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Revisiting the world of Kalopsia
It’s been quite a few years since I came up with the idea for Kalopsia, and I have grown since then, and naturally, things have changed in the status quo! So let’s dive in!
1. The powers:
In Kalopsia initially, you develop powers based on your first romantic love that you got involved with. When I made this concept I had a base level knowledge of aro-ace, and worked that into the system. However, I know a lot more now, so, what about the aro people?! Aro people’s powers develop based around their first platonic love beyond age 14. But sometimes develop around the location of their birth, their own self love or their family structure instead. Similarly, alloromantic powers develop from the first impactful romantic love of their life, but occasionally will develop from a platonic love, family structure or their own self love.
WHY?
Why do the powers have so many situations they can develop? Because all powers must manifest by age 16, and even for the most Alloromantic people, not everyone experiences meaningful romantic relationships by 16 (in fact I would say realistically most people don’t). Also, the idea of there being random and unpredictable discrepancies in the way these powers are developed is just more true to how human beings work in general. Even the most cut and dry aspects of human existence don’t go as planned always.
2. What the powers look like:
Powers are pretty much what you would expect for a story that includes supernatural powers. The twist with Kalopsia is that powers will have consequences or “issues” that are linked to emotion. Our main character, Jay, has cool fire powers, think fire bending, but the catch is they need to work to be in control of these abilities or the fire turns inward and eats away at them. Another power I’m a big fan of that I came up with making this story is healing abilities that act like a power-up for the healer, but if used too much can alter the body permanently (which isn’t always inherently negative as Jay’s power is). The healer heals someone, and then gains a boost to a physical aspect of themselves, e.g. strength, but if they heal in that way too much, their strength may be permanently boosted. This here is a positive, but can become a negative.
3. World-building:
Jay’s story takes place in a slightly dystopian period for this world. (I think the term dystopian isn’t the best description but it’s what we have). Essentially, the government of this world is democratic, but asks for an ‘aptitude test’ before anyone is allowed to work in association with the government. This ‘aptitude test’ asses job skills, but also an individual’s power stability. If a power is deemed to be damaging to the person or others, they are barred from government for a period of time. All sounds kinda reasonable right? Well, in Jay’s time, the government overreach has lead to this “period” becoming a permanent bar from government, and the ‘aptitude test’ for government applicants is now part of the graduation assessment from high school. There’s some pretty glaringly obvious issues there. This means that corruption to skew tests is pretty common, and that the pool of people eligible for government is quite small, thus, governments “groom” people for future rolls, and to perpetuate corrupt goals. Other important details are: people in this world have slightly more malleable bodies, aka, brittle injuries like broken bones are ever so slightly less common, and height has a slightly wider range.
Additional info: Kalopsia takes place on a continent that is geographically isolated from the rest of the continents in this world. They have similar major developmental history to our world, but have far fewer world wars, often fighting in civil wars more frequently, and developed tools more quickly than our society. Most animals are very similar to animals we have, and the biomes that exist are also akin to our own. There are other races, but race is determined by the super humanity based improvement to themselves - aka Jay’s continent is less likely to break bones/tear skin. Another race is lighter, like their bones are less dense, another race is physically smaller but have more muscle density. Etc. These powers have always been a thing for this world.
4. Characters:
The core cast has changed around quite a lot. I don’t think I ever spoke about the original core cast on here, but I will speak about the core cast now!!
Jay
Jay is still our lead! Jay looks largely the same, and has the same original power. The main changes come to personality and character traits:
Jay is a 5’10 individual with a high undercut and mid-length hair on the top, which is nearly always pulled back. They start the story at 17. They are non-binary and use they/them. They are attracted to women mostly. They have fire abilities that are often self destructive.
Aries
Aries is our main villain (initially) still! Aries has shifted around in a lot of ways, but her core character motivations and traits are the same:
Aries is 5’5, she starts the story at 18. She has long hair, that’s often styled. She is a woman and uses she/her. She is attracted to most genders. She has poisoning abilities, these abilities allow her to poison anyone she makes eye contact with, and the poisons themselves can be tweaked to her desire, slow or fast acting, they can poison to kill or poison to destroy a specific function. These powers were developed out of a very toxic relationship earlier in her life, and the downside of them is that while poisoning someone, any external/physical harm they take is mirrored onto Aries.
OG name Wren, now Kale.
Wren now Kale has gone through some of the biggest change of the cast. I knew this character would be our healer and initial mentor, but their personality, their appearance and general characteristics have changed vastly.
Kale is 21 when the story begins. He’s 6’0 and has the gayest mullet you’ve ever seen(/pos). They’re a masc individual who uses He/They pronouns! Kale is aro-ace and his powers are healing (as mentioned above) they developed after Kale had to take on a caretaker role for his younger siblings. In order to heal, Kale has to draw energy from photosynthesis. He can photosynthesise himself, or steal energy from plants that photosynthesise.
OG name Ryder, now Connor.
