#during armageddon

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Time for Tropes: Body Horror

This is a horror trope I have been exposed to early in my life, mostly through Cartoon Network shows. Whenever I want to spook myself I’ll imagine monsters with decayed bodies, but teratomas and embryo-like forms are other flavors of ugly I like.

During Armageddon - Happens all over the place during the reign of the fallen angels. After billions of years of desolation, the angels finds pleasure in remaking organisms, especially humans, into their twisted image. Lesser demons are guarantied to have pitiful forms (such as mummies that can only eat by shoving rotting waste into their ruptured abdomens) but even greater demons can have gruesome appearances (like predatory horses with five extendable tongues and detachable jaws). And that is just the fauna, there is plenty of mutagenic microbiota and poisons that can warp demons even more.

Duck Avenger: Earth’s Galactic Era - Advanced nanotech can be used for drastic body changes. Organisms altered by weaponized or malfunctioning nanites are truly the work of nightmares. There’s a good reason why this tech is so strongly regulated.

Amazon B.E. - With most Terran nations possessing superadvanced biotech, it is a given that a few bad apples have used it to control and torture others. And some people invert this trope by having their bodies dramatically altered the consensual way. Madame Darkayda are one of these people and she wants to turn into something that wouldn’t look out of place in ”Berserk”.

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Time for Tropes: Fallen Angel

I agree with Bogleech that fallen angels can be fascinating horror characters, more specifically as Tortured Monsters. Even if the rebel angels might have been wrong, I still think that eternal damnation is a little too harsh. Feeling such an unfathomable loss, there’s no wonder why such angels lash out at the rest of creation.

During Armageddon - These are the progenitors of demonkind. Most of them were originally nothing more than mere art equipment to the Cosmic Designer until there was a bug in the system, this bug being free will or at least a cancerous autonomy. These angels tried to wrench creation away from the Designer, but they were defeated and sealed away in a desolate dungeon-universe where they were cursed with having relatively inferior forms waiting out the eons. This all changes when the Apocalypse is triggered...

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Time for Tropes: Our Angels Are Different

From the beginning I thought angels were just boring preachy guys but after some time reading TV Tropes, I see them in a new light. They’re most interesting when they manifest as surreal things or forces but even humanoid angels can be interesting if they possess interesting psychology.

During Armageddon - They are the creative agents of the Cosmic Designer and are basically living programs that adds physical laws, dimensions, life and less comprehensible qualities to the creators universes. Metaphysically an angel is composed of an ontology core defining their physical function in a universe. On its own it is just an abstract code but working together with other ontology cores, angels can physically define each other, with each angel having traits borrowed from the others (for example, an angel defining time can have a material form defined by a matter-angel which in turn can undergo aging defined by the time-angel). Angels can be so complex that they can manifest multiple elemental wills which embody different expressions of their physical functions (an angel of psionics could have an elemental will of pyrokinesis).

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Time for Tropes: Magical Underpinnings of Reality

The fun thing with the fantasy genre is that you can completely change the ways physics operate, allowing for very diverse worlds rich in novelty. This trope is especially interesting in that it is basically a metaphysical ecology if most or all aspects of reality are dependent on the interactions of supernatural beings.

Gazing Starlight - The stars are giant burning eyeballs watching the Earth as they orbit it (the universe is geocentric) and the Earth itself is a breathing creature that feeds on the starlight. Ebb and flow is caused by giant orifices on the seabed inhaling/exhaling water.

During Armageddon - all laws of physics in a universe are implemented by angels. Angels are basically living programs whose presence in a universe defines what properties it will have.

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Time for Tropes: And I Must Scream

This must be one of the scariest tropes for me. Especially when I have OCD thoughts about suffering an eternal, painful fate in the future. And I hope that by writing about hellish existences in my worlds, I will have control over that fear.

During Armageddon - this is the plight of demons called Larvae. They’re humans that’s been warped into especially pitiful and helpless forms such as slithering embryos or faces on the backs of crabs. They tend to be on the bottom of the food chain, with some of them being used as livestock or pets by more abled demons.

Gazing Starlight - there are many flavors of torture a person could suffer through in this world. One bizarre fate is to be buried alive and pressurized into a gemstone. The followers of one philosophy believes even the afterlife is like this and are thus desperate to escape death, with some of their attempts leading to just a painful existence.