I was thinking of there being an on going joke with Tadhg about how, while in California for 3 months, he did nothing California-y.
He didn't go to the beach because he assumed they were closed in the winter. He walked his dog at a park inland because he thought the high surf might scare him. He didn't go to Disneyland or that part of Hollywood with the stars. He stayed in the hotel and watched tv a lot... might have rekindled his interests in horror and mythology which becomes useful.

from a lucid dreaming site concerning "shared dreaming:"
"Use your feeling of the person. Everyone in dreaming has a unique energy signature you can recognise them by. It is a subtle feeling of simply knowing THAT person IS that PERSON, no matter how they may appear to you.

Once you have this feeling of the person. Focus that feeling to change dreams and the dream you wind up in will be that persons."

I imagine, when Tadhg was in the hospital, Tabbi was so worried about him she ended up in his dreams because she could feel his pain. Now it's very easy to find each other...

When Sophie curses them, they're forced together, which leads to headaches and illness the next day.

Nothing to see here

I just need to post this somewhere for my own reference.

Devlin would wear...

Hats:
Beanie
Baseball cap
Military cap

Tops:
T-shirt
Jersey tee
Long-sleeve shirt
Jersey
Dress shirt
Tanktop
Vest

Jackets:
Leather jacket
Zip-up hoodie
Hoodie
Parka
Trench coat/duffle coat

Pants:
Capri pants
Jeans
Dress pants
Cargo shorts
3/4s pants/shorts/shants/wtf

Neck accessories:
Dog tags
Shell necklaces
Chain necklaces
Scarf
Tie

Etc.:
Gloves
Wristbands
Watch
Studded bracelets
Studded belts
Leather belts
Karate-style headband

Shoes:
Skate shoes
Converse
Boots

The Car Story

From an MSN conversation, sorry if its a pain to read XD

Dodgy: HEY~ DO YOU WANT TO HEAR THE CAR STORYLINE?
-ITS FULL OF FURRINESS
-Like seriously
-Its got Kojie's semi-bilingual mom in it

Simon YES I WOULD LIKE HEARINGS
FURRINESS MAKES ME GO HAPPY
FOR I IS A FURFAGERISH MAN

Dodgy :3
ok
so
after a day of stupid jackass stunts, Kojie's phone rings
its his mom asking where he is and telling him to come home for dinner (since he got off work about two hours earlier and should have been home then... she gets paranoid that another one of her kids is going to leave out of nowhere)
He gets off the phone to find Tadhg, Crow, and Devlin looking at him with puppy dog eyes because they probably aren't going to get fed by their own families, so he half heartedly invites them over
So furry household
Pretty much asian household, but with furry stuff
Dinner is squid and starnge fish parts in noodles with some kind of sauce

Simon XD
You get invited and there's furry drawings everywhere on the walls, a fursuit lying around, etc XD
I love the puppy eyes part
hehehe

Dodgy :3
so Tadhg and Devlin eat the noodles
Crow can't figure out how the noodles/chopsticks combination works
Turns out that Kojie knew that that would happen and brought a spork from the movie theater, which he stabs Crow in the leg with

Simon That's so Crow.
: D
I think Tadhg and Devlin probably saw it coming too X3

Dodgy Of course
Kojie's mom's English is weird. She doesn't understand slang terms and uses strange translated terms.
Like calling them Kojie's Pink friends.
She also hits on Tadhg and Crow throughout dinner

Simon Haha, I love the weird English part.
pink friends. X3
haha
she seems hilarious.

Dodgy She's very Darby-ish
White furred Darby
I was thinking that she knows of Tadhg and Crow from what her kids have told her. She thinks Crow is the super strong one and feels him up.
Crow looks somewhat mortified.
Somewhat.
She's got dem hips. Like Tabbs.
So yeah
after dinner they go outside

Simon oh, Crow, you card you.

