L O R E curious cat question

Posted on by DarkOverord in Art
Juliet_Shark on CuriousCat asked
Give us LORE You got all these cool characters but what about the world they exist in, I want to know about that

Oh boy might be here for some time. In fact this got so long that I’m having to cross post it to my website lol! Caution, it’s a ramble.

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS ONLY SIMON AND HIS TWIN. Oh and JOS, and a fuckton of other characters. They pretty obviously all started out in a Sonic Universe lol, even DO was unceremoniously dropped in it. There was their own villains and stuff and etc, BUT THAT’S ALL THROWN OUT NOW.

Lets approach the outliers first because they are basically entirely separate:

  • Rigel – There’s not much established about the world he would be in other than it’s apparently not weird to have living pooltoys. That and transformation. Rigel has some place somewhere seen as apparently he’s into clonedrones amongst other things
  • DO (Inflatable) – Probably cohabits Rigel’s world.
  • DOchu and DOninja are Pokémon(?) occupy some universe with pokémon/pokémorphs.
  • DO (Goo) – Has no story or history, I just wanted a goo.
  • Terrance the weird Part Rubber Hedgehog (NSFW) – Just for kicks and kinks
  • DK-0VD-D4M-#C40000 – Unfortunately again, hasn’t got much of a story other than he might have once been organic. His setting though would certainly be SciFi-Future rather than anything contemporary. Probably a setting where robots and the like are commonplace, maybe they’re still considered lesser people, maybe he’s part of some robot uprising. Who knows, they’re a cool beep.

That leaves the following characters, including some not featured directly on my website because they’re not really that detailed out yet:

These (at least) 15 characters occupy a shared world that is basically a contempory world (so cars, electricity, etc.) that has magic. It’s admittedly heavily influenced by Touhou so there’s no strict laws regarding the use of magic etc. though I have nabbed the Spell Card Rules from it basically (Touhou wiki article, “Countermeasures against DarkOverord: …remember the spell card rules exist for a reason…”, Annai spell card showcase), though encounters with the supernatural aren’t bound to them and if you’re unfortunate not to have any way to counter with spell cards then, well, Annai certainly knows how that can end for you :3c

That all said, with the nature of the world it’s more likely people have some latent magical affinity even if they don’t realise it. The archivists for example both have latent powers that they wouldn’t actively call upon but are still clearly supernatural in source (Masako can perfectly recall everything she has seen or heard, Lucas just naturally can draw out the truth in matters without intending to but it isn’t a guarantee of the whole truth). The inverse of this is also obviously true, JOS is quite clearly partially a magical elemental.

But WHY is almost everything magically tuned? Well you see, DarkOverord fucked up and remaining stationary above one part of the sky is just a giant space-time fracture

(I can’t find a better picture so have this image from 2015)

At some time in DO’s lifespan he lost control of his latent powers to manipulate space-time and ripped a hole so big that he couldn’t undo it. The size was so large that it effectively leaked in to the past and shaped up the modern world. What would’ve been a very boring mundane world suddenly allowed for the supernatural to inhabit, except due to the way it manipulated time it meant that the world always had these features. DO then became known only as “The Riftmaker” outside of his family as suddenly him and his family, from the more original timeline suddenly had the job of maintaining a rift to ensure it didn’t get any worse, or perhaps they always did due the paradoxical nature of the rift.

An order formed on a hill directly under the rift that became known as “The Order of Rift”, which was an order of mortals using runic magic to seal ne’er-do-wells away if they cause issues around the rift. Initially this started as violent, potentially fatal, altercations between the mortals and the supernatural fae who would threaten the lives of those who couldn’t fight back. As time went by the spell card rules were established as the number of supernatural creatures began to outnumber the local mortals, this meant that the more fatal fights could be stopped but also that more senior fae, spirits, and various youkai that had started moving in from parts unknown started regulating themselves to limit danger to what their prey in the end.

Over time, as the local mortal folk could progress without fear of being killed at a moments notice, more people moved in and gradually what was once a village supporting a castle on a hill became a town, and then a city with both mortals and non-mortals living side by side, mostly. A lot of non-mortals having become quite lazy as they began to enjoy the sedate lifestyle mortals working hard had created meant that there wasn’t often incidents beyond known that going alone to the local forests were not a good idea because the supernatural who would prey on mortals lived there and they will still act on their instincts.

Of course, the order still persists while regularly keeping tabs on almost all the local supernatural creatures, including a tree that appeared in their grounds could kill people which had breached through from somewhere else entirely, and still resolving any incidents that may happen but it’s primary focus had become archival and preservation. That said they did still have members to resolve magical incidents and their current go-to member to resolve incidents is Feoh Sigel, though he’d rather just garden.

His unwanted rival being JOS when they got in a fight when they both decided to “resolve” the rift (they didn’t and ran away from DO).

One such incident was “The Heart of Magic” incident, in which the Arch-mage Aedus Adstrum gained access to the central point of magical flux in the world (that wasn’t the rift) and attempted to seal it away claiming it was to stop irresponsible magic wielding mortals doing more damage to the world. Doing such a thing would obviously destroy not only life as they knew it, but likely have collapsed the rift with untold unknown consequences. JOS saved the day there, but Aedus actions did draw Marcus to the area, much to some locals dismay and to the Order’s horror as Marcus was the first bake-danuki they’d ever encountered (apparently).

Of course a space-time rift means not every incident has been caused by people who came from this world. One such incident, which was ultimately resolved by DarkOverord involved an alternate version of him crossing over. This wingless drake, called Darthanial Occassus, came through from his universe where the rift had bled through so much that it had started to cause the entire fabric of space-time to unravel and as a result he intended to destroy the rift entirely by sealing away it’s very core. DarkOverord defeated Darthanial and returned him to his own world, then stabilised the part of the rift that had bled it’s way into Darthanial’s world, retroactively saving it and meaning that technically Darthanial never came to stop the rift.

A few days later Darthanial showed up again, and instead of being glum and at his wits end, he was excited and frantically flying around. Turned out the new Darthanial wanted to try and cross through the rift through curiosity instead of determination, with no idea that he had just tried to destroy it.

This was all really meant to be a setting for a touhou-esque shmup I never made even if I do keep adding stuff to it lol. Hopefully that ramble answered some question haha.