These are tears of anger, not of sadness. Sadness would be hapless. Anger is just action, paused.

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trigger warnings: drugs, alcohol, death, violence, blood, gore, suicidal ideation, mental health issues, etc.

Chapter I〈 you are here

Chapter II (wip)

⟢ The World

✦ Decades ago, the first gate appeared. Half the Earth's population died. Those that survived were either incredibly lucky.... or had awakened. These people had special attributes that gave them powers, and carried strength, stamina, and agility far greater than normal humans. These people, Awakeners, which they were dubbed in a sense, were like superheroes.

✦ Time passed, and structure rose out of that destructive chaos. With the powers of the Awakened, the First Gate was cleared and temporary safety returned. The gates that appeared after the First Gate did not cause as much damage, as people learned about dungeons and dungeon breaks, and Awakeners were able to clear the gates before a break occured. Associations called Guilds were created by wealthy individuals, intended to recruit those who had awakened. Those that were recruited were then given the title of Hunter to differentiate them from normal Awakeners. The governments of each country wished to make sure these new, powerful beings were under control, and ergo ensured that all Awakened were registered into the system. To be unregistered as an Awakened was to defy a law. To be an Unregistered was to be chased and then killed by Hunters.

✦ Society returned to normal, just with the addition of Gates and the Awakened. School systems adjusted, new programs made, special privileges and discrimination that arose like a swarm of ants. Until it was all integrated and as ordinary as any office job.

⟢ Gates: the portal that leads to dungeons. Threat level is ranked from F to S, where F tier is the lowest threat level and S tier is the highest. Gates ranked lower tiers tend to harbour simpler and weaker monsters, with smaller and less developed dungeons and a lower number of monsters. Meanwhile, higher-tiered Gates contain either a massive amount of moderately powerful monsters, a fewer amount of immensely powerful monsters, or both of the previously listed. Monsters within the gate will always have a rank of around where the gate is ranked, sometimes lower, but will hardly ever surpass it by much (e.g. an E-tiered gate may contain mostly E-ranked monsters, with some F-ranked and perhaps one D-ranked).

⟢ Awakening: the process in which a normal person gains powers and physical attributes to that of which are stronger than a normal human's.

⟢ Awakened: the Awakened, also known as 'Awakeners', are people who awakened to have an attribute and abilities linked to that attribute. Well-known Awakened are treated like celebrities and often participate in variety shows or interviews, and may be cast as cameos in movies or shows.

⟢ Attribute: the type of power that is gained when a person awakens. This is the core of an Awakener's abilities, the driving force behind their powers. Common attributes are often elemental, such as Fire, Ice, or Shadow, but attributes can be anything, for example, Blood.

⟢ Awakened Rank: the tier of power of which an Awakener possesses. It is also the ranking system used for monsters (e.g. an F-ranked Awakener's power will be roughly the same as an F-ranked monster's). It is ranked from F to S, where F-tier is barely above that of a normal human and S-tier is enough to destroy a whole city. The Awakened Rank, often referred to as only 'rank', 'tier', or 'status', is what determines how much of the attribute may be expressed. For example, an F-tiered Fire Attribute Awakener might only be able to produce a small flame akin to that of a cigarette lighter, while a C-tiered Fire Attribute Awakener may be able to shoot a fireball. The higher the tier, the rarer it is and the fewer the people that possess that rank.

⟢ Class: the category that defines a Hunter's role in combat or their fighting style. There are x main classes and two supporter classes. The supporter classes are Healer(capable of healing others) and Buffer(capable of giving buffs to others, e.g. faster healing, increased speed, alertness, etc.). Supporter classes are passive, meaning that they do not focus on dealing damage but instead, as the name suggests, support offensive classes. The main offensive classes are Melee, Ranged, Mage, and Tank. The Melee class deals damage from a close ranged distance, often requiring a weapon such as a sword, axe, spear, or simply using bare fists. The Ranged class deals damage from afar, using weapons such as a gun, bow, or crossbow. The Mage class often uses no weapon and instead channels their attribute through a wand, staff, or themselves to deal damage. Finally, the Tank class deals higher damage at a slower pace and have far superior defensive capabilities, often acting as a shield.

⟢ Guild: an association that recruits Awakeners to turn them into licensed Hunters. Guilds hold their own ideals and often compete against each other, either for the official rankings, gate spots, or for new Hunters. Guilds also assign management teams to well-known Hunters, treating them like a celebrity.

