Chromafluid is the lifeblood of all Meraci-Quva society, one major use of it being various food-forms. Here SkyFlitSerenade is mixing some chromafluidic bubbles of varied complex flavors, trying to discern a recipe of some sort.
The chromafluid 'recipes' are far more complex than ordinary cooking and involve the imbuing of varied sensations more than just taste/smell; this includes the qualia of auditory sensation, radio transmission, vibratory sense/information transfer, and other things usually incomprehensible to non-Meraci-Quva.
Sharing of chromafluid is a significant and sacred task done only after careful deliberate preparation & distribution; it can be distributed on varied large or small scales. SFS here is making it for the inhabitants of Qonoro-77 and including flavors of love and radio-encoded images of many recent memories.
( i drafted this then forgot about it an entire month )
another followup to ramble-post about sketches. a small selection from the expanse of unfinished Apaika scenes. until like last month she just existed in this liminal quantum space. Also these are mostly from outdated design/story iterations but idk they might look neat anyway.
looking back on these is weird; like a snapshot into brief parts of my life months ago where i just existed in that other world hyperfixating on it for days at a time utterly immersed into the characters & emotions listening to the same songs repeated 50 times... but afterwards totally forgot that even happened. and now i'm like, "oh yeah that happened." (??? my life is just a mood whiplash between realities & right now is minecraft)
it would take me like 2 hrs to find the descriptions in my spaghetti note morass so here is a ramble summary. in order (not chronologically at all):
Apaika seeing through 4D while lucid-dreaming into the datarealm; represented as 3D scenes (of numerous locations) being 'slices' going into the distance, the edges between them blurred with innumerable points of light representing everything in-between the locations in 3D but compressed into a tiny space; similar to the Interstellar scene. (..i have to remind myself to not get caught on impossibly complex scenes everyday)
more Apaika in the datarealm, browsing through a metaphysical library of some sort. Other scene of her previous story iteration where she gets put in the asylum for being too bitey & is rescued by an Andetharian (magical animal)
aforementioned scene but made a really weird looking Apaika
survivalist arc punished Apaika wandering post apocalyptic wasteland
Story scene where Apaika is scared shitless by a shape (avrosyne metaphase engineer dream police) after her problematic dreaming activity
Story scenes 3x; Apaika & some friends leaving their megastructure-prison home city, getting into a dramatic aethership chase over the Rend (eldritch apocalypse wasteland). hoping to finish the last 2 at some point within 70 years
Story scene: Apaika facing off Blazewing, pissing the latter off so badly they get into an amazing biting session
Story scene followup: smug Apaika staring down Lushaida (Blazewing), both covered in blood taking a bath after nearly killing eachother, very romantic.
my most ludicrously overcomplex story-series idea i drafted over 2 years. there is so much convoluted insanity in this i don't even know where to start. but i thought i could try to summarize it anyway because i don't think the 100k words novel + 2 animatics plan is going to happen:
the main character is Starry, a young anthro canine alien spawned into the universe by the whimsical experiment-machinations of one of the Cultivators (simulation runner gods) who wanted a puppet-plaything.
Starry is the most helpless, ditzy, and clueless character imaginable, having no memories or knowledge whatsoever of her vast space-opera fantasy universe. From the very start of her existence she tends to get into misadventures & perilous situations, constantly messing everything up & having no useful skills whatsoever. The other protagonists spend much of the story just scrambling to keep her alive, an immense task given Starry's unbelievable level of bad luck.
In actuality that all is a deliberate cover by Starry's god-creator (Cultivator YXCnii) which, using its perfect omniscience & precognition, programmed Starry to act in specific predetermined ways that would cause various domino effect chain reactions throughout the universe; the purpose of this is in accordance with an elaborate superintelligent chessmaster plot that required Starry to be unaware (acting 'accidentally') in order to evade the detection of other partially-omniscient beings who would otherwise read her mind.
The story goes on with Starry doing mundane random things & getting into various mishap adventures that seem like accidents, only for them to have major multiverse-altering consequences far later. One story arc involves Starry defeating threats in 'accidental' ways (like running away from a monster and kicking a stone into the perfect position to trip it & snap its neck) such that she becomes idolized by an entire planet as a superhero, worshipped by a group of actual powerful superheroes who look up to her as a tactical genius.
