There is no read more option for asks. Alas.
It’s a little difficult to begin describing this thing, because it was built in a different way than it should be presented.
It’s a story I made with a friend in the same way that I made the Chaos Knot story - it was a kind of role play, art and text adventure that was fun to do since we both liked drawing and making comics and writing stories and also super intense and incredibly irrational drama. (That last part we have since dialed back on, but at the time, we were like 14.)
LOFP should not really be the name of the story, but it’s as close to one as it has. It once stood for something, maybe still does, but it’s not really relevant.
The basic idea was that there was a ‘box’ that sort of sat in some folds in space and time and connected a bunch of worlds that should really not be connected. The box itself is pretty neutral - it’s covered in blue grey tiles and is kind of bland, fuzzy and featureless on its own, but it is affected by the places it becomes connected to. So, there are a few trees that sprang up in the tiles when the box connected to a rainforest that housed a race of giant pheonixes, there’s a weird curtained warpspace where it connected to a demon realm, a portal to a hole in a vampire castle, there’s a river and a swimming pool… The biggest connection is a tavern that is owned by a guy who owns an auto body shop near a place in his own world where the box connected. So he goes back and forth, long with a few other people.
People being the biggest thing here. The box is full of a super patchwork of people - human people from a world a lot like ours, demons, fairies, dragon people, fish people, elves, etc etc etc. Most people sort of show up there, and they get stuck.
Yo-Yo was born and raised there. She hatched ‘in the backyard of the treehouse’, which you’ll just have to accept is a thing if I’m ever to get to the end of this explanation. Her ‘parents’ were a really bizarre collection of people rather than committed ‘actually fit for parenting’ people, and they were all super caught up in their own drama, so Yo-Yo did a lot of stuff on her own. (In this way, Yo-Yo and Banshee have an incredibly similar origin story, which is part of their weird draw to each other later.) She has two siblings, but she doesn’t really become attached to them in any significant way since they come along much later.
Yo-Yo was born with a ton of magical power, and was really drawn to one the phoenix guys who lived in the treehouse with her, Angkor. He was a dark phoenix (there’s ones for many elements, because that’s how they roll in this world, I guess), which made him a bit unstable and dangerous. She developed an obsession with him, and he was just sort of intrigued by her. They had a very strange relationship that was quite heated - lots of interest and almost passion, but lots of hostility and lashing out too - and Yo-Yo stole a few of his feathers to amplify her magic. She decorated her hair and clothes with them. The power in them combined with her obsession with him fused them to her body and they’re now corrupting her from the inside out. She’s growing feathers of her own now.
She did a bunch of awful and manipulative things with the feather, including ruining the childhoods of her siblings and Angkor’s son. She vanished for a long time from the LOFP box itself and people just assumed she’d died.
Meanwhile, she’s met Banshee~
The way the story of the LOFP itself is framed now, Yo-Yo might even be a minor character, but she’ll be half of a fucked up duo while she and Banshee travel together - with a relationship not unlike what she had with Angkor, even! Yo-Yo’s magic and her rage that Banshee has such control over herself makes her objective getting Banshee to accept a feather and become corrupted too. Banshee would normally be on board, but finds Yo-Yo’s magic having its origins in romantic obsession to be really disgusting. So they sort of have to work together while they travel. Meanwhile, Yo-Yo is trying to sink Banshee into the dark with her.
This is Yo-Yo and Angkor, after I gave Angkor a redesign from his early 2000’s self. This is before said redesign.
Banshee and Yo-Yo: Yo-Yo and Banshee on a better, albeit bloody, day. Annnd same story here.
Yo-Yo does, usually, show physical signs of corruption or decay.
She, like Banshee, has her own sense of what is moral or right, and is absolutely not afraid to take what she wants or needs. She’s selfish and envious, and that feeds a lot of her anger. She’s in a constant feedback loop of rage feeding the dark-amplifying feathers which then encourage and feed more anger. She’s dramatic and mindlessly protective of things and people she believes are hers in some way. Despite ignoring them most of her life, at one point, Yo-Yo becomes mindlessly focused on ‘obtaining’ her sister Kira, and Banshee has to stop Yo-Yo from blowing up a whole world once Kira is removed from it. (Banshee teams up with the vampire Reed, and his university study buddy who does not know Reed is a vampire and thinks this is all batshit, in order to do this.) There is some aftermath of this doodled poorly here.
She does still have the capacity to do things for non-hideous reasons, and is still rational, but it’s a bit flickery. And, even when she is being rational, many people wouldn’t agree with her logic. She and Banshee either fit together perfectly, or they’re a screeching car wreck, there’s really not a lot of middle ground.
BOY AREN’T YOU GLAD YOU ASKED ABOUT THIS.
