Introduction
Okay, so I get it. You're in the same boat. You think, oh yeah, let's just follow these guys around, they seem to know what they're doing.
Yeah well fuck off.
Okay, okay, it's not that we don't wanna help you or anything, it's just that you can't be trusted. Especially not around me. I don't care if you're human or what, I'm not anymore and it could get seriously complicated real fast.
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I've been informed that we are trying to help people and I need to stop scaring them off. Well ya could have told me that sooner, Edgar!
Alright, so we've gotten off on the wrong foot then. Hey! Don't think you can just run away now, listen, I'd rather you would but my friend seems adamant on helping people out (though I have no idea why) and he spotted you. Some lost, wayward soul trying to find their way, right? Yeah it's a whole lot of cliche bullshit about finding yourself and frankly, I don't need to hear the story. You just want help, right? Well, that we can do. See, my friend, he's a scientist. Some would say mad, some would say.... eccentric, but the details don't matter. What does matter is that he's trying to find a cure.
For what? Why, for everything, of course.
Yeah I get how ridiculous that sounds but he's getting pretty close. He's got this potion, brings grass back to life if you pour it on the ground. Just *poof* and there it is. I know that's nothing human or... not human but--
Okay yeah, I see you've noticed the ears and fangs and claws and shit. What kind of dumbass angel decided to make demons look so goddamned.... typical. Whatever. Yeah, I'm a demon. Which, yes, means I was a human cursed by an angel, and no angels are not the glowy pretty things you're thinking of. Have you ever seen one up close? Six wings, two to cover its face, long spindly spider limbs, it can kill you with one look and they're fast as shit.
But my friend's human, so you know you can trust me 'cause I haven't killed him.
...Yeah flimsy promise, I know, but killing is kind of exhausting and I don't want to bother with it.
Anyway, we're trying to find this lab. Supposed to exist in some misty forest or whatever (who the hell builds a lab in a forest? Don't they know that cement can rot?). It's supposed to have all the supplies he needs to finish the Cure. If you're willing to stick around, we'll share it with you. No price, no catch, just two guys being friendly. Okay...just one guy being friendly and me going along with it because I really want that goddamned Cure.
So if you want to stick around, feel free, we've got food...more or less, and I've got a knife that can cut through anything (you see why I didn't mention that first), so even if you just want protection, all you gotta do is help us with food and shelter and you're set.
Deal? Let's face it, in this wasteland, this is the best you're gonna get. Unless you win a bet with a faerie and, just being realistic, you won't. Ever. So come on. What do you even have left to lose?
I'm Carter by the way. From the city a few miles back, and if you know what kind of a mess that place is, you'd trust me when I say I know what people in this place are capable of. Best it be us and not some nutcase who wants to enslave you or use you or kill you, right?
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What It's About
Alright, so the Wayward universe is like an alternate timeline Earth. Something went horribly wrong at some point and the world is much more like the world of LIMBO (if anyone knows that game) or a decrepit, dismal wasteland full of various mutants and monsters.
This story is set in a world where everything is mostly grey and black and the only significant colour is there for a reason. There are four types of people inhabiting this world and they can be recognised by their eyes.
Everyone in this world has either bright, dim or dark eyes. If your eyes go dark it means your 'spark' has gone out, as in your will to do anything/will to survive. Bright eyed people are still fighting and dim eyes are fading. Demons have yellow eyes as a distinction and pointed ears, fangs, claws, anything associated with a demon as a way of angels isolating them from humans.
Most people are either trying to find something (for example a kid's heart, someone's lost family, the cure Edgar is making), or accomplish something (ex. to make the ultimate 'cure', to heal the entire planet). They all have some sort of goal and it's usually something impossible sounding. Those people have white, glowing eyes... however if they have given up or given in to the world their eyes go dark and they're thus referred to as 'broken'.
There are also creatures known as 'angels'. Four to six wings, covered in eyes, long gangly limbs, faces covered by their wings for if they showed their faces to someone that person would burn up.
And no, there is no heaven or hell, demons and angels have nothing to do with the afterlife. An angel is blessed (with speed, trickery, whatever, they are not at all like humans and only exist to toy with existence), and a demon is cursed, with anything really. In my comic my demon Carter is cursed so that if he looks into someone's eyes, he sees their aura. If the aura is 'bad', he turns them into their 'true self', a monster.
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Then there are also the people with eyes that glow yellow, called 'demons'. They are essentially people who have been cursed by an angel.
There are two kinds of 'demons' (which is basically just another word for cursed, almost-immortal people). The kind who have always existed, which are often more animalistic or less human-like, and usually don't care much about anything other than the 'grand scheme'.
The second way to become a demon is to be cursed by an 'angel', and by 'angel' I mean, the real old descriptions. Four to six wings, covered in eyes, long gangly limbs, faces covered by their wings for if they showed their faces to someone that person would burn up.
This universe is very flexible, monsters can vary and what your characters are looking for can vary, but they still need a reason to form the group.
I am looking for four or five people for this RP (six at MOST). You can RP a cursed demon, a human (any eye type) or possibly a mutated person (I'm working this out but I'm going to let you be creative with it).
Eternal demons and angels are off limits because they're a bit OP, they will be NPCs.
If you have any questions just ask.
