(I recently learned it’s a pillar of queer and alt/punk culture so I thought I’d ask)
“Sure!” Patchy says. “I used to watch it sometimes back when I was a kid — but I didn’t know about it being a pillar of punk culture! That’s quite neat…”
Orgon has heard things about it from Patchy, but doesn’t consume it in any form. He doesn’t watch television in general.
Clay nods enthusiastically. “Dude, I used to collect the comics,” they say. “Pretty sure they’re still in a box in my room somewhere.”
Pith shakes her head. “Never really got into it, apart from Clay showing me their comic collection. I should check it out though… I think I’d really like it.”
“Never heard of it,” Poly huffs. “Am I supposed to care?”
“I can’t say that I do,” Cal says. “I heard about it when it came out, but never really had time to look into it. If it really is a staple of queer culture, then you’ve caught my attention…”
There was the faint sound of struggling, a grumble coming from some far away corner. The sound was coming from an area that was visibly bugging and glitching out, the glimpses of a man trying to either come into their reality, or attempt to not come in.
This said struggle goes on for a while, the sounds growing increasingly more frantic before a hat suddenly appeared in the glitching corner. It lied still, before eventually, a... New face appeared. Well, a new lack of face.
A pained grumble escapes the man before they slowly stands, his movements jerky and almost forced as they tried to lean on anything nearby. Their limbs were glitching in and out from blocks to something human, before eventually stilling at the human-esque limbs.
'O-Oh, dear that.. was not the best travel I've had...' They say, their voice strained with the certain struggle. He turns his head towards the group of... Six? Five? Their vision is blurry. 'Hello? I- I can't tell where I am... The name isn't coming to me, and I don't... feel like I belong here. I feel too similar to what I were o-originally...' He says, reaching down for his hat and shakily putting it on. They lean in for a moment, trying to focus onto the group.
//HOPEFULLY THIS,, ISNT TOO LONG OF AN ASK,, ive been thinking about thiz for a while and i thought it be cool,,?? you don have to answer it, no worries!! <:3
Patchy is the first to greet the newcomer, bright eyes wide as she dashes over to him. "Oh my goodness, are you alright?" she exclaimed, moving within arms length of the stranger but not yet touching him in case he didn't want that.
Orgon turns to Cal skeptically, tilting his head and causing the younger man to scoff. "What?" he chuckles. "I don't know anything about this - how could I?" His easy smile remains steady as he, too, moves over to the stranger. "Is everything okay there, buddy?"
Pith stares at where the stranger had appeared, slowly turning her head to Clay. "I'm- I'm not seeing things, am I?"
Clay shakes their head. "Nah. That's real. That's a real thing. There's a planet. Standing right in front of us. Holy shit."
Poly simply stares, standing behind Clay and Pith like the coward he was, muttering to himself. "Holy shit... holy fucking shit, what the fucking fuck is that-"
//NO THIS IS AMAZING HOLY SHIT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK!!!!!!!
Hiii!!! I'm the mod of @the-demonic-people and I just want to say that your blog is so cool! I just wanna know, what's the plot of the blog and the story? I haven't properly checked the entire thing yet. Anyways, hope u have a nice day ^^
THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOODNESS
I should probably write down the plot, all I’ve done was give cryptic hints at it because I’m stuck in the purgatory of wanting to infodump everything but not wanting to spoil anything.
TWs: Implied forced relationship, manipulation, death (lots of it), cults and religious imagery, mentions of parental and domestic abuse, phobias, mental and physical disorders
So buckle up, ladies, gentlemen, neithers, boths, and in-betweens, for I present:
The Plot (TM)
It’s Patchy Skelter’s 18th birthday!!! This is wonderful and amazing cuz she has an incredibly dangerous disorder that makes her unable to feel pain. She wasn’t supposed to live this long, but she did!! Yippee for her!!
