Oblivion 1 – Caged by The Sun. [1.0. Methuselah Family]
On November 26, 2024 By Fang Dokja In Arc 1.0. Methuselah Family
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This portion of the story contains intensely disturbing themes and imagery that may be unsettling to sensitive readers. It explores the concept of a dystopian world ruled by beings of incomprehensible cruelty and power, where suffering is perpetual and escape is impossible. The narrative is dark, filled with grotesque descriptions of violence, psychological torment, and the unyielding oppression of its characters.
Specific Trigger Warnings:
* Body Horror: Several instances of grotesque physical transformation, fusions of man and machine, and disturbing imagery involving the manipulation of human form.
* Mental and Emotional Abuse: The story explores psychological manipulation, torment, and the fear-induced obedience of characters who are subjected to constant power imbalances.
* Death and Erasure: Death is depicted in extreme forms, with some characters being erased from existence entirely, including the obliteration of memories.
* Surreal and Disturbing Imagery: Expect strange, disorienting landscapes and mind-bending concepts that may unsettle the reader’s sense of reality.
* Existential Dread and Cosmic Horror: The story delves into the unknown and the unknowable, with a looming sense of inevitable destruction and the breakdown of reality.
* Unrelenting Oppression: The characters live under the rule of seemingly omnipotent, tyrannical beings who exact control without mercy, leading to despair and hopelessness.
* Extreme Violence: The story includes graphic depictions of physical harm, such as mutilation, burns, and torture, as well as the haunting image of characters surviving cruel and inescapable pain.
* Psychological and Emotional Trauma: Characters experience prolonged mental and emotional suffering, exacerbated by their helplessness in a world where death is denied and survival is only further torment.
* Existential Despair and Hopelessness: The overwhelming theme of perpetual suffering and the inability to escape from torment, leading to a bleak and unrelenting sense of dread.
* Grim Depictions of Torture: Victims are not merely killed; they are tortured in ways that strip away their identities and sanity, remade into twisted versions of themselves as a form of punishment.
* Inescapable Oppression: The characters live under a tyrannical regime where they are forced into servitude, their autonomy destroyed by cruel and oppressive rulers, and every act of defiance is met with horrific retribution.
* Dark Humor and Cruelty: The characters use humor, but it is steeped in bitterness and cruelty, often making light of suffering, pain, and the tragic fates of others. This can be unsettling for readers sensitive to humor derived from trauma.
* Toxic Environment: The world itself is depicted as an ever-present threat, with dangerous terrain, poisoned air, and creatures that are hostile or indifferent to the suffering of the inhabitants. The landscape is described as both oppressive and alive in a threatening, hostile manner.
* Child Endangerment and Trauma: A child is mentioned in the narrative, with references to the disturbing reality of the environment they inhabit. There are hints at the emotional and physical toll that such an existence takes on the young, including disturbing comments about the child’s fate and what may have drawn the Methuselah’s attention.
* Cynical Commentary on Power and Survival: The narrative includes cynical reflections on power, survival, and the role of individuals in an oppressive system, with characters casually discussing their enslavement by the Methuselah and the grim reality of their existence under tyranny.
* Loss of Identity and Power: Characters who were once powerful—kings, healers, conquerors—reflect on the loss of their former identities, now reduced to mere shadows of their past selves. The theme of being stripped of personal power and reduced to a puppet of the Methuselah is pervasive.
* Cynicism and Cruelty: There are repeated instances of harsh, cynical humor as characters mock one another’s suffering and diminish the importance of life and death. Some characters display cruelty or indifference to the pain of others.
* Foul Language and Insults: Characters engage in harsh exchanges, including insults and demeaning language. The dialogue often includes crude or darkly humorous remarks about the suffering of others.
* Dehumanization: The theme of characters being reduced to mere “pawns” or “tools” is central. The Methuselah are portrayed as beings who manipulate others without regard for their humanity, stripping them of their dignity and purpose.
* Self-harm and suicidal themes: Characters engage in discussions of self-harm, attempts at suicide, and an inability to escape perpetual suffering, with some disturbing examples of failed attempts.
* Death and immortality: The concept of immortality is explored in a cruel and twisted manner, where characters cannot escape death, leading to a form of eternal suffering.
* Psychotic behavior and moral corruption: Some characters display deeply corrupt, psychotic, and sadistic behavior, and their actions are narrated in a disturbing manner.
* Morbidity and Disturbing Imagery: Frequent references to death, decayed and rotting flesh, and the consumption of repulsive, infested food.
* Substance Abuse: Consumption of foul, toxic liquids and food, as well as characters engaging in self-destructive behavior due to the harsh environment.
* Cultural and Physical Degradation: Characters are subjected to extreme physical and mental degradation in a dystopian, cruel world.
* Sexual Violence/Exploitation Themes: While not directly shown, there are undertones of dehumanization and exploitation of vulnerable characters.
* Mental illness: References to madness, broken minds, and the collapse of memory and identity.
* Cults and twisted belief systems: Characters exhibit warped or disillusioned views on life, existence, and purpose, which may be unsettling for some readers.
This section maintains the story’s unrelenting dark tone and should be approached with caution by those sensitive to themes of extreme violence, suffering, and psychological trauma. Readers who may be disturbed by casual cruelty, loss of identity, and the portrayal of a harsh, hostile world may find this content difficult to process. This content may be overwhelming to those who have experienced trauma or have sensitivities to themes of pain, death, and existential nihilism.
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Status: Draft #1
Last Edited: November 26, 2024
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The world beyond Eternity’s Edge was a place of fleeting empires and brittle thrones, a fragile stage where mortals and gods alike played their endless games of power and decay. But within the forbidden borders of Eternity’s Edge, a dominion cut off from the laws of nature and reason, ruled the Methuselah—a family whose very name sent shivers into the marrow of history. To speak of them was to invite ruin; to defy them was to embrace death. Yet even death, with all its certainty, was a mercy they rarely granted.
Eternity’s Edge did not belong to the world—it was a splinter of reality severed by the Methuselah themselves, carved with unnatural precision from the veins of existence. Time was warped here, folded and twisted upon itself, making days feel like centuries and centuries pass in the blink of an eye. The air was thick with a metallic tang, as if the space itself bled under the weight of its masters. The sky hung low, bruised and scarred, streaked with hues of decay. The land was a mosaic of grotesque beauty, where jagged blackened spires stabbed upward and rivers of molten silver carved impossible paths through endless, screaming forests.
Beneath this corrupted sky stood the Sanctuary—a sprawling citadel of obsidian and bone, its architecture an affront to logic. Towers spiraled in unnatural geometries, doors opened into abysses, and corridors stretched into the infinite. The walls seemed to breathe, whispering secrets too terrible to name, and the floors pulsed with a rhythm like the beating of a heart. This was the home of the Methuselah, a dynasty of unrelenting chaos and unmatched perfection.
No one outside the Edge knew their true faces. To most, they were nightmares given form, pale phantoms cloaked in shadow. Their eyes, it was said, glowed like dying stars, burning with the cold intelligence of beings who had seen too much, lived too long. They were beyond age, beyond the limits of flesh and bone. Some whispered they had transcended humanity entirely, their blood replaced by something darker and more potent, their bodies enhanced with horrors too intricate to comprehend. They moved like wraiths, their precision sharper than any blade, their strikes inevitable. To see a Methuselah was to glimpse the perfect predator.
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