Tag: r!mabel

oreramar:

(Fig. 6.18: “The Lovers” Cave Painting, Touramalix, Yulavia.)

Fig. 6.18 depicts perhaps the best-known and yet most mysterious subjects of the extensive cave paintings of Tourmalix, discovered by a hiker sheltering from the rain in 324 Modern Era. The primitive artist depicts two central figures, one presumably male, winged, and holding a glowing staff, and the other apparently female and holding a spear, hand in hand and facing more winged and horned figures on the left and further human warriors on the right. The entire scene is surrounded by encircled dots, commonly presumed to symbolize stars. What the image truly means, however, is purely conjecture.

 Common parlance names the central figures “The Lovers” and suggests that it is a depiction of a constellation and perhaps a mythology in which two ill-fated lovers face the trials of the world, both physical and spiritual. It is also frequently presumed that the male is a god of an ancient religion and the female a human of whatever tribe created the lost legend which led to this scene. Due to the inherent romance of this suggestion, it is a popular theory.

Other theorists suggest that this is not an image of struggle or defiance against the world, but one symbolizing cooperation. It is possible that the central figures are not standing hand in hand opposing the religious and physical forces of the world, but are perhaps rallying them to come together, staff and spear acting as scepters of power. From this view, it is possible that this is a myth of the creation or union of a religious outlook with a political one, or else a myth conferring the favor of gods upon a particular tribe, especially in conflict.

Whatever the ancient creator of this image truly intended is unfortunately lost to time.

Excerpt from Studies of the Ancient World, 4th ed. by Yuta Grasson, required reading material for the seventh year history course attended by triplets Cypress, “Fisher,” and Magnolia, 531 M.E.

#I love me some worldbuilding#also a quick reminder that before this triplets thing even happened in the new universe there was an entire great long history of humanity#probably thousands of years if these triplets live in a time comparable to our modern days#but there’s also going to be different place names and given names and languages and calendar systems and history and everything#it’s not really a direct xerox copy of earth#another universe another planet another everything#one thing never changes though#there’s always going to be someone misinterpreting signs of siblings or friends as lovers at some point or another#can’t escape it

Long in the future, after Alcor has come and gone, the souls of Dipper and Mabel are closer than ever, usually reincarnating in the same family, and often as twins. And, at least once, because the universe has a sense of irony, they are joined by a familiar third soul. Triplets – two boys and a girl.

The two brothers squabble constantly, each calling the other his “greatest enemy” – they trick each other, prank each other, try to make the other accept one-sided deals, steal each other’s things, sabotage each other’s plans, collaborate together when they discover a new mystery or code and then try to keep the answers for themself. Their sister is loved by them both, and is often torn between trying to mediate between them or just letting them get on with it because nothing stops them.

Despite outside appearances, the siblings are actually very protective of each other, because no one messes with their greatest enemy except them, and no one, NO ONE, messes with their sister, period.

Legacies

storiewriterkalyn:

A/N: Inspired by this headcanon. It turned out a lot heavier than I intended. I scare myself sometimes.     

For
as long as Bentley could remember, his life revolved around his father’s one
true passion: The Alcorian Myth Cycle.

As
a child, he had been read bedtime stories where Alcor took children on their
wildest adventures in exchange for a tub of ice-cream, where his wife Mizar
would act as a mother to those who had none. Where their daughter, Gliese,
would run hand in hand with children of all descents while her guardian, the
Woodsman, would shelter them from all harm.

As
a young tweener, Bently devoured crime-fiction and thrillers based on Alcor’s
one ally and old flame, the Huntress Wenda, tracking and discovering the
monsters that threatened humanity, even when they turned out to be monsters
themselves. He was given a giant holo-poster of Wenda, back-to-back with Alcor
the Dreambender and Mizar the Gleeful, fending off the encroaching darkness.

As
a teenager, however, he entered the public school system. Within days of his
introduction to the rest of society at large, he came to the realization that
all the books his father had printed and bound for him, all the works he
illustrated and all the art he created concerning the Alcorian Myth Cycle were
lies.

Alcor the Dreambender was
a demon, believed only by the most insane to be a protector of children and by
the rest to be a terrible force of evil against humanity and all allied with
it. Mizar was his sister, but she was also his wife, and their controlling romance
unsettled Bentley. Wenda wasn’t their friend, Gliese was a horror of fire and
mercilessness, and the Woodsman was an agent of vigilante justice that saw no
shades of grey between the white and black.

So the next time Bentley
saw his Dad obsessing over the Alcorian Myth Cycle, he found the courage to
speak up.

“That’s not how it goes,
Dad.”

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TAU worldbuilding thoughts

oreramar:

So when
Alcor ascends to his godhood, and the world has died and the universe just
keeps ticking towards inevitable destruction either through heat death or
perhaps even through the vast weight of his own power…what happens to the
Flock?

Here’s
an idea:

It’s
the end of the universe, the end of life itself. Every soul that ever was has
gathered on another plane – not even the demons or angels were exempt, and all
former gods have long since withered away. Without sentient species to create
and sustain them, dreams and nightmares have also vanished…

Except
for the Flock.