Dodgy I'm thinking that Mrs. Takahashi gave them a bag of marshmellows for desert and Tadhg is trying to get Devlin to cook them and she ends up stuffing the bag in his mouth

Simon hehe
Poor Tadhg

Dodgy Don't worry, they end up getting married.
: B
But anyways
Crow asks Kojie why he drives such a shitty car. Kojie says that he doesn't care about cars and just needs something to get him to work and back, a whoping 4 miles. (When he says he doesn't care about cars theres a pan to his room, the walls of which are covered in pictures of hotrods...)

Crow decides to take that oppertunaty to brag about his mom's new sportscar.
Crow's family is away so he suggests that they go back to his house and stare at it.

Simon I like the idea of doing the pan to the hotrod posters
I think its frigging hilarious.

Dodgy they get to Crow's house and everyobe is impressed with the car
Crow has his permit and announces that he's going to drive the car around the block
so everyone gets in.
Dev calls Shotgun, but Kojie super runs in and pushes her out of the way as she's sitting down.

Simon cheater.

Dodgy so Crow drives very slowly up the road, turns around in the culdisac, and drives back towards the house
starts into the driveway but realizes OH GOD MY MOM HAD IT BACKED IN. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT YET. D:
So Kojie offers to switch seat and back it up for him, being the only licenced driver in the car
so Kojie and Crow switch seats
Kojie starts to drive... but misses the turnaround
tells them he's going to turn around at the minimart
passes the minimart
tells them he's going to turn around at the school
passes the school
then he stops responding
He's off in his own little world going very very VERY fast
While tearing ass around residential streets, Crow turns around to the back seat to tell Tadhg and Dev to brace themselves because he's going to short circut the car once Kojie starts to slow down
but no sooner does he finish saying that that Kojie spins the car onto the highway, Crow goes forword and hits his head on the dashboard
Out cold.
Simon : O I like it.
Switches from funny to dramatic.
And very nicely so.

Dodgy So Tadhg and Dev hope to God that the car runs out of gas evenyually

Simon i think kojie is a pretty cool guy. eh drive the car and doesn't stop at anything.

Dodgy Dev is subconciously heating up the car, so Tadhg gets the idea to turn on as much stuff as he can to use up the gas

Simon : D
He really is the thinking type, huh?

Dodgy Smart kid
So eventually it runs out of gas and Kojie careens the car off onto the shoulder.
Crow is still unconcious and Kojie stares forwords, says "Wow.. that was awesome... I need a cigarette~" and passes out on the horn.
So
its, like, 1 am on the Garden State Parkway (New Jersey)
There are almost no cars around except for semis
They've got unconcious Crow and Kojie layed out on the grass along the side of the highway, Dev is walking around the car screaming at no one in particular, kicking the car and Kojie, Tadhg is trying to figure out where they are.
-insert random comments-
Anyway, Tadhg sees a roadsign and realizes that they're only about a hald mile from the cheercamp that Tabbi and darby are at and says that if they can push the car there they can get darby to heal Kojie and Crow and either call a tow truck or steal some gas

Simon Ah.
Darby has to save everyone's ass, huh?
Dodgy Well, they're afraid that Crow has bleeding in his brain because he's still unconcious
they try not to use her
because she isn't very good yet
I'm thinking that Kojie was able to make the car go super fast like he can run at some points, so the cops couldn't see
Like he was still there, but totally in the zone and filtering everything else out
So at the end of all this Kojie tells Crow "...and THATS actually why I have to drive a junker. : D"
So, you like it I take it?
any comments?

Simon Yeah, I like it. Especially the moral of the story XD

-later-

Dodgy Because Crow is unconcious and Tadhg and Devlin are terffied
I told Celes that I wanted Tadhg and Devlin to be discussing the possibility of a little 'I don't want to die a virgin' syndrom in the back seat, but she was >: /

Simon I like the idea though
You should go with it even if she doesn't like it :3

Dodgy lol... I probably will : D
Awkward sexual situation are very fun to write


END!

