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Author Being | Misty

Misty

Aliases:

Shadow (various)

Type: Artist, Author, Crafter

Specialty: Must use physical tools to activate artist powers, writing characters into life

Powers: shadow powers, illusions, teleportation, making others see things that aren't (or are) there

Domains: Meraki Weyr (Pern AU),

Personality: undisclosed

Flaws: Aphantasia, overwhelm

History: unknown

#author being #authorbeing #character #misty

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Author Being | Emily

Emily

Aliases:

unknown

Type: Author, Artist, Crafter

Specialty: altering plots, altering timelines, creating items, creating species, altering reality

Powers: time/space powers, inventory/bag magic

Domains: unknown

Personality: "Depressed Timelord with reality powers"

Flaws: depression

History: unknown

#a depressed time lord with reality powers #author being #authorbeing #emily

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Author Being | Ryssa

Ryssa

Aliases:

Spirit (Transformers)

Type: Author

Specialty: Creating characters,

Powers: metal powers, metal bending, magnetic powers,

Domains: unknown

Personality: undisclosed

Flaws: undisclosed

History: undisclosed

#authorbeing #author being #ryssa

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Author Being | Alex

Alex

Aliases:

Alex (various)

The Rising Star

Fox Paw (MLP)

Type: Artist, Domain Author (Character who gained reality bending powers)

Specialty: Maladaptive daydreaming worlds into existence.

Powers: Sunrise flames, power of select Celestial bodies, hammerspace for their weapons, Acrobatic powers, Bullet Hell magic (from undertale), select shapeshifting (ie the Fox form), Maladaptive Daydreams coming alive

Domain(s): Dimensional Plane

Personality: They are a goblin filled to the brim with curiosity.. They typically go into realities on a whim, and will pretend to have always been there. They love anything to do with animals or creatures and can and will watch an animals for hours on end.

Flaws: Maladaptive Daydreams, curiosity, Morally Grey, Arson, anxiety, Daddy Issues

History: Alex has been reincarnated many times prior to this singular life, however this is the only life where they have had access to all realities surrounding them. When they got their first ability, Maladaptive Daydreaming stuff into existence, they accidentally created another version of themself. This version has since been revoked from the reality, and no one remembers them. However, Alex since then has gotten access to the rest of their powers and is now looking for their past lives. Hoping to reconnect with those they used to know in the past, and possibly find who they are bonded to.

#character #author being #authorbeing #theautismgoblin #alex

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Domain | Dimensional Plane

Author: Alex Class: Multiversal Type: multiverse, planar, Genre: various Domain Leaders: Time Baby, Annoying Dog, Axolotl, Maruten Policy: Only aware ones interact with outsiders

Stories: unknown

Creation:

History/Highlights:

#domain #alex #worlds

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Species | Ink Creatures

Also Called: Inkhounds, unkupa ("The Stolen") Type: interdimentional/mulitdomain, minion

Creatures seemingly made entirely of dark ink with a oily sheen. They have no orifices, including no eyes. All the features they would have had are covered in a seamless ink coating.

They come in many varieties but the most common is the Inkhound. They chase and attack travelers in Junction. When defeated they do not bleed or loose structure.

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Ink Creatures are characters who have been changed by an unknown enemy. The ink controls them and makes them do what the master wants. They are not made of ink, but are instead coated in it.

An Author Being can fully change the creature back after defeating it by absorbing the power of the ink into themselves. This frees the creature.

#junction species #inkhounds #ink creature #variant badguy

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Species | Shifters

Also Called: N/A Type: Interdimensional/multidomain

Shifters are an interdimensional species that uses their cuteness to trick and lure others to eat them or drag them to their own dimensional space. They are tricksters that revel in misery.

Their first form is cute. Each one looks different but they are all but and guileless looking. Ribbons and aquatic features are common.

The second form is the horror form. Their ribbons become sharp and the more ribbons they have the more powerful they are. Their arms become scythes, the eyes and mouth swap, and they become longer.

#alex #species #junction species #interdimensional species

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Stories List

Author

Bex

Ell

Domain

Methy

Luumbelir

Grior

Rajin

Title

Bloom

CiCaida

Dawn

Flow

Murderwarden

New Circle

Stolen Darkness

italics = Working Title

#Index #story

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Domain | Methy

Author: Bex Class: Paracosm Type: Planet, Solar System Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi Domain Leader(s): Bex, Magnus Policy: Equally shares OOC topics

Stories: Stolen Darkness

Creation:

History:

#domains #bex #methy

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Junction

Also Called: The Crossroads, The Woods Between the Worlds, Between, the void, among others.

Junction is a name for the space in-between all the worlds. it goes by many names and takes many forms.

#junction #glossary

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Amateur Worlds vs. Pro worlds

Any imagined paracosm becomes a domain in the conceptual realm. It doesn’t matter if you keep your story to yourself in your head, post a webcomic online, or are a famous movie director there’s a domain for your world.

Now, the more attention from the real world, the closer to the fourth wall it is. Forget what the forth wall is? Go back and read it.

A domain with a well-known published book will have a portal closer to the Fourth Wall. The closer to the fourth wall it is the more “real” it becomes. The portal is more stable for a domain like this and thus has more barriers between it and junction, but not as many between it and the fourth wall. A character or author within the domain might find it harder to reach junction in this kind of domain, but they can reach the real world easier.

Amateur worlds are more fluid. The further “out” you go in the conceptual realm the less real things become—things are more conceptual. Thus, a smaller less known world is more whimsical in nature. It might also have blurred lines between domain and junction. Characters more easily flow between junction and their domain in this kind of world, but find it harder to reach the real world.

