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Backrooms: The Thing that Breathes

Amanda Lewis
@Estylwen@Lexisheeps

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If only she had chosen another place for her son to stay at while she worked. If only she had brought herself to find a father for her child, then one of them could have stayed home with Nigel. If only, if only, if only. Amanda could think of several ways to have prevented this situation. However, now it was too late. She did wish that she had hugged him one last time. Even though she still saw Nigel that morning, she could hardly remember what his warm embrace felt like. She needed him with her to feel safe. This wasn't safe. She felt a failure as a mother that she needed her child to feel safe herself. It was selfish of her. What wasn't selfish was her running into a building, following the screams of her helpless child. She needed to be strong for him. She needed to find him. That's why she wouldn't show any sign of weakness to whatever danger was waiting for her. This would grant her the biggest chance of actually finding the boy that was probably crying for his mother somewhere.

Inside the building she couldn't see Nigel or anything or anyone that reminded her of the place she had left her child at that morning. The smell was strong and the floor was so bright that it almost blinded her. Her fear of not being with her son or anyone else for that matter and Nigel's scream that kept repeating in her mind were both starting to get to her. But it was too soon to give up. It was too soon to show any kind of weakness. She just got there, and for all she knew maybe she could leave at any moment. It wasn't Halloween yet, but maybe they had planned an activity of some sort. To scare the parents? It wasn't likely, but she wanted to think that way.

Slowly, being highly alert, she walked towards the cafetaria. Inside was more than enough food for her to stay there for a longer period of time. How long were they planning to keep her there? An eternity? Was she supposed to stay there... alone... for all of eternity? She couldn't take that. She needed to find Nigel and leave. For all she knew, the food could be poisoned. Amanda immediately decided to leave the food there until she could no longer bare the feeling of hunger. She noticed the 'employees only' door that turned out to be an emergency exit, but that could be a trap. It had to be a trap, it was way too easy. In front of the door she noticed a stuffed animal. Did one of the children leave it there? It wasn't Nigel's, but maybe one of the other children was here? In that case, she couldn't leave that child alone. 'Hello?! Is anyone here? Did anyone leave this here?' She looked around. There were shadows and squeaks, but no people. She was still all alone, without anyone to comfort her with their presence.

'So what are you doing here? Did someone leave you here all alone?' She whispered to the stuffed animal. Her hand softly rubbed the unicorn's head as she showed a little smile. 'I wish my childhood had been happily enough to share it with someone like you.' She whispered as she turned her back. Where was she supposed to go? The exit door was too suspicious. There was a hallway connected to the cafetaria and it seemed that it also had a door with an exit sign at the end. That was too suspicious as well. And then which exit door was the correct one? Were both of them correct? Or maybe neither? Maybe she should inspect the classrooms?

Rising Stars: A Fairy Tail AU

Evangeline Twister

Demographics

Gender:
Female

Age:
19 years

Birthday:
15 January

Tear Magic

Magic Level:
C-class

Spells

Tear Creation

This spell allows the user to create more tears at a faster pace by focusing their magical energy on their eyes. Being able to use this move helps the user to use other spells, which normally take a larger build up, quick. This spell requires magical energy from the user without doing any damage, so it's only useful in combination with other spells that also require magical energy.

Tear Hardening

This spell makes the tears of the users hard as a little ball. This allows the user to save up their tears and later store magical energy in it to enhance the burning sensation for a planned Tear Gun attack or to enhance the healing properties as to always be ready to use Tear Cure. Since the tears with stored up magical energy can be passed to other wizards, allies can perform Tear Gun or Tear Cure themselves by using their own energy to activate the magic inside. This spell also allows the user to have reserve tears to act quicker in combat. This spell uses a large amount of magical energy without performing damage.

Tear Gun

The user can make their own tears lose contact with their skin to then launch them like bullets from a gun. When the tears hit the skin of the target, they will give an irritating feeling due to the dehydrating effect. Depending on the strength of the user, the tears can even give off a burning sensation. The strongest wizards with this kind of magic can even use this spell to burn away the skin of the target and thus bring them to their knees. Even more cruel is when the target swallows the tears, allowing them to burn on the inside, causing internal damage. The spell is quick and precise. The damage largely depends on the user's strength and only hits a small portion of the target's body.

