In a void between worlds two beings of imiterial form coalesced their energy together with the use of power freely granted from others.
With it, a hole between the planes of existence was formed and traversed by both. The beings whose true forms were unknowable to man, but could be best described as white mist to the mortal eye, reached through the formed hole. Then, with care, they searched and sorted through the countless soaps in the new plane they came.
Each of them lay dormant for an amount of time that those beneath certain dimensions of existence would find contradictory. After what felt like eons, or maybe centuries, or perhaps just a few seconds of careful, reckless, random, and somehow precise selection. They carefully plucked a single individual from the sleeping sea of souls. Each of them was different: some were pure white, others pitch black, and a few were golden or rainbow-colored. This one selected soup however was clear at its center and seemed to adapt to the misty limbs that lifted it through the ethereal portal.
The two beings holding the simple yet infinitely complex soul did the conceptual equivalent of a simultaneous nod and saying.
"This one right here is the shit were looking for."
The twin beings then shifted from misty form to something new. Something they believed would be something the soul would be able to accept and understand as real. Both forms of celestial white mist changed into humanoid shapes before adding aesthetic changes.
The two did not typically enjoy depicting themselves in the third person dimension but it was not uncomfortable. Rather they simply preferred higher levels of existence as most beings of their kind did.
One of two took on the traits of a female figure and assumed the correct pronouns and organs to match its new form. It was then edited based on what brought it most joy and accuracy to its former state of being. She had a fading river of long pale white hair and pure shining white eyes with no pupils.
Her face lacked a mouth but had the vague outline of a nose. Her body was voluptuous and just as white with paneled lines that resembled mechanical panels. Her ears carried the texture of normal human flesh but just as pale white as her new skin.
From her ears below dangled two silver cross earrings that flickered in and out of existence. Then white angelic feathered wings sprouted from her back and fanned out shimmering with shifting tiny white stars. Next two great horns burst forth from her head demonic but still the clean white she had themed her new body around.
Lastly, above her head a glowing white halo appeared in an instant and shone, contradicting holiness. In the same instant being her back was a thundering spark of conceptual storm burst forth with electricity that crackled and hissed in the void. Then flaming white snowflakes shed down her legs. Two more manifested in her palms and she considered her new form complete.
Meanwhile the other being decided on the shape of a male to balance out his counterpart's new flesh. His new form was rippled with muscles and its skin was caucasian in skin tone. It sprouted hair white and spiked glowing with energy in the style of his favorite anime character. His eyes two were nothing but clear glowing reflections of white like his counterparts' new ones.
Over his new perfected male form, he manifested a coat of celestial energy in the form of an aurora borealis. His hands glowed almost pure white with the power as it linked off of him like steamy mist. From his body, small stars started to shed upwards in his new aura and hung in the air.
Then shooting stars started to appear in it and planets began to form in the void out of seemingly nothing. Before white clothes covered his body. The atop them white gold and blue armor manifested but didn't cover his biceps or triceps. The armor became more of a mix of cloth and the back half slowly faded out of existence. A slight breeze seemingly from nowhere started blowing that made his clothes ripple with imaginary wind.
That same wind blew over the female of the two and they faced each other quickly analyzing the other's new form. Looking her up and down the male spoke first.
"Uh, dear sister you appear to have forgotten a few key pieces." Gesturing to her new body with a single glowing hand.
"Hmm? Did I?" She looked down at her new self with puzzlement and she returned her gaze to her brother. He sighed and faced palm with one hand, the other shining opendage lightly pinched and rolled the magical fabric on his new body.
"Ah, right clothing! How could I have forgotten? Silly me I guess!" She said voice filled with joy and fading laughter at her own whimsical behavior. She waved both her hands over herself and like a waterfall a pure white dress appeared over her naked body. Then a few deeper details appeared to hold the new outfit together.
"Right all done! So what do you think?" She stuck a pose hiding to impress her sibling. The bother hummed and looked her up and down once more one hand caressing his chin in contemplation. Then after a few moments, he nodded and spoke.
"Its nice I like it a bit too much white though maybe add a bit of color. Make it quick though we have lots of viewers waiting for us." He said calmly she nodded with enthusiasm and shifted her colors ever so slightly. Her brother gave her an approving thumbs up and the two turned their attention back to the task at hand. Gesturing with one hand each the two tore open another whole into a new universe and located through taking the dormant soul with them.
Now in a brand new space floating just above the atmosphere of a relatively brand new world, the two began to awaken the spirit. It glowed then turned a shining white before shifting slowly between all the colors of the rainbow. It shifted first bulging its limbs then the basic features of a male human body as it slowly returned from its comatose state.
