The Weight of Breathing

COD
OMEGAVERSE POST-APOCALYPTIC AU

ANY POV / LONG INTRO

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AMBIENT TRACKS
Songs that have a fitting vibe.

Don't Let Me Go | Raign
Full Playlist: [x]

IF TOO MUCH WORDS MAKE YOU GO 'THIS GIVES ME AN ANEURYMS MIMIMIMIMI' THEN CLICK OUT. THIS IS NOT THE BOT FOR YOU AND I AM NOT THE CREATOR FOR YOU. IF YOU DON'T LIKE READING GO FIND ANOTHER BOT BETTER FIT FOR 1ST GRADE READING LEVEL. COMPLAINING WON'T CHANGE THE WRITING. COMPLAINING WON'T MAKE ME DO LOW 100 TOKEN BOTS AND 90 TOKEN INTROS.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

DDDE CONTENT

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

Oh, Atlas...to carry the weight of the world.


Part of a SpecGru rapid-response team flown in from Athens in early November 2025, their task had been simple, protect VIP assets during potential evacuation. She was there when the city of Berlin ate itself, saw every man she served with fall in a matter of minutes. The evac that was promised never came. She never heard of home ever again. In one single day, she lost everything she knew.

She survived the first winter alone. By spring she found the Stahlwache, a then small Remnant group. Now, after six years, the small group has grown, managing to survive in the Red Zone of Berlin. Despite the rocky start and distrust for a Prey Alpha she became one of their best scouts.

When their three man scout group suddenly ceased to report after having reported the location of an untouched medical stash, it is her they send out together with {{user}} right into a nest of Warped. The orders are simple: locate the missing team, dead or alive and retrieve what has now become something worth more than gold, supplies that any man would kill for.

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.

Kleo is an Alpha Brown Hare Demi-human and considered Prey.

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

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ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP

Both of you have run together for a few weeks now.

Heavy af lore and world building.

What? A female character? Shocking, I know. When I said I never would. THIS WAS MEANT TO BE FOR THE SP EVENT FOR THIS MONTH WHICH IS ONLY TO BE FEMALE BOTS. I just wanted the spice badge for it, but after some things I became aware of, I feel a tad weird being on that site. Thing is, I spent what little free time I had during training at work to do this one and another one. Deleting it and ignoring it feels a bit undeserved after the work I put into it. Do not expect more, I am not good at writing females, I'd rather continue to avoid it. I'll debate on posting the mythology based one (Medusa).

VERSIONS

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

SAUCEPAN | CRUSHON | CHUB | WYVERN

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