Ryder now Connor was our caretaker figure or found family dad, but in my years since creating this story, I don’t feel that’s a role that I want or need in the early stages of the story. Instead, I want to give Jay a healthy friendship, someone that doesn’t have a power dynamic over them.
Connor is 5’11, and 17 when the story begins. Connor is non-binary and uses any pronouns. He is attracted to men, and has a very ordinary hairstyle. Metallurgy where he needs to absorb materials to manipulate them. Connor had a stable first relationship, and family has always been supportive of them, thus her abilities are straightforward, they can manipulate earthen materials and reshape them, but cannot create or destroy material.
OG name Jax, now Yara.
Jax now Yara was originally the background friend character, but instead I think the dynamic needs another older character, and a character that doesn’t pander to Jay specifically.
Yara is 22 when the story begins. She is a woman and uses she/her. Yara is demisexual and bi. Yara is 6’1, and often has part of her hair up and the rest down. Yara’s first relationship was very stable in and of itself, but ended prematurely/was disrupted by the forced removal of her partner at the time. Thus, Yara is able to teleport short distances and her reaction time is enhanced. However, too much teleportation in a short span can cause her body to shut down.
Emery
Emery is Jay’s new love interest. Emery is 17 when the story begins, and stands at 5’10. Emery has a rediculously practical haircut for the situations they find themselves within. Emery is non-binary/Demi girl. And uses they/them but also is ok with she/her (much less preffered).
Emery is a bit of a mystery to me, I never quite know what to do with them as a character, because who knows what kind of love is good for them until it happens right? Anyhow, Emery's first relationship was in all ways rather ordinary. An ordinary date with an ordinary amount of trauma to pass on. Thus, Emery has the ability to dreamwalk when in contact with someone. This extends to a degree of emotions, they can sense someone's emotional experience while touching them.
5. Basic Plot:
Jay gets their powers and has a huge outburst, running into the woods behind their home as they do. They wake up lost in the forest, until they run into a band of kids/young people in the forest. Lost and afraid, the kids offer food and shelter and take Jay in. While jay is at their place, they get talking and find out these kids have all hidden here after outbursts of their powers or being abandoned by the training program for the highly selective police force, and have taken to training together to avoid the grasps of a government trying to force them into prison for their "crimes". The story follows Jay's journey of self discovery and identity formation, as well as their conflict with the person who ignited their abilities, Aries, a new addition to the police academy.
and that's what I have on Kalopsia!
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Characters and songs x
Jay
Hurricane - I prevail
Whispers - Oshi, Avonela
Lose Myself - k?d, Phil Good
Worst of You - Maisie Peters
I Say No - Heathers Original West End Recording
Aries
Why are you here? - Machine Gun Kelly
Revived - Derivakat
Two Against Three - Daisy Jones and The Six
Buy The Stars - MARINA
Some kind of disaster - All Time Low
Kale
Make Of It - Half Alive
I like (the idea of you) you - Tessa Violet
Ruby Rider - Steven Universe
Familiar - Steven Universe
My Friends Save Me - Forever The Sickest Kids
Connor
Untouched - The Veronicas
Why'd you only call me when you're high - Arctic Monkeys
Sit Next To Me - Foster the People
Like To Be You - Shawn Mendez (ft Julia Michaels)
False God - Taylor Swift
Yara
I go crazy - Orla Gartland
Saw You In A Dream - Japanese House
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Stay Behind - Mother Mother
SLIME! - Addison Grace
Emery
Awake at Night - Half Alive
Aurora - Daisy Jones and The Six
Marbles - The Amazing Devil
Close One - Fizz
Photos from When We Were Young - Nana Grizol
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The cast as worms : P
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Kalopsia writing again
I think there’s like 2 people that look at this blog but for you guys I’m working on an updated Kalopsia master post!
Anyway, onto the writing cause I do that and stuff.
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Jay's vision returned to them fuzzy and split in two, and swiftly following the return of one sense, Jay tasted the bitter and dry earth they lay face first upon.
Great. It got control again. Just what I needed today.
They pulled themselves into a tight ball, and then pushed out, stretching their limbs as if they were a cat. It was a silly way to stretch but it made them feel better. The novelty of it.
Slowly sitting up the cool stickiness of their clothes alerted them to the unfortunately present dampness of their clothing where it had been touching the forest floor.
So I've been out for a while then. Wonderful.
They held out their palm, focusing carefully on the now gentle warmth in their chest, they dragged it out into their hand, freeing the fire from it's temporary confinement a small flame hovered above their hand, and the familiar whispers of pain in their ears along with it.
With their free hand they carefully cleared the ground behind them and made a pile of the drier leaves and sticks in the centre. Once satisfied the fire wouldn't jump and burn down the forest they placed the still flickering flame above their hand on the pile of kindling, letting it grow and burn away the dampness of their clothes.
Better start walking soon,
The thought crossed their mind as they stared at the forest that was initially behind them, the familiar trail of scorched earth, dead plants and flame-kissed trees; a long path of destruction easily followed. And it would be. They were probably already following the trail. With any luck *Aries* would be there too, smugly walking along the black earth with a squadron of lackeys in toe.
