The Creation of the Faerie Apocalypse Setting

[aldersprig]

I've always been a fan of the post-apoc genre. There's something cool about rebuilding a world - being forced to rebuild a world - while having some knowledge and relics of the world before.

(There's something even cooler about the concept of the post-apoc cargo cult, worshiping relics of a world you know longer know or remember. But that's a story for another day.)

Add to that fascination a Cold-War childhood with the nebulous sense that the end is nigh, and a fondness for those comic takedowns that point out that damage done by super-human fights (Kingdom Come comes to mind), and you have the beginnings of the Faerie Apocalypse setting.

What happens when the monsters fighting to take over the world and the heroes fighting to save it are the same sort of being? What happens when their fights destroy as much property as the "bad guys" originally did on their own? What happens, in short, when hundreds of super-powered people suddenly start fighting over territory occupied by millions of humans?

What happens is an apocalypse, a faerie apocalypse. And it is in the middle of that mess that "Monster Godmother," my short story, takes place.

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Comments

[kuro_neko00]

Your post here reminded me of another web serial fiction you may enjoy, if you haven't already read it. Nothing has grabbed me as hard since Whateley, it is truly spectacular. The setting is similar to Whateley, with a grounded somewhat realistic superhero/villain set up. It's long too. About twenty average sized books (~2.5 million words). Where it differs from Whateley is first, that was written by one author, so it's not as rambling or redundant, second, it's more focused since it doesn't have the LBGTI issues to dilute the waters, and third, it's darker. To clarify that last one, it's not full on grim-dark. No dystopia or downer endings or anything like that. But people die. A lot of people die. Shit happens and the good guys don't always win the day. And even when they do win the day, the things they're fighting and the stakes they're fighting for means that there are consequences. It's often hard to even tell who the good guys are. Kinda Song of Ice and Fire if you want a darkness meter stick. I don't see that anyone that read/wrote Addergoole would be bothered by the darkness in this. I've read comments that the first arc or so isn't as good as the rest. I didn't personally find that, but if you do, believe me when I say it gets better, much better. It will make you laugh and cry, feel joy and heartbreak. It's called Worm, and the link is here:
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/
Enjoy.

Meow,
Kuro_Neko