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heavenlyraindrops · 13 days

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Fantasy World Building: Species/ Countries,Nations, Tribes

I said in my world building checklist post I would make a separate post for this so here u go besties 😄👊

things to consider when writing a fantasy book with different species and nationalities in it ‼️

Appearance

What defines their species looks wise?

features such as nose shape, hair texture (if they even have hair), skin tones should be considered

what environment/ climate/ habitat they come from will affect their physical traits

which features are more common in them?

maybe species A are known for having super pale skin and really long, pale-almost-translucent-hair- while species B are known for tanned skin, pale slitted eyes and wild curly hair

what about other FANTASY physical features such as

wings, webbed feet and hands, slitted eyes, pointed ears, tails, clawed fingers

differenr types of THOSE features

As in different types of wings, different shapes of pointy ears, different types of tails blah blah blah

differences between their features in diff stages of life

differences between the genders

also sizes, average heights and all that jazz

Abilities

Physical and magical

lets start with physical

maybe species A are known for being quick and agile

and species B are slow and lumbering

maybe species A are super flexible

and species B are very strong

consider these points:

agility

strength

intelligence

their physical traits as well, such as allergies, resistance to certain things ect.

like how maybe some species are allergic to a certain metal

maybe some are resistant to certain diseases

maybe some don’t burn and are resistant to heat

alr now magical!

do these species have magic at all?

if so, what kind of magic? (Gonna make a separate post for magic)

is this magic woven into their physical being?

are they born with it?

Or do they learn it?

does it come to them naturally? Or do they use incantations, books, artifacts, ect? (Again, separate post for this shit)

is there certain magic they can’t do?)

Culture

Traditions

superstitions

festivals

religion

clothing styles

architecture

famous figures in their community

mythology

places of importance to them, religious or in other ways idk, for example we have Makkah for Islam

accessories

things they believe to be sacred

prejudiced beliefs

Reputation / other stuff idk

Stereotypes

are they persecuted in certain countries?

other rival religions, countries or nations

who are they looked down upon by?

what are they known for?

e.g., being kind, being bloodthirsty, being miserly, being isolated/ secretive/ elusive

how are they treated? Are they seen as a superior species/race?

Do they mix with other races when it comes to marraige, relationships, friendships, business? there’s loads more so I might make a part two if people ask me to, hope this helped 👊 😄

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shy-raccoon · 3 months

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Worldbuilding Tip

If you have a fantasy race with animal traits look at that animals social structure when desiging their culture.

A kingdom of lion people could have 2 types of towns, one with mostly women and one man as mayor and another made up of men banished from the first town when they hit puberity. With duals to decide the mayor of the first town.

Fauns and satyrs could banish all men from town except for during mating season with only women running socity or have seperate towns for each gender like actual deer herds.

Most cultures in fantasy are real world cultures with the serial numbers shaved off or a mish mash of real world cultures. So this is a great way to make more interesting cultures in your setting.

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moon-and-seraph · 1 month

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Who is the most powerful person in your story's world?

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pendarling · 11 months

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40 Reasons Why Your Character is Motivated

Memory loss or recall

To save a business

Death of someone

In a contract/made a deal

Accidentally became involved in something serious

Lost something or someone and wants it back

To look for a companion

Confused/misinterpreted a situation and got involved

Falling in love

Falling out of love

Medical situation

War

To win

Job title requires a Character to ______

To solve a mystery

Just hungry

To graduate

Doesn’t want to be alone

Sees potential in themselves or someone else

Got selected or chosen to do something

Cursed or blessed

To fix something broken

Finish an old mission they thought completed but oops! Plot hole wasn’t filled

An argument happened

Because they are hiding their identity or a secret

To prove they can do it

Doing the work for someone else that is not present or isn’t able to

Finding a cure

Is forced to

For adventure

To find a better life for their children/family/friend

Out of hatred

To confront a fear

Clean a mess

Got manipulated to do a project

Was bored

In order to find a new home

To find an escape from a trap

Something was stolen

To earn respect

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MASTERLIST

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worldbuildingprompts · 11 months

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World Building Prompt #554

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seaside-writings · 1 year

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Hello, all you lovely people!

