Previous Paracosm

I've had paracosms long before I knew what paracosms were. I couldn't remember most of them, but I do remember the previous one quite well. Maybe not that well. Um. Anyways.

Basically, it's very Homestuck-pilled. LOL. Of course. So it's basically about these stick people going to school and doing shenanigans. They're mostly based on me and my classmates, with one signature character from their name being written on their otherwise empty faces, and I squish strokes around to represent emotion. It's very genius, actually. Here's an example.

(Ming is happy! Versus Ming being sad.)

So they just cause trouble all around.

Now for the weirdly superpowered neon animals. Lightningtail was in it, yay! Actually, have I written about the evolution of Lightningtail here before? Bring out the picture.

Diesel, a side character in the Warriors comic book about Graystripe finding his way to the lake, inspired this whole array. Lightningtail, as well as the pony, stickmin, and dragon variants, are direct inspirations.

Lightningtail herself is a cat whose tail can extend and detract however she likes. So she likes making it into some helicopter blade and flying around with it. She has an older brother called Jaywing (I was actually quite mad about Jay's Wing (yes I was also mad at Lightning Tail)) who has wings. But they aren't a jay's, but a bat's. Yeah I don't know what I was on.

Pony and stickmin Lightningtail were just characters I made because I liked MLP and Henry Stickmin. Also the pony one should have a blue tophat too; I forgot to draw it. Stickmin Lightningtail was in the Toppat Clan, obviously.

Dragon Lightningtail is a Hive-Silk hybrid who got thrown outside the Hive (Honeybee Hive, for some reason. It's not a canon hive) because of that. She survived, and got found by a family of ShockWings. So ShockWings is my fan tribe, they live on Pantala, on the tail of the dragon, near the lake there. They have two sharp-looking wings, are colorful but one dragon can only have one color, and they can send electricity through their claws. Pretty neat, huh? I am quite a genius myself. They can also make their entire body a light bulb, shining really bright, an ability called the Glow. After a dragonet has Glowed for the first time, they are awarded a hat that they will wear for the rest of their lives. LOL. There's also a ritual they perform, called Cloudburst, where a bunch of dragons hold hands and Glow together during a storm to summon the spirits of their ancestors.

So Jelly and her mom Cranberry found this weird dragon with four wings out in the wild, not in any Hive, and brought her to the queen. She told Cranberry to adopt her… for some reason. Anyways they did, and named her Lightningtail. Lightningtail would then grow up with Jelly, and receive a hat of her own together with Jelly. The signature blue tophat.

The story ends with Lightningtail and the ShockWing army burning down Honeybee Hive, Lightningtail kills her HiveWing father, Jelly dies and Lightningtail carries her back home to get struck by lightning (that's what happens when a ShockWing dies). I truly don't know what I was on but I think it's pretty neat, actually!

Anyway then comes troll Sparky. I gave her a new name to fit the troll naming scheme (Sparky Donuts). This one is the direct ancestor of the Sparky we know and love, created after I changed TIR to be non-Homestuck.

So anyways now you know where Lightningtail comes from. The ring she's holding is the Main Character Ring. If you got it on top of your head, you become the main character of the paracosm and gain superpowers, and the world changes to fit your color. When Blaze (my own stick figure) got it, her dark evil energy turned the black-on-white world to white-on-black, with her main color being dark purple. And also you can create new worlds. Lightningtail and Jaywing created the stick people world, or something like that. But there was a bit of convoluted justification around the logic that resulted in me creating a world loop of 4 worlds: Lightningtail and Jaywing's, the stick figure one, the one Qibli created, and then there's a fourth world and residents of that one created Lightningtail and Jaywing's world.

There was also a thing where Jaywing or something was in an infinite loop that went like this: Jaywing receives a stone from his future self. He grabs hold of this stone, and in the future, travels back and gives it to his past self. From the perspective of the rock, it must be always wearing down in Jaywing's claws. And how does the loop start? I don't know.

My memory is really blurred but yeah, that's the story of my previous paracosm, before TIR! You can really see a lot of consistent themes, like one color per character, and the convoluted justification of stuff.

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