Snippet Story #1

Guardian and Winged

Idea prompt: Codependency, reliance

Role Explaination

Role : Guardian

-Protect their charge regardless of the situation,  whether the charge is right or wrong

-Loyal

-Able to carry out daily routines for charge (eg. Dress them, carry them, write for them, read for them ect)

-Should not feel for anyone/anything other their charge

-Should never inflict harm intentionally upon charge

-Should never act in self interest, the main purpose they serve is to dedicate their entire being to their charge

Role: Winged

-Possess strengths that can alter the fabric of existence/ affect the universe in a large scale

-Possess wings that reveal their tier (hierarchy)

-Strongly depended on guardian for basic survival

-Able to kill other guardians

-Unable to exhibit self preservation abilities

-Holds strong influence over other winged (their cries will affect other winged within the 100m radius)

-Able to fly

-Can choose to leave their current guardian for INDEPENDENCE or for another guardian

-Usually involved in management of the wingless community (humans)

-Has the ability to grant their wings to a wingless (they become a guardian the moment they choose to)

World Building

Tier

6W - 1° tier usually affecting elements of highest priority

4W - 2° tier usually affecting element of moderate priority

2W - 3° tier usually affecting elements of limited priority

Tier system:

1) Winged original tier is generally assigned to them the moment they exist

2) Winged are able to climb tiers and increase the priority of their element via:

- increasing number of believer

- forging good relationship with INDEPENDENT

- saving other winged

- killing other winged

- taking up more/tougher management responsibilities

3) Winged may choose to give up their wings for a wingless

- They lose their elements

- Is immediately converted to a guardian

- Charges have are not told of this fact until they wish to give up their wings

- The wingless will gain the element and be reborned as a winged

- Usually a procedure to save a dying or dead wingless

INDEPENDENCE

Independence is a process usually shunned by the guardians but deeply respected by the wingless. It symbolizes the maturity of the winged as they have successfully completed their quest (reach ENLIGHTENMENT). As for the guardians, it suggest that they were incompetent in keeping their charge. At this point, the guardian can choose to be reborn as a wingless or join a reprogramming & redesignation process. Should the guardian choose to be reprogrammed & redesignated, they will be reprogrammed to shift their loyalty to a NG-Winged. After which they will be designated to the NG-Winged.

ENLIGHTENMENT

Legend/Fable: In the past, the winged were perfect. They possess all traits of a good being and they ruled the wingless with grace and equality. However, there was a beautiful princess that had the character that was said to rival that of a winged. She was grace, she was beauty, she was care, she was the perfect princess. Her people loved her as much as she loved her people. The winged took note of that and decided she will be able to bring more people happiness if she were to become one of the winged and hence took her away. The people were enraged and demanded for the princess to be returned. Many cried, many prayed, many cursed and the winged relented. They asked the princess to return to her people, to give up her wings. She refused. The people felt betrayed and they complained that the princess was blinded by the power of the winged being. A large scale event took place while they were still resentful and killed all the people. Their souls became a large mass of tainted emotions that the princess was assigned to resolve. She scattered the emotions and killed herself. The scattered emotions infected the winged beings, they became no longer perfect. Each haunted by their own taint.

Only when they reach ENLIGHTENMENT/ complete their quest will they be able to clear themselves of the taint and reach the highest tier and be rewarded with their own universe.