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[deathoftheindividuall]

why arent you laughing?

[brittanyearnestauthor]

Building Chaotic Worlds

World-building is one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects of storytelling. Crafting a chaotic world, where disorder reigns and corruption thrives, can add depth, intrigue, and tension to your narrative. To help inspire you, I’ve compiled a list of ideas for creating worlds filled with turmoil and uncertainty. Let’s dive in!

Chaotic World Examples

- Take Knowledge Away: In a chaotic world, the government or ruling power may systematically strip people of knowledge. Without understanding what’s right or wrong, the population becomes easier to manipulate and control.

- False Promises: Leaders might spread lies about a brighter future to gain trust while secretly enacting their corrupt plans.

- Control Over Bodies: Imagine a world where personal autonomy is restricted—healthcare is denied without approval, and essential services come with a heavy price.

- Travel Restrictions: Movement might be heavily monitored and limited. Checkpoints within cities or between states create an air of oppression and fear.

- Shopping Limits: Scarcity could be fabricated, restricting access to basic needs like food and clothing. This heightens desperation and dependency on the ruling power.

- Fake Shortages: Leaders might lie about shortages of resources like food or fuel, consolidating control while hoarding supplies for their own use.

- Blackouts: A sudden blackout blamed on external forces could lead to widespread panic. Leaders might use this as an opportunity to further tighten their grip.

- Manufactured Disease: Introducing diseases into the population could create chaos, making people reliant on the very leaders who caused the issue.

- Constant Surveillance: In a chaotic world, leaders would spy on everyone, ensuring no one can speak out or rebel without consequences.

- “Safety” Camps: Camps could be established under the guise of protection but used for control and monitoring.

- New Laws, Old Ones Abolished: Slowly dismantling freedoms by abolishing established laws and introducing new, restrictive ones ensures the population’s compliance over time.

- Lies as Truth: Leaders could feed the population false narratives to maintain power, knowing the truth would shatter their control.

- Population Control: A dark, dystopian twist could include deliberate reduction of the population—targeting dissenters or those deemed “undesirable.”

- Turning People Against Each Other: Divide and conquer tactics could cause factions to fight among themselves, redirecting attention away from corrupt leaders.

- Dire Living Conditions: Leaders might subject people to prolonged suffering, breaking their spirit and increasing their desperation.

- Illusion of Improvement: Once the population is at its lowest point, leaders might introduce slight improvements, making things seem better than before. The population’s faded memory of better times helps maintain the illusion.

- False Trust: Corrupt leaders might gain people’s trust by pretending to prioritize their well-being, solidifying control over their lives.

- A New Agenda: Leaders could introduce a new way of life, claiming it to be the solution to past problems. This allows them to mold the population into accepting their ultimate goals.

- Reversing Morality: In a chaotic world, evil becomes normalized. The leaders could convince people that traditional beliefs caused past disasters, leading them to embrace an entirely new—and sinister—ideology.

Conclusion

Writing about chaotic worlds is a popular and thought-provoking topic. While it can be challenging to craft such a world, the layers of complexity and conflict it adds to your story are worth the effort. This list is just the beginning—feel free to tweak or expand on these ideas to suit your narrative.

Happy writing!

[lilybug-02]

What are your headcannons for what happens when you fall asleep and dream in the dark world?

Mine are that you have a lucid dream that feels VERY real and looks very real and is just enhanced.

Ooooo. tbh I have some weird dreams in the regular world so if Darkworlds enhanced dreams and made them feel even more real...? OWO'' Oh boy. Get ready for some weird clowns and school anxiety.

but idk! I've never thought about it before!

[askdarkworlds]

Other than the 'What if Valla never fell' fanfic, do you have any other fics in the works? Might be an idea if you're getting stuck on Darkhearts..

Whooo boy. Yes I do..

Alright, so I gotta remind you all that these are just ideas. There likely won’t go anywhere.

A Corrin in the Awakening World AU: This would feature a Corrin that falls in love with one of the Awakening Trio and leaves with them back to Ylisse before the events of the game can happen. I’m leaning towards a Corrin/Selena pairing for this one, in all honesty, with the Plegia/Plegian culture I’ve already established. Hoshido/Nohr would discover this, and then…stuff happens.

Corrin Twins AU: This would be a revelation!AU where Mikoto could only save one of her children, whilst the other was left in Valla and raised by Anankos. The Vallite!Twin would act as a major antagonist, of course. At least to start.

A Grima as Corrin AU: Speaks for itself really. It would be another revelation!AU, where after their ‘final’ defeat in Awakening, Grima is reincarnated into Corrin. Obvious shenanigans ensure.

So tell me your thoughts on them, if any of them are of interest to you, or have ideas for them, let me know!

[artzom-b]

just doodles and a language i made up like 5 years ago

[askdarkworlds]

Why did the Awakening Trio stay in Nohr?

An interesting question!

The short version is that just after the end of the Plegia-Ylisse War (where Robin and Chrom died), Severa, Owain and Inigo basically bailed. I hinted at Lucina doing a great and terrible ‘something’ back in Darkworlds, which made the trio have no desire to stay.

Plus: Inigo’s home was burned down, Severa’s nation was all but wiped out, and Owain’s cousin did ‘something’ so bad that he practically rejects his family history.

In Nohr, Inigo, as Laslow, found a wife and had a daughter with her, and gained a Lord/King worth serving. Severa, as Selena, found love in the form of Camilla and Beruka. Owain, as Odin, gained friends in Niles and Leo(until he goes chasing after Morgan and Ophelia).

[auroraboringaliceinwonderland]

What do you think about the possibilities of there being infinite darkerworlds? Because the darkworlds have been places where inanimate objects exist as sentient beings. However they also have objects that they use.

What’s saying darkner objects don’t also have darkworlds - darkerworlds? And what if those darkerworlds have their own objects, therefore a darkererworld?

At some point are there worlds so dark that we have to bring math into the equation of their names like Darkererererworld²??

[thirdeyecomics]

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