I'm here to post another prompt list based on one of my favorite things small details!

Small details are one of the things I love the most when it comes to books, whether it foreshadows something or not.

It amazes me how much detail some authors put into their stories and how it's just enough to give the reader a perfect picture of what's going on without over doing it.

I know this prompt list is really random, but please enjoy it! And if you use these, please credit/tag me so I can check what you created because I'd love to see it!

I hope you all stay blessed and safe throughout your day.

Lots of Love & Wishes: Celia 💙

Prompts:

Coffee splatters on paper

Lipstick marks on a straw

Tangled chargers

Dog-eared pages

Nail Polish stains on fingers

Muddied shoes

Pencils tucked behind ears

Pens tucked behind ears

Doodles on paper

Doodles on napkins

The smell of clean blankets

Sliced cake

Phone numbers written on skin

Notes written on skin

Smudged phone screen

Blankets thrown on the couch

Books on the nightstand

A broken zipper

Crooked glasses

Smudged lip gloss

Crossed out words

The smell of fresh coffee

Sprinkles on the counter

A half-full bottle of beer

A soft and faded quilt

Flour handprints on clothes

Music playing through headphones

Crumpled paper

Jingling keys

Open tox box

The smell of wet Earth

Stuffed animals on the bed

Sticky notes on the mirror

Sticky notes on the window

Hair ties on wrists

Raindrops on windows

Cracked glass

Steamed over mirror

Dishes in the sink

Sunlight shining through the window

Texting chime

Phone ringing

A loose thread

Change at the bottom of a purse

Change left in pockets

Scraped knees

Bandaids on fingers

Empty coffee cup

Open highlighter

Clothes hanging on doors

Scratches in wood

The smell of burnt popcorn

Towels in the dryer

Cracked phone screen

Unmade bed

Grocery list on the refrigerator

Plants on the windowsill

The sound of an untuned guitar

Bills on the counter

Wet matches

Empty vase

Broken rubber band

Paint on newspaper pages

Sunlight through stained glass

Muddy footprints

Crackling logs

Flashing numbers on the clock

Bacon sizzling

The rustling of leaves

Tv playing in the background

Gravel underfoot

Camera flash

Water running

Knocked over trash cans

Forgotten chopsticks

Fire alarm beeping

Record player stopping

Lit candles

Handprints on glass

Toys scattered across the floor

Pencil scratching against paper

Pen scratching against paper

Water hitting the shower tile

A lock clicking

Typing

Ice hitting glass

Soft humming

Far away laughter

Nails clicking

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orions-writing-blurbs · 2 months

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“But that would be impossible, right?”

“Weeell-”

“Wizard, I swear to god.”

“Listen, if science and magic have one thing in common, it’s that a lot of very complex things tend to get… simpler versions for laymen to understand. The mana principle has never been broken as far as we know but we’ve been theorizing how one could break it basically from the minute it had a name.”

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animentality · 1 year

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#twitter #writing #writers on tumblr #spilled ink #world building #writing prompt

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heavenlyraindrops · 16 days

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You mentioned in an old post that you wanted to make a post about fantasy species! Do you have any small tidbits to share to hold us over until you make the full post?

Sure lol

Three headings out of the list of things to remember:

-Diversity and thriving (Are there lots different species? Are they vastly different? Any endangered or rare ones? )

-Habitat (Which species can be found where? In what countries, what environments?)

-Growth (What are the differences between younger members of the species and older ones? How do they age?)