Clay is her bestiewestie. They get bullied by Poly, who is a dick. However, it’s not about that right now. Patchy has a birthday. Their life is wonderful. They go to a cool little venue in a restaurant/bar and play music with their band. Patchy is there. All is well in the world.
Patchy’s two father figures are there too — Orgon and Cal. They used to be gay. But they currently are gay?? Wowzers they’re working things out probably!! Patchy ships them because we love old man yaoi (is it still considered old man yaoi if they’re in their 40s). People also ship Patchy and Pith, the singer in Clay’s band, because we also love lesbians here.
Clay third wheels both Orgon and Cal as well as Patchy and Pith. They are sad about this.
Woah why is Orgon looking at Clay and Pith in a sussy way. It’s like he knows something strange but that couldn’t be. Eh it’s probably nothing. He hasn’t exactly been the same since a traumatizing car accident that happened two years ago on December 22, 2004.
Woah this is being described in detail!! Is it a major plot point???? (yes)
The next day, Clay sees Poly beat up. Insert concern because Poly’s mum is a notorious douchebag. Poly beats Clay up for caring about him, as one does.
Clay, still worried about Poly because they’re a good person, follows him home. Poly does a bit of a shouty shouty and it’s somewhat angsty. Suddenly Clay gets stabbed. By a needle. With a sedative. Held by Orgon.
Poly, appropriately, is like ‘what in the fuck I hated them but I didn’t want this to happen???’ So they try to call Pith (who they formerly had a shitty relationship with). She doesn’t answer. They go to Patchy who accuses them of attacking Clay and Pith. For once Poly had done nothing, and he leaves sadly.
Meanwhile Clay wakes up in a basement. So does Pith!!!! This is frightening. Pith undergoes panic attack so Clay tries to comfort her. Wait why the fuck is their hand glowing. Could this be MAGIC???? It’s like they’re SIPHONING IT FROM PITH??? WHAT???? Orgon looks pleased with himself. What is he plotting oh my stars.
Meanwhile, Patchy’s stressed over this. She calls up her father figures because Pith’s not answering and she’s really worried. Cal acts relatively normal. Orgon does not. Patchy begins to suspect something but it couldn’t be!! It’s not like her father figures were bad, right????
SUDDENLY PITH PICKS UP. Thank god. She sounds really traumatized so Patchy invites her over. They bond over Patchy’s love of crafts and talk about Poly. It’s revealed that Poly has NPD and has severe issues which is why he acts the way he does. He also worsened Pith’s schizophrenia during their relationship and ended up making her not take her medication anymore.
Pith wants to stay over but hOLY SHIT THERE’S ONLY ONE BED. The two sleep in it. It’s wholesome as fuck. Until Pith gets a nightmare. During the comfort, she opens up to Patchy about the main route of her problems — The Event (TM).
The Event (TM) reveals that Pith used to be a ghost hunter who was fascinated by the paranormal. She was walking through the woods when she heard a strange crash. Then she continued forward and stumbled upon a CULT??? In the sleepy town of Parabalis???? More likely than you think :D
Guess when this Event (TM) took place!!! (Hint: it’s December 22, 2004, aka the same date Orgon had his car accident.) Patchy freaks out at the same-date thing. Shit’s going down.
Clay’s still trapped in Orgon’s basement, not doing so good. They’re contemplating the existence of magic and wonder what the fuck they have. And Pith has had to deal with it this whole time??? No wonder she’s traumatized
Suddenly they hear a conversation from upstairs!! Wait Orgon’s actually SPEAKING??? He sounds like he’s being forced to. Weird. Wait, is that other voice Cal, Patchy’s other father figure :0 They sound gay but not in a good way. A suspicious meeting that Orgon has to go to is mentioned and cults are also mentioned and Clay’s like WTF. This is news to them. Holy shit this is a lot to take in.
