Conflicting Lives- Chapter 3: Plans Put Into Place

Conflicting Lives Character Design: Scythe Cristaal

Scythe's reference/character design sheet for Conflicting Lives!

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Casual

Gold horn rings Golden yellow embroidery Jean Material Wraps around middle toe to keep in place (all designs)

Lux

Blue Steel Horn Caps Can be taken off and separated to use as rope Coms(+Inv) device Golden leaf pattern on both sides Cloth sleeve, buttons at base of tail

Nebula

Rose Gold horn cuffs(?) Undershirt has extra fabric for mask Undershirt over finger for style points Cloth sleeve to cover tail

Name: Scythe Cristaal Age: 20 Pronouns: He/Him Species: Enderman, Wastes Blaze Role(s): Hero - Support, Defense; Villain - Support, Offense; Civilian - Student Hero/Villain Name or Alias: Lux; Nebula Abilities/Powers: Teleportation, Enhanced Vision, Quick Response, Enhanced Hearing, Illusions, Fire Manipulation, Fire Creation, Fall Resistance, Fire Immunity, Enhanced Strength Motivations: Scythe was just a normal Highschool kid, at least for the most part. In his Junior year of Highschool, he decided he wanted a new little hobby. He had been working at a coffee shop near the border between his home district, Survas, and a neighboring district, Wynnra, when he had met a close friend of his, Lunaris. They mostly go by Lunar, but Scythe gave them the nickname Crystal pretty early in their friendship, and that's what he calls her. Lunar opened up to Scythe about being a well-known Wynnran vigilante, Storyteller, after a long time of knowing each other, and helped introduce Scythe into the life of chaos and mischief, recommending Martian as someone to help get him trained in fighting. He often went out at night to go on these crazy and sometimes dangerous expeditions, often coming back home late at night and with a few cuts and scrapes. He got a costume before he started based on a recommendation from Lunar, and the media decided his name was Nebula. After he graduated highschool, he got a letter in the mail from the Survas Hero District, saying that he was selected to be a trainee hero in their new-and-improved training program. He was a bit hesitant at first given what he had already been up to, but he had kept his identity well-kept and no majorly identifying features exposed at all times. Scythe decided to accept the invitation and put in his two week notice for his job at the coffee shop, starting the training program just 3 weeks before his first semester at Survan University started. Needless to say, Scythe passed the trainee phase and became an official hero by winter break in his Freshman year of college, going by the name of Lux.

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Edit: Have the reference images I used! I think I'm going to try and do this every character, just to show what and where I got my ideas from! I used to find the outfit refs :D (the bottom two I did just use for colors tho tbh-)

Have a silly little guy, who just so happens to be mr Joel smallish beans from my CL!AU (conflicting lives au) :D

I have more PHIGHTING! art. and a new OC. and maybe an idea for a third OC. im sane i promise-

To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.

Conflicting Lives- Powers / Abilities

(Mob Hybrid) Abilities: Abilities associated with the mod someone is a hybrid of. For example, a spider hybrid would have multiple arms/appendages, and be able to climb up walls.

(Type) Magic: A magic that the user can control. With sufficient training, the user may be able to use their magic to branch into other types. I.e. a master proficiency in fire may allow the user to delve into light magic.

(Type) Manipulation: An object,  group of objects or element that the user can manipulate

(Type) Resistance: A resistance to a certain type of magic, object, or enchantment

(Item) Mastery: The master a user has over a certain type of weapon or armor, whether that be in wielding or forging

Aquatic: The user is able to breathe underwater, move faster in the water, and use the water to aid in their other abilities or team members

Combat: The level of combat someone possesses and eccles at. Close Range Combat is within 0-5 meters of the person. Mid-Range Combat is within 5-13 meters of the person. Far Range is over 13+ meters of the person.

Flight: ​​Any user with this ability either has wings as a part of their species, or can conjure wings with their magic abilities

Foresight: An ability where the user can predict what an opponent will do next or where they will be. If trained properly, this ability can also be used to predict what weapons will be needed or what information may be true, false, or come to light

Healing: The ability for a user to heal another individual's wounds. Can be trained to heal larger and more severe wounds

Hover / Glide: An ability that allows the user to hover or glide. This ability is most often founded in individuals with wings not large enough to fully take flight, as well s those of certain species hybrids

Illusions: This ability allows the user to create illusions for themselves and those around them. If trained and used properly, this ability can be focused onto one person in specific, or even on the users own person and seen by all others, protecting the users identity or distinguishing features.