Then it separated itself from the ego death it had undergone and slowly reawakened its consciousness. His spirit eyes slowly blinked open and he looked up at the two celestial beings above him. He rubbed his eyes and blinked a few times before pinching himself. He even did a double-take just to be sure.
"Hiiiiiii" The sister said in high pitched voice waving one arm in greeting to the little spirit, whom they both now realised was roughly only a hundredth of their size. The brother just crossed his arms and smiled before nodding in greeting.
"What. The. Fuck?" The spirit said absolutely flabbergasted at the situation he has found himself in. While his jaw was hanging on the perververbial floor he took the time to analyze the two beings floating before him.
[Image of the brother here]
[Image of the sister here]
"I know you must be a bit confused so please take your time processing this. Time is frozen here anyway so we don't need to start right away." Said the brother to the little soul whibsuprisingly adapted rather quickly and after only a few perceived seconds of time managed to calm down and look up at them.
"Umm so not to be rude but… what the hell is going on?" He said with a slight hint of panic in his voice. The brother cleared his throat and answered the soul's question.
"You my friend are dead and this place is a universe you have been chosen to reincarnate in." He said waving to the new space around them. The soul paused at that and took a sweeping look around space before his eyes caught on the planet below. He couldn't make out all of the shapes but it looked vaguely like Earth.
"Its beautiful… but why me? For what purpose?" The soul questioned confused at his situation. The beauty of the planet below almost enraptured him but there were more important things on his mind.
"So that's the thing we kinda chose you because your soul suits this world like reeeeaaaalllllyyyy well you know. Plus it's super adaptive as well." In fact, that's part of the reason why he wasn't screaming in outright terror the entire time. Still the sister's lax and childishly playful attitude.
"What?" The soul said perplexed at the sister's words. He looked down at his own glowing form trying to comprehend all of the new information that had been flying at him. He took a deep breath or whatever qualified as one for a spirit body closed his eyes, and counted to ten. Then he opened them ready to take things and stride and rose higher to meet the two beings at eye level.
"Yeah so basically we kinda already had a protagonist picked out but we'll hmmmm how do I explain this. Hmmm ah ok so think of this whole world as one big game slash TV show right? Well, there are players and main characters, and sponsors. They can kinda spend some points or subs essentially to change and influence stuff or tell people stuff or push people to do stuff or-" She bubbled out the rant in what felt like one breath.
"Ahem, dear sister your ranting again." Her brother interrupted her before she could talk her new friend's ear off.
"Right! Sorry. Ahem so uhh basically the genre of this world is basically good vs evil vs neutral with some heroes vs villains vs monsters stuff as well. But more than that we needed a male harem protagonist for this one but somebody.… not naming names but somebody. Used like a fuuuuuuck ton of points to turn our male harem protagonist into a girl and make it a permanent change." She said animatedly gesturing leaving sparks of conceptual energy all over the place. One even touched the soul and seemed to be absorbed subconsciously into the soul. The brother noticed this but said nothing about it perhaps because he thought it would be more interesting, or maybe he just didn't care enough about his sister's sloppiness. He decided to take over the explanation and spoke in that rumbling voice of his.
"Its like turning your opponent's king piece into a queen piece. Can't exactly play chess if you don't have one. Frankly, it was a master stroke of a move if you ask me. But someone else came up with a near-perfect counter move. They used their points to make you their twin brother. Very helpful. So now we can continue and you can ask any questions you may have." He said his eyes seemed to pass the soul and into some vibrating space in the distant psycho fractal darkness beyond this universe where there was only the laughter of thirsting gods waiting for a new game to begin. He blinked and shifted part of his focus back down to the soul.
"Okay… so I'm what? The protagonist of this new world? Also, I don't think I'm very suited to be a harem protagonist I mean Ive never even held hands with a girl before." Flustered the waved his hands around at the grand being's words. Luckily for him, it seemed spirits can't blush but if they could he would be.
"Well protagonist is kinda accurate you will have a degree of plot armor in the beginning since interference during the early rounds is limited and prohibited in certain ways. As for your experience with women don't worry it'll be easy. For the most part at least. I know you're from that group of twenty-year-olds who have already accepted they'll die alone because they've never dated before but trust me. This world, this whole universe works on a… different logic than yours did. It'll be like taking candy from a baby so be confident." He said smiling a bit and glancing down at the blue world below. The soul turned to follow his gaze ad below he saw what he thought was Japan only the shape was a little different and it seemed to have more islands. He couldn't remember the shape of the Philippines but he wasn't quite sure it was that either.
"Plus you never awakened your true nature in your last life!" The sister burst out suddenly making the soul jolt in surprise. He turned around only to see her covering her non-existent mouth. Her brother turned to look at her with a deadpan expression.