Tear Slicer

This spell is an advanced version of the Tear Gun. Instead of tears being shot towards the target like bullets, the tears form blades that are thrown at the target and burn their way through the target's skin as to immitate a sword's strikes. This spell is quick, precise and easily does more damage than Tear Gun. Since this is an advanced spell, only stronger wizards are able to use it.

Tear Wave

The user creates a wave of tears that flows in the direction of one or several targets. With this spell as well, the damage of the spell can go from a soft irritating feeling to a major burning sensation depending on the strength of the user. The spell can hit a target all over their body instead of one body part and it can even hit several targets at once. The damage largely depends on the user's strength and it takes a lot of build up to create a wave large enough to use.

Tear Wall

The user creates a wall of tears that protects itself and/or allies against magical attacks. Only the strongest wizards can make the wall strong enough to protect against physical attacks as well. Although weaker users might slow down the physical attack, giving themselves and their allies more time to evade. The spell can protect several people against magical attacks. Physical attacks possibly still go through, either at the original speed or slowed down, and it takes a lot of build up to create a wall large enough to use.

Tear Ball

The user creates a ball of tears that absorbs the energy of magical attacks. Another way to use this spell is to throw a magical attack off course by physically hitting the attack with this spell. This spell is a weaker version of Tear Wall. This spell is quick to use and protects anyone against magical attacks. Physical attacks possibly still go through and the region protected is smaller than with Tear Wall since the ball form is smaller than the wall form.

Tear Armour

The user rubs their tears over their body to create an armour that protects against magical attacks. Only the strongest wizards can make the wall strong enough to protect against physical attacks as well. The spell protects the user from magical attacks and is quick to use. Physical attacks still go through. It is possible to use this attack on allies, although this would need magical energy to be stored in the tears and this can require build up.

Tear Cure

The user can store magical energy inside their tears in order to give them healing properties. They can either be rubbed over painful muscles and wounds or be swallowed by the user or allies. The spell can heal both the user and their allies. What can be healed by this spell largely depends on the user's strength and magical energy needs to be stored inside the tears for the spell to work.

Tear Relief

This spell is a weaker version of Tear Cure. Pain, sleep, hunger and other sensations can be repressed for a period of time, which allows the user and the targeted allies to focus on the battle they are in. The spell does not require much energy to be performed, which makes it easier to perform on multiple targets. The problem that causes the sensation is not solved. The length of the repression is largely depended on the strength of the user.

Personality

Personality:
Evangeline is not the most extraverted person, but one cannot say that she is insecure either. She knows her own value and tries to move towards her goals. At the moment, her goal is to become a strong mage at an established guild and she truly believes that she has a chance of being accepted. When she finds people who love her, treat her right, treasure her, she will stay loyal to them. She would help them, sacrifice herself for them, basically do anything they ask of her. She has a very strong fortitude.

Strengths:

1. Her vision is exceptional, which means that she can see longer distances clearer than average humans.
2. She can go longer than an average human without sleep and only needs several hours to recharge due to higher sleep quality.
3. She is very loyal, being willing to sacrifice herself for anyone who treats her right.

Weaknesses:

1. Her pain tolerance is high, which is useful in battle, but it causes her to often ignore injuries.
2. She regularly needs to use eye drops, because she has a tendency to overuse her magic.
3. Since she needs to be able to cry on the spot any day any time, she has to keep reminding herself to the bad stuff that happened in her life.

History

Evangeline Twister was the only child born to famous actress Piper Moore and up-and-coming actor Frederick Twister. Both of her parents made their lives about being on stage and providing entertainment to the rich and thus Evangeline was expected to continue this tradition. However, from a young age it had become clear that the girl had other interests. All she did with her time was read books. It bothered Frederick the most of all, but what neither of the parents knew, was that Evangeline was trying to learn more about types of magic that could enhance an actress' performances. The magic type that seemed most useful to her of all in this specific domain was Tear Magic. She had an obvious talent for it as she quickly used it to her advantage. It made her into a way better actress and even though she still wasn't fascinated by the art of acting out a character, she was finally able to make her parents happy.