Invisibility: An ability that allows the user to become invisible. This ability starts as just a certain portion of the body, but can be trained to make the entire body spanning anything in direct contact invisible as well. Users with high intelligence will be able to better their invisibility, but opponent users with high intelligence will also be able to determine where the user is while being invisible

Light: Users with this ability can make things out of any light particle around them, as well as create new light particles within certain parameters. Unless highly and rigorously trained, users with this ability will only be able to make small to medium sized weapons, and can provide a moderate amount of light in a dark environment. If the user does not know how to properly control this ability, they can set fires to things that would not normally be able to be set on fire, such as metals, due to the high concentration of the light particles. Light powers are also a higher form of fire powers, hence why users with this ability are able to have an extreme amount of control over their powers. Users with this ability also usually learn how to control fire abilities, even if they may not possess them, since many training techniques are similar for both types of magic.

Semi-Aquatic: Allows the user to breath longer than most in water, but not indefinitely. The user moves slightly faster in water than others, and applicable abilities are buffed slightly while the user is in the water. 

Shapeshifting: A user with the Shapeshift ability can change they way they look at any given time, and in any way that aligns with their other abilities and training.

Size Manipulation: The user is able to change the size of themselves at will and others, with proper training. The user can only change the size of others once they have a significant amount of training, and to be able to change the size of items on any person takes extra training as it.

Teleportation: ​​Having Teleportation allows a user to move their body to any position within 20m of their current position. This is the maximum distance that one can travel, and being able to travel that far with one teleport requires intense training over a large period of time. those naturally born as a species that has the teleportation ability are able to move anywhere between 2 and 7 meters away from their current position, but the longer they try to go, the harder the body strains.

Transformation: Transformation is often considered the first stage of the shapeshifting ability. Users that can transform your body are only able to do so in 5 or less different forms. These forms are often limited to the user's species. For example, a wolf hybrid will typically only be able to transform their body into a wolf, dog, or similar canine species. With enough training, someone who has the transformation can acquire the shapeshifting ability, though this often takes a very good number of years with very intense training.

You're never alone. It's never the answer.

Let's all be strong together

Conflicting Lives- Island and Cities

Welcome to the Island! (Name in progress)

This is where the entirety of Conflicting Lives will take place. There are 5 cities on the island: Hermiton, Cursia, Wynnra, Empyria, and Survas. Each city is moddled after a Minecraft SMP Server: Hermitcraft for Hermiton, CursedCraft for Cursia, Wynncraft for Wynnra, EmpiresSMP for Empyria, and Project:SSC for Survas. (The servers associated with Curisa and Survas are very small and private servers that I as the author are apart of, and will not go into much further information about, but they both mean something to me so I have decided to include them in the story.)

Hermiton is the largest city by both land and population, and this is where most of the Hermits live. The terrain is full of rivers and lakes, but many have adapted by building homes in the water as to get away from the otherwise crowded areas. The Hero Agency is also located in Hermiton, in the farthest northeast area near the borders of Empyria and Wynnra. Some of the top Heros are often stationed in Hermiton, most often living there as well.

Empyria is the second largest by population, but second smallest by land. The terrain is very flat, will smal crests of hills dotted around the more central and western areas. This is also where most Heros-In-Training go to better learn and train to be a full fledged hero, though there are training facilities in each city, with Empyrias being the largest. One of the largest reporting firms have originated from Empyria.

Wynnra is the middle ground of all cities by both population and land. The terrain is very hilly and sometimes a bit difficult to navigate, but overall very calm and open. There are schools for different ype of magic users, and usually they stick to themselves in their school (those with fire magic often go to school that teach about fire magic, not schools that teach about other magic). Most would classify Wynnra as class based in terms of who goes where at what times in their life, but to Wynnrans, they are simply sticking by what and who they know. Some of the most powerful and dangerous villains are rumored to be from Wynnra.

Cursia is the second largest city by land, but second smallest by population. This is due to its very steep and mountainous terrain. The elevation quickly rises to an uninhabitable level where the tallest of the mountains are, but even on some of the smaller ones it gets too cold for most people to be comfortable. Most live by the coasts or on the small islands to the north, however there has always been a large concentration of civilians in the sound eastern area along the hermiton border. The well-known Crusia University is also located at the southern coast, providing all kinds of study opportunities for all to experience.

