Icta: Story

After Lynux created Ictyfs, they waited until they deemed the people intelligent enough, and came to the people after staying hidden for so long, using their position to be worshipped as "God." There are, of course, people with different beliefs, but it’s the most dominant belief system/religion on the entire planet of Icta. How did they feel about being sent to die by God? Well, not happy for sure. But was there anything they could do? Find a purpose for their skills, which meant ruling over the people as "God," as he should've been. He suggested a kingdom be built, and the people praised his idea and took to work. He appointed himself (to the acceptence of the people) as the theocratic god and appointed people below them to assist in anything he needed assistance with. They concluded being exposed to danger so openly wasn't the greatest idea, so he faked his death. The religion obviously stayed flowing, maybe even more so than it had been before. Lynux took absolute power in secret and has been its true dictator since, while the people believed he had really died, and they believed his subordinates had become the managers of the kingdom in his place. The titular royals get orders from Lynux, although they believe the person telling them to act was a person closest to them who's whereabouts they believe are purposefully kept hidden for privacy and safety. This concept is a little convoluted so here's a visualization:

Lynux has a very deep oath to keep this kingdom/nation standing for ambiguous reasons. It's partly selfish, thinking he deserves to be the rightful ruler of it and will do anything to keep his position (and I mean anything, as you'll see) and ensuring loyalties regularly, trying to make sure this kindgom wont fall apart like his divinity did from one mistake. (He is not extremely perfect at this, to note ... He just covers his tracks very well when things go south.) He keeps himself justified by having the sentiment that he's doing this for everyone in the kingdom, however slightly knowing it's not the case, and not caring. He mostly tries to ignore any emotion that came with mortality, and wants to return to godhood where he didn't have such a thing. The funny personality isn't all fake, it's a good stress reliever after working all day, but mostly he's trying to force the allegience to trust him by not seeming like a threat sometimes. He is physically feeble, but has a strong suit with weapons and the like.

The kingdom is considered a sacrosanct spot because it's where he "died" and religious people tend to gather there (so if someone was born there, they are probably religious.) The religion continues to spread more because of the abundance of trade within the country. It's a wealthy place and has exports of high value. Lynux dislikes working with finances and such, but understands it well because he had to, however Locus handles finances as the treasurer.

Fun fact!: The nation is about the size of Russia, if not a little bit bigger.

Locus is the treasurer of the allegiance. Their actual name is Iko (given the name Locus by Lynux to exert influence upon joining the allegience.) They were a high performer in mathematics, and lived in a small, more rural area with their parents until they were requested to live and work in the main kingdom to join Adsum Absconditus, a hidden allegiance only people trusted by Lynux are invited to join. They were the first in the group, joining at about 24 years old ... Locus wasn't really that religious, but at least believed Lynux was god. Locus isn't necessarily religious at all anymore. Locus was raised around good influences and has a nice and passive personality, trying to respect others as much as they can and try to be a good person all the time (which makes negative emotions like anger and hate not unbeknownst to them but just quite frightening to work out because they don't want to wish ill will on anyone because they want to be a good person.) They were taught to speak their mind when necessary, which goes against their ideals a little bit ("Will this harm our relationship if I talk about it? Would that make me a bad person?") so they have to shut their mind out when they truly know its necessary to speak up about something. They aren't weak though, and are good at physical labor due to living in a farm. Them and Lynux would often have deep conversations between them when they were the only people in the allegience, so others tend to notice a slight connection that goes a little bit deeper than surface level acquaintances, making any negative emotions toward him a bit frustrating for many reasons (see prev.)

A character we have to introduce to introduce Luns is Inajln. Inajln is a highly regarded priest who has a family history of church services. They took this role and were better at it than anyone expected; with exceptional public speaking skills, and the high standards of the public, they do quite well, even if there is some outrage against what they say now and then ... Lynux contacted Inaljn through a letter disguised as "The Lord's Closest" (see prev.) and accidentally slips past this persona, to which Inaljn asks about it, Lynux teasingly doesn't deny he is who he is, and Inaljn wants proof that he could actually be God. Lynux and Inaljn develop a passive aggressive rivalry (Lynux telling Inaljn what to say in speeches, Inaljn slightly hinting at a contradiction in the speech as his part in the rivalry, and so on ...) and Inaljn now has an idea to prove if this is true or not. nd so, as the years went by, Inaljn reccomended Filyn (later named Luns by Lynux) to Lynux, since Filyn was a member of the church they were in Inaljn wished he could see what happened to Filyn after reccomending them. After Locus joined the allegience, Lynux considered this and sent a letter to Filyn.

