#insu

Jillian asked, “What took you so long?”

“Our water supply,” I joked, joining her on the queen-sized mattress, grabbing one of the fluffier pillows to get comfy.

Before I could beckon her to press play, the title sequence was already playing on screen.

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As Jo lay in bed, she couldn’t help but wonder what was going to happen next. But even more was a particular episode where Eugene was trying to become a Royal Guard. Or the episode where Ruthless Ruth wanted everyone to ‘listen up’ to her song with both a storm in the story and an amazing thunderclap in the real world. And it lasted for around an hour! Oh, how she loved the rain!

But all that aside, she wanted to know how it would be to walk through a medieval European city. The clopping of hooves, merchants selling their goods in the nearby market, along with the farmers selling their produce. A bakery would be nice, and maybe a cheese shop right next to it. And a castle maybe? What could she call it?

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I knew this place was too good not to create it. Mostly I’d stick to my more urban Worlds in the INS-U, but would it hurt to try?

Of course, I’ll have to explain what that means. It’s part of the Universe theory I made. Reality can be defined as a Sub-Universe, mostly referred to as the Universe. But perhaps there’s a plane of existence that the most creative beings can create. Imagination. The stories we make, and the worlds we build for them can become a Sub-Universe too. If the real Universe has intelligent beings who can create Sub-Universes onto them, it forms a figure that looks similar to a flower with never-ending petals. And the one I was talking about? That’s ImagiNation Sub-Universe, abbreviated to INS-U.

S-U’s are further divided into Worlds. In my case, each World is a different story, with different magic settings (how magic works there; do people know it exists?) time settings (how fast does time go by compared to the real Universe?) and levels. (Level-1 is low, an underdeveloped one, with Level 5 being a World with developed species, society and planets.)

Level-0 Worlds are where you can create new ones. UGW (Unnamed Gelatin World) is the one only for INS-U. A dark void with floating, luminescent blocks of jelly. They’re like platforms, and if you fall from a block, you’re either gonna land on another or teleported back to the ‘top’. Reality is subjective there. Now, back to making a medieval World.

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I opened my eyes to the glowing void. A toxic, lime-lemon glow emitted from the block under me. This World can smell like your favorite scents. In my case, it was the mellow smell of a cup of hot chocolate milk and petrichor from earlier.

Summoning a panel, I wondered what specifications I could add to the World. Maybe a kingdom where people know magic exists but no one really uses it? Or one where magic is forbidden and few know about it?

Wait. Who said you’re only allowed one kingdom for a story?

So, I decided to create the former. Perhaps the sun was important symbol there. ‘Equinox Solaris’ sounded about right. A majority of French and Norwegians, and a minority of Italians; I decided. What if it was an ally of the kingdom with outlawed magic? Why not.

I viewed the rough outline of the European continent on the screen of the panel and placed them slightly away from the other. I hummed as thought of a name. I ended up naming the kingdom ‘Bellicus’,  Latin for ‘warlike’, which it was. I molded it in accordance of a kingdom that I had thought of making before. Thanks to my Sanders Sides fixation at the time, the heir to the throne of that kingdom was Prince Roman. And since I had a thing for evil kings, I gave him a cruel father with three children, including him; whose favorite and youngest child went missing the day Queen Loren had passed.

“Yikes Jo, isn’t that a bit too much?”

“Nah.”

What about Remus? He’d probably run away, honestly, which he did at the age of twelve or thirteen.

Leaving that aside, I decided to go back to making Equinox. A while of clicking buttons and flipping switches on environmental settings, I finally developed it into a Level 4, four-dimensional World.

I stretched my arms, a bit tired from making all that. Closing the panel, I flopped onto the soft surface which felt like a cloud. The light blinked slowly as I got back on my knees.

Well then, maybe I could get something appropriate for the time I’ll be going to, and the bomber jacket-shirt-jeans combo I transformed myself into probably didn’t meet the standards. Luckily, I knew an outfitter whose wares specialized in such fashion…

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A/N: This isn’t an accurate description of how I created all this, but when you’re a character in your story you gotta slightly change it up. This is around the time I made this post in my main blog. Equinox was already a nameless kingdom a year ago for a TSS AU I made.