Dark Light OOC draft

[Alastor]

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No one was left who could remember how it had happened,
how the world had fallen under darkness.
At least no one who would do anything.
No one who would oppose the magical girls.
No one who would challenge their power,
or so Queen Lumina believed...

-Hope Rides Alone, The Protomen (Modified for the setting)

I remember it like it was yesterday. There was a dark cloud hanging over humanity. The Scetzolg Empire- that damned legion of monsters and nightmares- seemed to have came out of nowhere. Humanity was at a scramble. Nothing we had could fight them, it got to the point we launched nukes at them- all to no effect.

But then, a bright shining light appeared to us all.

WE ARE YOUR HOPE

Magical Girls. If you were around back when there was internet, you might've been familiar a few of those Japanese cartoons about them- they were like they came out of these shows with their sparkles and their bright colors an-

I'm getting ahead of myself. Apologies, reminiscing about an age that ended a little over a decade and a half ago. Where was I?... Oh. Yes...

WE KEEP YOU SAFE

These magical girls, lead by the most powerful of them all; Lumina, were able to combat the Scetzolg Empire successfully. Almost overnight, humanity's losing battle was turned around. And these seeming saviors didn't stop there! What we had considered to be world problems- things like world hunger, famine, pollution, and incurable diseases- were also cured! For a moment, humanity had achieved a golden age of peace, all thanks to our saviors.

And then that moment ended.

WE HAVE CONTROL

Lumina and her “Love Shines,” that's what she called them at least, warned humanity about how the Scetzolg Empire was still around but in hiding; that the empire was able to overtake the world so quickly from the start because our most powerful leaders had secretly been under their power. Whatever doubts we had of this were erased when the Prime Minister of the UK was exorcised by Luminia herself on live, national television.

It became mandatory to get checked for lingering Scetzolg influence. People diagnosed with “dark hearts” were dragged in front of a Love Shine to be purified. Mental asylums, prisons, and even juvenile halls were deemed breeding grounds for dark hearts, and were opened up to Love Shines to just waltz in and work their magic.

One moment you would have a deranged sociopath, and after a Love Shine flashes them with hearts, stars, and horseshoes, that person would put Mr. Rogers to shame. Ironically, we started calling those purified “Jolly Rogers”. If you ever see a Roger, you’ll know them by the unnatural sparkles permanently twinkling away in their eyes.

Quite the contrast to today's "benevolent and loving" dictatorship by that damned Queen Lumina. Skies used to be more than just happy and blue, without a cloud in sight. Christ, there used to be days were there weren't rainbows...

This planet is doomed to a darkness that can only be likened to a little girl's dollhouse. Fitting, since Lumina and her favorite Love Shines haven't aged one bit.

Even now there is hope for man!

But then, another shining light appeared. One ready to fight tooth and nail to fix this goddamn mess.

That's where we step in.

Welcome to the Dark Light Rebellion, gentlemen.

You're like the rest of us. Tired of what the world has become. Tired of our lack of freedom. Tired of everything that went wrong in this world.

Well, we're fighting back. There have been rebellions before. Rebellions crushed by Lumina's Love Knights, those damned technicolored freaks that patrol the cities with Love Shines for the rare criminal and more often than not, those with the potential to become magical girls to be brainwashed into service.

But the difference between them and us? We've found technology of the Scetzolg Empire, as well as managed to reverse engineer the Love Knights' armor into armor of our own. Seems like a few magical girls have turned against Lumina too.

Not only that, but it seems a counterpart to the Love Shines have appeared- the Brave Shadows. While the Love Shines are held up as a beacon of their corrupted, naive sense of honor and justice, the Brave Shadows are humans who run off of pure, raw fighting spirit. And the majority of them aren't too keen on Lumina's rule.

We're ending Lumina's reign. We're restoring humanity to the last age. An age of freedom.

There is a fire that will burn through the streets of the city, and we will stand in the light.
We will stand in the light,
you and I.
You and I.
We can bring back the light

-Light Up the Night, The Protomen.


NAME:
AGE:
CHARACTER TYPE: (Magical Girl, Brave Shadow, Scetzolg Monster, normal, or Counter Knight)
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BACKSTORY:
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It's a WIP I did while eating lunch. It's rough, but suggestions?

[Penny]

NAME: Meredith Annette (last name to come later) - Ama (water in Cherokee)
AGE: 22
CHARACTER TYPE: Magical Girl
APPEARANCE:

BACKSTORY: Meredith and her little sister were both chosen at a young age to become magical girls, or so they've been told at least. For as long as they can remember, they've been under Queen Luminia's thumb- and that's how they come into the story. They're 'double agents' of a sort, and are joining the rebels because of it.

[mekasoundwave]

NAME: Pollyana Xavier AKA Octrix
AGE: 20
CHARACTER TYPE: Scetzolg Monster
APPEARANCE: With Mask and Tentacles
Face
BACKSTORY: Pollyana keeps a tight lid on her past. Her childhood and early teenage years were nothing too special, so she doesn't see the need to discuss them. Average life, two parents, a sister, school and sports. Her normal life changed the day her little sister was taken away for Magic training when she was 15, and her sister was 12. Her parents were stricken with grief. Not too long after, Pollyana returned home from school one day to find that her parents were gone. Dead? Taken off for re-education? She didn't know. She did know that the Love Knights would be back, and whatever happened to them would happen to her. So she ran and ran and ran, far away from her hometown. There was nothing there for her, and staying would only endanger the friends she had by dragging them down with her. Polly wandered aimlessly for months, and as she traveled, she began to smell all too clearly the reeking stench of people and their lives decomposing that Lumina tried to mask with her air freshener of artificial sunshine and smiles. It made her sick and transformed her sorrow into anger.

During her travels, she eventually came to learn of the Dark Light. She finally found something to give her purpose. After much searching, she found them and joined without a second thought. When the organization began selecting members to modify with Scetzolg technology, Pollyana volunteered for the process. Ultimately, she was one of the few chosen for the process. After she awoke on the operating table, she discovered she had speed, endurance, durability and strength that greatly exceeded that of normal people. In addition, she could mentally interface with her cybernetic camouflage suit and the four tentacle appendages that came from it. But it wasn't over yet. Pollyana began a rigorous training program that taught her everything she'd need to fight Lumina's army and survive.

After what has seemed like an eternity, Pollyana was ready to start her fight against the society that had taken her family from her and countless others. And all it had taken to reach this point was her humanity.

Pollyana regretted nothing.