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prompt-heaven · 2 months

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a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town

academy

adventurer's guild

alchemist

apiary

apothecary

aquarium

armory

art gallery

bakery

bank

barber

barracks

bathhouse

blacksmith

boathouse

book store

bookbinder

botanical garden

brothel

butcher

carpenter

cartographer

casino

castle

cobbler

coffee shop

council chamber

court house

crypt for the noble family

dentist

distillery

docks

dovecot

dyer

embassy

farmer's market

fighting pit

fishmonger

fortune teller

gallows

gatehouse

general store

graveyard

greenhouses

guard post

guildhall

gymnasium

haberdashery

haunted house

hedge maze

herbalist

hospice

hospital

house for sale

inn

jail

jeweller

leatherworker

library

locksmith

mail courier

manor house

market

mayor's house

monastery

morgue

museum

music shop

observatory

orchard

orphanage

outhouse

paper maker

pawn shop

pet shop

potion shop

potter

printmaker

quest board

residence

restricted zone

sawmill

school

scribe

sewer entrance

sheriff's office

shrine

silversmith

spa

speakeasy

spice merchant

sports stadium

stables

street market

tailor

tannery

tavern

tax collector

tea house

temple

textile shop

theatre

thieves guild

thrift store

tinker's workshop

town crier post

town square

townhall

toy store

trinket shop

warehouse

watchtower

water mill

weaver

well

wind mill

wishing well

wizard tower

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moon-and-seraph · 3 months

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What do you love most about your story's world building?

#MS: Writing Questions #MSQ: World #writeblr community #writing questions #writing prompts #writeblr #writing inspiration #world building prompts #world building questions #world building inspiration

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lyralit · 2 years

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types of conflict - world building

person vs person - between two people - a hero and a villain - the mc's goal is obstructed by another person - Victor Hugo's les misérables

person vs technology - a person faces technology - between a person / group of people and an object of science - technology refers to science over magic - Mary Shelley's frankenstein

person vs nature - a person faces nature - the effects of nature on the human world - the mc's goal (long- or short-term) is obstructed by an element of nature / a natural force - John Green's a fault in our stars

person vs society - a person faces a collective group of people - a smaller group of people vs a large group of people - their goal is obstructed by this group of people - Suzanne Collins' the hunger games

person vs supernatural - a person faces a supernatural subject - this tends towards the magic, although similar to person vs. technology in a sense - fate, magic forces, otherworldly beings, religion, deities - Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson

person vs self - conflict between a person and their inner self - may be conflicted with their own feelings - can have two opposing goals - Fyodor Dostoevsky's crime and punishment

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worldbuildingprompts · 2 years

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World Building Prompt #552

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seaside-writings · 2 months

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Hello, all you holly jolly people! Here’s another installment of my “12 Days of Prompts.”

I won’t lie I kind of had a little bit of writer’s block on this one, so I decided that this would be more of a minor world-building prompt list. And by minor I mean itty bitty lol.

This prompt list is dedicated to festive holiday drinks that are more on the alcoholic side.

Like always if you do use these prompts please tag me so I can see what you’ve made!

I hope you all stay blessed and safe throughout your day.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays: Celia ❤💚❄⛄🎄

🥂 Hot Buttered Rum 🥂 Eggnog 🥂 Mulled Wine 🥂 Jingle Juice 🥂 Spiked Hot Chocolate 🥂 Gingerbread Martini 🥂 Frozen Hot Chocolate Martini 🥂 Peppermintinis 🥂 Peppermint Bark Shots 🥂 Cranberry Mimosas 🥂 Pumpkin Spice Mules 🥂 Peppermint White Russian 🥂 Sugar Cookie Martinis 🥂 Christmas Punch 🥂 Hot Toddy 🥂 Irish Coffee 🥂 Eggnog Jell-O Shots 🥂 Cranberry Jell-O Shots 🥂 Mistletoe Margaritas 🥂 Jack Frosties 🥂 Peppermint Bark Mimosas 🥂 Snickerdoodle Martini 🥂 White Christmas Margaritas 🥂 Boozy Grinch Punch 🥂 Wassail 🥂 Winter Sangria 🥂 Mulled Apple Cider 🥂 Cranberry-Thyme Gin and Tonic 🥂 Winter Cranberry Gin Fizz 🥂 Vanilla-Pear Holiday Punch 🥂 Snowball 🥂 Ginger Snap Martini 🥂 Figgy Sparkler 🥂 Cocoa Old-Fashioned 🥂 Frostbite 🥂 Snowshoe Grog 🥂 Candy Cane Champagne Cocktail 🥂 Poinsettia Cocktail 🥂 Woodchuck Warmer Apple Cider Cocktail 🥂 Slow Cooker Pear Cider 🥂 Pomegranate French 75 🥂 Driven Snow Cocktail 🥂 Warm Bourbon Cider 🥂 White Spiced Coffee 🥂 Frosted Spicy Ginger Moscow Mule 🥂 Winter Spiced Old Fashioned 🥂 Pomegranate Prosecco Smash 🥂 Winter Whiskey Sour 🥂 Festive Rum & Ginger Punch 🥂 Gluhwein 🥂 Winter Pimm’s Punch 🥂 Mulled Cider 🥂 Black Russian Cocktail 🥂 Turkish Coffee Sour 🥂 St Nick’s Flip 🥂 Christmas Martini 🥂 Gingerbread Negroni 🥂 Old Saint Nick’s Chocolate Espresso Martini 🥂 The Nutcracker 🥂 Christmas Royale 🥂 Ornamentini 🥂 The Cozy Mogul 🥂 Mistletoe Mule 🥂 Bad Santa Sipper 🥂 The Gift Giver 🥂 Winter Florals Cosmopolitan 🥂 Winter Wings 🥂 Mulled Rosé All Day 🥂 Winter Gintonica 🥂 Peppermint Schnapps

