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T H E P R O M I S E D C H I L D R E N
P R O L O G U E
The year is 2021, the downfall of humanity is at our doorstep and scientists around the world clamor every day attempting to undo the destruction we ourselves have wreaked upon our own home. While hardships like poverty and world hunger are still very apparent, the forces of the world instead press their resources into more devastating matters like rising sea levels and ever increasing temperatures every year. Many small island countries have had to completely evacuate their populations and migrate to the larger landmasses causing already bursting areas to deal with overpopulation leading to rising crime-rates on a global scale. Soon many smaller governments began to break down and be consumed by larger countries, others were destroyed from within altogether.
It had literally become H E L L on Earth.
In our darkest moment, the powers of the world began to shift into places it had not for centuries. The Catholic Church reached out its hand to the impoverished and weak, offering them salvation from the world in exchange for their faith. It had become known as The Second Great Awakening and the drastic increase of religious sects around the world skyrocketed within a matter of months. It wasn't long until the church had completely consumed Italy, and their influence spread throughout the Europe completely overtaking many of it's smaller countries and territories sparing only France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The religious superpower of the Catholic Church would soon grow enough presence and capital to place their fingers in the decision making of the crumbling world, and it was the Pope himself that pressed forward a single idea. And that idea is the true beginning of our story.
T H E P R O M I S E D C H I L D R E N P R O J E C T
Funded collaboratively by a number of country's governments this project was originally intended to create a number of humans that could withstand the rapidly changing world. They were meant to be stronger, smarter, better than us in every way, and with their survival they would be able to carry on the human race when the world was returned to ashes. Geneticists hand selected from around the world worked around the clock to make these perfect test-tube babies. Within a little less than a year the creations of their hard work would come to fruition, twelve specimens in their original run, but more would later be created.
As the presence of the Catholic Church grew more and more over time the amount of radicalized fanatics also seemed to increase in high-population areas. In the United State's in particular, the hands of the church seemed to have more pull over the people than their own government. This was seen as a threat by the establishment that maintained order there and thus more laws and regulation specifically targeted towards these people began to take form, and eventually they would cut all ties to the religious faction and even removed all funding to the Promised Children Project. A few other countries would follow suit with the U.S pulling out of the project many of which also had distaste for the growing power of the church, and this schism of the powers throughout the world was simplified simply. Those whom placed their faith in the Promised Children, and those whom wished to put efforts into salvaging what they could from the Earth or creating survivable conditions in some fashion.
Regardless of this, the project would continue without their support.
T h e R o l e p l a y
T h e P l a y e r s
You will be taking on the role of one of the P ro m i sed Ch ild ren, and their struggle to survive in a world where they are viewed as monsters by the general population. The story takes place in a world much like our own but on the brink of breakdown due to the reasons stated above. Promise Children are not identified by names or titles but simply by a N U M B E R that distinguishes their turn in creation alongside their brothers and sisters. There are four things that distinguish them from other humans; the first is that they do not require food, water, or sleep for survival and can operate for many days at a time without rest. The second is that they are much younger than they physically appear to be, though this is difficult to discern as they are incredibly intelligent for the short period of time they have been alive. Third and the most easily detected is that the Promised Children have abilities that the church calls M I R A C L E S, these unbelievable feats differ from one subject to another but they range from rapid cellular regeneration to super-strength. The last is that upon awakening their abilities they will begin to feel hunger, this hunger cannot be satiated by anything other than human flesh and blood. These creatures aren't inherently evil but they do have a strong sense of self-preservation and the morals of how they do this will skew from one Number to another. While many of numbers have been distributed to different countries that assisted in their creation, some have escaped their handlers and are on the loose to survive on their own. Whether you wish to be under the control of a government or free to explore the world is up to the player, but one thing must be shared among all players. All of the numbers have an overbearing drive to reconnect with their brothers and sisters.
T H I S I S A N I N T E R E S T C H E C K
This is my first attempt at running my own roleplay on this site so if these seems a little bare-bones I assure you I have a google document where I'm working on this whenever I have free time! But aside from putting wary hearts at ease, there are a few things I would like to speak on before I attempt to get this thing off the ground. There are several inspirations for the story I would like to tell, Tokyo Ghoul, The Promised Neverland *cough*, D.Gray-man, From The New World, the first and last being the strongest influences on the world and the events that shall take place. There will be numerous religious & political themes within this roleplay that will border on controversial so those whom have strong opinions on those matters and do not wish to take part in a story that involves them I say to you. "Thank you for reading, and I hope you have a most wonderful day." Lastly my work schedule is quite sporadic so those who wish to take part on this journey with me will need to be patient and understanding on that matter, if you're looking to post every single day this is likely not the group for you. But other than that, if you're looking to take part in this cannibalistic-edgy-shounen-horror-adventure please just through me any sort of criticism or interest!
