Cause like? Here we are? Assuming our Reincarnated Children AREN'T living in Interesting Times™ before they die? And that's no fun~! We should be giving that kid anxiety! Some pre-packaged heart demons! Maybe a twitchy murder finger!
A deep, DEEP seated loathing for Demonic Cultivators and, specifically, their undead minions.
You picking up what I'm setting down? ( • ̀ω•́ )✧ yeah~, that's right!
Zombie Apocalypse.
OC got lucky, originally, was out in the middle of nowhere, camping. Yes... lucky. Oh so very, very "lucky". She had supplies. She had shelter. Everything she'd need for the coming days. Oh, and a front row seat... to watch as everything fell apart.
Got to sit, miles and miles away, and listen, over the phone. As her family sobbed and screamed. Terrified and confused. Chaos, wet gurgling and ripping. The crunching of broken things and mindless groaning in familiar voices. Yes... so very lucky.
She didn't have to watch it.
Just listen.
See the news stations fall, one by one, as cities were over run. Watch as news sites stop updating. As infrastructure starts to fail and her connection begins to get spotty. Then, inevitably, as figures start to shuffle along the horizon. Mindless and wandering.
Like everyone else who survives those first terrible days, there is a steep learning curve. One she barely survives. But... she does. And that matters. She makes friends. She watchs them die. Keeps her promise, made again and again, that they won't come back. That she won't let them hurt anyone.
Civilization falls, yes. But it comes back. It always has. She finds her way to a city state. Prays for the day that "the billions" will end. Cause, after all, they say that if they're careful? Eventually the infection WILL die out. They just gotta contain it. Keep looking for a cure.
Hope is a stubborn thing.
But zombie swarms don't care about hope. They hunger. And what is the city, if not a shell waiting to be cracked? Like tides, they come. Slamming against the walls. Again. Again. AGAIN.
One day... one of the fuckers finds some weak point they must have missed. A breach. They start pouring in. Oc is on wall duty. OUTER wall duty. There are rings, because things like this might happen and everyone planned for the worst.
She's part of the team that stays behind.
Trapped between the second wall and the outer wall, trying to drive them back. Seal the gap. Cover fire rains from above. Each step, a hair from nashing teeth and clawing hands. There are so many. So, so many.
Too many, in the end. At least for her.
She's separated from the group.
A death sentence.
So fast...she barely feels being torn apart.
It's strange. The sky was so blue that day. Beautiful, really. Felt out of place for hell on earth. It was the last thing she saw. Endless... so beautiful and endless. She... she had just enough time to realize what was about to happen. To think "ah...", feel this strange... calm, settle deep.
That it would finally all be over. To end like this.
How unfair.
Oh well... at least she get to-
Then she's fucking blinking and there's a GOD DAMN ZOMBIE.
Naturally, she hit it with a wok. She was unaware there WAS a wok near-by. And also? Why is she in a kitchen? Like... an OLD as fuck one? But also not old? Clearly used one. Feels vaugly like the ones people rigged up during the early days... but like... not. And also Chinese. Questions for later!
Wait. No. Why the FUCK is she a ZYGOTE?! *flexs tiny "baby" hands* *is actually like 8* Ah... so she's in hell. Well fuck you too, god. I guess.
There is a scared child scream.
Religious crisis later! Zombie smashing now! She finds one trying to claw into a cabinet. Smart kids! Trapped themselves, but still! Smart. Good to put a barrier between themselves and the zombie. She crushes its skull with the wok. Rescues her... sib..lings? Oooh that's a weird head rush.
Okay, not hell. God just thinks they're fuckin FUNNY. I see how it is.
Well I'm about to be hilarious. (New life motto:Get!)
OC proceeds to Experienced Zombie Fighter her way through several houses. Rescuing who she can. Calls a retreat. Gets everyone to a defensible location. Oh joy, back to the swewers. She did NOT miss this.
Turns out? Town is being attacked by a small Demonic Cultivator sect. They brought zombies.
