#arcanepunk

Oiê, pessoas! Meu nome é Aylla, sou uma aspirante a escritora BR, nerd de prato cheio e definitivamente penso demais e escrevo de menos. Tô atualmente trabalhando em uma saga de fantasia sombria que vive na minha mente e tem muitos significados (pique Alice Madness Returns). Tô me aventurando em Arcanepunk/Gaslampfantasy para o worldbuilding, que foi originalmente pensada como uma fanfic de ACOTAR, com a filha Nessian como protagonista. Mas já escrevi umas coisas por ai (agora terminar...) :D Tô criando coragem para escrever por aqui porque gosto da ideia de ter uma comunidade para debater sobre diversos detalhes e referências em livros. Sei lá, gosto de papear. E é isto. Bebam água e surtem, faz bem de vez em quando.

I am trying to talk more about the punk genre. I am trying.

So, let me talk about another punk genre, that is a rather strange example of the punkpunk genre. Because it is one of the rather small genres of the genre group, but the examples that exist are surprisingly strong.

Arcanepunk in general refers to a story or aesthetic, that involves both magical and technological elements. Often times we see it as a world that has some steampunk-y or teslapunk-y technology, but also uses some sort of magic. Though definitionwise there is no reason why it could not be in even higher developed. Shadowrun, which mixes Cyberpunk with magic, is often also considered as Arcanepunk.

One of the reasons that Arcanepunk can be considered rather big, for the fact that it is one of the lesser known subgenre under the punkpunk umbrella, is, that it has some entries that are rather big.

Most notably, of course, there is League of Legends, which very firmly falls into the Arcanepunk setting, and with that all media that comes out of the LoL franchise. Including - yeah, it is on the nose - Arcane.

Other big examples are the aforementioned Shadowrun, arguably some of the Warcraft lore, Warhammer, and also Pratchett's Discworld.

The irony is that for a genre that has some really big franchises tied to it, there is a lot less of other stories within the genre - and the term is just rather unknown, leading also to the fact that there is a lot less of smaller novels and comics that really lean into the genre.

Of course there is also the fact that Arcanepunk once more is not always that strong on the punk aspect.

Let me talk about League of Legends, because frankly: Out of all the big Arcanepunk examples, LoL and Shadowrun are the ones I am most familiar with.

Now, those who mostly know Arcane might actually think that it is fairly strong on the punk aspect. After all Arcane very much places an emphasis on how unjust the system of Piltover and Zaun is. While one could argue that the characters most rising up against the system are the villains, it still does show there is a need to rise up against it. And the council of Piltover is most certainly not depicted in a sympathetic light.

However, if you look at League of Legends, the lore is often a lot more... complicated. Because League of Legends has the issue of "there is no real main character". For the most part they want players feel good about playing any of the champions, but given that some of those champions are colonizers, if not just outright fascists. But again, you can play them. So they all need to be main characters of sorts. Hence: The overall narrative cannot go and say: "Actually, this is super bad and we should focus on the rebellion against it." Which would actually put more punk into the story.

It really makes me wonder, how Riot plans to deal with this going forward, given that they decided that Arcane is now part of the main canon - but I digress.

You can see a similar thing (from what I know) in Warcraft and Warhammer. Due to all the factions being equally playable, a lot of the associated media tends to be held back onto picking sides - even though it is bitterly necessary.

And Shadowrun... Oh, well. Shadowrun is another issue entirely. One that I will talk about seperately. Some day. Not today.

You were sick. No, you were dying. The cure you uncovered - forbidden, forgotten, and fracturing. You thought they’d understand, your best friend from orphanhood, after all, you’d fought to survive your whole lives and to give up now... – instead, they betrayed you. Turned you into the very people you’d both worked to thwart at every turn.

A. Liddell is not your best friend – and you are not the white rabbit anymore. You are cured. And you were saved. Ripped from the painted claws of your enemies by a name feared by all and you will protect her – protect the Red Queen – no matter the cost, because you are her very, very precious child and her most dangerous weapon – you are the Jabberwock and the white rabbit …is dead.

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An interactive fiction series in the works where you play as the JabbeRwock, the right-hand to the most feared crime lord in the city of Rave.

In this series, you will ultimately make the decision to embrace forgiveness and chase the white rabbit or let a painful betrayal fester in your heart as you embrace the Jabberwock. Each path will have a different variety of love interests, with only one neutral RO. I plan to introduce a large variety of fairytale characters (though NOT all introduced ARE ROs, all ROs ARE a fairytale character), all with different interactions based on whether you try to recover your past as the white rabbit or if you decide to shed it as the Jabberwock.

ROs will be gender-selectable based on player's preferences.

MC will be customizable from appearance to stats. MC's personality is also customizable, however, because of their past trauma and the type of magic they wield, their mind is quite broken and whether that worsens or mends, is up to the player's choices.

I'm super excited for this project, and excited to share it with you guys! Follow me down the rabbit hole and let's go mad together!

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Nincs több titkolózás, lerántom a leplet a következő projektemről, amin egy kis ideje már munkálkodom, de most végre nemcsak a cselekményvázlat kerek, hanem el is kezdtem konkrétan írni:

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