It might be because I'm so cynical. Perhaps it might be TMI of me to share, but,
1) In one series, The Republic are a small group of knowledge seekers who've invented A.I., immortality, black hole tech and STL travel. They keep their inventions to themselves so the masses won't either condemn them for blasphemy or take their inventions away. They censor their existence from the world but passively scout human tech they find a curious novelty even if generations behind, as adults might glimpse faint inspiration from some infant's drawings. No, there is no form of comeuppance for them, for they are so beyond us it is chance to learn of them, folly to bring them down.
They admit to being cunts for not sharing their tech, all for the sake of achieving their private goals, and the mech (giant piloted robot) they force the tortured protagonist to pilot is described thus, "is it statistically impossible you will ever lose in this model, though might alone does not guarantee a win on the erratic and cruel battlefield."
2) Magical Girls who transform with Will Stones. They become beautiful, immortal, superhuman selves who are few, made fewer by a civil war, and can only be killed by the Zanthar (monster of the week) or each other. The Magical Girls are Les Enfants Terribles, winners of a Magical Girl civil war and are backed by the Japanese government a la The Boys (2019). The protagonists, Magical Ladies, are adults who must work beyond the law to dispense vigilante justice and bring down the Magical Girls.
3) The Four Horsemen, where the Horsemen and New Testament Heaven war with Old Testament Hell come 2030s in their otherworldly dimensional plane, dying, respawning and going onto the battlefield again. They're made immortal/undying, beautiful, their biblical powers far above 'capes' in the human world. Heaven and all other 'divine' pantheons have cut off all divine intervention out of collective disgust at mankind's capacity for violence, and while Hell has infiltrated Earth, both sides have a gentleman's agreement: hide in plain sight and not fight on Earth, taking in TV and entertainment while observing mankind.
My stories usually involve hoarding knowledge, power and immortality, or just a form of scarcity which leaves a small group in control of so much power. I feel there is a beauty in transhumanism, leaving the rest of humanity behind since they'd only slow them down, of power far above mortals. The desire to know everything also features heavily in one of my stories, all for the sake of goals above what mankind can or dares achieve.
What is wrong with me?
1) In one series, The Republic are a small group of knowledge seekers who've invented A.I., immortality, black hole tech and STL travel. They keep their inventions to themselves so the masses won't either condemn them for blasphemy or take their inventions away. They censor their existence from the world but passively scout human tech they find a curious novelty even if generations behind, as adults might glimpse faint inspiration from some infant's drawings. No, there is no form of comeuppance for them, for they are so beyond us it is chance to learn of them, folly to bring them down.
They admit to being cunts for not sharing their tech, all for the sake of achieving their private goals, and the mech (giant piloted robot) they force the tortured protagonist to pilot is described thus, "is it statistically impossible you will ever lose in this model, though might alone does not guarantee a win on the erratic and cruel battlefield."
2) Magical Girls who transform with Will Stones. They become beautiful, immortal, superhuman selves who are few, made fewer by a civil war, and can only be killed by the Zanthar (monster of the week) or each other. The Magical Girls are Les Enfants Terribles, winners of a Magical Girl civil war and are backed by the Japanese government a la The Boys (2019). The protagonists, Magical Ladies, are adults who must work beyond the law to dispense vigilante justice and bring down the Magical Girls.
3) The Four Horsemen, where the Horsemen and New Testament Heaven war with Old Testament Hell come 2030s in their otherworldly dimensional plane, dying, respawning and going onto the battlefield again. They're made immortal/undying, beautiful, their biblical powers far above 'capes' in the human world. Heaven and all other 'divine' pantheons have cut off all divine intervention out of collective disgust at mankind's capacity for violence, and while Hell has infiltrated Earth, both sides have a gentleman's agreement: hide in plain sight and not fight on Earth, taking in TV and entertainment while observing mankind.
My stories usually involve hoarding knowledge, power and immortality, or just a form of scarcity which leaves a small group in control of so much power. I feel there is a beauty in transhumanism, leaving the rest of humanity behind since they'd only slow them down, of power far above mortals. The desire to know everything also features heavily in one of my stories, all for the sake of goals above what mankind can or dares achieve.
What is wrong with me?