More not-so-good-or-consensual gayness happens and then Orgon returns and is visibly Not Well. Clay tries to talk to him about Cal and then Orgon threatens him and now Clay’s frightened!!! But so is Orgon. Huh.
Orgon leaves the weapon he threatened Clay with in a place where they can somehow get it because he’s traumatized and can’t think straight. Clay escapes and when Orgon returns they beat the ever loving shit out of Orgon cuz Orgon’s lowkey a weakling. They pin him down and suddenly there’s a light in his cold dead eyes. Wait that’s snow. What the fUCK-
So it’s revealed that the magic Clay took from Pith was the ability to see into others’ memories. Time to reveal Orgon’s trauma now with this ability!!!!
Clay sees Orgon’s terrible car wreck and watches him straight-up die in a horrific way. Trauma!! Suddenly, Orgon is no longer dead!!! He wakes up incredibly frightened in the middle of a cult, run by Cal. :0
Apparently Cal has magic too — the ability to tamper with life and death and reverse either of those things. Therefore he straight-up believes he’s Jesus Christ. Lots of religious symbolism happens. This delusional man tells Orgon that he owes him his life now, and the life of Patchy because without Orgon, Patchy would be dead.
Clay pulls back to reality and is like ‘holy shit so you’re not bad, you just wanna protect yourself and Patchy from Cal. damn you could have TOLD ME INSTEAD OF BEING CREEPY ABOUT IT’. Orgon’s shit at telling people valuable information, but now we know that Clay has the ability to yoink the powers of Cal to end his reign of terror once and for all.
Anyways Clay, Patchy, and Pith all reunite and talk about what happened. Patchy is skeptical about the existence of magic so Clay uses his spooky memory powers. She sees a really wholesome memory of herself and Orgon being daughter and father and she cries. Then they team up to save Orgon with the Power of Friendship!!!
They go to where the cult is. Cal arrives late and starts talking about ‘a Judas among us’ or something. Hehe among us. Anyways he reveals how he knows about Orgon’s little experiments with the magical children. This betrayal will lead to DEATH!!! Orgon, who had been forced to go, finally expresses fear for once. Ugh I love my sopping wet cat of a man so much SORRY ANYWAYS
The gang burst in like ‘NOOOOOO’. The other cult members flee and it’s symbolic cuz everyone abandoned Jesus too. Lots of religious imagery when Cal’s around. Anyways Cal whips out a fucking gun and threatens the gang. There’s a large kerfuffle but Cal gets the upper hand and is about to kill people when suddenly he’s like ‘wait where tf are my killing powers’. Clay has them!!! They kill Cal. Everything’s good.
WAIT NO IT’S NOT PATCHY GOT SHOT LMAO. Orgon displays even MORE emotion cuz she’s the only thing he’s living for. Patchy ends up fucking dying but now Clay has the powers of Cal, so they can bring her back. Everyone has trauma now. But they’re all alive so it’s not that bad.
Then the plot dissolves into details that make it possible for me to make several sequels. Those I don’t wanna reveal for 1. spoilers and 2. I don’t have sequel details laid out. But yeah everyone gets a happy ending!!!
Sooo, we know about patchy, poly, and orgon's parents..
But what about pith, clay, and cal?
Ahem. YOU know about Patchy and Orgon’s parents cuz I YAPPED to you about them. In any case let me just have a full rant about everyone’s parents for funsies.
Patchy’s parents are divorced, and she lives with her mother, Jessica/Jesse. Jesse was friends with Orgon in college until he left to go to medical school, and when Patchy was born he was the first one Jesse went to in order to figure out things about her disorder. Jesse’s so fucking cool you don’t understand I’m writing about her and Orgon now and she needs actual screen time.
Orgon’s parents immigrated from Russia before he was born, and brought him up in a very sheltered way. He did not learn English for a good while because of this, until they threw him into boarding school. His father drank often, and was strict, to the point of occasional physical abuse, and his mother wasn’t too much better. They both died suddenly when Orgon was in college.
