#star cycle

My au is set around DS9 era (around season 4ish onwards, so the years 2372 to 2376 ish) so it's around the start of the dominion war. Biiiig emphasis on 4x11 Homefront and 4x12 Paradise Lost btw, that's a lot like how Earth is most of the time under the bishops.

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My Torch uses he/she/it because @/regionalatbandito's baby oul au radicalized me to he/she Torchbearer and then also she's yk. jesus figure and all that. But yeah it's vulcan, and has naturally stronger than average telepathy. Growing up, people were kinda wary of him due to his power, so she got used to being alone and othered, which made it easier for it as he got older to see how awful Starfleet and the Federation were. Since she didnt have friends growing up, and her family came in contact with her as little as possible, he put all its energy into studying, with a special focus on telepathic discipline. As a teenager, she would frequent the Vulcan Science Academy library to look at older texts and resources that contained theories and skills that were deemed too "outdated" or "irrelevant" to teach, especially ones about how pre reform vulcans would use telepathy in battle. This is where it learned about the hallucinatory projection thing. Very few could do it back then due to how strong one's raw talent had to be, so it was seen as closer to a myth or story than an actual thing (hence why it's not taught in schools). Torch ran away pretty soon after finding out about this, and then at some point came into contact with someone who had a copy of an ancient manuscript talking about it, which he then acquired somehow and taught itself how to do.

Clancy's a trill, but she grew up on Earth, in a Federation orphanage. She kinda always knew that she'd end up going to Starfleet Academy, since there was really only one way to get out and explore (also the career paths someone growing up in an orphanage can look forward to are very limited). From the time she started high school, she had already caught the attention of (then captain) Keons. He told Nico about her, and they started keeping an eye on her. She ended up being pulled from high school a year early, due to Nico himself sending her a letter offering her a spot in the Academy. She accepted, of course, and passed her classes with flying colours, and was part of Red Squad. Right after she graduated, she served under Keons on a pretty basic year long mission that was mostly checking up on various federation allies. Keons was promoted to bishop pretty much immediately after they returned to Earth, and Clancy spent a while on the ground, but she got bored and missed space, so she snuck onto a ship leaving for a mission. They found her out pretty quick, since she wasn't on any roster, and reported her to Starfleet HQ. I havent really figured out too much from there until she gets onto another ship (legally this time), so we're actually just gonna. brush by that. Anyway, she's been on this new ship for about a month when they find an uncharted planet with some strange readings, and decide to check it out. Clancy is part of the away team, and while she's planet side, she finds a ship and a strange readings generator that was being used to disguise the ship. For whatever reason, she doesnt report this, and instead sneaks back down just before her ship leaves. They come back for her once they realize she's gone, but while she's there she sees the banditos and Torch.

okay yeah that pretty much covers the basics. Bishops are gonna be in a seperate post btw cause I have soooo much to say about them. Story is also gonna be a different post. I'll link them both to here once I actually write those, but for now it's 2:30am and I am tired lol

Okay, I’ve been workshopping a story in my brain after watching kpop demon hunters and decided to start recycling old ocs into this new story I’m working on. Reduce reuse recycle and all that.

So essentially this world is incomplete. Literally. The goddess who was creating it (I’m just calling her Hecate for now cause I’m lazy) was killed before she could complete it, but with her dying breath she lined out how the world was supposed to be finished and created a prophecy about five girls called the Magia who would complete the world and defend it from evil.

Flash forward hundreds of years and those five girls have been found. They’re not the protagonists. They’re important, but they’re not the protagonists. The actual protagonist’s name is Destiny Kaze, a nineteen year old blind college student just trying to survive (art below, pose references by @albanenechi)

She’s a huge fan of the magia and wishes she could be like them but can’t cause fate (yes I did name the protagonist in my story about defying fate destiny. It’s ironic). Until somehow (idk how yet this is a wip) she is found or finds an….essentially demigod named Moros (pose reference by @mellon-soup)

Morosis supposed to be the big bad villain the magia face against in the final battle, but he knows something the others don’t. The story set out by Hecate ends in tragedy (idk how yet. Get used to me saying that) and destiny, being the bleeding heart she is, obviously doesn’t want that, so she essentially has to fight against her heroes to defy fate itself.

…now that I’m writing it out…this is a villainess story isn’t it

anyways, world building stuff. This world works on something called the Loom (heavy spider/butterfly motifs here). It’s like, the threads that makes up the world, and those who can align their own minds with the Loom can transform, summon weapons, use magic, all that jazz. But due to the incomplete nature of the world, there are holes in the Loom that the Magia are supposed to fill in. But what the Magia mainly fight against are the tangles. It’s pretty self explanatory, they’re tangles in the threads of the loom that suck peoples life force to grow stronger. Destiny has a sort of connection to the Loom in that, she can see it more clearly than most people with actual vision. Blindness is a spectrum, and it’s incredibly rare that someone is just pitch black blind. Destiny can basically only see super high contrast, super bright lights or super dark darks. But when she’s transformed, she can see the Loom. Her vision transformed is basically like that mechanic in deltarune chapter four where stepping on specific squares would send out like, ripples that highlight things there.

🧍🏿🔫

you do that anyways crow

but either way, so, basically, the loom is..kinda sentient? Like, when the girls are transformed they can kinda feel its emotions and stuff. But it’s not, fully sentient, cause it’s not fully completed. So essentially, if the loom gets completed, it awakens and flys off the join its creator, basically sorta kinda killing everyone. It’s definitely glorified in the actual prophecy with flowery language like “accession” and “joining higher purpose” but it’s basically the end of the world. It’s the same kind of idea as the rapture in Christianity. Cause like, great that everyone goes to heaven and all but, everyone still dies.

I don’t really have experience with magical girls(only Miraculous if that counts)

but

a normal object that’s actually connected to the protagonist in a way where it is one of the main components in the transformation

that’s where it’s at baybeeeeeeee

(I am sleep deprived girlie so you can ignore this)

miraculous is a gateway magical girl story in my personal experience. It’s superhero-y enough to get newbies into it, but eventually you start looking up other transformations and whop de doo you’re pirating Precure seasons