very long post underneath i do not blame you at all if you don’t read it
MODERN FAIRYTOPIA
ok so, to start off you need to understand i’m not; a chemist, a bio engineer, a general engineer, a doctor, a ceo/organization chairman type, or a government official, so there is a little bit of suspension of disbelief involved in this. I am also not physically disabled! If any wheelchair or prosthetic users would like to chime in for accuracy’s sake please do!
We start off with the world changes! Basically all the characters are human now (bibble is a parakeet).
Fairytopia is now the seaside town of Farypool. HERE’S A MAP BECAUSE I GOT SUPER CARRIED AWAY (map generated by this, edited by me).
Short history of the town before getting into Elina: Farypool is a decent town, for most people, however it is plagued with injustices of all kind! The local government is super inefficient or just doesn’t care so two sisters start planting flowers in the town square as a kind of “this is a small thing but it’s what we can do rn with our abilities!”. Named after the flowers they planted they formed the Rainbow Company, a non-profit community aid organization originally run by other volunteers from the neighborhood.
As the company grew they split key volunteers into heads of different sections to better serve specific needs in the community based on the colors of the rainbow obviously. Red: housing needs, orange: food and meals, yellow: children’s and seniors welfare (basically a bunch of mandated reporters and emergency/long term fosters, as well as in home nurses, handyman types, and drivers), green: financial needs, blue: medical needs, indigo: mental health (grew out of the Blue section), violet: abuse in any shape (domestic, child, sexual, animal, of power etc), they have also expanded into brown: racial issues (discrimination, hate crimes, general support and community resources), white: environmental needs (ensuring clean water, clean streets, proper waste disposal, community access to nature and recreation etc), and pink: sexism issues (supporting and defending women and providing resources and assistance). That’s basically it for the town. (i have no idea if this would work lmao)
ELINA! Elina is a young disabled woman who’s been in a rough patch for a few solid years. (idk what to do with her parents so- they died?) Elina was born without her lower legs fully formed, they end a bit after the knee(I did a little research and there are a few things that could cause this type of disability? but i don’t have a solid answer). Her chairs have always been on the shittier side due to money issues. After graduating highschool Elina would have loved to attend the local community college, even if she couldn’t afford a four year university, unfortunately the campus wasn’t wheelchair friendly and the school was unable to provide accommodations.
Being lower income (because of stupid rules regarding disability) Elina was lucky enough to find a remodeled garage space for rent in Farypool’s Meadow Field district. Ms. Peony is an older lady who lives with her niece Dandelion in a small house. They decided to renovate the garage space into a studio apartment type space for a little extra income. They were very happy to help Elina make changes to the space to better suit using her chair, and hand grips along the walls for extra mobility (Elina is pretty buff btw). Elina does some remote work with her laptop and picks up shifts with the local corner store when they need an extra person. The sidewalks are kind of terrible so it’s a chore for Elina to get there. The store owners are understanding and sometimes pick her up if Dandelion doesn’t have time to drive her. Elina really loves to garden with Ms Peony and is good friends with Dandelion.
THE PLOT
It’s a normal day for Elina, she wakes up, feeds Bibble, and does a little gardening with Dandelion and Ms Peony. Ms Peony starts feeling pretty weak and decides to turn in early. Elina is woken up the next day by a panicked Dandelion, Ms Peony collapses and is experiencing numbness from the waist down. Elina and Dandelion try to call for help but the few ambulances the town has are out and it will take a while for anyone to get to them. Elina and Dandelion talk to neighbors and hear that other people are having the same symptoms, mostly children and the elderly.
Dandelion and Elina decide to take Ms Peony and drive across the river to Farytown where the hospital is. They get part way north through Meadow Field before Dandelion starts to lose function in her legs. The Rose Side Bridge is completely backed up, people are just sitting in their cars, some Rose Side citizens have placed a Meadow Field into quarantine as the symptoms seem to have started there (the paralysis is still spreading into Rose Side but people panic and do stupid things) The crew makes it up to Crystal Cove Park, some others are in the same situation, but people are having some relief, or at least a delay, of symptoms as they’re closer to the river (and the breeze that flows along it). Elina, unstoppable and stubborn af, rolls her way across the park to the river boat recreation center. She’s there for a bit trying to figure out how she could commandeer a boat when Nalu pulls up.
A local marine biologist and conservationist, Nalu specifically came upriver to see if anything in the water was weird and possibly causing the sickness. He’s just come up from the ocean, and isn’t experiencing any numbness yet. His small motor boat is full of water bottles and protein bars, which get handed out to the people who made it to the park. Dandelion and Ms Peony are unable to move their legs, but Elina is determined to get to the hospital to get help. She manages to fit her chair into Nalu’s boat, and He takes her up river. Nalu drops her off at the Farytown Green and heads back to the docks for another water/food run.
