers of the world is a foe beyond humanity, but are these beings really our enemies?
Joseph Keaton: an English soldier with a serious demeanor; not very popular among the other soldiers, but very good at his job
Sean Grady Rickett (Grady): a Scottish soldier trying desperately to hide the fact that he's only half human (one of his parents was a mermaid/merman); he's loud, vulgar, and funny, always surrounded by people but lacking any true friends; cares a lot about his family; Joseph finds him obnoxious at first, but the two grow on each other
Rory Rickett: Grady's younger brother; noticably not human; mute; Grady keeps a picture of him in his pocket
Asks are always encouraged and appreciated :>
I hope you all love my stories as much as I do :D