She's about to bring pain. Who the FUCK weaponizes ZOMBIES. Wanna uses nukes for a fist fight next? You idiot!? You ABSOLUTE BAFOON?! Is setting aside that whole "cultivation sect" thing to freak out over later.
(What? Like her neighbors old web novels? Those Xanxia things that he loves to talk about? Misses like crazy cause no one can find any physical copies of stories like that, here in the west?)
(...could...could find.)
OC starts to fuckin Ambush Predator them. You learn to fight dirty, in the apocalypse. Cause there ARE bastards out there. And not everyone was willing to be a decent fuckin human being. You're "cultivation" or whatever isn't gonna do SHIT, if you're too concussion to use it!
Blow to the head! Slit the throat before they recover.
Move on to the next one.
Kill as many fuckin zombies as you can along the way.
It is AS she's doing this? Somebody just sorta? *Yoink* scruffs. This small, filthy, murderous child? Sassy and immediately tries to stab them? Good reflexs! Taking that knife though. It's clearly cursed. Who gave you that? Did you take that from one of the demonic cultivators? Honestly, next time just use a kitchen knife. You don't know where their knives have been!
Blinking, she stops struggling to actually look at the adult holding her in air jail.
Huh. Bright colors. Doesn't seem to be on Team Zombie. Better check. Oi! How do you feel about Zombies? "Utter abominations. A crime against the dead." Oh, hey~! A reasonable and well adjusted adult! Hi~☆! ( ^-^)/"
Is her complete 180 from vicious, seething, hell child to calm and agreeable young lady mildly off putting? Yes. But, meh. The Cultivator thinks it's kinda cute. He bets she bites. Adorable.
Him and HIS team are here to murder the Demonic Cultivators and purge the Zombies. Wanna come with him? You have a talent for killing things. And, you know, a spiritual root. Mostly the first one. A fine quality! Good for ALL sorts of terrible demonic nasties. I'm assuming your parents are dead?
....wow. You're really bad with kids.
So I've been told! Is that a yes?
Only if oc can either bring her siblings or, should they not have spiritual roots, you help her arrange something equally beneficial. And just like? Rest of his team? Find him calmly debating with this filthy, blood covered child? That he's just? Holding directing out in front of him at eye level by the back of her shirt?
She's just hanging there from his grip. He looks quitely thrilled.
Oh... oh no. Who let him around a child? He traumatizes children! Why IS THAT CHILD COVERED IN BLOOD!? Shixiong what have you DONE!? (Adopted! Presumably! This IS how one obtains children, right?) (NO!!!)
is it a symptom of psychosis or similar if my brain tries to make me see things that arent there and there is nothing there but my brain wants to see something as in i have two images one of the outside and one inside my mind and inside my mind-image there is the stuff that doesnt exist but i have the outside image to compare and i can tell that that isnt real. please tell me this makes sense
No yeah I've had hallucinations feel like that. Like you're seeing two layers of the world at once. Like if you held a kaleidoscope up to just one eye
how do i persuade my friends and loved ones to stop insinuating i am more than one girl? i have checked and it really is only me here.
It's good to hear that you have explored and entertained the possibility from what it sounds like, and telling them firmly that you did in fact try and have come away with a better understanding of yourself as a singlet should by all means be enough for people who care about you to stop nagging you. Wishing you luck in whatever follows.
I'm deeply fascinated on how much, if any, humans played a role in this game. At the least, that's the vibe I'm getting with the gradual hints the game has been stating throughout.
Not only does this game take place in some human's backyard, the bugs acknowledged their presence, calling them "Masters" of the domain they live in. They use past tense, indicating the humans have since left. Either they just moved out or something happened to kill them all.
The Day of Awakening is supposedly connected to these "Giants" which is pretty clearly humans, them having left these mystical crystals in place that has been the bugs' main source of boon, mysteries, and shortcomings.
It begs the question: what on earth did these humans do that triggered this event?
