#nexverse tidbits

[the-nexverse]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! what does Donovan think of zombie movies?

he will give you the STINKIEST EYE EVER. finds them super cliché and boring and worst of all *gasp* INNACCURATE!!! same with pirate movies (cough cough PotC cough). this man is happiest when watching historically accurate documentaries. i just realised he's a history nerd lol, but he tends to forget a lot of things due to dead brain. like he will correct you on something you say wrong about pirates for example, but he won't remember where he got that information. he just knows it, wether he learned it during his life or last week while reading encyclopedias at the library

thanks for the ask!!

[the-nexverse]

Hello Nex, happy storyteller saturday! Can you tell us a bit about Lexi from the Modern Monster World?

happy STS!! yes of course :D

her full name is Alexandra Conway, she's on her late 20s. she studies how language is affected by things like the internet and memes (idk what that would be called, i'm terrible at searching these topics haha). she also works weekends at a gas station on the outskirts of the city she lives in, one of these 24/7 stations with snacks, dirty bathrooms and questionable magazines. in fact, that's where she met Donovan! he kind of saved her ass from getting robbed one time, and after that, she wanted to become friends with him; she's not the type to get easily dissuaded

she's energetic and somewhat stubborn, very passionate too. she's part of a polycule with other 3 partners, Stella, Cynthia and Rufus. i haven't developed these guys yet so they're not in the OC list... for now

thanks for the ask! ˆˆ

[the-nexverse]

Cahir is basically feral. he bites and claws, growls, bathes only when extremely necessary, eats like a pig, and a long list of et ceteras. i don't even know how he manages to do the Thalmor infiltration mission without ripping his party clothes off and starting to bite people and causing a mess. imagine dressing up a polar bear in clown clothes

hang on that gives me an idea i could make him a werebear

i will think about this

[the-nexverse]

Happy Storyteller Saturday, can you tell us more about Vreytrus from Aequitas? I ask because when you reblog foresty posts with #vreytrus I'm like ooo... good aesthetic...

happy STS!! ohh boy where do i begin--

so Vreytus is technically the main character of Aequitas, but the world is so big i have other stories with other characters in mind planned within the same universe lol. Aequitas is so big in my head it could easily fit a videogame saga, a book series, so many comics and a long list of etceteras lmao, even tho i'm very much aware i don't have the skills to pull any of these off ;;W;;

okok. so: Vreytus. Vreytus is a chimeralma (or aethernal, new fae term for quimeralmas), which is an amalgamation of souls that took physical form as a new creature and is in touch with the energy flow of the circle of life and death, making him immortal and giving him an infinite source of mana to cast any spells. which is very useful in a world where magic has been surgically removed from 95% of the planet. as a chimeralma, he's very attuned to nature and wants to restore the flow of vis naturae (visna) (natural magic) (think of it as another element of nature) in the world. he's made it his personal mission to do so. he has huge respect for everything related to nature, and that's why i tag so many natural posts with his vibes, specially if they have some mystical aura to them. i can perfectly imagine him walking through misty woods... putting his hands on trees to feel life course through them... respectfully bowing down to animals that cross his path... nature is his domain, where he feels more comfortable, where he feels like he belongs the most

hope this helped understand him a little more! ^^

[the-nexverse]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! Who kidnapped Ryan for a decade and why?

hiii happy STS!

okay so this is a heavy, heavy WIP, so i don't have like, names nor well-defined plot because i don't really know how to write it and make it good hahah

so. Ryan Drake. he moves to fictional US, tries to become a lawyer, fails miserably, gets disilusioned with the system and decides to do something about it. he finds a patron and starts "fixing" things in the background: he investigates politicians and uses coercion and blackmailing to force them to do their jobs properly

of course, this creates a lot of enemies as his plan crescendos, and eventually the bigger fish get bothered enough for them to put aside their differences and deal with their common enemy before he dethrones everyone. so they craft a plan to kill him, but the thing is that they don't know what kind of plans he might've created behind their backs; they're convinced that Ryan must've developed some kind of failsave in the events of him disappearing, so instead of killing him, they keep him alive and try to pry all the information about his organization out of him so they can uproot all his plans without having to worry about consequences