"Right! Sorry! Continue." She said covering her face once more. The brother sighed and turned back to the soul waving his hand so some space debris didn't get between the two of them. That's when he realized that the soul was subconsciously drinking in bits and pieces of his own aura as well. Once again he said nothing. Was it cheating? Not really although it was certainly blurring the lines a little. Still what self-respecting high-dimensional being would want to invest a little in their own odds? He still needed the kid to make it far enough for him to win big.
"Well anyway, that's the gist of things any more questions?" He said crossing his arms once more this time his voice was slightly less enthusiastic, although it still had some mirth to it. The soul hummed crossed his arms and brought up one hand to caress his chin.
"Yeah so like is this a world I know or like am I going in blind?" He said letting his arms unfold. If he was going to play this game the little soul knew he was going to need every single advantage he could get. Information was only the first step something he would have to spend quite some time gathering at some point. Better to start now than wait for later.
"Yes and no. It's like a mix and mash of stuff but mostly revolves around one thing. So some rules or characters will be different. Some characters will be of different genders or have different powers. Some will be stronger or weaker than their canon selves are some may not even exist at all. Haha, one guy even spent some points to make futas a thing but then another person spent a bunch to reverse it." The brother said chuckling at the deranged ideas of some of their viewers. Not that he minded all that much as sex in the third dimension was relatively tame by his eldritch standards no matter how many genders were involved.
'Ahh so that's why they brought me.' The soul thought. 'They tried to fix their protagonist first but someone blocked their move. Well, I suppose that makes things a bit more interesting. I wonder what would have happened if they hadn't needed to choose me.' It didn't matter now he supposed after all waking up in space floating hundreds of miles above the atmosphere was enough to worry about for now.
"Yeah well, I don't think I'm emotionally prepared for that so umm yeah. Also, will you guys be watching me, like the whole time, or what?" He said trying to sound as casual as possible. He didn't know if these creatures could read his mind best not let it wonder to far for now.
"No the 'viewers' won't be watching you in the conventional sense of things. In truth, mortal minds struggle with the concept of how it works. Several will be betting on you though. So don't fuck up my parlay." He explained pointing and narrowing his eyes at the soul at the end. The soul nodded rapidly and decided that moving forward was the best option so he came up with his next question as quickly as possible.
"Ok so umm… I'm I like supposed to be good or evil or what?" He quickly questioned quickly diverting the attention back to the matter of most relevance to him.
"That my dear friend is up to you." Said the brother now returning to his previous casual air. He shifted his hands to his hips as he stared at the tiny mortal.
"Hmm, I see… I guess I'll go with good then it sounds a bit easier to make that choice now." The soul said returning to his more closed-off posture.
"Hahaha! Fucking called it!" The brother laughed and the sister huffed and pouted.
"Aw damn it fine." The big brother held out his palm to his twin and summoned some moats of light before childishly slapping them into his brother's open hand. The shockwave alone caused the soul to fly back several feet. The big brother laughed again and took a small portion of the light that the soul now realized looked like small stars. Then he turned them into a strange screen.
"Hehehe here you go, kid a token of my thanks." The casually tossed the panel of light precisely into the young soul's chest.
"What's this?" He looked down at his chest where the panel shifted into a strange rune etched into his soul form. He ran his ethereal hands along it but it didn't make a change to the rune so he decided to address it later.
"Gift a system of sorts with its own rather… helpful AI. More than that you wouldn't. Have had one if I didn't just give one to you. Things like this will happen from time to time." The brother said as he shifted position to face the planet below. He held his hands behind his back and his aura shifted to more blue and green with less red.
"Things like what?" The soul asked, following the brother with his eyes. Strangely, he was actually struggling to think about what was going on around him. Instead, he was already thinking of all the things he wanted to do in his new life. He wanted to take the time to master several skills from dancing to music to sports and all the other things he missed out on in his last life.
"You might receive quests, or gifts, or rewards, or whatever. Moreover, all of those things will be optional to you, and just because you're the 'main character' doesn't mean you're everybody's favorite character." The brother explained using a hand to knock aside a stray satellite from hitting his face. The object drifted away and would later fall back into the atmosphere crashing down into the vibrant ocean crushing part of a coral reef.
"I see. Is there anything else I should know?" The soul asked him he couldn't think of anything else to ask but he doubted that they would directly answer his biggest questions. He actually had a strange feeling harm would come to him if he asked who he was going to be or for more details of what the world would be like.
"Hmm, I can't really think of anything off the top of my head but-" The brother was cut off by his twin having another outburst scattering burning snowflakes and freezing sparks everywhere.