It wasn't until her 18th birthday that she started asking herself more questions about what she wanted to do with her own life. It certainly wasn't acting. She tried going back to the books she once read and that's where she realised what her passion was all along: being a wizard. Acting was absolutely not her thing, but using her Tear Magic certainly was. She had used the magic to cry quicker, shine brighter, but the magic could also be used in combat. And as an actress, Evangeline had mastered the art of crying whenever she wanted. Of course she tried to convince her parents first, convince them to allow her to join a guild. However, that talk went exactly the way she expected it. They hated the idea, everything about it. They didn't feel like she would be a good fit in a guild. They didn't think that she could use the magic to fight. They thought the magic would be too inconvenient to ever use it in battle. Evangeline didn't believe their words to be true. She needed to find happiness on her own, as a mage in a guild. That's why she started travelling, in order to find a guild that could accept her.

Writing Sample

A cold winter breeze danced around her as Evangeline stood before the doors of the headquarters of Fiore's corporate magic guild. Her body was shaking, but she couldn't tell if it was the temperature or the nerves getting to her. After she had finally gathered all of her courage, she entered the building, confidently walking towards the administration office. On her way, she gazed upon the wizards who had already joined the guild to see what they were like... and they disappointed her. They weren't at all like the wizards she had read upon in her books. She ahd read about guilds being like family, wizards standing up for each other, sacrificing themselves for one another. These wizards were more like the politicians she had learned to hate, only thinking about themselves and about the money in their pockets. However, as she didn't want to judge people without knowing them, she proudly continued her walk to the administration office and joined the back of the waiting line.

Upon arriving at the woman's desk, Evangeline didn't get the reaction she was hoping for. The woman didn't ask her questions about who she was and why she came. No, the woman recognized her as the daughter of Piper Moore and Frederick Twister. Apparently, her parents had used their connections to get their daughter banned from joining a wizard guild. Evangeline tried to convince the woman to change her mind, but the only thing she heard back was that this was bigger than the woman herself. She couldn't do anything to help Evangeline. Her parents had gone out of their way to force their daughter to come back home. Why were they obsessed with her continuing their legacy? Why? Evangeline couldn't understand the need to force others into following one's own dreams and goals. She should be allowed to do what she wanted when she wanted. She had recently become an adult after all.

Since Evangeline had no desire to go back home and give her parents what they wanted, she decided to live on the streets for a while. The lack of money and a job, made her apply for any job that one didn't need to be qualified for. Because of her parents' obsession with entertainment, she didn't have a proper degree or anything. They didn't think it was necessary, because they had already decided what Evangeline would do with her life. Eventually, she got a job as a waitress in a small tavern. She was good at her job. She liked working there and she earned enough money to buy healthy food, water, clothes to keep her warm. Her wage was even high enough for her to rent a small appartment near her work place.

However, a couple of months later, she was fired out of nowhere. When she started begging her boss for her job back and demanding to know the reason for being fired, her boss revealed that her parents had convinced them. She couldn't believe her own ears. How did they even know about her job? She certainly hadn't told them about it. Did they have connections with people from such a small tavern? It wasn't likely. One of the customers might have told them about it then. They must have paid her boss to fire her as another way of forcing her back home. Of course Evangeline knew the money her parents had made off of her acting skills. She understood their motivations. But she refused to give them what they wanted. That's why she started living on the streets again, since the owner of the appartment didn't want to continue renting to someone who couldn't get a job.

Anywhere she would go, it would be the same thing. That's why she had to leave Fiore. Her parents were famous, but not famous enough to be known in another country. If she would leave Fiore, she maybe could even get a job as a wizard like she wanted! Naturally she didn't really know where to go as her knowledge about geography was limited due to her lack of a proper education. However, she was allowed in a nearby library where she spent weeks reading. Reading had always been her favorite thing to do. In the past she read mostly about art and entertainment as to make her parents happy. The only reason they allowed her to read upon magic, was because she told them it would help her with her acting, which it did. Now she could read about anything. That's why she was there every day for the whole day during those weeks. She read about a lot of different subjects, but never forgot that she was there to learn more about other countries.

When she had finally decided that she would go to Pergrande, she didn't waste a single moment. She said goodbye to the people she had met at the library and immediately walked towards Pergrande. Upon arriving at the border, she realized that the guards were checking her like any other mage. They clearly had no idea about who her parents were and that thought comforted her. After passing the check, she went to the town of Rembrandt. Maybe she couldn't rent a place to stay yet, but she might get a job at the local guild.

