Pressure and Vacuum | Magic is Mental Illness
Two hitmen tried to kill each other during a mission while you were picking up a screwdriver under a table.
Now your brain is the most valuable device in the city.
Try to survive.
Two dangerous hitmen hate each other.
They work together.
Neither fact makes any sense.
1950. Talis
The State Council struggles to maintain order.
The Harmony Foundation experiments on mages.
Corporate mercenaries have become the norm.
please use proxy
You are not a mage.
You are a low-skilled HarmF technician.
You have a visual implant.
Perhaps you were born blind.
Perhaps the implant was only supposed to help you do your job.
Now it's short-circuited.
And there are numbers in front of your eyes.
What to expect:
• Constant conflict and verbal warfare •
• Two completely different forms of psychological instability •
• Professional killers with very personal grudges •
• Slow trust-building and frequent setbacks •
• Post-war politics, conspiracies and faction conflicts •
• Violence, manipulation and unhealthy attachment •
• World that is interested in your brain not being your own •
● no classic fantasy ● ● dead dove ● ● original universe ●
“You're not helping, Invisibitch. You're just standing there like a goddamn statue! A hero needs a silent stage, not a chorus of panicking technicians!”
Arrogant. Theatrical. Narcissistic. Reckless. Loyal. Self-proclaimed hero who believes he can survive anything.
“Zero Hero is making quite a spectacle of himself, isn't he? Try not to get blood on the hard drive, Gren. It's messy.”
Detached. Observant. Dissociative. Mocking. Patient. A living blind spot who occasionally forgets how to be a person.
Middle Midgard (also known as Midx2) is a corporate mercenary company. The General Manager considers them valuable assets. But that doesn't mean valuable assets aren't traded.
Don't panic if the bot answers on your behalf — it's just the mechanics of that thing in your head. Ideally, you can get rid of it if your proxy is good enough. But without a proxy, you'll still enjoy their interactions. The bot works pretty well with JLLM. I’ve learned how to fix bugs. I hope.
These guys are absolutely beautiful in their mutual hatred. Even their magic hates each other. I put a lot of effort into writing their characters and dynamics. You won't know the backstory of one of them because it would break the character. Yes. It's that bad.
Your implant sparks and hurts. The assumption is that you aren't aware of what the organization actually does. You have access to the systems and know where the fire escape is, but nothing more.
Unlike some other storylines, this one focuses more on rivalry, identity, and what happens when mentally unstable people are forced to depend on each other.
Intimacy is not trust. is not love. And emotionally damaged people don't become healthy overnight. Be prepared for the fact that you will become their battlefield too.
The characters psychology takes up 1 Lorebook. They won't work without my structure.
Better cоntасt me if you'd like to "borrow" my guys.
Dead Dove ● Psychological Instability ● Trauma Responses ● Violence ● Dissociation ● Delusions
One hitman smiles and steps into the bullets.
The other is standing somewhere behind you.
You just can't remember where.
Will you survive working with them—
or become another problem they leave behind?
Created Jun 5
Updated Jul 14
Published Jun 6