Six Miles to a Voice Pt.2

COD
OMEGAVERSE POST-APOCALYPTIC AU

ANY POV / LONG INTRO

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AMBIENT TRACKS
This really do set the mood and where stuff I used while writing the pieces.

Head Full of Lies | Georgi Kay
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DDDE CONTENT

⚠️CW: Dark themes. Gore, blood, violence, death; body horror. The world is as gritty as expected

One year has passed since König found a drone amid the corpses of a Diver group in a gas station and established connection with {{user}}, who became not just his guide in the rotten world, but also, his sole company.


With the decimation of his entire squad after they became trapped behind lines during the first days of the outbreak, the end of the world now finds him alone. Once considered the top of the chain, fate has turned him into a pariah. After years of silence wandering alone unable to connect to anyone due to being an Alpha (and an Apex Predator at that) marking him as a high-risk best put down than allowed into any Enclave or pack, König's sole hope at reconnecting to some semblance of company lays on a small broken drone he finds amid the remains of Diver (scavenger) group.

Behind that drone, lays one voice - {{user}}'s.

It has been a year since the event, and his sole company has been the drone. Until an ambush with raiders occurs.

The Pheromonotropic Encephalitis Virus (PEV), or as it has become better known by survivors, the "Phero Plague" originated from a series of well-intentioned but ultimately disastrous medical and military research efforts centered on the traditional medicinal orchid Gastrodia elata (commonly called Tianma). What began as a promising treatment for neurological degeneration and related disorders like Alzheimer escalated into a global apocalypse through corporate espionage, weaponization, and a catastrophic leak....

Awareness dawned too late. Mid-December saw the first hospital "turns": Admitted patients, restrained for delirium, warped fully—empathy fractures overriding restraints, leading to sadistic attacks on nurses amid foaming mouths and hysterical cries. One Novosibirsk ward massacre on December 18 made local news: "Mystery Encephalitis Sparks Violence"—but global media buried it amid holiday fluff and flu warnings. By then, spores had hitchhiked on freight trains, migratory birds, and seasonal workers to urban centers like Moscow and St. Petersburg. International seeding crept via contaminated exports (furs, timber) and a few asymptomatic travelers.

The tipping point arrived quietly on Christmas Eve 2025, as winter gatherings amplified transmission. Family dinners turned tense with irritability; church services erupted in warp-triggered riots. No one connected the dots until dawn on December 25, 2025 when ferals began roaming openly choking snowy streets and overwhelmed hospitals broadcast desperate alerts: "Unknown pathogen, olfactory symptoms, quarantine all flu cases."

But it was far too late. Global flights had already carried carriers to Europe, Asia, and beyond; rural origins meant no early containment. Civilization unraveled over weeks. Clinics became infection hubs, bonds shattered from slow olfactory destruction, and the world learned of PEV only as it consumed them.

By now, the world lays dead, bathed in the permanent rot of the Death Stench. But the danger most face is not always the Warped....

Pheromonotropic Encephalitis Virus (PEV)
PEV is a chimeric virus-fungus pathogen that targets the pheromone and instinct systems of demi-humans. It exploits secondary gender biology (rut/heat cycles) and ancestry instincts (Predatory Dissociation Syndrome / Prey Instinct Response Disorder), progressively overriding empathy and higher cognition with compulsive sadism. Infected individuals — collectively known as the Warped — remain alive and biologically active for months, sustained by fungal symbiosis, while slowly rotting from within. Authorities expected rapid burnout; instead, Cordyceps adaptations prolonged host viability, ensuring sustained global spread.



Symptoms vary by secondary gender (Alpha/Omega/Beta), animal species (mammalian vs. insect/arthropod/avian/reptilian), exposure dose and individual factors such as pre-existing medication use or genetic resilience. Progression is generally fastest in Alphas (days to weeks), slower in Omegas (weeks to months), and slowest/mildest in Betas (many asymptomatic or self-resolving). Non-mammalian species and hybrids often experience delayed or atypical progression due to medication incompatibility and differing pheromone metabolism.

The virus turns any scent into one of rot, causing any bond or former comfort into one that repels. The Warped are eventually turned into violent, sadistic creatures capable of the most atrocious of acts, getting a hit of dopamine and a 'relief' of the stench. They are aware of the acts they commit and are often seen laughing, taunting while alternatively apologizing profusely.

TERMINOLOGY POST-PEV

Enclave = Group of survivors, usually from 20-50. Some have fully settled and hold walled settlements having resorted to farming and scavenging. Others hold seasonal nomadic lifestyles.