Backrooms: The Thing that Breathes

Amanda Lewis

Amanda Lewis

27 years old | Female | 7 April | 5' 3" | 139 lbs



Nigel Lewis | 2 years old | Male

Personality: People who do not talk much are either seen as insecure or as difficult and hard. Amanda is not planning on showing anyone any kind of weakness, which is why she never asks anyone for anything. She doesn't show her shame or sadness to anyone. As she is also afraid of being talen advantage of, she also hides her happiness. She would rather be seen as an emotionless robot as to not attract anyone's attention.

Phobias/Fears: Spiders, bats, blood, anywhere where there are hardly any people around such as the woods or a desert, her uncle, her sister and naturally for anything to happen to her child.

History: Amanda's mother died giving birth to her, which means that the care for her and her three years older sister Piper was left to her father Harry and his brother Mike. When she was five years old, her father had a fatal car accident. Only her uncle and sister were left.

However, her uncle had a drinking problem and after he was drunk, he would either force himself on her or beat her and she didn't couldn't really tell which was worse. She tried talking to her sister. Piper suffered the same fate, but while she was trying to deal with the situation she basically lost her mind. This didn't make Piper any safer to be with than Mike.

As soon as Amanda became an adult, she moved away as far as possible. She had tried telling the police, but Mike was too good of a liar to ever get arrested. Since the police couldn't be trusted, Amanda lost trust in everyone else as well.

The father of Nigel is a one night stand that she cannot remember, which is the reason why she is raising him alone. At the time, he is the most important person in her life.

Skills: As she never learned any combat skills, Amanda doesn't know how to fight. She does have her intelligence and that combined with her trauma causes her to be extra alert.

Inventory: She has a handbag with her phone, wallet, cards, keys, handkerchief, a little bottle of water and some chewing gum. Amanda also hides a pocket knife in her bra.

Backrooms: The Thing that Breathes

I'm certainly interested :)

The Breaking of the Seals

(Mistake post)

The Breaking of the Seals

@BunniesOfDoom This is a very interesting idea, I love it!
I have a couple of questions:

• Is the snatching of human souls similar to ending their lives and having them reborn as demons or do the victims of the demons also willingly give up their bodies to a new demon?
• How strong are the powers of the Nephilim? Are we talking about regular magic that they have to train or overpowered magic that they aren't able to control due to their physical limitations? Is it the same case for the demons?
• Are the demons randomly ending lives as they see fit or have they gathered to find the Nephilim together?

Soldiers of the Afterlife

Some people believe in reincarnation. Others think that people get sorted into heaven and hell. And then there are the people who think that the afterlife doesn't exist. None of them was completely correct. There was nothing that could have prepared you for what the afterlife was actually like.

You suddenly stood in front of a school entrance, waiting in line to get registrated as a student. When it was your turn, you asked the person behind the desk about the school, about the curriculum, about the benefits going to the school, about the ages of the students. None of your questions got answered. You were forced to fill in your information, but you still didn't know anything.

Weeks flew by and you learned that school mostly existed out of medical tests and both physical and mental exercise. It didn't seem as if they were planning to teach you anything particular. You turned out to genuinely like the afterlife. Of course you were suspicious that you only saw first years, people who arrived in the school around the same time as you did, but since not one of the staff answered critical questions it was useless to worry about.

However, one morning a third year sneaks into the shared bedroom. They tell you about the complot of Afterlife's Leaders. The plan is to completely take over life on Earth. Nowadays, Earth is left in its own control, but they wanted to make Afterlife the control room of Earth.

Do you think that the leaders of the Afterlife are right and are you craving for a position in power? Maybe you betray your fellow first years in order to get that power. Or maybe you want to join the third year and his friends who created a secret group of rebels. Another possibility is that you don't even believe his words to be true.

A selected first years get chosen by Afterlife's Leaders to join the others. What happened to the rejected first years, you don't know. You quickly learn that four large camps had been formed: The Rebels, The Power-Hungry and The Unbelievers and The Weak.

The Rebels wanted to do everything in their power to stop the complot. The Power-Hungry wanted to grab a powerful position, allowing them to be there and to be imporant when the Leaders' mission would be successful. The Unbelievers were still ignoring that something bad was going on, while The Weak believed in the complot but didn't feel like anything could be done about it.

In this story, you will be an accepted first year, trying to find their way in the Afterlife. Do you join one of the camps or do you prefer being alone? And how are the Leaders planning to take control of Earth? Will it have an impact on you? And will your choices change once the concept of magic suddenly makes an appearance? Your choices will decide if you are worthy of a magical ability.