Some Background Info

Note: This is only background info that would directly affect the main characters. Every area has their own history with infected people, I'm just focusing on Europe, Asia, and America. O:

"Infected" is the current politically correct term for persons with a certain genetic mutation that can manifest after traumatic experiences or, in more recent times, at random. It often carries physical mutations as well as super human abilities that can range from harmless to deadly.

In mideavl Europe most infections were thought to be the work of the devil. "Demons," a slang term still used today in some parts of the world, were often children and young adults who spontaniously took on the appearence of Biblical demons (the appearence of which were probably based on infected people in the first place.) Wings, tails, horns, fangs, and manic personality changes were very common and often led to the death of the host, usually by burning at the stake or hanging--whatever was most fashionable at the time.

In the 1600s, fearing for their safety, boatloads of European families with infected children stole away to The New World. A few were caught (some historians have linked it to the begining of the Salem Witch Trials, but many disagree) but most moved onto the Rhode Island colony, which was well known for tollerance. It is believed that this is the reason that so many modern infections found in the Boston area are "demonic" in appearence. (Devlin's red eyes, for example, are most likely a throw-back to the old skool manic infection)

After generations of infected persons being killed, the mutation stared to evolve, making it harder to notice. Changes in hair color, similar to what happened to Crow, became the norm by the 18th century. Extreme hair color change, like Tabbi's, is fairly new. In modern times, having the full on, old-skool manic infection, like Tadhg, is extremely rare. Fortunately, through medication and proper treatment, doctors are finding that the crippling manic personality trait can be destroyed by the time the host reaches their early twenties, alowing them to live a normal life. Until then, however, it can be a bumpy ride.

After the terror attacks, the number of infections in the Greater New York area trippled, making the area a haven for infected persons trying to live a normal life.

Where infected Europeans were treated as hellspawn, infected Asians, especially in Japan, were treated like Gods. Though not always the case, most infected people were born with animal characteristics, similar to those in asian mythology. Unlike the Europeans, the asian infected gene has remained the same for generations, giving the host a half animal half animal appearence that would be passed down through families for generations. Most "Furries" have no non-furry reletives, though not all furries have useful abilities. Some may never notice them while others can have abilities that are very useful if not dangerious. It varries person to person.

Despite claims, it is proven that furries are as human as any other race and could have a healthy child with any other race.

BAM.

STUFF

First of all, the anatomy on this picture I'm working on WILL be the death of me.

Secondly, I had a idea for a series of pictures that split the cast up by the characters' powers. The first one would be "Kenetics," which would consist of Tabbi, Dev, and Crow; the second would be "Physical" which would consist of Tadhg and Kojie, and the third would be "Other" which would consist of Sissy, Darby, Loki and possibly Sophie.

I'm thinking that the pose for the Kenetics picture would be Crow in the center, with his arms over Tabbi and Dev's shoulders... they're all probably doing something cool and super power-y. The Physical picture would be Tadhg and Kojie attempting to look threatening but failing... and the "Other" picture would be Loki holding Darby and Sissy's hand up. Expressions would be something like ">: < : B : D!!!"

I wish there was a one-eyed emoticon. : <


Also: I think I need to do a storyline completely from Darby's point of view as well as one about Tabbi floating away.

Jelly Doughnuts

God I wish I had one right now...

Well, since no one is online, I guess I'll have to mass spam this post to get some feedback.

Lately I've realized that I'm pretty terrible at stories with an ongoing plot, so I want to focas on groups of short stories revolving around the same group of characters. I can write short stories much better and it gives me a chance to draw pretty much whatever I want. I'd post two or three pages with Tabbi introducing all the characters and their relations, then go into the first story... which would probably be something silly, like, Tabbi having a bad day and going off on a shopping rampage with Darbz...

I have plenty of ideas and I think this would be fun, but I'd really love some feedback other than "I like /don't like this." or the "O:" face. ^^

THE END.

We've got a good thing going

Good idea I'm sticking with:
Gloves is either the head of or high up in a mafia-type organization that keeps tabs on infected people, especially those who do vigilante work or other illegal things. When Tabbi comes up on Sissy in the park she's trying to get someone to pay up or something.
I decided that that someone is Aimee, but you don't actually meet her for a while.

