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rarsneezes24.8 / artificial aegis project / soup
It’s about surviving abuse long enough that you can escape it, with a side of murdering your abuser, and also the kind of friendships that are forged in surviving the same abuser when you can only trust each other and no one else.
B plot of four scientists being imprisoned and forced by the government to create artificial intelligence to be used as a superweapon and their struggles in realizing they are doing the wrong thing and trying to get away with doing the right thing even though they are under threat of death, ft the grief of losing a child and terrible coping skills, because who can possibly be prepared to cope healthily with sudden house arrest after your child was murdered.
YWKON
Vignettes about people caught in an oppressive system that is built inherently into the world’s magic system; surviving it, fighting back against it, freeing themselves from it. In the end culminates in the plot it was building up to: talking a well intentioned extremist down from uselessly destroying himself to undo the unjust system—and then bullying the answer for how to fix the system out of god.
With a side of focus on the love between siblings, the struggles of living after surviving trauma, learning that your worth is not determined by whether or not you are a successful super weapon for a country at war.
Crossover series that’s set out to explore how characters from different worlds play off each other when forced to work together towards a common goal. Comparing and contrasting similar characters, watching their needs merge and clash. With a dash of exploring healthy coping mechanisms post trauma, being realistic about boundaries, and reuniting with long lost loved ones when you didn’t have the chance to through normal means, and getting to say to them things that you didn’t get to say before.
An abuse survivor learns that what he went through was deeply fucked up, that he deserves better, and also that he inherently deserves love and has worth on the sole basis that he is a Living Being. Or as the tagline says: its about living, choosing to live, even when living seems like it’s the hardest thing anyone’s asked of you. It’s about learning the purpose you were created for doesn’t define you. It’s about learning that the only thing that defines you is you and your own choices.
It’s also about a war, though it’s less about the war itself and more about living in the war, the quiet nights and moments in between battles, and its’ about living after the war, coming to terms with the scars in your soul and carving out the rest you need, finding what normal looks like for you when the war is over.
With A Side Of Learning To Be Comfortable In Your Own Skin Again After Being Brainwashed And Nearly Killing Your Best Friend, Whoops. (This is almost definitely not about the character you think it is unless we’ve spoken about this before!)
About your crazy ex from a previous lifetime deciding the best way to contact you is by kidnapping your son?? Exploring that things are not clear cut, black and white, and that there is always, always, a lot of grey. Explores the lengths some might go to to help and protect their family. And Also Going On Adventures When You Aren’t Neurotypical And The Journey Is Kind Of Shit On Your Mental Health.
About refusing to accept sacrifices as the only answer. About doing things over until you are satisfied with the result, about having the power to do so, versus the exhaustion that comes with literally rewriting the fabric of time itself. About compromising with a grieving mad child god. About him seeing sense before he’s quite all the way off the deep end. About the different choices one makes when they know what the ending looks like, versus when they have no idea at all.
About two souls bound across lifetimes because the god who created the world loved his wife so much he accidentally cursed the world to reincarnate her forever. About all the different ways they can meet in, or not meet in. It’s about yearning for someone you go four hundred years without seeing even though you don’t know their name. It’s about the grief you carry from lifetimes you can’t remember.
And most of all, it’s about trust earned and trust freely given because a relationship is as much about putting in the time to make your partner feel safe and respected around you as it is the falling in love part.