Characters that I would love to use [18+]

Female characters

Reversed Healer

Joanne Rina Taylor

Female
Heterosexual
24 years old

161 cm / 5' 3"
69 kg / 152 lbs

Style

Her outfits usually consist of semi-stylish blouses or sweaters, pants and sneakers in neutral colors such as white, black, gray and brown. She likes to be as comfortable as possible without putting much effort into her looks, which is why she generally has her hair down, doesn't wear any makeup and hardly any accessories. The only accessory she wears every single day is her necklace. It has a special meaning for her, but she has never told anyone else what the story behind it is.

Healing Magic

Spells

Asdar

This spell increases the physical energy of the target.

Ashug

This spell relieves the target of hunger without providing the body with the necessary nutrients. A positive use for this magic is to lessen the suffering of poor people who cannot afford to eat three meal a day. A negative use for this magic is to prevent people from feeling hunger making them essentially forget to eat. Throughout the centuries, many people have died from starvation this way.

Atzu

This spell helps the target to increase the air intake, essentially helping them breath. This is a popular technique to temporarily help people with allergies. The most powerful magicians were able to use this spell to push an object out of the throats of choking victims. Others could manage their oxygen intake while waiting for the object to be removed.

Durst

This spell is similar to Ashug with the exception that this spell relates to thirst. Both the positive and negative use of this spell is similar to Ashug.

Geif

This spell can be used to remove poison from the target's body.

Weck

This spell increases the mental energy of the target.

Wund

This spell can be used to heal any wounds the target might have. How deep the wounds are allowed to be for this spell to work depends entirely on the power of the magician.

Reversed spells

Rasdar

This spell decreases the physical energy of the target.

Rashug

This spell increases the feeling of hunger in the target.

Ratzu

This spell decreases the air intake of the target.

Redurst

This spell is similar to Rashug with the exception that this spell relates to thirst.

Regeif

This spell can be used to add poison to the target's body.

Reweck

This spell decreases the mental energy of the target, essentially increasing the feeling of fatigue.

Rewund

This spell can be used to make the skin of the target rupture, which creates wounds.

Personality

Even though she is not one to talk much, she is very sure of herself. The word 'insecure' probably does not exist in her dictionary. On top of that, she is very charismatic and she knows this. The only thing she has to do is smile sweetly and she can get anyone to do anything for her. People eat our of her hand, as they say. Since she is a very powerful magician as well, she can use her magic without any hand signals. Her face also wouldn't show any sign of effort. This combined with her charisma makes it easy for her to hurt her victims without them knowing. By the time they realise what she is doing to them, it's already too late.

Background

Being the daughter of angels, Joanne was meant to live in heaven watching over humanity. When she was only two years old, it was revealed that she would have healing magic. This made her parents very enthusiastic, but it made everyone else feel jealous. The reason for this is that healing magic was considered rare, since it was supposed to appear only in those pure of heart. Nobody considered Joanne to be pure of heart. It was unclear for the girl herself if people insulted her out of jealousy or if they really didn't consider her to be a good person.

The relationship with the other citizens of heaven became worse over time. During her teens, she decided to become the person everyone else feared her to be. She started to use her healing magic in a bad way. She was the first one in history to create reversed healing spells. Even though she was only one single person, but still managed to end the eternal lifes of hundreds of souls before being cast out.

The plan was for her to end up in the underworld, where she was to be punished for all eternity. This did not happen. She managed to convince a demon to let her use the portal to Earth. Every now and then, she moves from one city to the next to prevent people from finding out that she cannot die. She changes her name every single time. Luckily, she has some connections that allow her to alter her own information in the citizen databank.

Sometimes she was almost discovered by humans, but her charm and innocence made her able to end their lifes and make them disappear before they could tell others.

First Fairy

Evelyn Hannah Gray

Female
Heterosexual
22 years old

152 cm / 4' 12"
47 kg / 104 lbs

Style

As a very feminine woman, Evelyn usually wears dresses and skirts combined with either heels or ballerina shoes. She doesn't get cold easily, so she's loyal to this style of clothing throughout all four seasons. Since her favorite color is pink, she likes to incorporate it into her clothing. On top of that, she absolutely adores accessories, makeup and nail polish. When it comes to makeup, she usually stays fairly natural and her nail polish are always light shades. Her accessories can be of all colors. She doesn't have a preference for silver or gold.

