#jsab lore

[tetraquark373]

Geometrika lore part 1.5 - the islands and the Farlands

Now, the Mainland is the main singular great continent of Geometrika, but that doesn't mean it's the only landform in this world...

As I mentioned previously in the last lore post, there are islands in a good plentiful of the sea subdivisions of the Octave Ocean, many notorious archipelagos being found, some even with their own history.

Examples include Aether archipelago, Inphernal archipelago, Metagraphos archipelago, and plenty others! After shapes originating in the Mainland, a few had traversed through the 7 seas, and progressively found these islands to slowly fund and build their societies around these. This wasn't a singular event, but rather something that had happened many many times in history, each migration having their own reason for happening. Another possible reason historians believe might have caused the origin of shapes in these scattered island groups is that during shape evolution, some lifeforms might have possibly grown out to reach said islands and archipelagos, causing shapes to origin there naturally and also build their societies from scratch, often being under the impression their nation(s) was likely the first.

Not all is so neatly and perfectly known about how shapes ended up here, but it is certain that not all of them were directly dependent on the Mainland, many even depending mostly either on their own self-sustaining economy or on commercial accords with other nations overseas. Plenty of said nations around these islands buy and sell from each other, shape travel being also mildly frequent depending on the region. Given the size of the Octave Ocean, shapes have found it more viable(especially due to resources) to simply maintaing their main form of overseas travel by boat - of any kind included here, even large sail ships.

What I really like about this lore bit personally is that some of these archipelagos are made by my friends! :D It's very open-ended >W<

Anywayersm, then we have the last bit of land to cover, which I believe me canz do here as well: the Farlands.

Now the Farlands are...not good, I'll tell you that. It is mildly a WIP for me, but essentially they look like a very irregular land terrain that reaches extremely high altitudes, possibly higher than any other landform in Geometrika. They are heavily dangerous lands, lurking with beastially gigantic wild monsters of all kinds and size, heavy and VERY unfriendly climate, ready to devour every passing traveler, and extremely ancient ruins, structures, heck even machines somehow...

As one might be able to tell, the Farlands are vast lands full of history to be told, yet they have become dead waste due to tragedies that have happened over time. A former batch of civilizations with potential far beyond measurable, now turned wasteland due to reasons yet to be explained...

A good plentiful of the shapes that do inhabit the Farlands are also corrupts, likely the majority of them.

As mentioned previously, the Trig Tree provides sustenance and life to the entire world of Geometrika. The Farlands are...literally far away from the Tree, in fact, so far away that the land has grown dead and dim due to such.

Lastly I would have to finish off Geometrika geography by explaining the Space Civilizations, but due to that being a heavy WIP, I'll leave that for another moment ^^; In any way, with these final locations, this finishes section 1 of the Geometrika lore, the geography! In the next post I'll introduce the next section :3

To find the previous Geometrika lore post, click here! To find the next Geometrika lore post, click here!

[shatteredpastsjsabau]

ough. go my crackship

PFFFFTTT was not expecting this omgosh I love it XD

Anywho to answer your question about their ages further…..

Good luck trying to understand this bc I wrote this at midnight lol

🟠Kai - ???

♻️Clover - 850yrs old

⚠️Tiff - 550yrs old

💠Cyan - 50yrs old

🟪Lilac - 0yrs old - SP

(Or around 20yrs old) - ASOT

🔘Blixer - 36

(Or around 56yrs old) -ASOT

Kai - 5th

- Nobody knows his age bc he’s so old. Can’t remember his first birthday but can remember the adoptive shapes that took care of him first

- Celebrates his adoption day as his birthday but makes a bigger deal about the other Hero’s birthdays

- Lived through the beginning of Paradise so is a few decades old…

Clover - 4th

- Born a few hundred years after Kai

- Kai takes care of Clover and starts to construct a palace to protect the Tree of Life

Tiffany (Tiff) - 3rd

- Born 300 years after Clover

- Palace is completed before her birth sometime

- She is the first girl Hero born

Cyan - 4th

- Born 500 years after Tiff

- The Heroes took care of the “Chrome Incident” and took Blixer prisoner as a child. Once the Heroes came back Cube had found Cyan and alerted the Heroes. Cyan’s birthday is a bittersweet day…

Lilac - 5th

- Born 30 years after Cyan

- Shattered Pasts AU: Lilac is born 0yrs old but has a fully grown body but and undeveloped mind

- A Story Once Told AU: Lilac is born 0yrs old BUT was taken in by Blixer and was raised until the story takes place when she’s around 20yrs old

Blixer - Somewhere in between

- Taken prisoner when he was around 6 years old. When Lilac is born, he is about 36 years old, but his cell has slowed down his aging so he’ll live longer

- A Story Once Told AU: He doesn’t look a little old until after the 20 years he raises Lilac and… stuff happens…

IN CONCLUSION!

