twitchesandstitches · 5 years ago
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the Tale of Wakanda Lost
The Endowed Fleet, particularly those descended from humanity and its children, teach the young to hold their heads up high and remember: remember Wakanda.
For though humanity has many sins to its name, many unspeakable atrocities and to the multiverse they show little but shame and arrogance, it was not always so. Once, before the Fleet had become the power it is, there was a place they first called home. A shining testament to humanity’s good works, the labors of many kings and a reminder that there was still good that could come from the children of Earth.
Wakanda is gone now, they say, but its spirit endures. It is there when they help a neighbor, when they defend others but gain nothing themselves, when they act nobly in the finest traditions of their paragon ways. Remember Wakanda, and remember what we may build again.
Wakanda was a massive space station, bordering on an artifical planetoid; a vast habitat initially constructed during the initial exodus from Earth prior to the Cataclysm. It is considered that it was likely inhabited by earthlings who did not share the xenophobic attitudes of their kin at the time, and their cultural legacy shows. A vast and wondrous landscape, it endured the ages, and its survival was a testament to its spirit.
It called to it the survivors of humanity and its children; mutants and baseline humans, the uplifted animals created in Earth’s heyday, the artificial intelligences and thinking machines both created and arisen on their own. These and many more came to Wakanda and, in time, lived together as a single people, seeing noth human and nonhuman, but kin of soul and spirit.
In time, there came to be no baseline humans at all; protected in their land, Wakanda preserved many lost technologies and created great wonders unmatched in other places, and its people all became mutants, each one developing unique powers of their own. The Wakandan languages translate their term for this as, perhaps, ‘Quirk’, as it was considered an expression of individuality. All humanity of Wakanda were mutants, and all were blessed with power.
And in Wakanda’s green richness, they were all gathered into many tribes, and these all supplied a representative at a council of elders, and the spiritual head of the entire world was the king of Wakanda, and traditionally empowered by divine means to better guide and protect the people; the longest lasting of these was a royal line guided by the goddess Bast, and she chose the Black Panther from her chosen people to lead well.
In time, the forerunners of the Fleet came to Wakanda, seeking sanctuary, and there they were given a new home. For generations they lived in peace. But alas, all things fade, and enemies came to Wakanda, and Wakanda perished in the fighting; it’s people took to the ships, and began a new life of roaming through the stars in search of a home; until recently, this became their way. Wakanda was a sad memory of better times, and now it has attaind a nearly mythical status as their Camelot. The Black Panther chosen is still king over his people, and holds great influence in the vastness of the Fleet, but the current holder of the title has declined a new Wakanda until something grand is done to honor it.
But, as a result of this history, many humans and earthling beings came to the Fleet from Wakanda, bearing their powers, and their children with the Fleet members also had this powers, contributing to the universal empowerment of the Fleet. Wakanda is a golden moment for humanity, a reminder that they can be better, and its descendants work to honor their ancestors and uphold its virtues.
(OOC stuff and info below!)
Wakanda in Crossthicc is past tense, having exaggerated its canonical utopian attributes into being akin to Camelot for humans and other beings originally from Earth, as a suggestion of what humans in this setting can do once they stop being jerks all the time. It’s the ideal; to be true paragons without believing themselves born better than everyone else.
It originally was host to the group that predated the Fleet, and was destroyed in conflicts that came afterwards; its people endured, and effectively were one of the factors in forming the Fleet, and most of the humans that live in it are of Wakandan origin.
It’s intended as a catch-all origin for Marvel humans; it can be assumed that the longer-lived Marvel characters were FROM Wakanda, or are descendants of its people. If it’s from Marvel, they’re probably from here in some capacity. DC characters of human origin who are still human here can also descend from it.
there is also some Eclipse Phase stuff in that the non-human morphs and sub-groups of that setting were created on Earth, but were harshly oppressed by changing public xenophobia. They found a new home on Wakanda, and currently have a sizable population on Fleet worlds.
As mentioned, all organic beings (humans, human variants, nonhuman inhabitants, everyone else) are mutants. EVERYONE IS A MUTANT. best possible situation. They are also mixed with BNHA’s setting, and the society was probably fairly similar but more... well, Wakandan. the BNHA characters can be assumed to be descendants, with some of the older heroes and villains having been around during the fall of Wakanda.
Wakanda’s heritage, as per canon, is mainly East African, with the particular cultural development and synthesis as in the MCU movie. However, Wakanda was a world-sized space station and habitat here, not a single country, and large enough for considerable divergence. It was staggeringly diverse, and people of all nations and ethicities had homes there, and so many of Earth’s nations survived in some form or another, with the kind of cross-cultural transformation as canon Wakanda’s founding tribes experienced.
T’challa is alive and well! Whether he was the king at that time or not is open for discussion. As is M’baku, who worships Hanuman in his form as a King Kong-type kaiju, and may be a form of Son Wukong the Monkey King. (Different lands, different names!) Also, they have animal themed mechs that act as avatars and idols to their gods. Possibly some of their tribe, including M’baku and T’challa, have mutation mods that allow them to assume the aspect of their animal deity, but unless its fairly subtle, that seems potentially VERY iffy for me, especially for M’Baku.
Mindfang may have had a role to play in its downfall; it would create a nice sense of tension between her and the Fleet, for this injustice done to their ancestors and the resulting diaspora.
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