Starry's main companion is SSYN-E8102 "SSYN", an Enkiron Mechnolony whose species needs diagrams (above) to explain. Basically they are communal family-societies of microscopic biomechanical worms living inside variously-sized robot shells (Mecholonies), piloting them like spaceships. SSYN is an explorer-scientist unit exploring a desolate post-apocalypse galaxy, very pretentious yet skilled at their job. Depending on draft version, they may realize the threat posed by Starry and spend the whole story chasing Starry around the multiverse, believing Starry's puppeteer might vacuum-collapse everyone's home galaxy or something if it gets bored.
At some (predetermined) point Starry realizes her nature and her status as an invincible & all-powerful being, having a difficult time coming to terms with this. This eventually culminates in Starry killing the most notorious antagonist in the universe in a direct duel, then (accidentally) orchestrating a drama-conflict between the Cultivator administrators over her role in the story/simulation -- most notably involving the lesser adminstrator SparkleZ, a sparkledog-avatar Cultivator who heads a metafandom for Starry & her subverse in general.
SparkleZ is a Cultivator observer of the story who, early on in Starry's adventures, comes to adore Starry and follow her around. Acting as a meta-observer, they limited their own omniscience in order to increase their own enjoyment of the story by enabling uncertainty and surprise -- something shared by their metafandom-group. SparkleZ livestreams various Starry-adventures to a group of lower-level Supernal who are fans of mortal beings (replicatorcore fandom). They believe Starry to secretly be a genius superhero of unparalleled tactical ability, amazed at how well she is at hiding it.
SparkleZ serves as the main antagonist for much of the story: they keep putting Starry in more and more perlious situations, curious to see how she manages to get out of them (every time through some series of accidents.) After some time Starry has a large group of villains & mercenaries chasing her around the universe, repeatedly getting into conflicts with the protagonists trying to protect her. This culminates in a dramatic scene where bounty-hunters successfully break into her spaceship & corner her, executing Starry with a bullet to the forehead. SparkleZ, observing from the time-dilated metaverse, panics as they realize that Starry doesn't actually have any superpowers and is about to die; they file an appeal to a Cultivator administrator so they can alter the story/simulation and delete the villains so that Starry can live. There's much debate over if this would break the rules of the universe or constitute a badly written deus ex machina. An administrator agrees in exchange for SparkleZ becoming a mortal, which is a new interesting (horrifying) story experiment in its own right - the conclusion to that part I'm very uncertain about, but involves a drama-conflict between Cultivators in some way.
this story will never be written because of the innate absurd difficulty involved with writing the domino effect thing. like early on at one point Starry would spill someone's drink, making them be late to a meeting, making some major economic deal not go through, making there be a new participant in a galactic war. And so on times 100. at least it is funny in my head
Blazewing - real name Lushaida - a young Meraci-Kavi in upper Tiranaida. At an early age she was adopted and raised by Pyrewalker Rahaal, an elite falais elder-priest of the Pyre cult, with the intention of training her into the first Meraci lightweaver. This wasn't a very pleasant process for her and she probably doesn't want to talk about it.
But she sure is a special animal with exceptional agility, a quick wit, and an impressive knowledge of falais history & culture. Her auralite manifold augments - horns and wings - grant her a medium level of lightweaving; she is exceptionally powerful, often more than other lightweavers her age.
Lightweaving itself is a very rare practice usually reserved for falais elites & cult-members who have access to the ancient technology and sources of auralite, so Blazewing became known as a national oddity and celebrity after her success in the matter.
Outwardly Blazewing is known as a confident and powerful superhero-like figure, regularly shown off in Aohaiden (agility courses) and other rituals of the Pyre, much to the satisfaction of her master.
She's fanatically devoted to her religion and acting like a falais in order to fit in, not partaking in any depraved animal activities like prey-hunting. She still gets bullied at magic school and is hated by every cultural group in existence but she trains and studies very hard so it's okay, she is fine don't worry.
(someone please bite at me until i actually finish at least 1 of the meraci story chapters (actually just bite at me in general) )
totally random thought that i would love to collab writing with someone but i think the combined level of manic insanity would just send Xilsamee's brain into supernova splatting against all the edges of the multiverse. i mean that could be funny but yeah
