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Original Verses
All verses should be considered still under the worldbuilding and construction phase and are subject to both minor and radical shifts. All names are working titles and will probably change, considering most of them are lines stolen from one thing or another.
Come Stand By Me: The magical world is, as a whole, scattered and unstructured; a side effect of the attempts to keep their existence quiet from the mundane world, and a general lack of connection between the various species that exist. Smaller communities form here and there, but, uncollected and unaware of each other, it's not hard for those with impure intentions to keep anyone from finding out what they're doing. Some places are for training, some are real communities, and on occasion, someone unites the magical locals with malicious intentions. Some of the younger creatures have comes to believe there is a need to unite, but years of resentments and habits, as well as people with their own agenda on both sides of the divide, stand against making that desire a reality.
Community:whereourdesignfailed
Don't Be Afraid of a Little Bit of Progress: In the last couple of decades, people with magic and superpowers have stopped being a fluke that could be written off and started being a scientifically proven fact. The world is racing to figure out the way these individuals work, the way to keep people without any superhuman ability from being overrun by them, and of course, how each country can use this for their own gain. Some places offer incentives to those with abilities; some places use force; some places use one publicly and the other privately. In addition, an underground is starting to coalesce of powered individuals, who are already growing unsure about being used as lab rats, the growing incentives for governments to use them as weapons, and the way the world looks at them now that they've come to light.
Community:wegottamakeamess
Sentient Magic: Magic exists, and it interacts with the people who have it. It's a voice at the back of your head; a sixth, seventh, eight sense; a second layer of sight showing you what other people may not know. Occasionally sarcastic -- the voice at the back of your head is not a metaphor -- and always out for its own benefit, whether that hurts or helps you, it builds unique relationships with each person who "catches" it. Magic has a mind of its own, and it has no problem telling you how ridiculous it thinks you are.
Community:ifyouliveinme
We Do Not Sleep: An investigator working on a rash of sudden, unexplained deaths across the country finds herself suddenly, inexplicably dead. This thrusts her into a world of new rules, uncertain friendships, desperation, and determination. What it doesn't do is keep her from looking for the person who killed her, now accompanied by other victims looking to answer the question hanging over their afterlives.
Community:sparemeover
What You Are In the Dark: One day, the sun doesn't come up. Slowly the news spreads across the world, bringing panic and fear -- and bringing to light what people become when tomorrow no longer seems like a guarantee.
With Only Strangers Watching: "Superpowers" exist, a supernatural quirk presenting themselves in less than 1% of the population. Unfortunately, they come with a price -- shortened lifespans. The more powerful you are, and the more you use your abilities, the less life expectancy you have. The Sundrop Center was opened to take in powered individuals in the attempt to help prevent their powers from taking that toll on them -- until the friends and families of some of the center's former occupants get suspicious of the death counts, and pull the current residents' families into a frenzy to get Sundrop to shut down. The "prisoners" are less than pleased with their sudden freedom, the media storm surrounding it, the loss of their built family within the walls, and the closing of the one place where nobody treated them like freaks for what they could do.
Community:tothislifeifound
Angelic Tribes: Under heavy construction. The world has a watchmaker god who long since has moved on, and the seven angels he entrusted the world's care to have had their differences, splitting the angels into seven different sectors, each with its own way of running itself and its own duties to take care of.
Community:toholdthemap
Mythverse: Greek gods and demigods and unintended churches, oh my. Under heavy construction and may be blending with a shared universe at some point.
Spy Covens: The big few witch covens spread themselves out amongst the governments of the worlds, offering their services to most of them and doing a damn good job of their tasks. What people who can do magic and teleport themselves out of any country they don't like are doing offering their skills up like that has always made people uneasy, but it's just how things work.... Until somebody plants bombs and takes down more than half the world's witch population. Now the survivors have to try and figure out what the hell happened, survive the people still looking to take them down, and maybe work out what the plan used to be now that everyone who knew it has either died or gone to ground.