Elina makes it to the hospital, its jam packed with paralyzed people, and people who suffered accidents due to the paralysis. The doctors and nurses have no clue what’s causing it and are just trying to take care of life threatening injuries before they can’t walk either. Enter Azura, a respected doctor and head of the Blue section of the Rainbow Company, she is aware that the CEO(is it a ceo for a charity??) Iris has been MIA since last night, and everybody is wary of her sister Laverna as the two had a huge fall out when Laverna wanted to start using their charity as a for profit business recently. She also knows Laverna is a talented bio chemist and engineer (she can make nerve gas that does specific things idk) and is horrified to think that she might be punishing the town for being shut out of the Rainbow Company.
She notices Elina is *technically* unaffected by whatever is causing the paralysis and is functioning at a normal level because she was already in a wheelchair to begin with. She decides to sit down and talk with Elina despite the crazy hospital around her. Azura is starting to tire and go numb, so she decides to trust Elina and her determination on one last ditch effort. She gives Elina a butterfly USB necklace stick containing all the research available on the toxin causing the paralysis. Elina loads her chair into Hugh’s ambulance, Hugh and the other ambulance drivers have been in almost hazmat suits since the toxin was known and at least a few of them are still running.
Hugh and Elina are instructed to drive up into Wildering Point, a brilliant scientist, Dahlia, is living out there and might be able to help. She was good friends with both Laverna and Azura as they all worked in medical fields. They set off onto the barely there road, running the ambulance really rough. Reaching Dahlia who apparently has none of the toxin in her area. She is reluctant to help until she sees Azura’s research and recognizes it as Laverna’s work. Dahlia can synthesize an antidote but she would need a pure sample of the original. After Hugh recovers a little and suits Dahlia up against the toxin (Elina refuses because it’s not bothering her right now anyways) the three pile back into the Ambulance and head back into Farytown to the Rainbow Company’s headquarter building. Dahlia wants to access Laverna’s lab there for the toxin sample and the equipment.
Unfortunately Laverna is already there, she and her goons have already taken the antidote to the toxin and are still able to move. Dahlia and Hugh are overpowered and forcefully sprayed with the toxin, immediately putting them into paralysis. Elina managed to find a spare bottle of the antidote, the paralyzed CEO Iris, and Laverna’s brewing(?) supply line for the toxin. Laverna enters, and explains she manufactured the toxin only as an accident at first, trying to synthesize helpful compounds originally. She wanted to patent the toxin and sell it to the military, using the Rainbow Company’s reputation as a launch for a more commercial version of her and her sister’s efforts. After all, she only wanted her fair share of the company, Iris pushed her out unfairly.
She congratulates Elina for getting this far considering her condition, and if Elina gives her the antidote, Laverna might be able to help Elina get better accommodations and equipment, maybe even a compound that will “fix” her legs completely. Elina is swayed for a few moments, being disabled in a society that doesn’t prioritize her access or comfort is fucking ROUGH and of course she wishes she didn’t have it so hard. But the idea of “fixing” her legs completely snaps her out of it, one: that’s not medically possible, two: Elina is strong enough the way she is, and three: she deserves to be treated better by society, not be the exception to the rule.
Elina shoves the antidote into Iris’s hands. She flips Laverna off, and the just absolutely HURLS the fuck out of the butterfly USB into Laverna’s chemical production set up, shattering it into a million pieces. This causes a giant chemical reaction directed towards Laverna and her goons, Elina and Iris are partially shielded by desks or something. Laverna and her goons are paralyzed themselves (as the chemical reaction produced a slightly different compound than the antidote was effective against).
Yeah so Iris and Elina get Dahlia and Hugh up, Dahlia synthesizes the antidote en masse and Hugh ties up Laverna and her goons. (Dhalia also synthesizes an antidote for them eventually) Laverna is tried in a court of law but manages to weasel her way out of serious punishment and is instead placed on house arrest in an isolated place near Hinterland Lake. Everybody recovers! Elina goes back to living innocuously until Azura and Iris show up with an offer for Elia to join the Rainbow Company as Azura’s (fairly paid) intern, as well as the community liaison for disability. Elina eagerly accepts! Iris also has a new, proper, wheelchair for Elina and starts a prosthetics study within the Rainbow Company and her wider contacts. Elina gets some dope brand new semi-experimental prosthetics that use those electrical sense-y pad things to hook up with her leg’s muscle movements in her knees/thighs (the socks under the prosthetic caps(?) have sense-y things in them and go up to about mid thigh. I HAVE NO CLUE IF THIS WOULD ACTUALLY WORK) Elina goes through physical therapy and starts learning to walk with them, its EXHAUSTING, but Elina is determined as ever.
I will have more to add after my Mermaidia illustration!! So I’ll come back to this then ^-^
Anyone have Bibble thoughts ? He certainly generates some strong emotions. What do you like/dislike about Bubble’s character? The people need to know
I’ve been watching that super long 8hr Victorious vid on YouTube by QuintonReviews.
So I thought we were talking about the popcorn snack that Cat Valentine was hardcore addicted to. Sidenote I think it would taste like Cake batter Popcorn, I recently made some.