Clay’s parents give a fuck about things just as much as they do. They’re not inherently neglectful, but they don’t care as much about them as they do with their work and other things. They’re relatively supportive of their music career, however — their dad’s a big fan of the songs that their band makes.
Pith’s parents are trying their best. They’re older, and relatively old fashioned, so when Pith came out to them it strained their relationship a little. They weren’t exactly pitted against the idea of her being transgender, they simply didn’t understand why, and refer to her by her deadname often. When it came to her schizophrenia, they ignored the idea of something being severely wrong for long, at least until December 22, 2004 happened — they then began the process of getting her a diagnosis and medication. She’s pretty out of touch with them now.
We all know about Poly’s shitty mother.
Cal’s parents aren’t incredibly significant. His mother died when he was around 15, under quite mysterious circumstances — she had been ill for quite some time, and as Cal was visiting her in the hospital one day, he had simply longed for her suffering to be put to an end. He had had his hand settled over her heart then. Oddly, the sudden death hadn’t affect him as much as the circumstance in which it happened.
Clay: I hate how you're jus' born outta nowhere, and you're forced t' go to school an' get education so you can get a job. What if I wanted to be a duck? No one ever asked me if I want to be a duck!
Poly: Are pigeons drones?
Pith: What? No, I'm trying to sleep-
Poly: Think about it! How come you've never seen a baby pigeon? And why do you never actually see a pigeon nest? Because they're DRONES!
Pith: Crying Please just let me sleep…
Clay: You can't wake up if you never got t' sleep.
Poly: Go big or go home!
Pith: Please, for once in your life, just go home. I'm begging you. Go. Home.
Poly: I'm going big!
Patchy: Look at me straight in the eyes and tell me the truth, Pith!
Pith: You can’t expect me to look into your eyes and be straight.
Cal: Okay happy campers! If you were a fruit what would you be and why?
Clay: I'd be a tomato 'cause no one accepts me as part of the group.
Cal:
Clay:
Cal: OKAY HAPPY CAMPERS-
Patchy: My mom is calling… hi mom!
Cal: Come on guys, stop. She's trying to talk to her mom.
Poly: loud fake sexual noises
Clay: EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Pith: gets really close to the phone Tell her I said hi.
Patchy: Question. When they shot Bambi's mother, did you find that a sad moment, at all?
Cal: I'm sure she's mounted on a nice wall in a fine home somewhere.
Clay, handing a balloon to Orgon: I have no soul. Have a nice day!
Orgon, walking off: I don't have one either.
Pith: My future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful, and organized.
Patchy: steps on a caterpillar and proceeds to drop to her knees and sob while apologizing profusely
Pith: That one. I want that one.
Cal: pulls back the curtain while Orgon is showering
Cal: Hey did we - stop screaming it’s me - did you run out of Cheerios?
Orgon, texting Patchy: Text me when you’re home safely.
Patchy: im home dangerously
Orgon: Stop it.
Patchy: im home lethally :3
the squad is at a dinner party but someone has been murdered
Patchy: You’re acting pretty carefree for someone who’s life’s at stake. Who’s to say you aren’t the killer?
Clay: It’s a murder, it ain't a tax audit. I’ll be fine.
Pith: What about Orgon? Nobody ever suspects Orgon!
Orgon: What about Cal? He has (a) gun.
Cal: Poly has a knife!
Poly: Yeah, for fun, not for murder! stabs Pith in the arm
Clay: Truth or dare?
Pith: Truth.
Clay: How many hours have you slept this week?
Pith:
Pith: Dare.
Clay: Go to sleep.
Pith: I don't like this game.
Orgon: Christmas is cancelled.
Cal: You can't cancel a holiday!
Orgon: Keep it up, Cal, and you'll lose New Year's too.
Cal: What does that mean?
Orgon: Ms. Skelter, take New Year's away from Cal.
