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Against the wind is a story I want to explore after wrestling with feelings prompted by a video I was watching. I want to tell a story about growth, loss, rebirth-- a story about the all too real cruel realities of personal relationships with a spin of something more fantastical woven into the fabric of the story. In Against the Wind, I want to tell the story of a girl who won. A girl from a universe whose hopes came to rest solely on her shoulders. The crushing weight of it all forced from her every concession-- of all hopes at a normal life and a happy ending. I'm going to borrow very heavily on Neon Genesis Evangelion for this. A girl used her biological warframe-- infused with half the soul of her mother-- to defend reality from its undoing. And in doing so she reached the origin point of the universe and reality itself.
She defeated God, scattering his essence across Golgotha. She seized the ultimate victory-- the last victory, after uncountable attempts, after infinite loops-- and the only thing she wished for was happiness.
The reality birthed was imperfect, though, as the last finger on the monkey's paw curled. This girl would never know what she had sacrificed countless times; she'd never know that victory had cost her every time, whether false or true. She'd never know she was anything other than who she was apart from faint glimpses of another side, another story in the mirror--
If it weren't for you. You were neither God nor Man. She were something else entirely. Something beyond comprehension, at once powerless and all powerful. You were existence itself, watching all of Creation battle time and time again-- or maybe you were another God, unable to infringe upon this one's domain. Whatever you were, you were captivated by this endless saga, by the story of this heroic mortal girl, by her sudden and final ascension-- and the selfless choice to sacrifice it all just for one last shot living the life she dreamed of.
Through the cruel twist of fate, you watch with horror as this girl -- in every shattered reality that lingered in the aftermath of her sacrifice -- continued to suffer. The injustice struck your entire being and stirred you into action. The girl had slain her God and become one her own, and the walls that the prior deity had constructed to restrain you were no longer in your path. You could finally save her, you could finally heal the shredded remains of a soul broken over countless aeons of impossible battles. You could help put the pieces of Creation back together, to restore the Firmament of existence-- and in doing so, help her heart. You, as an Empyrean, could give her the ascension and the subsequent love she so desperately sought, so fiercely battled for the right to experience.
If this sounds like a story you want to play-- a reality warping, brain-twisting, heart-aching experience with an earned relationship, well-- hit my dms up! The picture above is inspiration and should give an idea of the sort of tone I'm hunting!
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