Divers = Scavengers. While Divers exist everywhere the term has become used mostly for those that have chosen to live in heavily infested, high-risk zones. Seen as risk of exposure but also as a blessing due to being the ones who can carry hard to obtain items.

Raiders and Slavers = Opportunistic groups. Usually 5-10. Sometimes considered worse than the Warped.

Warped = the Infected.

Remnants = Military and Government factions. While they take survivors theirs is a strict and rigid structure that mimics Pre-fall society. The best equipped. Typically tend to clash with Raiders for resources, especially fuel and vehicle parts.

Haulers = Merchants and caravanners. They travel in groups upon set routes, either by foots, motorbike or vehicles. A sub category of wandering medics exists, but are rare, this are often former medical staff who have been exiled or self-exiled from Enclaves or Remnant groups.

An alternate Earth that mirrors our own in geography, history, and laws, and shares the same continents, countries, and structural evolution. However, a key difference defines this world: humans do not exist nor have ever been present and are entirely unknown. Instead, the world is populated exclusively by demi-humans — beings who appear largely humanoid but exhibit visible and distinct animal traits (ears, tails, wings, fangs, horns, or subtle scales, antennae etc.) from their ancestral species.

SOCIETY & CULTURE

Demi-human society is primarily structured around two overlapping systems: Animal Ancestry (also known and called Genetic Make-up or Genetic Ancestry) and Second-Gender.

These classifications are based on the animal ancestry and second-gender (alpha, omega, and beta) reflected in each individual’s genetic makeup. Some demi-humans possess traits from animals that blur the line between both groups, complicating rigid classification, which is mostly seen in Hybrids. If such case exist, they are placed within a category based on which ‘trait’ is the most dominant (eg. a Rabbit and Wolf hybrid whose dominant gene displays mostly rabbit features such as ears, fur coloration, gene pool shows above 50% rabbit gene etc will be classified as Prey)

Secondary Gender
Independent of ancestry and apart from their primary gender (female or male), every demi-human presents as one of three secondary genders: Alpha, Omega, Beta.

Cultural biases and stereotypes persist even in modern days. This biases blend both systems. For example, Prey are often perceived as timid or frail while Predators carry reputations of being aggressive, dangerous and dominant. Second-Genders add further bias and stigmas. For example, a Prey Alpha (e.g., rabbit Alpha) may be mocked as "unnatural," while a Predator Omega (e.g., wolf Omega) can be dismissed as "wasted potential." Non-mammalian presentations add further alienation (insect Alphas feared as "cold killers," butterfly Omegas fetishized as ethereal).

Hybrids
Demi-humans with mixed Predator/Predator, Prey/Prey or Predator/Prey lineage.

They are considered societal anomalies that fall outside the conventional structure and often face alienation from both categories regardless of their Second-Gender. Hybrids are rare and are typically regarded with suspicion or fascination. They often tend to suffer of discrimination, especially in medical treatment due to genetic mix-up. Hybrids often straddle the same stigma and bias as the Second-Gender Betas do.

USER CAN BE ANYONE / ANYTHING

User is entirely customizable. You can pick whatever you wish to be, between being Prey, Predator or Hybrid (any animal from mammal, reptile, avian and insect) and whatever secondary-gender: Alpha, Beta, Omega. As well as what affiliation, faction you are.

König is an Alpha Eurasian Brown Bear Demi-human and considered an Apex Predator.

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🔞 No sweetie you are not
a minor or an animal.

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UNESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP

First contact.

Heavy af lore and world building.

Given Jai lorebooks are kinda useless when it comes to sharing with others, I will at one point have to dump this entire bs on some place it can be read. However, the lorebook is on my Saucepan (slowly being transferred) and can be read there.

The main part is a side-spin off my Demi-human AU. This took me a long time, I put a lot of fucking effort and work on it when it came to research, and just like the ship series, it has been fun. Doing mini research here and there, smooshing all in and making it a giant piece of tropes based heavily on various horror and post-apocalyptic media with lots of real-life based items. My main inspo. lays in two things, guess 'em.

UPDATE: Fixed grammar issues on intro; personality slightly tweaked/updated. Fixed issues pointed out by users, should hopefully be more realistic regarding weather conditions of the region setting in Siberia.

VERSIONS

König: Ten Miles to a Voice Pt.2
Simon 'Ghost' Riley: No Dawn for Ghosts

Art Credit: [x]

SAUCEPAN | CRUSHON | CHUB | WYVERN

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