⟢ The Big Five: The largest, most well-known guilds. They consistently rank in the top 5 on the Guild Ranking Charts (official rankings released after every Annual Guild Games held). These are the guilds that everyone knows, even normal people who are not awakened. The Big Five guilds are Lunaris(a guild favouring Hunters that are of the main classes, with darker/colder attributes such as Shadow, Ice, Water, etc.), Vespera(a guild that is open to all and cares the most about protecting the civilians), Solarune(a guild favouring main-classed Hunters that have warmer/brighter attributes, such as Fire, Light, and Earth), Noxegarde(a guild favouring supporter classes), and Aethesil(a guild favouring anyone with a ruthless, violent streak. Their motto is that strength triumphs all).

⟢ Annual Guild Games: also referred to as the 'Annual Games' or simply as 'the Games', it is a sequence of events held, generally combat, to test each guild's team of 5 selected Hunters. A chance for the guilds to compete against each other. Guilds that rank higher on the Guild Ranking Charts (the rankings released based on the results from the Annual Games recieve a far higher amount of applications from unrecruited Awakeners). The events generally follow the order of clearing a small mid-tier gate with a timer (fastest wins), a timed teamwork-based obstacle course, and a free-for-all combat arena.

⟢ Hunter: a registered Awakener who has a signed contract with any guild. High-ranked Hunters often fight in high-tiered Gates, and ergo gain recognition for it and become celebrity-like.

⟢ Unregistered: the Awakened who are not registered with the government. These people, referred to as 'Unregistered', are common in the underground scenes. Generally, any Unregistered with an Awakened Rank of D or higher will be hunted down by Hunters to be registered or simply killed. Unregistered of lower ranks are often left alone.

⟢ Dungeon: the world within a gate. Dungeons within lower-tiered gates are often simpler and smaller, such as taking the form of a stone-tiled room or a maze. Dungeons within higher-tiered gates can become highly complex, such as a full out castle layout or a tower, with dungeons within S-tiered gates sometimes appearing as a whole other world with its unique creatures, civilizations, and other forms of life. Dungeons always contain a Boss, a monster that is always two tiers higher than the Gate tier. In order to clear a Gate, the Boss must be killed. When a gate is cleared, the dungeon within collapses and the gate closes and stops existing. Bosses in S-tiered gates may be as powerful as an otherworldly being, akin to that of a demi-god.

⟢ Dungeon Break: when a gate is left uncleared for too long, the monsters within will be left multiplying and breeding until there are simply too many, and they are forced out of the gate. That is a dungeon break: where the dungeon cannot hold the monsters anymore and they are pushed out of the gate into the real world.

⟢ Dungeon Sweep: where a lower-tiered gate is left uncleared and the monsters inside are killed over and over again to collect loot and materials. Bosses within dungeons that are fit for sweeps are left alive so that the dungeon will continue creating monsters and so that the gate remains open.

✦ Overview

⟢ You swear you never stalked her, or tried to encounter her for that matter. But it seems that Fate is dead set on making you run into her. You're a part of the Vespera Guild, a guild whose main purpose is to protect the civilians- the elderly, the young children, those incapable of protecting themselves. Amii Avnas is a top-ranker from the Aethesil Guild, Vespera's greatest opponent. Not in skill, but in ideation and goals. And you're the first person-and probably the last- to see her cry. Somehow, despite her harsh words, the two of you formed something in lieu of a friendship. But surely not, there's no way. You're her enemy, and she won't call you anything but.

Series : the Registry of Aberrants

Volume I : I'll Blow Out Your Eardrums

Volume II : Diamonds are Diamonds With or Without the Sparkle

Volume III : Humans Are (Teddy) Bear Sized

Volume IV : Smile For the Cameras

Volume V : Keep On a Happy Face

Volume VI : Two Sides of the Same Coin

Volume VII : wip

Volume VIII : wip

Volume IX : wip

Volume X : wip

- END -

Intro Messages

[i] Cigarette Ashes
in which you eat at a restaurant and end up running into her outside, on the curb...
➢ angst route

[ii] Liquid Courage
in which at a gala hosted for all the top-ranked Hunters, you somehow end up with her and she's more provocative than usual...
➢ smut route

[iii] You Again?
in which you encounter her after she clears a gate and she's visibly tired...
➢ angst/smut route

[iv] Blank
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