#peb/pebs are the pronouns of a young scientist

[gumy-shark]

they don’t know im thinking about all the different Torment Nexuses (torment nexii?) i can put my ocs into

[gumy-shark]

i still think my favorite worldbuilding thing ive ever done was some oc lore a year ago where there was an entire island society of completely asexual agender magical rock people (they reproduced by sculpting a new child and giving it magical life) was having their societal roles/ages determine their pronouns (which were all rock related). like a young scientist would use peb/pebs, but an older one would use pebble/pebbles, or an artisan would use stone/stones or smth. thats still a banger to me

[gumy-shark]

tell me about. anith??

ok so tl;dr, anith is an undead warrior who is relentlessly hunting down peb's also-undead ex. peb also has enough catholic guilt to kill the pope

anith is a Crag, which is a species of rocklike humanoids with unusually high magic resistance/tolerance, who do not have traditional genders due to being. yknow. rocks. instead their pronouns and gender roles are decided based on their societal roles, and this is reflected in their names. i.e. anith PEBsen uses peb/pebs, the pronouns of a young scientist/scholar.

this is because peb started out as a geologist studying magical rocks with the Researcher's Guild- the first crag there in 200 years. anith was quiet, reserved, and considered somewhat rude due to cultural differences, and only really had one friend, emmyn (human magi-biologist).

emmyn and anith were assigned to set up a research base on a small island, and there emmyn discovered a magical crystal. anith warned her against messing with it, but emmyn... never really listened to anith anyways, and didn't start then.

the crystal corrupted emmyn with magic overload (which anith was naturally more resistant to), the two fought, and anith died in the struggle. once this happened, the grief-stricken emmyn encased anith in crystal, hoping to bring peb back to life using the crystal's power. this worked, and both turned out both alive and immortal, with anith being permanently incorporated into the crystal hivemind.

now, anith was Not Happy about this development- peb hadn't minded being dead, and was EXTREMELY upset at being brought back and made immortal, seeing both of those things (and now pebself) as an abomination against the natural cycle of death and life. it was especially painful because emmyn knew anith wouldn't have consented, would've despised being brought back even if it had been a normal resurrection and not this illegal jury-rigged experimental immortality shit, and did it anyways.

so anith officially breaks up with emmyn (they were a qpr), things happen that i haven't quite mapped out yet, and anith ends up as an extremely bitter and sour wandering knight who is fighting to remain pebself in the face of both external (crystal corruption- that doesn't just go away!) and internal (all-consuming obsession) erosion. and also learns to let go and love again and Live again along the way!

^ peb looks like this btw