Community:getmyselfbackhome
Shared Universes:
(General shared universe comm for use withthebonesofferalletters: wanttheverytruth)
And the Devil Makes Three: Angels and teashops, oh me, oh my.
Carnivals!: Placeholder; the one with the witches' carnival and the foxes' carnival.
Despite the Abundance: The adventures of a contract killer, his boyfriend/accidental sub, and the colorful roster of "colleagues" that a frequent a friendly, shady little bar.
Lock the Doors and Hide the Towers: In which a slightly tarnished superhero is sent to take out a very enthusiastic "bad guy" and instead teams up with ver. Sheer ridiculous crack. Seriously.
No Child is Spared (Cupcake): In which a lot of people with shitty pasts come together to find better futures. Slice-of-life and contemporary.
Take Me to Church and I'll Take You to War: Gods and goddesses and fucked-up soldiers and happy crime girls.
The Drinks: Cross-universe refugees making a found family in a house in Nevada, all named after alcohol of some kind. Slightly fantastical slice-of-life.
The Words Are Everything and Nothing: Magic and roadtrips and libraries.
This City's Got Grace: Sprawling urban fantasy containing all the things.
Unnamed (fuck the fae): In which the humans hate the fae, the less powerful fae hate the fae, and one particular luck manipulator says screw you guys and keeps his poor, screwed up half-human son in the human world instead.
Unnamed (fucked up city): Gods and tributes and science and dead people and magic and just one poor screwed up city trying to hold together.
Unnamed (magical creatures): The one with dual personifications and all sorts of things running around.
Unnamed (personifications and Death's child): Being rebooted from two separate but similar verses; placeholder.
Unnamed (superheroes and fairytales): Superheroes and fairytales, what's not to love.
Unnamed (supernatural conmen): Technically a blending of the fae verse and the contract killers but we list it here anyway because shhhhh. A god magnet/supernatural dealmaker, a luck manipulator, an unpredictable teenage half-fae, and a human killer form the weirdest and most unexpectedly successful group of con men. Also gods. And murder. But mostly cons.
Come Stand By Me: The magical world is, as a whole, scattered and unstructured; a side effect of the attempts to keep their existence quiet from the mundane world, and a general lack of connection between the various species that exist. Smaller communities form here and there, but, uncollected and unaware of each other, it's not hard for those with impure intentions to keep anyone from finding out what they're doing. Some places are for training, some are real communities, and on occasion, someone unites the magical locals with malicious intentions. Some of the younger creatures have comes to believe there is a need to unite, but years of resentments and habits, as well as people with their own agenda on both sides of the divide, stand against making that desire a reality.
Community:
whereourdesignfailedDon't Be Afraid of a Little Bit of Progress: In the last couple of decades, people with magic and superpowers have stopped being a fluke that could be written off and started being a scientifically proven fact. The world is racing to figure out the way these individuals work, the way to keep people without any superhuman ability from being overrun by them, and of course, how each country can use this for their own gain. Some places offer incentives to those with abilities; some places use force; some places use one publicly and the other privately. In addition, an underground is starting to coalesce of powered individuals, who are already growing unsure about being used as lab rats, the growing incentives for governments to use them as weapons, and the way the world looks at them now that they've come to light.
Community:
wegottamakeamessSentient Magic: Magic exists, and it interacts with the people who have it. It's a voice at the back of your head; a sixth, seventh, eight sense; a second layer of sight showing you what other people may not know. Occasionally sarcastic -- the voice at the back of your head is not a metaphor -- and always out for its own benefit, whether that hurts or helps you, it builds unique relationships with each person who "catches" it. Magic has a mind of its own, and it has no problem telling you how ridiculous it thinks you are.
Community:
ifyouliveinmeWe Do Not Sleep: An investigator working on a rash of sudden, unexplained deaths across the country finds herself suddenly, inexplicably dead. This thrusts her into a world of new rules, uncertain friendships, desperation, and determination. What it doesn't do is keep her from looking for the person who killed her, now accompanied by other victims looking to answer the question hanging over their afterlives.