Personality

Evelyn is not the smartest girl and she is very gullible. She trusts everyone she meets and therefore believes anything anyone ever tells her. Not once in her life has she felt anxious about something. Every single day in her life is a day worth celebrating. She's very optimistic and hard to insult. Whenever someone would say something mean to her, she would happily reply with 'Do you feel better now that you got that off your chest?' This is not meant as a smart comeback. This is an honest question that she asks people.

Background

When she was 18 years old, the magicians came to Earth. They live in a different universe and are able to make portals to travel between universes. According to these other humans, a new generation of magicians should have been born on Earth. They said that there was an obvious pattern in which magicians were born on Earth and whenever they came to get these magicians to join them in their universe, they would delete the memories of magic from the remaining humans' minds.

Evelyn was very excited about this opportunity. Every child dreams of having magic one day and Evelyn was no different. What might make her different from others is that she kept dreaming about this as an adult. She felt like her wish had come true. Immediately after hearing about this on the news, she ran towards the nearest checking point. Apparently they had a magician who could sense people's energy, so this person could easily identify who the magicians were.

When Evelyn reached the front of the waiting line, the person checking everyone looked shocked. They said that they sensed a very strong energy from her and that she might have been the strongest they had ever felt on Earth, even though Earth magicians were supposedly way weaker than magicians born in their universe. It had something to do with having stronger genes if you were born from magicians.

Enthusiastically, she followed the magicians to their universe along with the other Earth magicians. In the next couple of days, someone was assigned to the new Earth magicians. Their task was to bring out the magic, so that they would know who had which type of magic. It took all of them no longer than a week to find this out, except for Evelyn. Her magic just would not appear whatsoever.

She started to get bullied by the other magicians, but this didn't bring her down. She trusted the words of the person who confirmed her magical abilities. And she was right to trust that person. After being in the other universe for two months, she suddenly woke up one day with wings on her back. Evelyn is a fairy.

Fairies are not able to use magic themselves. They are supposed to permanently connect with one single other magician in order to activate the magical abilities and even then only the magician they connected with can use these abilities. It is important to choose this person well, because the connection is for life.

Only people pure of heart can be fairies, which is why they always had been rare to begin with. However, fairies were believed to be completely extinct and never to appear again, so Evelyn - the first fairy in a very long time - became very popular very fast after discovering her true nature. She has not bonded with someone yet, but she has tried to learn more about past fairies and exercised to strengthen her body.

Lost Fairy

Diana Rose Williams

Female
Heterosexual
25 years old

155 cm / 5' 1"
51 kg / 112 lbs

Style

Her hair is always worn in two long pigtails and since Diana loves hair accessories, she has a huge collection of them allowing her to choose a different one every single day. Her favorite colors are purple and black, so she usually wears clothes in these colors. Being not particularly feminine or masculine, her outfits are not consistent at all. Sometimes she wears dresses or skirts and on other days she prefers jeans with a sweater or a vest.

Personality

Diana can be very insecure, but she refuses to show this to the outside world. Because of this, she can be very rude and appear quite arrogant. This huge contrast between how she feels on the inside and how she makes herself look on the outside causes her to often question herself, her identity, her choices, her values, everything that makes her Diana.

Background

Diana grew up in a world where fairies were the dominant species on the planet. Humans didn't exist there. Every single person on that planet had a type of magic. Well, everyone except for Diana. She was the only one in the history of the planet to not be born with magic. Her parents forced her to use magical items to compensate for this, to not draw too much attention to herself, but she wasn't skilled enough to use them.

Because she refused to disappoint everyone, especially her own family, she tried researching different magical items in the hope that something exist that could give her magical abilities. Nothing of that sort was in the books, but there was a portal, a portal leading to different worlds. Having discovered this portal, she was hoping that in another world an object would exist that could help her.

Behind everyone's backs, she used the portal to travel to Earth. After spending some time between humanity, she soon realised that magic only existed in people's imaginations. Since the travel obviously was a waste of time, she wanted to go back to her own world. However, she suddenly remembered using a magical item to open the portal and not taking this item with her to Earth. This means that she cannot open the portal from Earth and that she is stuck between the powerless humans.