Silly Idea:
Tabbi being a "magical girl" in 6th grade. She tried being a superhero, fighting for justice at an afterschool program she was enrolled in in a Halloween costume.

I may actually use this. Because you know she's try it.

Also, Darby's powers: WTF should they be? D:

Oh Snap

So, I think I decided on some background information.

Lets see how long it lasts until I change it! : D

So, instead of Tabbi and Tadhg living in NYC before the attacks and moving, I think that only their grandmother lives there. Tabbi has always lived in the same house in Wes Chester county and, well, as for Tadhg, I'm not sure. A while ago I had the idea that he grew up in Boston but his family moved back to the New York area after a fire, moving into their apartment in Titusville right before the attacks. It would account for why Tabbi is so excited to show him around the city if he had just recently moved there and hadn't visited the area very often... but then I still like the idea of him just growing up in the New York area with Tabbi as well.

Crow lived on Long Island and was on a subway with his dad when the bombs went off. By pure luck (and possibly an early manifestation of his power's secondary ability to manipulate metal) he was one of the only, and by far the youngest, person on the entire train to survive. He was in a coma for 2 days, but otherwise relativly unscaved, and became a national human interst story. National news recoginition, talk shows, all that great stuff. Part of the reason he uses the name Crow is because everyone knows about David-Anthoney Politucci... sometimes he still gets recognised. He hates it and it only fuels his survivor's remorse.

OH CRAP

A post.

Lately I feel like I'm very dumb. Very VERY dumb. I keep coming up with weird stuff for Anarchy that no one else will really care about at the moment and, even though they'd fit and help clear up somethings in the future, have no way of fitting into the story unless someone flat out said it.

I mean I /could/ make someone just state it, but I can't forsee a nice spot to do it. :/

Basically, I was thinking about how the traumatic events occur and how something thats traumatic for one person might not be as bad for another. I'm thinking that, among all the other weird scientific stats I've come up with, they've found that some people are just more apt to the infection to others.
It obviously runs in the O'Malley family, as three out of the four kids who were present during the attack gained powers, one from just witnessing the events. Tabbi and Tadhg's abilties manifested as the situation occured, before either of them were seriesou injured, saving their lives, then going dorment until they were nine or ten... but the you have Crow who was almost crushed to death and whose father died in front of him not ending up with abilities until years later.
I guess what I'm saying is that in some people, the mutation is pretty much looking for an excuse come through, while in others it could take years.

Maybe that changes with age, but I don't know xD

St. Ursula's cheerleaders

Morgan Kendrick, Super Senior and Captain. Queen bitch, takes nothing but perfection and scares/motivates everyone.

Gwen Grund, Super Senior. Physically strong but a complete doormat. A little strange, wants to be Morgan's bff more than anything in the world.

Micheal, Junior. Bitchy and chubby, very gay. Is also big in the drama club.

Brooke Bishop, Junior. African American but probably the whitest person on the squad. Preppy, popped collar, lives on cell, ect. Tad chubby. May like to gossip but I'm not sure.

Sonia Heidrich, Junior. IRL Mary Sue. Peppy, good at everything, nice to the point of it being annoying.

Alexa-Andrea, Sophmore. Bubbley but very concerned with her reputation. Is working hard on her sweet 16 plans for MTV.

Tabbi O'Malley, Sophmore.

Jin-Sook Goldstein, Sophmore. Korean adopted by white Jewish parents. Thinks she has a huge rebelious steak but is really a "good girl" Can be mean and blunt but mostly likes joking around.

Sissy Andre, Freshman. Pulled a head a year. bitch but doesn't weigh very much.

Darby (Harumi) Takahashi, 7th grader. Mascot. Spazzy but loves everything about cheerleading. Quite a few of the other cheerleaders are uncomforitable around her.

I still need two more cheerleaders and the people whose names are in italics need last names.

BAM.

Blah~

I'm thinking about just writing everything at this point. Making a script of sorts that I can fool around with when need be before I start redrawing a begining again.

