Anyways, these are (some of) my Stars of the New World oc's no one asked to see but I'm shoving into ur faces anyways <3
Starting off strong with my babygirl most ever in the whole wide world, little miss Nana Perona in the flesh (+ Her dad and friend Viri)
Nana is a 19 year old human girl from one of the few small, rare human settlements of the New World-- this one dangerously deep into the enchanted forest, which is to be Avoided At All Costs(tm) on a good day, let alone bad. Unfortunately for her, on one such bad day, her loving, single father went fishing and never came back, presumed eaten by the forest. Womp womp!
Being a young (13/14) girl in a small, superstitious village, now missing her guardian, things began to get rough. And it only took a few weeks before she was running into the woods herself to escape the bad vibes. Somehow, Nana lucked out, and instead of getting eaten by the woods, instead wound up in the heart of the forest and got magic powers (portals and cat themed things) instead. Good for her!
Since then she's sort of just wandered around the New World, often with her friends, having many an adventure along the wayâ¨
Nana is currently my favorite "throw head first into situations" oc, where I throw her at literally any/every thing and one that will tolerate her. So far her situations include uhh (checks notes):
'Getting trapped in a twisted fey circus, both her and her cats wrapped up in and transformed by it's glamor, wholly convinced she was one of the circus performers and loving every moment of it (only to later escape with only blurry, twisting memories of her time there)
Being forced to participate in the fighting rings of Khepri's estate, where she only barely managed to win back her freedom and book it out of there
Continuously being hunted down and hit by a truck being driven by this fuckass eldritch creature man thing named Purple Guy. No matter where or how deep she is in the woods, he just keeps seeming to find her. Where the hell did he even get a truck from?? How does he keep finding her?? Who even knows
Being one of the live channels Ether, old world god of chaos, likes to tune into because he hates lesbians and loves seeing this random little girl suffer for it (Ether is Purple Guy's patron god and YES he keeps telling him where to find Nana, and uses magic to keep his truck infinitely running so long as he keeps hitting Nana with it)
Being hunted down by various cat people because her powers mean they tend to be, by default, weird about her, and able to sense her from a few miles off
Stealing various things from various people and making many enemies along the way. My little kleptomaniac,,
Looking for her father, on the off chance he may still be alive...
Anyways, here are some of her (incomplete rn) circus outfits:
My fun fact about Nana is that she is a very, very old oc of mine who was originally a Madoka Magica oc lmao
Turning now to the previously mentioned, eaten by the woods dad, Miguel Perona â¨
Miguel wandered into the woods one day and ended up in a section of it where time and trees seem to stretch on forever-- wandering for some years before somehow being lucky enough to escape (perhaps even aided by something, or someone, he's yet to understand,,)
Since he escaped the woods, he's been wandering around the New World, searching for his daughter <3 They've had a few very close brushes by each other, including during Nana's fey circus arc, where they were finally able to reunite-- even if Nana wasn't able to fully recognize him, or remember their reunion after words, due to how wrapped up she was in the spell keeping her there
And so, when Miguel finally helped her to escape the circus, freed from the glamor and holding only the blurriest memories of her time there and the man that helped her to escape, they both set off into the woods yet again-- looking for each other, as they have been for so long, and heading in opposite directions
They'll reunite one day. Eventually.
Miguel is a follower of the smiling man :)
Oh? What's that? You're curious about Nana's little green friend? You want to hear more about them? Oh, well, if you insist,,
This is Viri !! His entire thing is that he's an omnipresent little boy and I love them so, so dearly. They're extra fun for me because if people talk to him ooc in roleplay channels (using )) ) he hears them as voices.
They were raised by the giant sloths of the swamp and can usually be found hanging out with the ghost pirates of the Spirit Seas when not actively wandering around the wilds. He's aware of mostly everything that happens in the new world, which can lead to some serious headaches (and some serious overinvestments in tragedies he can not interfere with, due to the restrictions placed upon his Forbidden Knowledge(tm)) He also gets physically sick if things in the world are retconned (with increasing intensity the more retconned events are related to him), or if enough people talk / plot evil things involving him or people close to him <3
Just like Nana and their friend Citrus, Viri got his powers after stumbling across the Heart of the Forest, and the magical lake that resides there.
Next up, drum roll please, we have our New World villain team of Adam, Albatross, and The Smiling Man
aka the new worlds most dysfunctional brainwashed family unit
First off: The Smiling Man and his pet sea-dog, Albatross
The Smiling man, or rather his shadow, is one of the many people aiming for New World godhood â¨
A mysterious man who seems to have appeared from nowhere, his entire existence is wrapped in mystery. Heâs been slowly but steadily arranging things for his bid for godhood for years now in the shadows -- gathering power, servants and connections under the table.Â
A few years back he finally landed on the god hunters radar, and theyâve been chasing after his trail ever since. Unfortunately for them, no one has ever seen his face, let alone known where his actual body is.
A cheerful bastard, the smiling man clearly has some sort of agenda -- though what exactly is unknown. He's always doing something, poking at someone, and he always has a goal. He's polite enough, always friendly, and unless you stand in the way of whatever his goals are he might even lend you a hand!
One of these people he's helped out before? Why, no one else but Miguel Perona! After all, venturing into a fey circus without getting caught up in its glamor is quite a feat, especially for a human.
Luckily the Smiling Man was there to help, which he did by giving him a heartroot (magical flower he seems to have invented, that granted Miguel power for a short time)-- a very ethically sourced thing, I promise. Definitely. Don't ask too many questions you don't want to know the answers to, Miguel
Since then, Miguel has been a follower of the Smiling Man! All in a good day's work :)
The Smiling Man is on bad terms with literally all of the current New World Gods-- from Death herself to the Tree of Life to even the newly budding gods of magic. This really comes down to the fact that he, for some reason, thought it would be a good idea to bind Albatross Seabat to himself as a servant.