Heroes grow up then just stay alive. They’re kinda like elves where they have an unlimited lifespan because no Hero has died of natural causes yet. But they can still die from other things if they’re hit hard enough… They don’t have any physical aging as time passes. Takes around 20 years for them to become fully grown, but about 100 years to fully develop mentally.

I still want to keep things vague on their ages in the comic itself because in this time period that the story is written in I feel like the entire AU acts like a fairytale/myth

(hence the name to A Story Once Told AU haha-)

[shij-ko0]

Alright I realise I should probably yap more about my interpretation of the pink corruption™️

So… what does corruption do?

When a shape gets corrupted, their emotions intensify, becoming more unstable and intense. It usually comes out from what the shape was originally struggling/have problems with. For example, if they have anger issues, the emotion “anger” would become much greater— they will become more violet, aggressive and hotheaded. It goes the same way for guilt, pride, envy, apathy etc. Additionally, any negative traits the shape has would be further intensified, making them more difficult to deal with. From this, you could say that corruption really brings out the worst in an individual, making them an “evil” version of themselves.

Of course, let’s not forget the body mutations corruption can cause… when a shape gets corrupted, they would get a range of mutations, such as:

-spikes growing all over their body

-Additional limbs

-A more animalistic/skewed appearance

-A more enhanced version of their abilities

-New features that weren’t there before

etc.

Can we get along with Corrupted people?

I mean, you can. However it would take time— especially when a shape has been freshly corrupted. Shapes that have been corrupted for a while have managed to keep their mental state and abilities on check, but fresh corrupteds? You can bet that they’re a lot more erratic, and very unstable. It puts a lot of stress on them, abilities can be explosive due to the body being unable to take the pink energy, causing great damage to anything around them. A good example for that is Cube.

Shapes that have been corrupted for a period of time are more calmer, able to have a clearer thought process and have better control over their powers. While they might be easier to negotiate or become allies with, they would be more rigid and harder to outsmart. In fact, they can be manipulative, intelligent and be outright evil, even— making them much harder to trust.

Examples of shapes that have been corrupted for a while: Try This, Ying(oc), Lycan(kind of) and etc…

Do Pure-born pink shapes exist?

I……. Honestly have no idea. I’m still figuring that out tbh- I remember reading an au, where that in their interpretation, corruption occurs when a shape gains enough power from the tree or smth, causing their colour to go haywire, which is what happened with Blixer… I think it makes sense! I like the idea, but I’m not going to steal it ofc.

Shapes that fit this classification are: Blixer, Barracuda, and Macabre.

Blixer? Most likely.

Cuda? I feel like he is one as well.

Macabre is a special case, though— she’s more of the Paradise’s version of a grim reaper. She’s kind of like a deity class shape, like the tree…

What happens when shapes get purified?

Well when shapes get purified, they revert back to their original self! It’s easy to uncorrupt someone, just feed them the tree’s essence(aka those small triangles you see in the level) and they’ll be back to normal in a bit. However, you’d have to force them first, which is easier said than done… Anyways, that’s what normally happens. However, there’s just one thing—

There’s a chance for a shape to be not fully purified.

It’s a rather special case, and the chance of it happening is uncommon. It occurs if the energy of the triangle is not enough to cure the corruption completely, causing remnants of corrupted energy to remain in the shape’s core. This is called being partially corrupted! Usually it could be “hard” to tell whether a shape is partially corrupted as they don’t feel any symptoms for the first few hours, but a tell-tale sign is the pink splotches on their body. Later on, the shape would report feeling weaker and more drained. This is because the corruption remnants are eating away at their energy.

As corruption creates a more evil-version of a shape manifested in physical form… being partially corrupted grants that as well. Instead, the corruption takes form as an “alter ego” in their head. The alter ego would torment its host, mocking, bullying and making fun of them, wearing down the host’s mind until it is weak enough for it to fully take over. When that occurs, the partial corrupted becomes a fully corrupted.

