Kaly's basic breakdown of [Save Slot A] background lore!
(Under the cut because it's LONG)
Kingdoms
Most kingdoms are ruled by a monarchy of a reigning queen, or king in her absence.
There are many races of people on the planet besides humans. Think of the range from classic fantasy people like elves to people who have disco balls for heads. It can be very silly!
Each kingdom has a different species that hails from them, some with more than one native type, such as the Yokai Kingdom @as-above-rp has worked on with her oni character(s).
Each kingdom draws similarities to real world places like the human kingdom being mostly big city, like Chicago or New York, and other kingdoms like a hypothetical deep sea kingdom looking like Atlantis. It can draw from mythology and there's a lot of flexibility!
Most kingdoms teach Common in schools for communicating globally, but some kingdoms also have a native language.
My characters here are from the human kingdom! There's a variety of diversity within the kingdom as far as types of people go. There's regular ol' people with no abilities, mutants, and magic users!
Magic users typically tend to think of themselves as better than the average joe and leagues better than mutants, who most everyone kind of casually treat as sub humans. Crowley himself is a mutated human and being the kingdom defender, he's aiming to help ease tensions between different types of people.
Heroes and Villains
There's organizations of both heroes and villains who have come to agreements on what should or should not be allowed even within their own ranks. It's not a perfect system, but it reduces innocent casualties and prevents all out war, which would be bad for either of those organizations. Though it does not fully prevent conflicts if one side is determined enough.
All heroes are assigned an arch nemesis by the government of their respective kingdoms (lol there's an application process).
There are parallel tiers of power level to match villains and heroes in any given kingdom and it goes as follows: Villain = Hero
Street = Cadet
City = Guardian
County = Elite Guard
Kingdom Antagonist = Kingdom Defender
Global Threat = Legendary Hero
* So for real world equivalent, Crowley is, like, a general for his kingdom. The guy you call when shit's going down in a bad way. That being said, Mack's arrival for "business" is usually the shit going down in a bad way LMAO
Other Info
Crowley's family is pretty well known as a lineage of heroes. He, himself, is the 6th generation of bird-themed heroes to take up arms for Macro City. He's a mutant, having features and abilities from both sides of his family. He's always had low-light vision from his mom (and glowing irises), but has recently developed a magnokinesis type of ability from his father's side.
Mack's rise to villainy seemed to come out of nowhere. Total nobody turned someone you do NOT want to contend with (this mother fucker is SCARY. Brother eats people 😨). He's in a pact with a eldritch entity of death that grants him some form of immortality. Not much is known on record about hos this is possible.
* His right hand, second in command is @splinter-sister's Rachael, but designated for Slot A.
The queen of the human kingdom has been the same pretty face since the kingdom was founded. Not much is known about her, but she is ruthless if you cross her.
Magic users and mutants are distinguished from each other by the fact that magic users generate their powers from external sources (nature, solar power, etc), whereas mutants are the source of their own abilities.
The human kingdom has very advanced technology and sciences. Things like teleportation and hologram technology are well documented and known about by common folk.
The meta perception of the world is like looking into a video game/comic book. There are very game-like things that can occur such as power-ups and platforming obstacles! Though there are in-world explanations for a lot of those things and how they work too :)
I hope this helps explain some of the weirdness and world I've ripped these characters from, reshaped, and plunked them back into under my flavoring LMAO