Pith: Poly, please calm down.
Poly: I asked for two large fries!
Poly: dumps fries onto table
Poly: But all they did was give me a MILLION FUCKING LITTLE ONES!
Patchy: A butterfly! Hey, little guy, gal or nonbinary pal!
Orgon: Can a butterfly be nonbinary?
Patchy: I mean, maybe? I don't judge.
Pith, staring dreamily out of the window: Ah, have you ever imagine having butterfly wings? Then-
Poly: Then it would be inconvenient as fuck. Your wings would smack every doorframe and your clothes would have to have holes in the back.
Cal: Also, your wing's paper thin, so even if a six year old aimed a NERF gun at it would… Yeah.
Clay: sips Monster According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a-
Pith: No, nononono. You fuckers have already shattered my dream, you don't get the fucking privilege to make that reference.
Orgon: Also, it's about a butterfly, not a bee… Why would you make that reference?
Patchy: You clearly have not lived with them long enough.
Clay: Patchy is off at an appointment, so while she's gone, I’m gonna cut the sleeves off all my shirts.
Pith: Why?
Clay: She's, like, 90% of my impulse control.
Patchy: I love you.
Pith: I love you too. I've waited so long to hear you say that.
Patchy and Pith kiss passionately
Orgon, to Cal: You owe me 20 dollars.
Clay: Is this a good idea?
Clay: Probably not.
Clay: Do I care?
Clay: Nah.
Patchy: So… what’s goin’ on?
Clay: Y'all want the long version or the short version?
Patchy, hesitantly: The short one, I guess?
Clay: Shit’s fucked.
Patchy: Oh. Well, yeah, that’s definitely not an optimal situation.
Orgon, teaching Patchy to drive: What does (a) green light mean?
Patchy: Go!
Orgon: And (a) red light?
Patchy: Stop!
Orgon: What about (a) yellow light?
Patchy: If you floor it, you can make it!
Orgon: …No—
Pith: Sometimes, I don’t realize an event was traumatic until I tell it as a funny story and notice everyone is staring at me weird.
Howdy! My name’s Angel, and this is an askblog for the original characters featured in my upcoming novel - the first book in the Abnormal Series, Parabalis!
PARABALIS is a story that is associated with talk of the paranormal, desolate winters, poor mental and physical health, LGBTQ, 60’s-70’s rock music, smoke breaks, hidden cults, deals gone wrong, blood trails on snow, anomalies, death, secrets, enlightening dinner conversations, marijuana, found family, and wishes for impossible, better outcomes of the future.
HERE IS THE FULL PLOT!!
JOIN THE OFFICIAL ABNORMAL SERIES DISCORD SERVER!!
Asks and interactions of any kind are welcome! Feel free to harass my OCs in any way you want (they will react accordingly, so bear in mind your actions will have consequences)! If interacting with an OC directly, I will include a snippet of writing with their response! You can ask me anything about the world of Parabalis, the writing process of my story, or request a writing sample involving my OCs (this may take more time than other interactions)! Fanart or any other fan-content is unexpected but not unwelcome!
Information about each character can be found below:
PATCHY SKELTER
NIKOLAY ORGON
CLAY MAYDE
PITH ETCHE
POLY MACABRE
CAL
TRIGGERS:
The universe of Parabalis and all characters within it involve several subjects that may be triggering. Know your limits and only interact if you feel safe. Heavy posts involving these will be censored. These triggers include but are not limited to:
poor mental health and self-destructive behaviors
marijuana usage
cults and heavy religious imagery
portrayal of christianity in a negative light
parental and domestic abuse
manipulation, gaslighting, and victim blaming
light portrayal of addiction
portrayal of physical and mental disorders
portrayal of phobias and phobic reactions
major character death
ableism
rarely, slurs
torture
I try to portray these things as accurately as possible, so proceed with caution if these things are triggering or if you are otherwise uncomfortable with them.
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