Community:
sparemeoverWhat You Are In the Dark: One day, the sun doesn't come up. Slowly the news spreads across the world, bringing panic and fear -- and bringing to light what people become when tomorrow no longer seems like a guarantee.
With Only Strangers Watching: "Superpowers" exist, a supernatural quirk presenting themselves in less than 1% of the population. Unfortunately, they come with a price -- shortened lifespans. The more powerful you are, and the more you use your abilities, the less life expectancy you have. The Sundrop Center was opened to take in powered individuals in the attempt to help prevent their powers from taking that toll on them -- until the friends and families of some of the center's former occupants get suspicious of the death counts, and pull the current residents' families into a frenzy to get Sundrop to shut down. The "prisoners" are less than pleased with their sudden freedom, the media storm surrounding it, the loss of their built family within the walls, and the closing of the one place where nobody treated them like freaks for what they could do.
Community:
tothislifeifoundAngelic Tribes: Under heavy construction. The world has a watchmaker god who long since has moved on, and the seven angels he entrusted the world's care to have had their differences, splitting the angels into seven different sectors, each with its own way of running itself and its own duties to take care of.
Community:
toholdthemapMythverse: Greek gods and demigods and unintended churches, oh my. Under heavy construction and may be blending with a shared universe at some point.
Spy Covens: The big few witch covens spread themselves out amongst the governments of the worlds, offering their services to most of them and doing a damn good job of their tasks. What people who can do magic and teleport themselves out of any country they don't like are doing offering their skills up like that has always made people uneasy, but it's just how things work.... Until somebody plants bombs and takes down more than half the world's witch population. Now the survivors have to try and figure out what the hell happened, survive the people still looking to take them down, and maybe work out what the plan used to be now that everyone who knew it has either died or gone to ground.
Community:
getmyselfbackhomeShared Universes:
(General shared universe comm for use with
thebonesofferalletters: wanttheverytruth)And the Devil Makes Three: Angels and teashops, oh me, oh my.
Carnivals!: Placeholder; the one with the witches' carnival and the foxes' carnival.
Despite the Abundance: The adventures of a contract killer, his boyfriend/accidental sub, and the colorful roster of "colleagues" that a frequent a friendly, shady little bar.
Lock the Doors and Hide the Towers: In which a slightly tarnished superhero is sent to take out a very enthusiastic "bad guy" and instead teams up with ver. Sheer ridiculous crack. Seriously.
No Child is Spared (Cupcake): In which a lot of people with shitty pasts come together to find better futures. Slice-of-life and contemporary.
Take Me to Church and I'll Take You to War: Gods and goddesses and fucked-up soldiers and happy crime girls.
The Drinks: Cross-universe refugees making a found family in a house in Nevada, all named after alcohol of some kind. Slightly fantastical slice-of-life.
The Words Are Everything and Nothing: Magic and roadtrips and libraries.
This City's Got Grace: Sprawling urban fantasy containing all the things.
Unnamed (fuck the fae): In which the humans hate the fae, the less powerful fae hate the fae, and one particular luck manipulator says screw you guys and keeps his poor, screwed up half-human son in the human world instead.
Unnamed (fucked up city): Gods and tributes and science and dead people and magic and just one poor screwed up city trying to hold together.
Unnamed (magical creatures): The one with dual personifications and all sorts of things running around.
Unnamed (personifications and Death's child): Being rebooted from two separate but similar verses; placeholder.
Unnamed (superheroes and fairytales): Superheroes and fairytales, what's not to love.
Unnamed (supernatural conmen): Technically a blending of the fae verse and the contract killers but we list it here anyway because shhhhh. A god magnet/supernatural dealmaker, a luck manipulator, an unpredictable teenage half-fae, and a human killer form the weirdest and most unexpectedly successful group of con men. Also gods. And murder. But mostly cons.