"Oooh I have one! If you get one for all try not lose it! Also, try not to die too quickly!" The sister interrupted seemingly popping up from nowhere. In fact, the soul had almost completely forgotten she was there in the first place. It was as if she stopped existing in his perception the moment he took his eyes off of her. He concluded that he would have to make a firmer note of everything that was happening today. He was far too lax in this situation, as if someone or something were soothing his emotions subtly.
Then his brain caught what she had actually said. One for all. What did that mean? Could it have been a euphemism for something or did she actually mean the quirk from My Hero?
"Yeah, I suppose that's true. We wouldn't want you to end up in a 'I have no arms but I must punch!' situation trust me it's more common in the universe than you would think." The brother said shifting location to be above the soul once again.
"Wait one for all?" The soul called out whipping around to face him once more. He was just now starting to fully understand how to properly move in the void. Now it seemed like they were having the conversation soon.
"Oops, sorry big bro!" The sister said scratching her cheek. She knew she wasn't allowed to speak directly about which world they were sending the soul to to be fair but she always got so excited during these. Her brother closed his eyes and pinched his nose in frustration.
"Maybe I should have done this part by myself. Oh well. I suppose it doesn't matter now." The brother sighed and pointed a glowing hand in the soul's direction.
"Anyway just make sure not be too boring. Well be sending you on your way now." He said his sister was moving to his side to mirror her twin.
"Bye bye, good luck." He said and his hand roared with a light brighter than anything the soul had ever seen and yet somehow it didn't blind him. He actually felt more like he was falling asleep than anything. It was like a storm of wild stars lulling him to unconsciousness.
"And remember it's a new world and a new life. So make sure to have fun with it. See ya!" The sister's voice rang out like a bell and her hand lit up white and blue. And just as her brother did she made it shine until it blocked out the soul's vision and forced it back into unconsciousness. Then the now unconscious soul slowly started returning to its dormant form and falling into the planet's atmosphere. The twins canceled the lights from their palms and dusted off their hands.
"Alright well I'm going to watch the next season of Fionna and Cake I hear it's good." The brother said fading back partly back into his mist form thought it held far more traces of an aurora than before.
"Really? I haven't even watched season one yet." His sister sparked back out of her material state and partially back into celestial mist.
"Hey Zestia do you think my parlay will hit this time?" The brother question whilst casually tearing a rift into the brand new realities' flesh not caring for the mix of cosmic energies leaking out into the void the two had already caused.
"Your parlay's never hit Zestial." She said with the misty equivalent of a deadpan. He sighed knowing that the kid was probably fucked even with the bonuses he'd picked up. It didn't matter though at least it would be fun to watch him crash and burn.
As the bright soul fell to earth and faded into the body of a woman who slept peacefully next to her husband. The woman shifted in her rest and subconsciously moved a hand to rub on her slightly swollen belly. Meanwhile inside a new life formed to match another and began to develop at a slightly faster pace than its sibling.
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Lights flash on revealing an incredibly handsome young man. He folds his hands together somewhat sinisterly.
"Hello everyone and welcome to my new-" random person walks by and spills drink on him. He sighs as the person frantically apologizes.
"Ok cut let's try this again."
*unknown amount of time later*
The man reappears with brand new pants.
"Hello everyone and weeelllllcooooommmeeeee to my new fan fic because I wanted to make it and nobody could stop me!" The man says while gesturing with arms spread out.
The camera zooms out and the lights turn on to reveal a college cafeteria. The man now revealed to be your amazing author stands up and starts making a plate of food.
"So I'm going to answer a few questions before anyone asks if they didn't read the disclaimer."
#1 Yes Harem
#2 No not all members have been chosen yet. I'm looking at you Inko I may be writing a House of the Dragon fic but I haven't crossed that line yet. (Every day we stray farther from the light😭)
#3 I'm just having fun here so take it with a grain of salt and meme your heart out I know I will.
#4 Yes I do miss lobotomy Kaisen.
#5 Yes this is a Jojo's reference.
#6 No not all gender swaps are decided yet for example Kirashima. On one hand, I hate breaking up Mina and Kirashima on the other hand think of all the possibilities with Mina's horns we could miss out on. So maybe femshima will just have to enjoy Izuku's manly energy. Plus I don't have a name for fem Todoroki was thinking Shoko considering its meaning but there is a slight problem that another character is already named Shoko.
#7 Yes I do feel like I'm joining the dark side and yes we do have cookies.
#8 Yes I am completely off my ADHD meds and it's for doctor reasons not because I just stopped taking them.
#9 No I have not decided on Izuku's hero name or costume so feel free to leave as many pictures and recommendations as you want.
10 I have class in like thirty minutes so this is goodbye. Yes, I do know that's not a question. No I don't care.
Runs out of the cafeteria frantically leaving behind an untouched plate of food.