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the-cypress-grove · 5 months

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So, You Want To Write Vampires...

Here's a basic list of things to do/consider when approaching this creature.

Source Material

Go back to the origins. Almost every culture around the world has a story or myth containing cannibalism / blood drinking. You may want to base your origin story for vampires on one of these. This can also give you some ideas about what traits and abilities you might want to include that have been written out of modern fiction. It could help you add a unique twist.

2. Vampire Fiction

Vampires have been popping up in fiction for a very long time. Read The Vampyre by John Polidori (thought to be one of the first books written on vampires). Check out Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (the lesbian vampire story that came out before Dracula). Speaking of, Dracula is a classic.

Look at modern fiction. Vampire Academy, Twilight, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, A Dowery of Blood, Crave. Read the good and the bad. Learn what qualities you like and which you will not use.

Make a list of things you like and things you don't.

3. Themes

Writing vampires brings a lot of themes surrounding mortality, immortality, morality, and at what point do we draw the line between what is human and what is other. These themes are integral to a vampire story whether you're writing a gothic horror, a paranormal romance, or a YA. There are a lot of links between cannibalism / blood drinking and love, vampires and LGBTQIA+ characters / coding.

4.Pick your traits

Vampires tend to be unique to the writer. The vampires in Twilight work differently to the vampires in The Vampire Diaries to the vampires in Dracula.

By this point you should have a list of possible traits and abilities you might want to give your vampires. My advice: tailor it to your genre. If you're writing a horror go with the traditional vampire abilities, give them the things that scare you. Think Nosferatu. If you're writing romance, then you might want to soften the traditional vampire traits in the way you find frequently in modern vampire media.

What you choose is up to you.

5. Origins

This is often overlooked in vampire stories but how did your vampires come into being? Who was the first vampire? Is this vampire still alive? How far back do vampires go as a species?

This could affect your vampires in terms of relationships with others of their kind, their powers, their strength.

This might not impact on your plot but, in terms of worldbuilding, if you intend to turn your book into a series then this could be very important going forward.

6. Society

Unless you're writing about the first ever vampire you're probably going to be writing about an established vampire population who will have their own laws, their own history, their own leadership, their own customs. This is an important piece of worldbuilding. It will affect your characters relationships, add conflict to the plot, create established enemies and can be used to raise the stakes.

7. Nocturnal Life

If you're following a traditional burn-in-the-sun vampire and they haven't found a way around this then you need to determine the night life of your setting. What is there for your vampires to do at night?

8. Feeding, Hunting, and Bloodlust

This will affect the level of gore in your story as a lot of the bloody parts in your story will take place through feeding and hunting. This will also determine your vampire population.

You need to decide how much your vampires need to feed, how often they need to do so, and what they can feed on. Do they drink animal blood? Is that possible? Do they drink human blood? Can they drink from blood bags? Do they need the blood fresh? If they need human blood do they need all of it?

