#isot

The chaos compels me in a way only chocolate does. You don’t understand.

Like, old man!dionysus meeting pretty insane boy!dionysus like that spiderman meme + the hundreds of demigods popping around like weeds + luke (sue me, he’s like my fav character so he HAS to be here or my brain wont start braining) having a breakdown as he runs after his gremlins like a dog after a bicycle.

A) Death here is joyful/desirable. It unites them. In a way, they wanted/had to die. Their love was too disruptive for life, one way or another. They can finally be together forever in death.

or

B) Death here is miserable/undesirable. It separates them. Regardless of the enormity of their desire, they wanted to live for each other. If dead, they cannot be together.

Prologue. Part 1: Positive Phototaxis

Propaganda

James Flint's gay. He waged war on all of civilization in the name of his gay lover and expanded to racial equality and he almost fucking won. They (civilization) took everything from him. And then they call HIM the MONSTER? The moment he signs that pardon, the moment he ASKS for one, he proclaims to the world they were right. This ends when he grants them HIS forgiveness, not the other way around.

As with most other universes set on Earth in the present day, immediately before Mathis James Reed was born on September 6th of 1925, he was Cecilia Moore Hopkins born in 1852. Cecilia and her husband had several children, and her youngest was Abigail Eva Hopkins. She was born in 1888, which was about three years after the cosmic change event. She was only five when she drowned in a lake.

While ghosts did not exist prior to the cosmic change event, they started to exist not long afterward. So Abby was able to remain with her family, albeit as a ghost. She would remain at the mental age of five. As a ghost, she was pastel pink with her feet terminating in a tail.

Ghosts can be seen and heard by everyone - and they often have a cloth-like texture, even though they technically have no physical mass. They also have a translucent appearance. They have the ability to create apparition clones of inanimate physical objects, although doing so consumes energy.

Ghosts are also able to see all spirits, even though only select mortals have an ability to see them. As a result, it’s not unusual for ghosts to frequent hospices - where the terminally ill are commonly visited by spirits who help prepare them to cross over to the other side.

In the present day (2007/2008), Abby resides with the second incarnation of Jimmy Reed and his family - and she is very close friends with the Sugarpuff Girls, who also will remain being perpetually five years old.

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Alan Keane and Arthur Roth end up befriending two other balloon boys their age.

Adam Maynard is a 1930s-styled rubber hose cartoon with a purple balloon for a head, with the knot located in the back just slightly above his neck. As only his head is a balloon, he isn’t as vulnerable to the wind. However, he can use his balloon head to float. His head is about 60% the size of the rest of his body.

Andrew Barnes is an orange balloon with black stick rubber hose arms and legs protruding from the balloon, with the knot located between the two legs. While his limbs are not technically part of the balloon, they don’t contain much mass. He usually prefers floating to walking or running.

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Clara is the cone portion of an ice cream cone - while the scoops are Cindy as chocolate, Vesta as vanilla, and Sarah as strawberry. The three scoops sleep in a freezer, as they periodically need to be frozen to keep from melting. Clara has long thin limbs protruding from her cone body, and the colour of the limbs change depending on who is controlling them. The come has only a single eye around the cone rim, and no mouth. However, Clara can swap places with one of her scoops temporarily - and they must always switch back before removing the scoop.

Living with Clara and her three scoops is an orange dual popsicle person, who are named Penny and Patty. Between Penny and Patty, they have four black stick rubber hose arms and four legs. Two of the arms and legs are located in the middle of their shared body. Each can control only their half of the body - but they have a sense of touch over the whole body, excluding the region near the other ones brain. Penny and Patty sleep in the freezer with Cindy, Vesta, and Sarah.

Every morning, Clara turns on the radio to see what the weather forecast for the day is - and determine how long Cindy, Vesta, and Sarah can be outside of the freezer.

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Sadie and Sofie are cherry twins which share part of a brain. The body needs about six hours of sleep a day, and they are simultaneously awake for about six hours a day - so that each is awake for about 12 hours a day. They can choose which memories and know to store in their shared brain. Sadie is red, while Sofie is blue - which matches their personalities. When awake at the same time, they share a telepathic bond. They have black stick rubber hose arms and legs protruding from their cherry bodies, with spherical wheels for feet.

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Bella Palmer is a live action girl with a winged eyeball symbiont. The eyeball’s name is Donna. While Donna is not capable of speech, she has telepathic abilities. Donna is also capable of simple telekinesis. Bella and Donna are also able to switch bodies at will. When the switch is in effect, Bella’s eyes will glow yellow - while Donna’s eye will switch to its complementary opposite colours. All symbiotic eyes are in kaleidoscopic designs.

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Banana Joe is a banana with colourful googly-eye stickers and a mouth made of clay - and whose peel functions as clothing. As such, he can show up as a banana of all different colours. He changes clothes by replacing the stem that attaches to his head, which then automatically covers the rest of his body - but without obscuring his eyes and mouth, which are his identifiers. He has black stick rubber hose arms and legs protruding from his banana body.

Brent and Brock are also bananas, but differ in ways from Banana Joe. Their ink faces are located more upward, and the bottom portion of their banana bodies terminate in full legs and feet. They also have full arms and hands extending from the middle of their body. They often can be found wearing what we refer to as pajamas.

i finally updated in some other time <3