#domains #worldbuilding #field guide

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The Imaginary Realm

Also called the conceptual realm, cartoon world, cognitive realm, or trivial realm

The Conceptual Realm is the realm of thought and imagination. The further out you go the less real it becomes.

The Conceptual Realm is on the other side of the Fourth Wall with part of it being called Junction. It contains the domains.

#imaginary realm #glossary

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Entering the Imaginary World

A person from the real world can be called by characters who know them by name.

Usually, people enter through their mind, many times by dreams. Author beings tend to enter when they write, plot, or create. The very special ones enter through pure thought, often in the form of daydreaming. It has similarities to astral projection.

If a person is called physically to the conceptual world, they are often called by their own characters.

#imaginary world #fourth wall #worldbuilding #field guide

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Out of Character

Behind the Scenes or Out of Character

Out of Character Definition: someone is not keeping to their usual pattern of behavior and motives.

In the roleplay world (and thus in the conceptual realm) it is a change from character to writer’s voice. Usually a writer goes Out of Character to say something to another writer or player, and whatever they say has no bearing on the story or game they are writing.

The same thing happens in the conceptual realm. There are events that happens out of character that have no bearing on the story that is seen in the real world. It is akin to what happens when the camera is not rolling or when the actors or backstage.

Examples of Out of Character behavior is whenever a character encounters something of the real world (like an author being). If they know about the real world, like in the case of Domain Leaders, they often play it off to other characters as a joke or gloss over it. Most keep it hidden from the other characters.

Sometimes there’s a few characters that know about the real world, and keep going as if it doesn’t exist. They do this in order to protect their domain and not draw too much attention to it. Many harmful things can happen to a domain if there’s a lot of outside attention paid to it, usually because of an intruder.

So who knows about the real world in a domain? Usually it is the domain leader or leaders—the main character. They have the choice to tell others that their domain is a fictional world or keep it a secret. They can have many reasons to do either.

What happens when a character find out? If a character that is not the domain leader finds out that their world is a fictional world, many things can happen. First of course is a freakout. Most characters are shocked and upset to know they aren’t what they thought they are. Most eventually make peace with it.

A domain leader might ask an author to “reset” the character, and take away the memory that they know. This is usually done if the character can not make peace with the knowledge. Other times it is for simplicity sake, and the domain leader just wants to keep the status quo. More serious domains take this route.

The domain leader might choose to take that character into his confidence, to better help protect the domain. This is the usual route. Older domains have more characters aware of the real world, and often interact with it (including seeing all the incriminating fanart!)

Why do we not see them out of character? That’s the nature of out of character. This is the characters’ private time, or even when the story has completed (or the show is canceled). Story characters don’t die in the traditional sense. Their stories are told and retold, but it doesn’t mean they are in a forever loop. Unless their creator told the story out of character, you’re never going to see this side of them outside the conceptual realm.

What happens when characters encounter Author Beings? That’s the question. The events of Variant show one possibility, but most of the time its just shenanigans. Interacting with author beings automatically makes the character go into an out of character state. The events taht come out of it won’t reflect in their media in the real world, no matter how much power is used.

#out of character #ooc #character #worldbuilding #glossary

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The Lyceum

Lyceum definition: A public hall for lectures or discussions, an association providing public lectures, concerts, and entertainments.

The Lyceum was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus and best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded by Aristotle.

In Junction The Lyceum (also called the Liminal Lyceum) is the meeting place for the old masters (older author beings). It highly resembles the School of Athens in the painting by Raphael.

It was remade and built upon on the older ruins of the peripatetic school branch in Junction.

#lyceum #junction #places

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The Fourth Wall

Definition: Like the barrier between the stage and audience, this separates the fictional universes from our world.

It isn’t a physical place, but more of a conceptual “membrane” or force that will repel any realworlders or cartoons from crossing from the real world to the imaginary world and vice-versa.

Who can cross the Fourth Wall?

There are exceptions. When a realworlder is called to the trivial world, they can easily find one of the liminal spots that transports them to the story worlds. Fictional characters who venture from their worlds often become a shade of themselves fi they find these liminal spots. Usually kids see them and become “imaginary friends”.

Usually a fictional character can only interact with the world through their media’s fourth wall. For cartoons, video games, shows, or movies this is the tv screen. For books it’s the actual writing or physical book, so it’s hard to interact directly.

Sometimes, fictional characters from one creator will interact through fan art of themselves. The fan art or fan fiction isn’t binding on them (in other words Fanon will not become canon to them) but they can be affected by a lot of people believing the same ideas. Usually this Fanon effect will only affect the domain leader, and it doesn’t influence their behavior. They can chose to call attention to it, tell other characters, act it out, or ignore it completely.

The Fourth Wall and Junction

Think of the fourth wall as the cell wall to junction’s cytoplasm. Junction contains the domains and conceptual realm, and the fourth wall provides the barrier between it and the real world.

The only difference is the further you go into the Conceptual realm, the bigger it is. It also becomes less real as you go. Like Aslan’s country in Narnia: “further up and further in”

#fourth wall #junction #imaginary realm #glossary

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What is a Domain?

Definition: The world(s) of a story. Everything written in a story is contained in the domain--characters, plot, places, time, etc.

Sometimes mistakenly called a world. Another proper term is Paracosm.

Domains are where the story, it’s characters, and its world live. Domains can have many types of constructions, depending on how its author decided to tell the story. In simple terms, you can get to a domain from junction by entering the right portal. And of course you interact with the domain by consuming the story through a book, movie, show, etc.

The creator of the domain, usually called the Author Being by characters, has a deeply felt connection with the domain and its world, characters, and plot. The connection is so deep that they can control all that is in the world.

Types of Domains

#domain #world #paracosm #worldbuilding