Male characters

Retired Warrior

Lance Tyler King

Male
Heterosexual
27 years old

189 cm / 6' 2"
71 kg / 157 lbs

Style

He doesn't care about his clothing, not even a little bit. The only thing that is important to him is that the clothes are practical enough to easily move around in. He does have a favorite color, which is black. This is why basically everything he owns is black. Usually, he wears his hair down, loose pants and a vest without a shirt. He doesn't like to cover his chest, because he feels like a shirt is always too tight and claustrophobic.

Personality

He likes to do his own thing and thus refuses to take orders from anyone else. Due to his second name being a more regular name, he introduces himself as Tyler instead of Lance. Most of the time, he hides his first name and simply calls himself Tyler King. All of his time is spent in complete solitude away from everything and everyone. He hasn't talked to another human being in years and isn't planning on doing it anytime soon.

Background

Tyler's parents were both part of a gang living in the woods without electricity or technology. People from the nearest towns and cities prefered to refer to the gang as being more of a cult than an actual gang. The citizens believed that the gang brainwashed their members into starting wars, loving ending lifes and doing anything they could for their leader.

As a young kid, Tyler showed early signs of being very strong and good with a sword. His parents actually added his first name when he was already five years old as reference to his abilities. Because these abilities were discovered young, the gang was able to completely brainwash Tyler into becoming a brainless weapon that did everything they would ask.

When Tyler became a teenager, his parents discovered another gang living in the same woods. His mother fell madly in love with the members, the way they worked and the way they lived. His father wanted to stay loyal to their own gang. The two fought all of the time until his mother eventually officially switched sides. Because of this situation and Tyler not wanting to choose one parent over the other, he was banned from both gangs. On top of that, his parents used him as a weapon in an attempt to destroy each other.

After becoming an adult, Tyler decided to abandon everyone he knew to live alone in the woods, somewhere no one would ever be able to find him.

Lonely Hacker

Raphael Ronald Romero

Male
Bisexual
25 years old

165 cm / 5' 5"
54 kg / 119 lbs

Style

Since Raphael hates standing out, attracted attention and basically any form of stimuli, he hides himself in dark hoodies and pants. Not caring about any of his clothes, he wears the same clothes more than two days in a row and doesn't put any effort into taking stains out of clothes. In order to protect himself from stimuli, he wears headphones all of the time. Sometimes he doesn't even play music or anything, but he likes to make people think that he is.

Personality

Raphael cares a lot about other people, but was taught as a young child that this was not something to be happy about. His parents made him follow courses and programs where he would learn to care less about everything and everyone. It worked. He didn't even care about his family enough to stay in contact with them. At least, that is what he made them believe. He never let go of his empathy for others, he just made his parents think he did before abandoning them to live his own life the way he wants. When he meets new people nowadays, he still makes them think that he doesn't care, simply to prevent himself from getting hurt again.

Background

Raphael grew up in a very rich and well known family that was bothered all of the time by paparazzi. His parents taught him as a young child to put on an act in front of cameras and journalists. He seemed to be pretty good at acting, but not as good as his siblings. For some reason, they put on a better performance and they also didn't feel guilty about lying. Raphael wanted to be honest and himself, but he was the only one thinking that way in his environment.

As an adult, he moved to a completely new city all on his own. He quickly received a job as the IT guy in a very important and successful company. After working there for two years, he quit. The job was extremely boring and the other colleagues constantly tried to get to know him. It was so annoying for him. However, being at home without a salary didn't seem to be better. It did at first, but he quickly changed his mind after seeing bills in his mailbox.

That's when he discovered the art of hacking. He made the decision to become a professional hacker and earn money that way. All of his days are spent inside the comfort of his own home. Often he becomes so concentrated at his work that he forgets to eat, drink, go to the toilet or sleep. Hacking, that is actually interesting. That is what he wants to do with his life. He describes the discovery of hacking as falling in love for the first time, even becoming obsessed with it.

Circus Owner

Wade Meril Myers

Male
Bisexual
26 years old

178 cm / 5' 10"
58 kg / 128 lbs

Style

He loves to wear very colorful clothes and usually uses color combos that other people wouldn't even dare to try. Not being afraid to wear the outfits on the streets and in public, he's often complimented by strangers. He gets compliments about his confidence and about the outfits themselves. Somehow he makes them stylish. On rare occasions, he will agree to wear more neutral colored clothes. But he's never seen in anything comfortable. He only wears very chic clothes.