See, when the Smiling Man was starting off on this 'road to godhood thing', he realized he'd need a good servant. Someone to act as his hands, when he existed in most spaces as just a shadow. And he was oh-so lucky as to find the perfect servant in the sleeping Albatross-- the son of the old world sea god, currently affected by a sleeping curse
It was no problem at all to put a simple puppeteering spell over Albatross, when the sleeping curse he had no way of fighting back, and since then he's been using Albatross as his hands-- shadowy projection constantly over his shoulder, commanding Albatross through adventures as the sleep-walking demigod does his bidding
Yeah, so, the reason why all the current new world gods hate the Smiling Man for binding Albatross is because they know this guy.
Albatross is the child of Frills, the sea god, one of the few remaining old world gods that managed to survive to the new world. He regularly talked with the old world gods, and was in fact a sort of big brother figure to multiple of the new world gods back when they were still little mortal kids. He had been missing, presumed dead, since the old world exploded-- lost and unable to find his way home, with the sleep curse and all.
So when the smiling man rolled up to the god convention like "yay can I sit at the big boy table?" They all IMMEDIATLEY took issue with his choice in puppet servants.
And unfortunately, The Smiling Man really did choose the perfect man for the job-- as even asleep, Albatross is a terrible force to be reckoned with. Maybe even moreso, as he isn't conscious enough to soften his blows against those he wouldn't otherwise humor harming. -- So The Smiling Man wasn't willing to unbind Albatross. Whoops, sorry!
(The Smiling Man is NOT allowed to sit at the big boy god table, get the FUCK away from them)
Anyways: Albatross art break to before the smiling man sunk his claws into him <33
I love this guy. He's definitely a Tsuki prototype btw and his mother, Sigil, was 1000% Haruka before Haruka existed and I just need people to know that.
And of course, last but not least, Adam Evelynn himself, living his best worst life of all of the lives he's had before! Oh how the other versions of himself would hate to see where he is now,,
Adam Evelynn, famed necromancer and all around rat bastard, like many others, was killed in the destruction of the old word. Also like many others, his soul got trapped in limbo after deathâ as with the closing of the realms, there was no way to pass naturally onto deaths realm. Especially for humans, who have a tendency to stick around as ghosts more than any other races
Cut to many decades later and the Smiling Man decides that while Albatross is a wonderful pair of hands for him to use, he needs someone a bit... more proactive? So the Smiling Man decides he's going to go all in and, instead of tying someone to him last time, raise someone into the role. Only he wants to make sure he raises someone who'll really be able to pull their weight, you know?
His solution? Find a soul with plenty of karmaâ good or bad, he didn't particularly care. The thought process was that, to have collected that much karma, they must have been someone of note when living.
And Adam Evelynn was certainly a soul with plenty of karma still clinging to him.
Anyways: Adam Evelynn, now Evelynn, was raised by the smiling man's voice, and Albatross' hands. He's the smiling man's first priest and head scientist :)
Evelynn is currently in charge of dissecting kidnapped corstess' (my custom race of people with crystal hearts, born in devotion to the tree of life), experimenting with their hearts, and then replanting them to be raised like he was-- cut off from the voice of their own god, and taught to worship The Smiling Man instead :)
Side note -> While I still don't know if the smiling man will succeed in his goal of true godhood, if he did succeed, I think he would be the god of lost and stolen things. A very apt name, considering all of his followers are things he stole, and the thing he tends to do most for those who pray to him is help them to find their lost things, people, and wishes.
I love Evelynn sm,, the first corstess he was made to dissect was Asa, his soulmate btw. He had no idea of their past life, or current life's connection, but it was definitely done on purpose. Gotta make sure to numb him to the horrors early, right? :)
Adam, cutting into his first humanoid body: wow I feel weirdly bad ab this for some reason
The Smiling Man, who can see some sort of soul bond between them: lmao yeah wild dw I'm sure that'll go away eventually :)
There's only one real corstess biology book out there and Evelynn wrote it when he was like 15 via dissecting Corstess'. Thank u for ur contributions to the scientific community, Evelynn.
Evelynn sees the Smiling Man and Albatross as his family, something that I'm sure will end wonderfully and not fill him with any complex feelings whatsoever when Albatross inevitably wakes up one day and doesnt remember him, despite having been the one to raise him.
Evelynn and his weird ass, "technically the smiling man is my father figure but also hes my god and boss and this mind-controlled shell of Albatross is my big brother/nanny whos one day going to wake up and leave me" family dynamic I love u,,
Hes going to crash out so fucking hard when the day comes
Ok that's enough lore for u guys, time for the speed round of just cool designs of my ocs that exist here uhhh--
The Star Demon (+Ether) are here !! Finally free and about to unleash chaos unto the world !! (Plus have a few messy reunions...)
Morose (+Lilitu) are also here !! Standing hand in hand as they ascend to the positions of New World Gods of magic and start a magic academy together !! Morose my beloved,,, my emo cringe fail son ,, hes all grown up now and has his own cool god titles and everything,,, fuck,,
KELP MY BELOVED <33333 The newest reincarnation of Sigil Seabat, the previously mentioned "Haruka before there was Haruka" character (And Albatross' mother, now three lives back) They are living their best life in the wilderness, wrapped in prophecy and blissfully unaware that they are partially to blame for the old worlds destruction
Anyways I hit the photo limit. So. [HERE] is my stars of the new world playlist, thank u for coming to my TED talk <33
