Corrupted and Forsaken

“What is worse?  To be forever changed, to become corrupted; or to be forsaken by all those you once knew?”

Indie Multi-muse OC Blog

Written by Brandie

Multi-Verse / AU / Crossover Friendly

NSFW Themes Present

Fae, wolves, dragons, and mortals, oh my?

Aries: “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down” “Imagination means nothing without doing” “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” -Charlie Chaplin

Taurus: “The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” -Audrey Hepburn

Gemini: “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” “He not busy being born is busy dying” -Bob Dylan

Cancer: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” -Helen Keller

Leo: "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” "I’m not funny. What I am is brave” -Lucille Ball

Virgo: "You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now.” "A man’s illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.” –Lauren Bacall

Libra: "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” "I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.” -Confucius

Scorpio: "Kiss me and you’ll see how important I am.” “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.” -Sylvia Plath

Sagittarius: "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths” “I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess” -Walt Disney

Capricorn: "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” "It matters if you just don’t give up.” -Stephen Hawking

Aquarius: "Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.” "None but ourselves can free our minds.” -Bob Marley

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words: wait and hope.” - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo 

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

“We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” - Carl Sagan 

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 

“You are a burning lamp to me, a flame / The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you / High in my hand against whatever darkness.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Lamp and the Bell

“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” - Star Wars V.: The Empire Strikes Back

“There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.” - Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now, for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” - Vincent Van Gogh 

‘Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin did not die. They simply became music.” - Westworld 

“A young man on a nearby rooftop released his pigeons, like dreams, into the dawn.” - Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.” The Times of Harvey Milk, 1984 (dir. Rob Epstein)

“Imagine! Imagine! The wild and wondrous journeys still to be ours.” - Mary Oliver, Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me 

“At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, / You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. / And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, / And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.” - Rudyard Kipling 

“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away; that’s when you get shooting stars.” - Vladimir Nabovok 

“How far a little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world!” - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice  

“But then it passed, as all things do.” - Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

It would depend on how thickly forested you would want the area.

5 years: You will see some small trees and concrete being busted up by new growth. Priorly planted areas will be over grown and unmanageable. Small animals, insects, and large herbivores will be attracted to the area and establish populations.

10 Years: Concrete will be almost overgrown and trees will be further busting up the side walks and buildings may start to collapse due to the plants or disrepair from severe weather. Herbivore populations will have attracted small predators and the occasional lone large one.

25 Years: Large buildings will have mostly collapsed due to damage done to their structure by tree roots. Asphalt and sidewalks will be mostly gone or reduced to patches of rubble. Roads will be unusable due to their disrepair or gone completely. Ecosystems will be mostly developed and water sources may begin to appear in areas where they may not have before.

50 Years: Most traces of buildings and other human civilization except for heaps of rubble will likely be gone or covered in plant growth. Roads and side walks will have disappeared and full blown ecosystems will have re-established themselves in the area.

100 Years: Ecosystems will thrive without human civilization and most if not all traces of humans will be gone or buried under new dirt and substrate, allowing plants to grow over it and life to go on without it. Areas will be thickly grown in with trees and shrubbery that would resemble a national park or state sanctuary.

It really depends and most of those times are a guestimate. For cities like NYC or Chicago,  would guess it would take about 50% longer because of how heavily industrialized and concreted the area is while small towns or rural areas could disappear about 25% faster due to the spread out nature of most small towns. Severe weather such as hurricanes, wildfires, heavy flooding, tornadoes, tsunamis/tidal waves, sinkholes, and earthquakes would speed things up drastically by the thorough devastation of a civilized area.

I hope this helps and is what you were looking for! So sorry this sat in the ask box for so long!-Mod Fluke

Also look up abandoned cities imagery online. There’s lots of references for different types of climates. Cities located near salt water would deteriorate much faster than a midwestern inland city. Location and weather needs to be taken into account.

Theres are a couple of documentary series that chronicle just these types of questions. One of the series is called Population Zero, and discusses in detail exactly what would happen to any infrastructure left if humans were removed from the earth.

The best series is called Life After People because it discusses different locations, weather effects, art, roads, cars, artifacts, and talks about when certain events would happen, like 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, and 1,000 years. And talks about why these things would happen too.

Cruden bay - Aberdeenshire - Scotland - UK 

A human girl exchanging her silver engagement ring for a cheaper one after she realises why her werewolf friend has been refusing to high five her.

A group of humans throwing coats over their vampire friend because he forgot it was the Summer solstice and was caught out by the sunrise. Those same friends coming to visit him when he wakes up in the late afternoon, bringing him blood from the butcher’s and putting up with his whining about the nights getting longer.

A human hearing that someone stole their selkie friends pelt and coming over to her new “husband"s house immediately and threatening to punch his lights out unless he tells them where it is.

Humans petitioning the counsel to build a wooden climbing frame in the local playground because the old one has iron parts and their fairy friend’s kids can’t use it without burning themselves.