Personality

People who only know him superficially describe him as being a gentle, loving soul respecting everyone the way they are. He is always there when family members or friends need someone. He offers affections, resources, anything his loved ones may need. People who do know him deeper would describe him as being the complete opposite. He's a manipulator. They say that he knew exactly what to say to convince them to do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted it.

Background

Even though Wade discovered as a young child that he had the ability to manipulate others, he never felt like he belonged somewhere. Maybe it was because of this ability. Maybe people feared him too much to engage with him. He himself never seemed to understand. That only motivated him to do whatever he wanted. He didn't care about values or rules, but only about himself.

As a teenager, he accidently runs into a secret society, which he joins immediately after hearing what kind of society they were. These people had plans and ideas for how to control other human beings. For the first time in his life, Wade felt excited in his chest. He had found the one thing that he lived for, the only place where he would belong.

It was actually his own idea to start a circus. After explaining the concept to his superiors, everyone soon became just as enthusiastic as Wade himself was. That's why they made him the owner of the circus located the nearest to the headquarters of the society. The circus however wasn't normal. It was a prison for humans. They were locked in cages and presented to the society in a similar fashion as animals in a zoo.

Need For Critique Partner [18+]

Outside of this website I like to write Flemish stories. I hope to get one published someday, but in the 11-12 years I have been writing I have never been able to finish one due to being too much of a perfectionist. I feel extremely insecure when I read about writers publishing one book after the other at a pace of like one book a year or something. I roleplay to keep myself motivated to write and that helps.

Now I had the idea to write an English story together with a critique partner in the hope that it keeps me motivated for my current Flemish story. This would mean that while I write my novel, you write yours. We help each other to not give up basically.

We can decide together on the minimum amount of words we would write each time and what the deadlines are each time. We can read the parts we send each other, talk about what we think about it.

I am looking for an adult, since the English story I want to write is a dark and mature story inspired by the kid show Miraculous. Please tell me beforehand if there are dark themes that you can't handle and which they are.

Hopefully someone is interested. Let me know if you are :)

Lost Souls [18+]

It was 5 May 2025. The morning didn't seem any different from normal, until you looked into your bedroom mirror. Your eyes gazed upon an unknown body. Your first thought was that it must be a dream, so you followed your morning routine assuming that at some point you have to wake up. Right before leaving your house to go to work, you turn on the morning news. It wasn't a dream. Several people woke up into different bodies that morning. You weren't the only one. Most people commented that the victims were delusional, but as one of the victims yourself you believed everything you heard.

People not only woke up as different people, but as people opposite from themselves. Athletes woke up in wheelchairs. Nurses woke up in jail as felons convicted for ending lifes. The rich celebrities woke up as people who couldn't even afford food. The most arrogant people who had never felt anxiety before suddenly couldn't feel anything else anymore. It was chaos.

It looked similar as reincarnation, but at the same time it didn't. You weren't reborn as babies, you as an adult woke up in the body of another adult, someone completely unfamiliar. In order to make yourself feel at ease, you tried to go to your old home. You were craving for something familiar, something you knew and liked. To your surprise, someone else was living at your house. Your neighbours had never even heard of you.

The first couple of days you spent in complete solitude. Hoping, wishing, praying that the dream, the nightmare, would end. It didn't. At some point you decided that returning to your old life wasn't an option anymore, so you might as well get to know your new life. You put all of your effort in getting to know your new family, friends, partners. You tried to hide that you were one of the victims, that you had no idea who they were, because you didn't want them to think you were crazy.

You thought that you would get the hang of it after a while, but the contrast between your old life and your new life was too high to simply get used of it. You reached such a low point that you thought about contacting the other victims. However, someone else seemed to have the same idea sooner, because a letter ended up in your mailbox, a letter without a return adress and without stamps. For a moment you wondered how they got your adress. It didn't have any stamps, so that lust mean that they came to your house.

You wanted to ignore the letter. It didn't seem trustworthy that another victim just happened to have your adress, because you hadn't told anything about your situation to the media. The letter was a red flag meant to be ignored. But how could you ignore a chance at talking to other victims who might be able to help you get out of that deep, dark pit you were in? You couldn't.

That's why you went to the meeting place at the specified time, hoping to talk to the other victims, kind of like an AA meeting. However, you were right to have doubts. In a matter of seconds, you get blindfolded and locked up.