When the alter ego forms, the host would experience a multitude of things:

-Seeing hallucinations of their corrupted self, usually in mirrors or reflective surfaces.

-Hearing voices in their head, mainly from their corrupted self trying to speak to them.

-Feeling more weak, tired, and worn down. They might experience headaches, body pains and appetite issues.

While having an alter ego may be exhausting, it is possible for the host to make peace with their corrupted self. In some cases, when able to work together with their alter ego, more experienced individuals are able to utilise it to their advantage. For instance, they could let their corrupted self take over when needed for a greater advantage in battles, then regain control after. Additionally, partially corrupted shapes are given access to their corrupted abilities, although it may be a more weakened version of them.

Anyways, yeah. The more you know about corruption in my au!

[jsab-historyrenewed]

Is this a prequel to Corrupted Bond specificity? If so, I found some obscure lore about the past, where the pure shapes were originally known as the Frore (blue) and the corrupted shapes were originally known as the Torrid (pink).

My comic is not a prequel to Corrupted Bond, however that is an interesting little tidbit of lore!

My comic WAS inspired by Corrupted Bond though, alongside other comics such as Close To Your Heart, JSAB:H, It's Over For Me, and Uncorrupted Minds!

I will say in my AU, the past pure shapes were simply called Daystrikers, and the "Corrupted" were called Nightfallians.

[cr1spy-s0da]

*posts this for Mothers' Day and goes back under their rock*

I hope this would spark up anyone who wants to know the story in this blog ^^

-Crispy Mun

Find me at @thinking-outside-the-giftbox18, my main account ^^

[tetraquark373]

You said I wasn't sending enough asks so here we go I guess

Again for no particular reason other than just curious:

Since in ya lore your Tree connected you/Nate and Zeno, can they like.. sense each other's presence within a certain radius of each other? Is there any magical implications to that?

Or is it more of an emotional/spiritual thing? kind of like platonic soulmates or something-

I did not think of detecting each others' presence that-...that's actually a really peak idea ngl 0<0

Like, basically they can "read each other's mind" if both agree to it at a given moment, allowing them to literally communicate telepathically(like a phone call but between their minds). In some sense, provided there is a spiritual layer to Geometrika, it is, in fact, more so spiritual and emotional(like the platonic soulmate thing yea TwT)

Though, there are magical implications, yes! :D

Primarily given their shape types. I'm still gonna make a post to detail that lore bit, but basically, as of being a (half) starborne, Nate has some abilities that may heavily affect his body (AKA "going supernova"). Zeno can sense when said abilities are used, and may at times tap into these same powers, though usually involuntarily as a consequence of Nate activating it.

Likewise, the same can happen the other way around, but I still haven't given Zeno's shape type(beast shape) any abilities of such proportions.

An interesting note is that their connection does depend on radius, but can still remain strong if they're both thinking of each other very strongly. Say, both are LITERALLY at max distance apart in all of Geometrika - they can still communicate mentally through their connection thingy.

There are likely many other things I'm off to set regarding this "Tree connection", though at times it might depend on the AU! Most of this info counts to my own AU, but I've used it in plenty of RPs too! :D

Also maybe the connection isn't just platonic btw...at least not in some AUs it's not TwT

[jsab-historyrenewed]

do pure shapes have a social pyramid? Like are flowers or triangles or whoever else at the bottom or all of them are equal?

There is a social pyramid yes, but it's not defined by their shape type. Instead rather by social status! However that doesn't mean the ones lower are treated unfairly.

[shij-ko0]

Can you give me jsab lore °v°

Uh-

Have you wondered about the morality of corruption? When a shape becomes corrupted by pink energy, their personality becomes warped, their name changes, and they gain new abilities. You might say they’re the same person appearance wise, but mentally, are they the same person?

Sure, their corrupted personality is linked to their pure personality, because corruption intensifies their negative emotions and flawed traits. But due to circumstances, if a shape ends up staying corrupted permanently, do they start missing themself? They look around— they see the things that they used to partake in, their joys, their loved ones— but it was the memories made by a person that used to be them. Their loved ones miss the uncorrupted version of them. Do they ever regret being corrupted? Do they feel guilt?

It’s like the ship of Theseus. Even though you’re the same ship, many parts of you had been replaced that it would be considered a new one.

If you’re forced to become someone else entirely thanks to a fucked up virus… you’d end up losing yourself. That’s what makes it terrifying.