And that leads to now Luns. Luns's real name is Filyn (named Luns by Lynux for the same reasons as Locus.) They were very religious, growing up in a household centered around religion, and it was engrained in them from an extremely young age. They lived in the main capital/kingdom of the nation. They went to the church with their family, and while their family was emotionally abusive, the church and more importantly God (Lynux) were a source of refuge to them. They have a passion for writing, having visited the library besides their church time during the day, finding poetry to be a talent of theirs, and going to the library to study poetry and attempt to write their own. Luns can write other types of things as well (essays, stories, etc.,) but prefers poetry. Lynux was reccomended them by Inaljn, saw this skill and opportunity, and reached out to Luns to make them join the allegience. Luns moved there (gratefully) at about age 23. Luns was put into the role of writer for the news and information that Lynux wanted to push to the public that he couldn't get through Inaljn. Luns was extremely shocked at the prescence and even sight of lynux because of their religious upbringing and was initially extremely cooperative and gullible at first. Over time, Luns developed a matter-of-fact personality, and can recite quite a bit of information due to reading a lot of books about a variety of subjects, even if they liked writing the most. They find it hard to trust others so they have a hard shell to acquaintances, but over time Locus gained their trust.

When Luns joined a little after them, they shared the assassin role between each other per Lynux's orders soon after. Luns was very aversed to the violence of assassination-- Luns had never handled a gun, let alone engage in harming someone, but stayed quiet and followed orders because they believed they should be grateful for even being there in the first place, and an order from God was probably a justified one in their eyes. Locus was aversed to this and spoke out against it, to which Lynux decided that he needed to test Locus's loyalty to the allegience if he was really going to have them in the group. If Locus failed this test, they would be killed for knowing too much.

Around this time, Lynux lost a military general with subpar candidates for the job, so knowing that Locus was skilled in physical labor, they made them take up the role, promising to let them out of the job when a new candidate was ready or found. This made Locus more accustomed to violence and made the shared assasssin job a bit easier, but being the general for the seemingly few years they were came with PTSD and inner anger that they have to hold back and struggle against to stay passive. This is not helped by what is about to happen. Lynux is allied with a struggling nation, which the nation they’re allied with (which Locus’s parents had moved to shortly after Locus had gone to the kingdom) had citizens held hostage by the other nation Lynux’s military was fighting. So their parents were held hostage, and Lynux hadn’t planned to interfere since they’d be released anyway if they defeated the other nation.

There, all the other captives were released, and Locus reunited with their parents. It's important I provide the fact that the allegience follows a strict set of rules, which include heavily limited contact with the outside world outside of the Palace the allegience resides in to avoid spilling the secret and harming Lynux's sovereign power ... if his power was ever to be greatly threatened, he would execute the person who caused it. This makes Lynux show up to the reunion between Locus and their parents, revealing the secret to their parents by showing himself to them on purpose. Their parents sit stunned and shocked while Lynux speaks to Locus. Lynux pulls out a gun and holds Locus to gunpoint, and as a testament to their loyalty (and heavy suspicions that Locus would reveal everything he'd been trying to keep secret) Lynux (still holding them at gunpoint) gives them a (seperate) gun, and asked them to to either save their parents but in turn Lynux would kill everyone on the planet, or save everyone on the planet but Locus kill their parents themselves. Locus, caught between the weight of their decisions and extreme stress, chose to kill their parents. And with extreme reluctance and regret, Locus shoots their parents dead.

(It's important I say that Lynux does not have his divine powers anymore, and killing everyone on earth would not be possible. He's bluffing here; if Lynux chose to not kill their parents, he would've just shot them and their parents to death and moved on.)

Locus is traumatized by this and in shambles after this. They can't leave this place. They have no immediate friends or family left. Lynux tells them something like,"Hey so... this is why you had to do that, I'm really sorry do you want like a hug or something I'll do whatever it takes to make you feel better" obviously bullshitting but Locus doesn't realize and since they have nowhere and noone else to go to (besides Luns, which they werent really close with at all at this time) they confide in them. Locus has so much anger in them from this incident (mainly directed at Lynux) that they're simultaneously trying to justify what he coerced them into doing, and also fighting that idea. It's mental dissonance to them, and doesn't help with the anger they have to fight back to stay calm around others at times.