Also seriously thinking about moving away from the anime style more. If the style was a bit more of a fusion then I could pull off sillysite gags like having everything appear SHINEYDESUSHOJO whenever Tabbi is describing something mundane and have everything appear GRIMDARKAMERICANCOMICBOOK when Tadhg describes something.

I've also been doing some more inepth thinking reguarding the senario of the game itself. I have definate ideas for it and I'd like some of them to play a larger part in the story.

I think background information through too much. I really need to stop. >>;

So you know how Tadhg's a little bitch most of the time?
I was thinking that a lot of that is because he's trying to repress his virus features most of the time, which is unpleasent, thus making him pissy. When he's in that level between being normal and having the virus completely controling him his personality seems to change. He's not as angry (as being the keyword) and seems to be friendlier. Only thing is he's usually trying to hide himself because he hates looking like that.

I'm ever so elequent right now. >>

Thoughts?

MOAR SPOILERS

Ok, like before, don't read if you don't want spoilers~! D:

Tentative Timeline for Autunm:

-The story starts in early October. Tabbi and Sissy get into a silly fight. Then Tabbi, Tadhg, and Crow get chased by viruses at school. First time you really see them in action.

-This next part is a little fuzzy. I want to have everyone at the club, talking about some kind of upcoming fundraiser they have to be at and fake their way through, this introduces all the rest of the characters. Not sure if it'll be the same day or later. Somehow this has to lead into the Sophie incident.

-Sophie comes to the school looking for Kojie and Darby because she's home for the long weekend. They run away and she starts asking people in broken English about them. She comes across Sissy, this event leads to her getting Loki. Not sure whether that happens in either Autumn or Winter.

-We find out about possessed girl at some point in here.

-Tadhg attacks Tabbi and she finds out about his possession, she goes to Devlin for more information.

Things that will happen in Winter in no particular order:

-silly Christmas event

-Tabbi meets up with Devlin and she tells her how she's involved in Tadhg's possession

- Tadhg and Tabbi go visit possessed girl.

-Crow and Kojie get into some sort of silly fight that Crow takes seriously and Kojie is doing for the lulz.

Ideas (AKA Spoilers)

Ok, this may or may not be something I use in Anarchy. But either way, if you aren't someone who I posted this for spesifically you might nnot want to read it. >o>;

I'm going to split the story into different parts, labeled by the year and season they occured in (ie. the story will begin Automn, Freshman year.)
Durring the middle/end of the first part another former Anarchy gamer is confirmed to be infected to the public (there have been a few over the years.) She's a 15 year old girl from Long Island whose possession is similar to Tadhg's, however, her virus got bored with her, scrambled her mind, and moved on. She ends up in the hospital (anoyamously until a tabloid reporter bribed a nurse for the her name) where she and her family are constantlly being taped, interviewed and followed. Main characters are taken back a bit by how the media reacts to the situation and how easily that could be them. Tadhg on the other hand takes the event incredibly personally and secretly contacts the family, wanting to meet the girl. After a long secret corispondence (this would occur at the end of Winter Freshman Year), Tadhg goes to the hospital with Tabbi (came up to her one afternoon without telling her why and just made her come with him) and meets the girl at the hospital. She's lucid, but incredibly skiddish. She ducks under her bed and between furniture when they come in and even though the virus had left her she still has virus traits. They realize that the virus left something in her head, like a place saver, so that if it couldn't find a better host, it could just moove back in, which was what was making her nuts. Tabbi is able to absorb and nullify whatever it left behind (the first time Tabbi ever uses her sheilds to do something like that) and the girl returns to normal. Then a nurse comes in and they run like hell.

I like this idea a lot for some reason, mostly because its not one that I've done before and am trying to redo. xD; But I could use this as a spring board for Tabbi trying to develope that ability and Tadhg trying to control his virus before it pulls something like that on him.

