#roxsztars

[ Versus Central ]

The Versus Dimension was formed by crystals that lost their elements, resulting in a planet covered in plain, stony hills. The missing elements caused the land to glitch as it formed, creating rectangular prisms that towered from the ground and a large fractured star in the sky. Some glitches became the first five lifeforms here known as Versztars, which have various appearances but often look like fusions of different creatures. They learn about their glitch powers that can alter the stony landscape into whatever they want at the cost of energy. The Versztars became friends and wanted to use their powers to create a nice space to live, but they all disagreed about what it should have.

After arguing, they decided to each make a plan of their own and get together to see whose is best. When they started reviewing their plans, they found they actually wanted multiple parts of each other's plans in the final product. Therefore, they incorporated many of their ideas, including turning the rectangular towers into housing units, into one giant city that was named Versus Central due to the competition that created it. They didn't have enough energy to change most of the land, so they decided to leave it for future ideas, allowing natural glitching to form slightly different landscapes.

As they lived in Versus Central, the Versztars found they were maturing into more stabilized forms. Using this, one of them learned how to alter themselves to asexually create new life, so they all reproduced to populate the city. To prevent chaos from their offspring's glitch powers, they instilled a culture of teamwork and friendly competition, and found their kind had a remarkable ability to compromise with each other. Eventually, the population grew enough to require groups of mayors that are routinely cycled to regulate the landscape's usage. There are now a few hundred Versztars all living in present day Versus Central.

[ Versus Vector ]

Retropodd is a current day Versztar who lives with his mother Sonyapodd. Just like her, Retropodd's head had two round disks that didn't behave in any special way. Retropodd liked exploring as a child, and Sonyapodd would often have to find him wherever he ended up. One day, it learned about a camping trip to one of the planet's outer habitats: a sandy beach with a beautiful shoreline. He was enamored and was excited to go there with its mother. There was a rule to not alter anything outside of Versus Central, but the camping group enjoyed their time regardless.

The group set up tents to sleep in as Retropodd wandered across the shoreline. Sonyapodd found it again and decided to set their tent at that spot. Little did they know, their tent was on top of a buried portal to Storm Summit in the Roxsztar Dimension. As they lived and slept, the musical energy from that Dimension seeped into their minds. Retropodd's more glitchy form channeled it in a way that gained him the power to play any sound it could imagine. Retropodd quickly discovered his love for music after the trip, even though music was a very rare interest in Versztars.

As he grew up, he wanted to create his own music studio. He pitched the idea to the mayors who approved because of the lack of musical projects. In order to keep it however, he had to prove other Versztars would enjoy it as well. And so, it used his powers to create his studio called Versus Vector near the city's edge to prevent noise pollution. When he started to compose though, he couldn't think of what his first song should be. He wanted it to be perfect but had too many ideas. His song deadline approached as it cycled through ideas and scrambled for inspiration.

[ Battlegrounds ]

Desperate for an solution, Retropodd visited the spot on the shore where it first started liking music. He watched the shore until he started hearing strange sounds from under the sand. It dug down and discovered the portal he had slept over. It cautiously stepped through onto a sandy shore in Storm Summit. Strangely, his music powers couldn't work quite right in this realm, and he couldn't zap around anymore. He explored until he encountered Thrundurr, Vansambul, and Cybirx. Terrified by these bizarre beasts, it fled away and hid, but they soon found and spoke to him. Despite how bewildered it was by this place and these creatures, he noticed how they seemed friendly and could somehow talk. So they began talking and learning about each other and their home Dimensions.