Dreamscape

Most of my ideas come from other people; I take their original ideas and twist them, because I am an unoriginal hack. No, seriously. (Most of the time I do this unconsciously; I am horribly jealous of people who get actual, original ideas that aren't just regurgitations.)

Occasionally my ideas come from dreams- which are just regurgitations of daily events (am I fixated with vomit? Perhaps). Theron's story came from a dream, and then I incorporated it into my primary fantasy world. Dreamscape- because it refuses to call itself anything else- also came from a dream. Or rather, the main characters did, and the world built itself up after that, borrowing bits and pieces from other ideas and other people.

The world is sketchy, but that's the point- it's a universe without boundaries, where anything can happen. People fall out of the sky on a regular basis- no one is sure why, they just do. At any moment you could be teleported some place very far away and very high up; certain religious sects claim it happens because humanity pissed off the gods somehow. The nobility don't care so long as it doesn't happen to them; the league of super heroes makes it their job to assist floppers when they fall into strange or unhospitable areas.

The Rats are a society of outcasts who live under the cities, in sewers and maintainence tunnels. They're technophiles and mutants, and it's rare to see one of them above ground- the prejudice against them is excessive and vicious- but when you do see one, you know what you're looking at. They tend to have wires sprouting out of their skulls, or extra eyes.

They're peaceful, if somewhat mischevious- they're mostly harmless, but they have absolute control over the reality of their homes. So intruders usually get a mild mindfuck, a slap on the wrist, and an escort to the surface. For the most part, they keep to themselves, though a few will venture onto the surface to trade weapons and other tech on the black market. Some of them suffer from severe wanderlust, and have integrated themselves into various secret societies. Some of them set up businesses for themselves; Rats are generally welcome in city slums, where there are things far worse than them walking the streets.

Most of the Rats are cyborgs of some sort; those that aren't are slightly less than human. A lot of them are part fae, or super hero rejects. (This is the cheesiest world ever and I love it, even if I never write in it. The emperor of the universe runs a waffle cart, and his name is Oedipus. You can call him Oed.)

The only Rat characters I have worked out (other than crack!AU Naruto) are Threedy and Macintosh. Threedy's brain is mostly microchips, but her body is largely organic. She's a Trapper, which means she can hack just about any system, including the human brain. Mac just has a few modifications on his hands and eyes, since he's not actually a native Rat, and is, in fact, a transplant from a completely different story (one that involved religious wankery, aliens, and post-apocalyptic shennanigans- all in all, a run of the mill sort of story for me).

Crack!AU Naruto probably tried to Trap a ninja, and got recruited. No idea where the clockwork monstrosity Kakashi came from, aside from my deep and abiding love of steampunk and clockwork things.