Yay~

Sophie

Nickname: Sophie
Name: Sayomi "Sophie" Takahashi
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Birthday: September 29th
Ability: hacker. Has an elven archer, but can't really do much because she's an admin.
Height: 5'6
Weight: 110 lbs
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: dark brown
Clothing preferences: camisols and skirts
Other details: extremely long hair that she usually pulls back, has a dragonfly tattoo on her shoulder, poor English skills
Personality: Only recently really started going out into the real world, biploar, has violent fits of anger, paranoid, has little value for human life and enjoys testing it, very delusional, is almost always on the verge of a breakdown.
History: A Japanese native, she was born and raised in Yokohama. Her family has been moving around thanks to her father's job since she was about 9 or 10. Recognised early on as a genius, she became the instant favorite of her father who tested her constantly so that she'd always be ahead of the game. When the family moved abroad Sophie became homeschooled, learning everyday in a virtual Japanese classroom on the internet because her father, being incredibly ethnocentric, felt that other school systems would make her soft. As she got older she left the house less and less, becoming increasingly paranoid and having violent outbursts usually directed towards her younger brother Kojie. She "graduated" high school at age 15 and enrolled at Toyko University where she lived up until recently when she took an internship with the Saga Corp, the company behind Anarchy 2090 in New York City. She is supposed to be living at home, but sometmes doesn't come home for days.
She idolizes her father and acknowleges her mother, if not for the soul perpose of "Honor Thy Father and Mother." For reasons she can't explain (nor wants to) she loathes her brother Kojie and has made more than one blaintent attempt to physically harm him. Thanks to their age difference she barely aknowleges her younger sister Darby, however, she is intersted in her for "scientific experimentation."
Actually, scientific experimentation is her only reason for caring about a lot of things.
Favorite color: light blue
Favorite food: cheetos, milk tea
Least favorite food: sweet things
Likes: learning, hacking, preforming experiments and watching their outcomes, being herself, MTV
Dislikes: pretty much everyone on Earth save her father and Gloves, having to speak English in public
Talent: Disturbingly intellegent
Weakness: complete basket case

LOL

Major ongoing conflicts:

Sissy v. Tabbi

Tadhg v. Tadhg's virus

Sophie and Gloves random crazy viruses v. everyone else

Other ongoing conflicts:

Tabbi's intentions v. The extent of her abilities

Tadhg v. himself

Kojie v. Sophie

Silly conflicts:

Crow v. Kojie

Loki v. acting normal

Underlying conflicts:

Childhood v. Adulthood

~*~

Lately I've been thinking about rethink their world a bit to be a bit (not much) more cyber punk.

Kojie

Nickname: Kojie
Name: Koji Takahashi
Gender: male
Age: 16
Birthday: Aug. 21st
Ability: He's a frigging ninja yo~!
Height: 5'10
Weight: 150 lbs
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Grey/white
Clothing preferences: t shirts and jeans
Other details: Wears glasses, skinny wrists, cleans up nice, curly fwuffy tail
Personality: Not outwordly friendly but a generally nice person, some what awkaward, gets competitive. Attracts weeaboos.
History: A Japanese native, he was born and raised in Yokohama. His family has been moving around thanks to his father's job since he was about 6. He doesn't get along with his father, who thinks he's a looser, or older sister Sophie, whose reasons for hating him are probably more tied to her own mental condition than anything that happened between them. He loves his mother whose current condition/situation is unknown and his younger sister Darby, who he watches over like a hawk.
Favorite color: orange
Favorite food: Shrimp, earl grey tea, sushi
Least favorite food: Ham
Likes: Drawing, reading manga, play'n vidia games, sleeping
Dislikes: cold weather, being called a dog, Sophie
Talent: Artistically gifted, has the best fighting skills
Weakness: sore looser.

Anarchy beginings Pt 2

I figured this was too deep for Anarchy and not very well refined. Its not really dA material.