The less a vampire feeds, the larger a population you can have in one area as it attracts less attention.

What happens when your vampires are hungry? What does their bloodlust look like? How does it affect a vampire? Is the amount of bloodlust a vampire experiences determined by how old the vampire is?

9. Threats

Unless your vampires are well and truly endless there will be ways to kill them and they will have enemies. Do these enemies take the shape of humans, of other vampires, or another species entirely? How can your vampires be killed? What other species are out there?

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spacedace · 8 months

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Snippet/prolog thing from a DP x DC fic that lives almost entirely inside my head outside of this & a few other bits.

Please feel free to take this as an overly long prompt haha

If anyone wants context to this let me know and I'll be happy to info dump at you lol

The kid had been eleven the first time John Constantine met her.

A little ghost girl, too small for the crowns and dominions that were rightfully hers, wandering the world alone and unattended because to stay in one place would drive her mad - or worse. He didn’t think himself as having a particularly soft heart, but there was something about little Stella Phantom that grew on him - a bit like a mold, he liked to explain. Maybe it was the way she swore like a sailor and kicked a demon in the low hangers with a feral grin the first time he met her. Maybe it was just how lonely she looked, small and slight in the large world she was so obsessed with exploring.

She had a family. A Grave of her own that worried about her, but who couldn’t follow her on her constant travels no matter how much they wanted to. Proof that being some of the most powerful beings in existence wasn’t enough to prepare you for parenthood.

Somewhere along the lines she started following John around. Interested in what he was doing, where he was going, who he worked with. It hadn’t taken long to get her folded into JL Dark. Zantanna had blanched when he’d shown up with little Elle, pulling in the big wigs from JL Light to argue about the ethics of involving a child in their work. As if Supes and the Bat had legs to stand on with their own brood so often in the thick of danger. Elle was safer under his watch than she’d be under the loose oversight the Titans had or whatever fresh hell was going on with Young Justice but hell if anyone would listen to him on that front.

He lost the war when she met Superboy Jr. and Robin V.

She’d adored them from the start, delighted at having children her own age around to spend time with. They formed a little team, working together here and there, then more often as they got older. She still worked mostly with JL Dark, but she was growing up. Spreading her wings a bit.

Elle was seventeen when the Bonds first formed. The spider-silk thin threads finally winding themselves into the heavy binds that spilled out of her Core and reached out for anchoring in the boys. It was sickeningly sweet, in the way puppy love always was. She was too young for Core Bonds like that to settle, of course, in the way children were always too young when they fell in love the first time. It was normal though. Ghost children the Realms over made Bonds only for them to fade or change as they grew, almost never anchoring to anyone til they were full grown.

She’d blushed as red as Marvel’s suit when she realized John could see them, stuttering and embarrassed. He’d teased her about it for a long time, about how much she’d grown up, how much trouble she was going to cause, how he was going to have to fight the big bad Bat and his pet boy scout when she inevitably dishonored their poor, innocent sons. It was entertaining, endearing.

He waited for the Bonds to fade or shift. Weeks. Months. Years. As she turned nineteen, he started to wonder if they would stick around. If in another few years they might strengthen, begin the slow process of anchoring.

She was twenty-one when her boys - calling themselves Flamebird and Phoenix now - started dating each other.

The Bonds remained, steady and solid and painfully unanchored.

John stopped teasing her about them.

They hadn’t changed to accommodate platonic bonds, nor had they faded any. Their tendency to tangle around her like snare was another point of concern. Core Bonds weren’t meant to cause difficulty for the ghost they were born from, and they certainly weren’t meant to wrap around the ghost’s limbs and body in painful loops like that. They weren’t supposed to hurt.

When she was twenty three he started suggesting it might be time for intervention. The irony that he of all people would be trying to get someone to take steps to cut out the thing harming them was not lost on him. Nor was the way the fond feelings he had for the girl had skewed decisively paternal over the years in a way that his younger self would have mocked him for endlessly.

