u/OutlandishnessDry510

So, I'm going to write a quick little thing based on my AU, the Mavericks AU

Jake woke up, confused and startled... Was he here before? The giant arena felt so familiar, he stood slowly as people started running to him, they felt so familiar... But he couldn't pinpoint their names

"Jake! We won!"

A girl with blue scales said, practically tackling him in a hug, her hair was purple and she felt like a girl and a fish forced to be jammed into the same body, it was weird. Jake put his hands on her shoulders, asking

"Do I... Know you?"

The girl paused, before chuckling, saying

"Obviously, silly! It's me, Ana! Your girlfriend?"

Jake was confused, and the girl, Ana, could see it, she tilted her head, before seeing his red gem in his hand and his red outfit. More people came to him, a boy named Darwin, a guy named Sterling, a woman named Kate, a bird woman named Evangeline, he felt like he should know these people...

But he didn't...

Jake eventually decided to go by another name, Jack, simple, but it made things less confusing, since this body used to belong to Jake, before someone named Eldrorrok powered up his gem, losing his physical form... And birthing Jack. He could've sworn he met Jake, and the last word he said to the newly created boy was

"Take care of Ana for me..."

Nice and simple, but I think it's an interesting start to this little story, maybe a prologue, wink wink

Today is the last day to join into the little shabang of drawing characters without communicating, tentatively, (because we have four people at the moment) here is who got what

u/Most-Possession4621 has our protagonist character

u/Infernal_Bis3xuAl_69 has the sidekick/love interest character

u/Big-Examination-8257 has the mentor/antihero character

and yours truly, u/OutlandishnessDry510 has the Villain/Antagonist character

Remember that the theme is Sci-fi Western, get your augments, get your cowboy hats, and when you're ready for the duel, draw!

I saw a YouTuber, Stormyth, make a video called "10 Artists Create a Cast of Characters Without Communicating!" and I wanna do something like that, but then I remembered I don't have artist friends... Until I remembered y'all are friendly and, don't lie to me, many of you are artists, so I'm here to do something similar! If you are interested, you have a week from me posting this to either say you're interested in the comments or DM me so we can get things set up, I will set the characters on a wheel and then spin it to decide who gets what role, then we design and make lore for the character based exclusively on the one prompt we have in common. The genre of the story, which I randomly generated, is Sci-fi Western. My art tablet isn't working at the moment, so my drawing will be on paper, but again, comment or DM me if you're interested, but no pressure, I bet many of you talented people are working on big things and don't need a small side project. Y'all have a week, that way people have time, but it doesn't go on for eternity and makes sure everyone who wants in can get in! Please don't feel pressured, I just thought it'd be a fun community thing.

Darwin's Journal, Day 35

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I don't know how I've gotten this far, probably because my team has been backing me up, but still, I have to be more careful, this... Whatever it is, it's no joke. Emilia is fine thankfully, as are Jake, Zenith, Alsaya, and Kiko... Naseko's MIA and Ana is... Not in the best shape... She was infected about a few weeks ago and... She's finally starting to show signs. I guess I should go over the stages of infection for future reference

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Stage 1: the infected person starts feeling easily tired or out of breath, often to the point of hyperventilation.

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Stage 2: the infected person starts feeling unprecedented levels of fear and paranoia, I'll explain why I think that happens in a minute.

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Stage 3: then the attacking at one's self and others around starts, their words turning to growls, like a rabid animal.

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Stage 4 only enhances my analogy, they grow taller and their limbs start stretching, as well as starting to foam from the mouth.

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We haven't seen passed that, but my guess is that Stage 5 is when the infected person is... No longer in control, instead a shrieking, lankey, monstrous creature.

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Now, the infection started when Eldrorrok was defeated and Sterling and Channel switched bodies again... But Sterling didn't come back alone, we don't know about Channel, but Eldrorrok must've put a failsafe in place to stop that have left our Multiverse from coming back, cause Sterling began going through the first 2 stages, next thing we knew, Kate went through a wall... And the monstrous Sterling showed us that sometimes, even if they have Unkillable in the name... That doesn't mean they can't die. Sterling proceeded to infect Champagne, Archibald, Harold, Kayla, and he tried to infect Alexis, but she seems to be immune thanks to the Reaper powers, Charlie tried to steady Kayla, but even after some time, she said goodbye to Tayrun and ran away from the team. She's the one that got Ana. Now we're here, down two team members, and with an emotionally and mentally scared team of adults... Wish I could say I was doing alright, but after only a week and a half, Ana's gotten too far in the infection and I'm tempted to say we just put her out of her misery... But I'd never say that to Jake, especially while he still has hope Ana can push through... Even if I know she can't...

I just rewatched Fear of the Demon Hunter and... While yes, Psycho is likely the strongest of the Archons (I'm making this before we know Elder's upgrades), I feel like that isn't saying much, since we know, based on Arava, Psycho struggled, just a bit, but hides it extremely well, but all the same, when Psycho gets bit by Zoophiathan, Arava says that it hurt, and Psycho used all four hands to lift Zoophiathan and throw him, and he even struggled with that, Arava also nearly got Psycho to slap himself in the face. My guess is that the Archons' physical forms are severely hindering their power, while yes, they're still powerful, able to lead entire armies all around, with just one world's fear, Zoophiathan was able to hurt, potentially the strongest of the four still alive, heck maybe of all seven Archons! Sciferimov's powers were robbed from her by Tarsa, yes a very powerful being, but she was without her Multiversal Orb and Overseer powers, the only reason she could handle an Archon was because she prepared for it, and Suvastarif... We know what happened to her, she got fricking jumped, but by reality breakers and the Sharp Gang, Toreli even just wants to hang out and not get smoked by her stronger siblings, and we have seen people getting the better of Elder and Psycho, kinda, but I think the only ones we haven't been given a sign of weakness from is Kaijagrex and Romillasect, but that's because they get the least screen time, though we'll likely get a sign of Kaijagrex either being stronger than many of his siblings, or see him get bodied by someone smaller, like Lorna, Narrati, or Sagan, all still strong, but not as strong as people like Mythal or Alexis or Tarsa, with her Archonic upgrade.

Am I overthinking this, or do we feel like I could, maybe, be onto something? Anyways, I'ma go back to writing my story, I just thought of that... Also Tamika calling Arava Hannah Satanna absolutely killed me when I was reminded she said it

Lawyer to Eloise Ludum: you're here for murder, homicide, kidnapping, child endangerment, I don't think you're getting out of this, woman!

To almost anyone in the Sharp Gang: do any of you know what property damage is? I don't care if you're not from their world, someone has to pay for the damages!

To Kate: multiple accounts of 1st degree murder, homicide, assault, battery, assault with a deadly weapon, 2nd degree murder, woman, having a character arc can't stop the law, at most, I can get you out of a death or life sentence!

To Dresden: genocide, homicide, 1st degree and 2nd degree murder, and child endangerment! We can't get you out of this... But by technicality, there are no witnesses, except your own team, and if we keep them away...

To Arava: you're my last case for the da- more murder charges... Great... Murder, homicide, child endangerment, even if you look like a child, you're technically an adult, kidnapping, so many crimes, what the fu-

So, I'm researching basic knowledge for seizures, and somehow it slipped my mind that epilepsy is a cause, and the character I've given seizures as a major plot point has light powers... so I unintentionally made Zenith's "memory states" as I'll call them for the time being till I come up with a better name, a sort of epileptic seizure, which was unintentional, but I'm gonna pretend I meant to do that...