I'll sum it up in the begining of the next part in three sentences. >>

ANARCHY BEGININGS PT 2

~*~
At first it starts as a twinge, a minor distraction that takes you by surprise. For a moment all your attention goes to this sudden interruption, but is promptly forgotten. Like knocking your hand into your desk as you leave on Friday afternoon or the ticklish cough you get when you accidently swallow a gnat on a warm summer night, the recognition of this action is almost immediately overshadowed by a greater emotion or thought. You forget about it and don’t look back until you see the ugly purple bruise on the back of your hand at dinner or until you starting inhaling water bottle after water bottle trying to get the dry spot in your throat to subside.
~*~

I felt myself waning consciousness for a while, in and out of confusing dreams and whispering voices. I didn’t know where I was. I felt something soft wrapped around me, a fleece blanket perhaps? I couldn’t remember if we owned a fleece blanket. Whatever it was I pulled it up farther, I was cold— very cold. I felt myself thrash around in an attempt to warm myself more, but to no avail. Suddenly there was a rush of pain, every inch of my body seized with it. Then my eyes opened.

I found myself waking on a couch that wasn’t my own. I woke with a start, forcing myself forward, eyes wide confusion. As my head left the cushion, I felt a sudden stabbing pain behind my eyes, like one of those rouge chest pains everyone suffers from from time to time. For an instant I was taken back, scared, but forgot it almost immediately as a woman rushed to my side.

“Oh Tabbi, Thank goodness!” she blurted out. She flew at me from across the room, leaving one of her stilettoes at the foot of her chair. She hugged me desperately, as though she thought died. I was stunned. Tabbi...? Right that’s me. Tabitha O’Malley. And this is my mom... Mom O’Malley? Tara? Yes, Tara. I blinked for a bit struggling to say something. I looked around the room trying to register where I was... remember what happened. I couldn’t seem to get my eyes to focus on anything. “Is that why my eyes hurt?” I asked myself, briefly remembering that pain. Once again it was pushed out of my mind again as I recognized the room as my aunt and uncle’s livingroom and the events of the evening started to flood back. We were working on our science project... right. And Crow was being a butt, like always. Then something happened in Anarchy..

Another memory.

“Mom where’s Daddy?” I asked dumbly. Her face sank a little in disappointment.

“He-He’s in California right now, on a business trip.” She looked at me like I had three heads, shocked that I would ask such an obvious question and turn my thoughts away from her. “But that’s why I couldn’t bring you home!” she stated to ramble. “When Lily called I was so afraid that you might have to go to the hospital I left Annie with Audrey at home because I couldn’t watch all 3 of you if you were in the ER and if Daddy was here he could have come along with us and brought them home if it was getting late and...”

“Where’s Tadhg?” I interrupted.

She paused. “He’s-He’s in his room, sweetie.”

My mom was taken aback again by my tone. I was too, but I don’t think I showed it. I was never blunt like that, especially when talking to adults, but somehow I felt emotionless, like I didn’t really care how I sounded... or I couldn’t control it. It was too much effort, it seemed, and was quite pointless and tiresome. It was easier to just get to the point.

Recognizing the voices in her livingroom, my aunt Lily burst out of Tadhg’s room. She looked tired herself, very worried. She broke the awkward silence that had begun to fill the room by abruptly engaging my mom in pointless chatter that adult women always seem to enjoy. It started with “Tabbi! You’re awake, how are you doing?” and lead to “Did you see how fat Whatshisface who owns the Curves next to the natural food place on Plaza Street got?” in three sentences. Tired and slightly in pain from smacking the back of my head on the floor, I moaned.

“Go get your things sweetie,” my mom cooed, ruffling my hair, “We’ll be leaving soon.”

