(Anyone can feel free to rp realmstuck, in fact, please do, just follow the au guidelines and character designs, and keep in mind there WILL be an official plotline eventually) Basically theres another world full of weird demon spirits that can shapeshift between human, animal, and a fairly monstery mix of the two. Keep in mind it is a set human appearance and set animal. Now, there are four humans who are destined to travel into the demon realm and become its royalty. These humans are John, Rose, Dirk and Jake. There are also four demons assigned to watch over and protect them, one each, though in the event of a greater danger the others will help. Respectively, these are Jade, Dave, Roxy and Jane The trolls are also present. All the girls but Vriska are demon spirits, all the guys but Eridan are human. What do the humans need to be protected from anyway? Lesser spirits. A lot of the demon spirits don't like humans and don't want human royalty to continue. So they summon lesser spirits, creatures that look like sludge, or a slightly off mirror of somebody the human target knows. This always happens when the current royalty resigns or is killed, but this time around it's a bit more dangerous. A powerful demon spirit by the name of Caliborn is heading the movement, and it's possible this will go beyond just fighting off a few small monsters. There are two factions among the demons. "Positive" faction generally has purer motives and more passive abilities. These are Dave, Jane, Aradia, Nepeta, and Kanaya. Their abilities include things like healing people or repairing time, plus all of them are able to use simple charms. "Negative" faction is more likely to do bad things, and has more aggressive abilities. Keep in mind none of these are based off personality; they're predisposed to these factions at birth. Negative faction members are Jade, Roxy, Eridan, Feferi, and Terezi. Abilities include things like changing the size of things, erasing things, hypnotism, etc. Plus all of them can summon lesser spirits, though it exhausts them, and use simple hexes and curses. These two factions have sort of a playful rivalry with each other in the human realm (as those approved for travel to the human world are generally less violent) but in the demon realm mortal brawls and random ambushes are common. The guardians try to stay concealed, because once the humans are aware of them it's easier for lesser spirits to find them. Dirk was the first to notice his guardian. At age seven he noticed that he could always spot a cat with pink eyes out of the corner of his eye-and when he couldn't, he could find a girl his age with eyes the very same color. He confronted her about it, and she explained that he was going to be Prince of her world. Dirk ordered her to be his friend and she had to comply. As he got older though he started ordering her around more. It also didn't help his disposition any to find out that the prior "princess" was now called John and was the heir, now first in line instead of Dirk. Rose was the second to notice, but it took her until her freshman year of college, when she figured out there was a guy in all her classes that wasn't on the attendance sheets. She started watching him closely, and after spotting him turning into a crow one day, confronted him up on the roof of her dorm. He explained the situation to her, and she accepted it no problem. John figured it out next, about a month later, for just about the same reasons as Rose figured out Dave; except that John never saw Jade become a dog. He just confronted her for following him and also accepted the weirdness pretty easily. Jake is an oblivious shit and still doesn't realize snowshoe hares aren't at all native to his area. Things of interest also: John is a trans guy Rose is a trans girl DaveRose (unrelated) happens Dirk is trash Jake is agender bioluminescent Feferi for visual refs look in the "realmstuck" tag, but not the things further down that are a fantroll based fanadventure. It could be really good, but not what we're talking about here.