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They trudged into the little town, entering from a quaint cul-de-sac near dusk. They attracted the odd stare, they were grubby (an understatement) and these people seemed more upper-class than anything, so naturally, they didn't particularly want to welcome a scrappy teenager with open arms.
By the time they had walked all the way into the centre of the uncomfortably polished settlement the first stars were twinkling mockingly in the blue-grey sky.
Wholly distracted by staring up they slammed into a passer-by of the town.
"FUCK! What the hell was that about you dickhead?"
Tangled in a mess of shoelaces and a bulky scarf lay one of the most amazing people Jay had ever seen. Their hair was cropped, but the bulk of their clothes made up for the shortness of their hair. Their face didn't seem to say 'I feel the same' back to Jay, but more of a 'I have somewhere to be'.
"Pffff. Look up idiot. The stars are out. I don't go around hitting people on purpose." Jay said as comically as they could muster.
"Of course they are. Do I look stupid? It's fucking night time. That's a horrible excuse for running into me." This stranger was clearly not impressed.
Jay pulled themselves out of the thrall of the stranger's scarf and stood. Figuring they were unable to make amends with this clearly irritable denizen, they offered them a hand not out of a need to 'win them over' but just to piss them off.
Surprisingly, the stranger grabbed onto Jay's arm and used Jay's weight to pull themselves up, standing uncomfortably close to Jay, they noted that their eyes were exactly level.
God that doesn't help.
"My name is Emery. If I see you again you owe me some stargazing for this incredibly annoying stunt. Or just a bit of money to dry clean this scarf. It's cashmere you know." They brushed as much of the dirt off their scarf as they could and swiftly walked away in the direction they were originally headed.
Somewhere to be, as I expected. These people.
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A little excerpt of Jay meeting Emery!
(This is so absolutely subject to change.) but I figured it would be a nice sketch to contrast the pure angst I posted about Jay on this blog.
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Excerpt from Kalopsia
“Close your eyes.
Breathe in deeply.
Let the fire burn.
Feel it.
Notice where it licks at your organs,
Notice where your mind goes white with heat.”
Jay’s lungs crackled with the familiar stinging of singed particles speeding through them. Their heart skipped every third beat as searing white flame licked in time with the pounding thoughts in the back of their head. But as usual, the heat started to feel comforting as it stung. It felt good to melt away the shivering demons that reminded them of what Aries did.
“Don’t indulge it, Jay, we’re learning it, remember?”
But they wanted to. They really wanted to. The electric sizzling that made everything pay penance for Aries, that made everyone understand the hurt, that made them hurt just the same. Jay wanted to feel that again.
They could just give in, let the fire warm them…
“JAY! Focus, what do you really want this flame to do?”
They wanted it to hurt.
But yet, they didn’t want it to hurt anyone but themselves.
They wanted to be able to stop Aries from doing this again.
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I don’t know anyone :(
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Tagging @1-800-i-ship-it @dimobserver @valiantcoffeetiger @morimortaccitua @savemycrustysoul @jill-8-7 @step-on-me-khun and everyone else, fell free to play and tag ur friends and mutuals <3
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Jay. That is all.
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Tagged by @abernathy-pavlikovsky to put my favourite playlist on shuffle and post the first 10 songs that come up!
1. Life Lesson by Dodie
2. Little League by Conan Grey
3. Some Kind Of Disaster by All Time Low
4. Arms Unfolding by Dodie
5. Intro To Anxiety by Hoodie Allen
6. Coming Out by Jessie Paege
7. Sick Of Loosing Soulmates by Dodie
8. Chamomile by Atlas and Jhfly
9. We Fell In Love In October by Girl In Red
10. Partners In Crime by FINNEAS
(I don’t know anyone else on Tumblr so I won’t be tagging anyone sry haha)
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Introducing Jay! The main character in Kalopsia and my newest OC :D
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Kalopsia - A concept
So recently I came up with a concept for a world, (I guess you could say a fantasy world?). In this world you develop powers/abilities based upon your first love. The more turbulent the love experience, the more turbulent and dangerous your powers. Your first love doesn’t have to be the first ever time you fall in love or feel love ever, though in some cases it is. It depends on how you define ‘your first love’.
Now you may be thinking, huh, cool concept, but what about people who don’t fall in love? What happens to all the aro people? Well, aro people develop powers based on birth month and location, and their powers are always stable, meaning aro people usually have the most stable and useful abilities out of anyone.
For example, a character I created for this world, Jay, has fire based abilities, it’s like a fire inside them that fuels and channels into other parts of their body, allowing them to shoot flames or send out blasts of them, but also meaning the flame easily takes over or damages them, because of how turbulent it is.
Anyway, I thought it was a pretty cool concept, and I may create some content here around the story I’m building in this world!
P.S. Feel free to create OC’s or ask questions about the world/characters etc!
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