Survas is the smallest of all the cities by both population and land. This is due to the lack of most natural recourse and the harsh living conditions. They have to get most of their recourses imported from the other four cities, and there tends to be a higher than ideal level of crime (most of which is simple petty theft). One of the largest reporting firms is located in Survas, and they uncover just about everything people wonder about the water-locked city, and more

Come and meet Scythe in all his various lives! Scythe Lux and Ender are from my Superhero fanfiction Conflicting Lives! Separate images are below the cut :D (Glitch TW I think) oh boy the tumblr quality crunch-

Scythe

Lux

Ender

Conflicting Lives- Update (NOT A CHAPTER)

So obviously this isn't a legitimate or normal chapter by basically any means. I wanted to give a little bit of an update as to the lack of really anything with this story, and some of the reasonings behind it

Why hasn’t anything been happening here on Tumblr, or over on A03 in regards to the story?

When I started writing this story, I was in my senior year of highschool. It was sort of a hyperfixation project, and by the time I started getting into writing chapter 9 (which I have some of, but not at all of), I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do to fill the time gap until the big fight with Martian/Martyn. Because of that, I ended up developing major writer's block and just a general creativity block in regards to this story, and haven’t been able to make any progress.

This led to me forgetting about it for a while. That is until recently. I am currently about a month into my first year of college, and one of my classes has sort of reminded me of this forgotten and neglected story with something we were assigned to make. As a result, i went back through my document I have of all of the chapters, and realized that though i like this story, I want to change it and make it a bit more accurate, both to my college life experience thus far, and just to make it a bit more accurate to what I want the story to be itself.

This doesn't mean I will be editing chapters in this project. Hell, I won't even be deleting this story itself in any way, just making a new one that will be more updated. Chapters 1-8 of Conflicting Lives will still be here, and will stay here. Instead, I think I'm going to be making a new story where all the changes will be made.

What changes are going to be made?

As time has passed, it feels odd to me to have one of the closest friends of my main persona, Scythe, being a large content creator. I don't really know how to describe it other than feeling very parasocial, and I've realized that I'm not very comfortable with it, let alone how the CCs would feel themselves if they ever stumbled across this.

Along with Scythe himself, he's recently gotten a major design change, and I want to implement that new design into the story. I had previously had him as a half human and half enderman hybrid, but have recently changed his design (with the help of a friend) to be more enderman focused in terms of physical looks. I haven't quite decided if he’s going to be completely enderman yet, but that's more character lore than it is story lore, so it may not even come into play.

Character designs in general are also going to probably change, as well as how I release them. If you’ve seen the tumblr side of things, you’ll know that I have previously used Gacha Club for showing my designs for each character. While I am still most likely going to do this, I want to try and incorporate a little bit of my own drawing skills back into it to make it feel a bit more mine in a sense. I keep learning more things about drawing and am still very much trying to find my own style, but with the help of others and just general experimentation, I feel a bit more confident in my ability to draw the designs how I see them in my mind. However, please do not get your hopes up at seeing no gacha at all. It is still going to be there, just hopefully not as prominent.

Not only character designs, but the powers, abilities, and species of most characters will also be changing as well. It feels a bit unbalanced right now looking at things, with some characters in my spreadsheet supposedly being super powerful or super weak, but being average or the other extreme. I want to kind of dumb it down a bit and bring it to basic powers as much as I can, just to make it a little bit easier for me when re-writing the story. I don't really plan on changing relationship dynamics much, but I can't guarantee anything. Honestly, go ahead and comment on what your favorite ships are of the characters so far and I can try and keep some of them in, or even add them if they weren't in before. If you do choose to do this though, be reminded that this story uses CCs from Hermitcraft, EmpiresSMP, and the Life Series. Any character you see that is not a CC from any of those servers/fandoms, please do not put into ships; those are the characters of myself and my close friends.

What is the new story going to be called?

I’m honestly not quite sure yet. I like the name Conflicting Lives for the essence of what the story itself is, but at the same time, a new name for a new and revitalized story seems right as well. If anything, I may just rename this one to have “old version” in the title or something similar, but i’ve still not completely decided. 

One thing that i can tell you for certain though is that When i do figure it out and post the first chapter of the re-written story, i will make a new chapter here, and a new post on tumblr with the link to the entire story so you can have that as well. When that will be though, I don't know. Admittedly, I'm still getting used to being at college and managing my time differently, so it’s probably going to be much longer in between chapters on the rewrite than there ever was on this one (not including this update). I will try to make some sort of schedule or dedication to working on the story, but again, I can't confirm anything right now.

I think that's all there is for now. Thank you all for being a part of this story as it is now, and I hope that, if you choose to, you enjoy the re-write or even re-reading this one!