Knowing damn well that meant they’d be talking for another 45 minuets, I took my time on my way back to Lily’s office. Thats where I left my things, right? Yes, I nailed Crow with my good binder. I hope his head didn’t dent it. I started hop scotching down the hallway tiles farther into the darkness, wishing I had thrown something harder at him. Knowing his luck, he didn't hit his head tonight, like I did. God probably made sure that he landed on a big soft pillow or something because loosing a parent makes you special. All your actions are ok, you can be the biggist jerk on earth, but as soon as they find out your dad died its Don't be so hard on him Tabbi! He's been through a lot! You should know better! He only does mean things because he's sad! At that point I realized I was no longer skipping tiles, practicing ballet moves on them from that time we had to learn them in gym class. I wasn’t sure why I was dancing or how I remembered it, but I was actually enjoying it for the first time in my memory. Rocking to the fuzzy lyrical music playing in my head, I leaped over a column of tiles, landing in a perfect point which melted into either 3rd or 5th possession. I spun around, knocking one of my hands into a door frame, then abruptly stopped.

I heard a moan from behind a door. Tadhg’s door.

I stood there momentarily. Did I hear that? Or am I imagining it? It was quiet. I must have been. I felt another pain behind my eyes, then the noise again.

It was a sob. Tadhg was crying.

Tadhg never cried. Ever.

For a moment I felt a surge of emotion, like I was gaining control again, like it wasn’t so tiresome to act the way I knew I should be feeling. I was afraid for him, because it had to be horrible to make him cry. I started towards his door. Then stopped.

It was too much effort, my mind decided, to go in there. Whatever was wrong with him, I'd find out about it tomarrow at school.

Emotionless again I continued on, quietly gathering my things from the office at the end of the hallway and returning to the livingroom, waiting for my mother to finish her conversation.

That night the pain behind my eyes got worse. None of us went to school for two weeks.

I keep coming up with all these ideas for a magical universe that popped up in one of my dreams. I feel lame just ranting about it to people because I'm not sure how much they care about it, so I guess I'll do that here so that they have a choice as to wether or not to read it.

So here goes.

This is one of those "Magic is all around us" type stories. Some kind of supernatural universe exsists in Harmony with our own here on Earth. There are a bunch of different types of magicz and stuff, but the universe seems to be split into two sides. I'm thinking that one side is made up of creatures born with the ability to use supernatural powers, and the other side being humans who, through generations of work, have gained the ability to use magic. The sides are at kind of an uneasy peace and tentions are starting to break in this one city/town.
The organizations run a lot like the mafia and most of the magical families support themselves/hide themselves behind the resturant biz. A lot of young people who work at popular fast food resturants and food carts are employed as scouts for the opposing sides.
In the early 1900s there was an "epidemic" of inter-organizational breeding, leading to some intersting offspring. Some showed no abilities whatsoever, even being seen as completely human and pink and fleshy and nonmagical. In some instances, magical abilities didn't show up until 3 or 4 generations later. The offspring that eventually showed these abilities were often forced to pick a side, leaning towards the "magical creatures" (eh... they'll most likely be demons, it works best) because 99% of the times, they abilities that showed up were because of the magical ansestory, not the human learned magic side.
But what happens when you don't want to choose a side, youwant to stay nuetral, or you want to be on a side that doesn't want you?

The thing that I like about this idea is that I can use my Anarchy characters in it with out drastically changing them. For once they fit in somewhere else. >>

Sissy

Nickname: Sissy
Name: Cecelia Andre
Gender: female
Age: 13
Birthday: Feb. 13
Ability: Control over ice
Height: 4'10
Weight: 80 lbs
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Ice Blue
Clothing preferences: Skirts and stripes
Other details: Wears glasses, skwrany, light skin
Personality: Sly and manipulative. Good at getting what she wants by whatever means nessasary. Very smart. Has a bit of a Napoleon Complex.
History: Born over seas to American parents, Sissy has spent most of her life abroad except for breif periods of time at American boarding schools. Recently her parents have settled down in New York City and Sissy was enrolled at St. U's
Favorite color: Ice blue, brown
Favorite food: Ramen (no flavor packet), Thai food, Green Tea
Least favorite food: Hamburgers, hot dogs and the like. She highly dispises American fast food.
Likes: Learning, Power, bunnies, HarryxMalfoy yaoi, violin, HP fan fiction, the cold.
Dislikes: Tabbi, being ignored, big animals, most people, incompetience.
Talent: Deviousness and Intelegence
Weakness: Immaturity