Locus develops a greater taste for alchohol for the first time around this period. And so does Luns, because they can't handle the extreme guilt and remorse of killing other people, like Locus. They attempt to emotionally reserve themselves intentionally to try and disconnect from the guilt and believe its right, in the name of god and everything ... but they find themselves disconnecting from their religion, and not feeling the protection of Lynux/God like they used to; not feeling the comfort or the warmth from it anymore and feeling exposed to the effects of their family and the danger of other people and even Lynux.. This startles them once they realize, and the guilt becomes overwhelming. They risk the chance, spilling their feelings to Locus one afternoon in Locus's room. From that point on, Locus tries to help Luns through everything. It takes a while for Luns to get comfortable telling Locus everything, but they start to equally confide in each other more over time, Locus talking through things as well. Things aren't easy, and sometimes talking through things leads to conflicts between them. But they have nowhere else to go, so it usually ends up resolving. From Locus, Luns learned what it was like to have someone actually care for you in a deeper way than a fleeting friendship, and how to work out what they were feeling. From Luns, Locus learned what it was like to know someone with a vastly different life and perspective than them, and how to help others in genuine, meaningful ways. Lynux gets suspicious of their absence during some nights, and Luns grows to despise their job over time.

At one point, after the decade+ that Luns and Locus have spent in the allegience (they are now in their early 30s, were drafted in their early 20s) Locus decides to tell Luns about their idea to kill Lynux. Before confiding in Locus, Luns sometimes they had no option but to confide in Lynux, making them sympathize subconciously at times; Luns partly feels like it would be a mistake to get rid of Lynux because of their competency. This makes Luns aversed to the idea at first, but their growing spite for their job and the gradual dissolve of their devoutly religious lens through which they viewed life, they eventually told Locus they could do what they wanted, not outright saying, "Sure, I would love to kill god!" because it would feel awful and violent. Locus has grown more accustomed to the violence over time, but Luns has grown more disgusted towards it over time.

(From here on out, the story is relatively unclear and is still subject to change :) )

It's important I note that the following sentence has mentions of "everyone" and "someone" which is referring to the allegience, and I refer to them this way because I plan to have more characters in the allegience besides Luns and Locus in the future. If this is the case and more members are made, that means Luns and Locus spread the message to the others.

This all coalesces eventually to everyone in Adsum Absconditus setting up the planned murder of God. They are sick of the atrocities and decide to end the cause of everything. They don't know what he's capable of (not knowing he's mortal) and Lynux catches on to a little bit of this plan, but doesn't end up figuring it out due to a heavy workload he already has. Locus says they want to talk with them about something privately. In the room, they talk, and Locus finally does lecture them about how they feel. Lynux responds by threatening Locus and injuring them with a weapon from the holster under his gown (since they were extremely suspicious before even entering), but is stopped by someone before they could do anything serious. Everyone in the allegiance comes out of hiding armed, and in order to prevent Lynux from getting away, they amputate his right wing with a sharp weapon. Everyone listed their grievances with him, and he made it clear he had no intention to change the way things were, since his methods were ideal to him.

They take him, in pain, out to the large podium in front of the Palace, and ask all citizens of the kingdom to gather. (It’s also worth noting that people in high positions of power have special insignias for their roles. For the allegiance, they have the highest ranking insignia, so they are respected the moment this insignia is seen without regard for past impressions.) Luns is the one who announces everything he’s done and everything that he was behind to the public. They let Lynux speak for himself and threaten to shoot if he lies, to which he tries to bend the rule by not lying about things everyone knows, but covering up the truth that everyone else doesn't know, and justifying himself because, "He was doing it to keep the keep the kingdom from collapsing." He also calls the allegience membres by their real names for the first time as they decide his fate. This makes it harder for the members to kill them.

And this is where the story can take two routes depending on my decision of how this story ends. In one end, they successfully kill Lynux and the kingdom is left in a state of confusion on what to do next, who to rule the kingdom, if financial situations will change, etc. Now, I'm not aversed to that route entirely, but it ends too quickly to make me satisfied. That being said, I'll describe what happens in the 2nd end because it'll probably be where I go with this.

Lynux ends up finding a weapon of some kind and taking back his authority over the others, threatening that they don't know what he can do since he is a god (he's lying, as I've mentioned, he can't actually do anything ...) something happens and the kingdom enthusiastically accepts him back as a ruler, making Lynux more vain than he already was, ignoring any past notion he had about possibly dying in a position of power. He becomes a bit more reckless now that he's not hidden anymore, and his conceit grows by the day.

And that's about all I have for now! Hopefully that made even a bit of sense, lol.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

Back