He felt better about broaching the subject knowing that her Grave had been suggesting the same thing. That he wasn’t overstepping the bounds of whatever odd partnership they’d developed over the years. John was, he had very reluctantly come to accept, the girl’s mentor if nothing else. His job was to teach her and guide her, not be her parent.

No matter what his old, battered heart might try and suggest.

Even still, he couldn’t help but be concerned.

She was twenty-five when they got temporarily launched into that broken, bleak world. When they met the Elle and Flamebird and Phoenix of that horrible dimension.

The three alternates’ bonds were anchored completely, tying the triad together in threads of silver and green. Not even Other-Elle’s complete, sickening deterioration into something cannibalistic and feral had been enough to break them. He can’t imagine how much it must have hurt to see that, for his girl to glimpse a world where something she’d longed for for so long happened, only for it to seemingly be at the expense of reality itself.

He helped cover for her, after their two groups had been mixed up and separated for the night - or what might be called night in a world that no longer had any light to make those kinds of distinctions in time. When she came back with the Flamebird and Phoenix of that world, after their little separation from the larger group he kept her two boys misdirected. Distracted Nightwing and Zantanna so they didn’t go asking too many questions he knew Elle wouldn’t want answered. The Bat John was helpless to do much about, but thankfully the big brooder seemed too intent on the desolate, lightless world itself to notice the way Elle’s gaze was going distant, bittersweet at the edges.

He didn’t know what, exactly had happened in the hours she was gone. He could guess, from the way the Other-Phoenix and Other-Flamebird looked at her, the way she avoided her boys. Loneliness and desperation made for an easy slide into bad decisions. John might just have to admit that Zantanna had been correct, all the times she’d said he was a bad influence on the girl. Not that there was any surprise there.

Elle’s Bonds were even more of a knotted mess than before. Offered something so close to anchoring only to find no purchase. They twisted about her throat like a noose now, ready to strangle the life out of her one day.

He signed off on her leave of absence when they finally made it back to their home dimension.

Anyone else would want details to write down. Would want to know the specifics of why and for how long and a whole mess of other details she either wouldn’t or couldn’t answer. He’d get his ass roasted over the fire for the mess the paperwork was in, but that was fine. He’d endured far worse for far less important reasons.

Personal leave, he’d written.

Duration of leave: indefinite.

Reason for leave: None of your fucking business, Bats.

They shared a cigarette on one of the high catwalks in the Watchtower watching dawn break on the world below. Grateful to see the sun and stars again after those two days in utter blackness. They didn’t talk about her Bonds. About what happened. About how she hadn’t talked to her Boys since coming back. Just stood and smoked. He pretended not to notice her tears. She pretended not to notice his. Neither of them had ever been any good at goodbyes.

When the time came she bumped his shoulder in thanks - for the cigarette, for the company, for the years of friendship and family - before turning and stepping through the bright purple door standing impossibly in the middle of the walkway.

He glimpsed the green of the Infinite Realms and the distant shape of her Lair beyond. A world of worlds, paradise to one that never stopped, always off to find something new, something never seen before. It was against all odds that she’d even stumbled upon this one in the first place. A small speck in the crushing infinite.

When the door closed it did so slowly, a painful whine and a soft, mournful click all that marked her leaving.

John watched it bleed out of existence, and wondered if he’d ever see her again.

Six months later, the stars started to disappear.

#dpxdc prompt #dpxdc #dc x dp #dp x dc #john constantine #dani phantom #danielle phantom #elle phantom #jon kent #jon el kent #damian wayne #damijon #one sided (?) Super Serious Chaos #for the record it's not actually one sided Damian & Jon are pining for Elle just as bad as she's pining for them #alternative universe versions of themselves went and complicated things further #bruce wayne #infinite realms world building #ghost cores #Constantine caught a case of Father Figure-itis (it's definitely batman's fault)#angst #there's so much back story and nonsense in this fic idea #there's a whole looming apocalypse thing and Elle trying to sacrifice herself #and Jon & Damian thinking something terrible happened between Elle & their AU selves to cause her to pull away from them #there's ghost core lore (ha that rhymed)#one of these days I'll actually write it all down #in the mean time enjoy a prompt

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