Bound
to Alcor even after he transcended again – because long before that time their
bond with the demon was as much a contract as a tie of love and loyalty – they are
sustained by him. They are all he has. But even they cannot completely weather
the end of all things, and so they sink into a hibernation of their own,
waiting.

Alcor
gathers the last shreds of the universe, shelters the flock, and ignites a new
one. Then, when solar systems are spun out and the perfect planets are chosen
and life is renewed, Alcor destroys himself, releasing his once human soul. We
know that story.

But
the Flock remain, and were bound to him, and are changed by the sudden flux of
energy.

The
Nightmares become the new Demons, and the Dreams become the new Angels.

This
has happened before, of course. The difference this time is in their
relationship. Last time, the first Demons and Angels had always been at odds,
because Dreams are sweet and small and helpless and prime food for the
ever-feuding Nightmares. When they became the Angels, of course they
remembered, and now that they could fight back they did, while the Demons
continued to fight them and amongst themselves.

This time,
those Nightmares had protected the Dreams, and the Dreams loved the Nightmares,
and all of them had learned cooperation and companionship and loyalty.

This
time, the Demons and the Angels are not forever at odds, nor are the former
wholly dark or depraved. In a way, they are more like new Alcors – more consistent,
perhaps, without the ache of humanity to contend with, but certainly influenced
by him for the better.

His
soul is their special favorite.

As for
Alcor himself, his first physical reincarnation is not human. It can’t be. Even
after destroying himself and leaving so much power behind to seed the new
universe with magic, he retains too much for a human form to hold.

He is
born a phoenix, and every time he dies and is reborn as the same being a little
more of that energy is burned up, until finally, after a few thousand years, he
dies a final death, re-enters the cycle of souls, finds Mizar and is born human
alongside her for the first time in countless eons.

He is
still powerful, and it manifests in a never-before-seen aptitude for magic, and
ghostly golden wings visible to anyone with even the merest Sight. This
combined with the benevolent attention of the highest supernatural order short
of gods themselves – angels and demons – has the community he was born into
calling him blessed, touched by gods. He likely grows into a spiritual leader,
while his sister, never to be repressed, becomes their earthly commander and
protector.

And so
it goes.

tempus-nexus submitted:

Concept in development that far in the future Alcor finds one of Mizar’s lives, a young girl named Colette, making a wish on a star. She wishes to see the stars, to go up to them and touch them. Alcor being the Dreambender, gives her her wish. That night Colette dreams of space in all its glory. Supernovas and nebulas and wormholes. Planets of diamond and glass and fire, and alien races of kinds impossible to imagine. All crafted by Alcor from his own experience. Because what kind of all-powerful immortal wouldn’t take a look around the local galactic cluster?

Ten years later, Alcor is summoned by a familiar source. He answers to find Colette Sunders; college student on her way to a degree in Earth and Space Exploration. She strikes a deal with him; help her with her degree, share his knowledge so she can advance humanity’s space technology, and she will let him come with her as she explores the cosmos. Alcor, tempted by the promise of something, anything, new in his immortal life, agrees. 

With the help of an omniscient demon, Colette excels at school. She gains access to the greatest Space Engineering organization on the planet and quickly gains a reputation as the world’s foremost expert on space travel. After a few years of theoretical work, she makes a proposal for the first human colony on Mars in (recorded) history. Well, human plus one demon. But nobody needs to know that. And with her proposal, the mission is set in motion. Assisted as usual by Alcor. 

As he helps with the theories and engineering and, to his surprise, discovers that his knowledge wasn’t as vast as he thought (quantum physics isn’t something demons have much experience with), Alcor begins to feel… well, like Dipper again. He remembers what it was like to be twelve years old and to have the world to explore. He regains many of his old habits as well as his passion for adventure and mystery. For the first time in a long time there’s something he doesn’t know; some great secret to crack. He even forgets that he made a deal for his help. Now, it’s something he’s doing for his own sake just as much as anyone else’s. And he’s happy, in a way he hasn’t been since before the Transcendence.

After years of work, the mission is finally ready. Colette and her personally chosen crew are set to venture to Mars to establish their colony. As the world cheers for them, their ship launches into the heavens – the Shooting Star on her way back into space, with a demon stowed away for the second great adventure of his life.

But the ship never returns. Communication cuts out just over two-thirds of the way to Mars. The crew never returns home. No information about them is recovered, and the crew is declared dead. With the world’s best gone, it would be many years before another mission would succeed in reaching the planet. They would find the remains of Colette’s ship wrecked on the red plains. They would find no graves, for even if there had been any, the planet’s storms had wiped them away. 

And elsewhere in the world a strange phenomenon is observed. For ten years after the loss of Colette Sunders and her crew, a rumor circulates among those who observe the ways of the arcane. The demon Alcor had vanished. All who attempted to summon him disappeared as well. Their circles were found empty and unattended. Weaker chalk markings and loose items like candles had been drawn into the center of the circle, and red dust lay spread over the ground. The rumor grows that Alcor had slain the explorers – that he had struck down humanity’s pride in an act of judgement. 

However, had any who had witnessed such a summoning lived to tell of it, they would have told of a great rip opening in space; of red plains stretched beyond the horizon;of the air being wrenched from the room in a great roar and above that, an even greater roar. The agonized roar of a dying beast, and below that, the screams of a child who had lost everything and lost it again.