so they try to force him to talk. and they fail again and again. he feeds them wrong information, he manipulates them to fight amongst themselves, he's basically dancing around them, or at least he does during the first months of his capture. as time passes, he loses steam and energy to oppose them, and the people who captured him slowly lose interest and forget about him too. isolation ends up breaking him after years in captivity, and even after he escapes, there's only a husk left of his former self. he spends some years hiding and healing in Mexico before he contacts Agnes and they reunite. at that point, it's been almost a decade since he disappeared, and everything he had built up in his organization is long gone, so there's no hope of returning to that plan anytime soon. that won't stop him from wanting to exact blind revenge on the people who captured him, though. he tries to kill the person in charge of dealing with him but Agnes stops him, convincing him to give up and forget about everything before he ends up dead. and that would be the end of his story

hopefully that clarifies a bit about what happens in Todo Lo Que Sube!

thanks a lot for the ask mwah

[the-nexverse]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! What does Raz think of various werewolf films?

happy STS!

Raz hasn't had the opportunity to watch a lot of movies so you'd have to show him a bunch of them for him to form an opinion. here i have to warn you that i myself haven't recently watched werewolf movies either, so my take might be a bit flat too "^^

i can see him have mixed feelings about them; depending on which movies you show him, he might think that they either contribute to negative monster stereotypes or the representation lacks key elements of real werewolf experiences. he'd be the kind of person to ask "did they have any werewolves in the writing team for this?". he's the type to deeply analyse and question and ponder the things he sees

on the other hand, he'll be delighted to watch a movie that accurately portrays the nuances and experiences of werewolfism, and will enthusiasticly engage in the narrative and themes of it. he's the quiet, philosopher kind :]

thanks for the ask!!

[the-nexverse]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! A question about Todo Lo Que Sube; what is the dark past that Ryan is dragging around?

(refering to this post)

in the post that i tagged as Ryancore i was imagining arc 4 Ryan, when he escapes his prison and reunites with Agnes, but after being trapped for basically a decade he's gone quite mad, wanting revenge for the things he had to live while trapped above any rational thing. the dark past mentioned would be the growth and rise of the underground empire he built during arc 2, aka his golden age. he commited and orchestrated a lot of crimes while he was in charge of his organization; that's the past he drags alongside him and won't let him go, even after he's deterred from exacting revenge on his captors

in his story, he doesn't really have a dark past before he starts his crime sindicate. he was just a lawyer-in-the-making that moved to the US to escape Spain's Civil War

thanks for the ask!!

[the-nexverse]

Happy STS! October is coming up! What do your OCs do to celebrate spooky season?

as always, i'll be using my picker wheel to choose five OCs at random

also oops answering this in november. better late than never i guess lol

Ryan: he's too busy living his story to celebrate. BUUUT. i'm dragging him out of the story for the sake of this ask. he'd be too busy working for celebrating- NOPE I SAID NO WORK. hmmm. he considers himself too mature for trick or treating or costumes, so i think he'd just go bar hopping for the night

Lee: FREE CANDY EVERYWGHERE??¿??? he'd end up with a tummy ache if he weren't a magical animal lmao. eats alllll the candy, wrapper included. post-halloween food comma and nausea assured

Agnes: gets drunk. alternatively and more importantly more healthily Eric invites her to Léan's school costume party and she gets some eyebags and fake blood painted in her face. she looks at herself and thinks "that's not how blood looks". Eric tells her to let it slide

Lewis: oh he LIKES festivities. probably dresses up as a mad scientist (classic, low effort) or as a specific scientist he's studied about, or could dress up as a concept he's studied about, or an animal he's studied. reminds me of Sheldon Cooper (i know, cringe) when he dressed up as the doppler effect. something nerdy on those lines :]

Bug: they don't need a costume. probably attempts to get drunk (chimeralmas aren't really affected by poisons like other living creatures are) then crashes a party by transforming to its real form, caos ensues. alternatively, takes advantage of their small human frame to scare people on the streets, posing as a lost child to any human brave enough to approach and interact with them :)

thanks for the ask and happy belated halloween!! ^^ ✨