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Dystopian world-building for funsies cuz why not

Cordelia and her Batch-mates were raised by Caretakers after they were Produced by the Producers. They have no parents, no family. Just the Caretakers and each other.

When they are old enough, they are brought to the Academy as Students. Cordelia is especially fascinated by Pre-Disaster Studies, a subject taught in the Academy.

All babies, both boys and girls, have been pre-conditioned during their Production (as zygotes, during their gene arrangements) to have only straight hair, never curly. Girls wear their hair down, nice and straight, with no tying or accessorising. Boys are expected to keep their hair trimmed short and tidy, but with no curls or styling.

Mystery/maybe-fantasy fiction world building stuff for funsies

Rowena "Winnie" Hart was accepted into a prestigious fantasy school. Her primary motivation is to find the people who murdered her parents and restore justice to her family. She believes that the murderers are linked to a secret society connected with the school.

Her parents, Jacques Hart and Lorelei Hart née Preston, used to study at the school. Her parents were part of the secret society, and were very prominent, high-ranking members. Therefore, Winnie was very famous in the school. The Hart Family was a very prestigious family with good standing. The Preston Family, Winnie's mother's family, was a family of renowned Healers and Potion-brewers.

Jacques and Lorelei had a very romantic and happy love life together, but tragically died young (for a reason that I am still trying to figure out, BTW. I'm also tryna figure out the circumstances of how they died, and whether they died when Winnie was a baby, or more recently).

Lorelei also used to be the Poisoner for the secret society; she was very good at Healing, but found Poisons to be more fascinating. She therefore exercised this talent (secretly, of course; only the society knows about it and they themselves gave her that job) to take out the enemies of the society and the school (the rest of the school didn't know about it). Of course, Lorelei also used her Healing talents publicly when needed.

Fantasy school world building for fun

Rowena Snow is the name of a distant ancestor of Winnie Hart's. Winnie was named after her. Rowena was the youngest of seven Snow children, with one of her sisters being Hildegard Snow. Hildegard Snow was very influential and remarkable in her day (for whatever reason I don't know yet). Winnie Hart looks and acts very much like Rowena Snow, but Hildegard Snow is the direct distant ancestor of Winnie Hart (whether through Winnie's mum or dad, I'm not sure yet).

Dystopian fiction stuff just for funsies, based on the Hunger Games "Hanging Tree" song cuz I was inspired by the different renditions of this song on Tiktok hahaha don't mind me cuz I'm boooooooooorrrrrrrrrreeedddddddd

This song is about a tree with birdcages on its branches. Cordelia encounters this tree during her time on the Surface. The tree with its birdcages look like a tree bearing fruits--except in this case, the "fruits" are the birds trapped in the cages; hence, the name "Birding Tree".

POV (Jasper taking Cordelia to the Birding Tree)

"I...I'm so sorry. About your gram'ma," I managed.

Jasper smiled as we continued treading through the grass. "Thanks...there was this lullaby she used to sing me. When I--when she passed, that lullaby, that was the first thing that came to mind. Funny, isn't it? I'd totally forgotten about it. It'd been years since she last sang it to me."

"Sorry, what--lala...bye?"

"Lull-a-by," he enunciated. "It's a bedtime song. Well, I don't know if it's actually written to be a lullaby, but she sang that to me at night."

"I didn't know you could sing someone to sleep." I probably sounded stupid saying that. He laughed.

"You learn something new everyday, huh?"

"When you've lived under the Surface, or 'under a rock', as you say, as long as I have, there's only so much you know," I quipped. "So, how did this...lull-a-by go?"

"Pardon?"

"Do you think you could...sing it to me? If you don't mind, of course."

He hesitated, looking around for a bit. "I guess I could. Since it's just you and me." He winked, and I could have sworn I almost tripped on air.

Are you...are you...

Comin' to the tree

We struck down a birdie

Singing in the breeze

Strange things have happened here,

No stranger would it be,

If we took...this birdie...

To the Birding Tree

Are you...are you...

Comin' to the tree

Hear a choir of birdsong

Raging to be free

Strange things have happened here

No stranger would it be,

If we took...these birdies...

To the Birding Tree

Are you...are you...

Comin' to the tree

Build a nest in this cage

Side by side with me

Strange things have happened here

No stranger would it be,

If Birdie stays awhile,

Here in the Birding Tree

We reached the top of the hill, and there was the tree. It had round little birdcages, hanging on its branches, like striped, hollowed-out apples. Each birdcage housed a little bird, tweeting away, looking around from its little abode.

"And, here we have it. The Birding Tree. Ta-daaaa...", he introduced lamely on purpose, and I laughed.

I don't even know HOW I got THIS dream. My head must have been wild that night. It had some My Little Pony elements and a surprise cameo of a Chinese teen celebrity who's also a student (at least during the year I was dreaming) if I'm not mistaken. As usual, credit me as the dreamer if you wanna make a wild story out of this hehe enjoy~ (and also, I ASSURE you this was a genuine dream and not my conscious decision to make up a story. It was my subconscious sleeping that somehow decided to make this up, I KID YOU NOT) Enjoy anyway~

There was a girl who lived in a slum-orphanage with some friends. One day, she and her friends had a potato-eating contest. But the potatoes turned out to be rotten so everyone got sick. Except that girl. While the friends were busy recuperating, someone afterwards revealed that the girl was actually LITERALLY made from potatoes, hence her not getting sick from the rotten ones. Cuz once upon a time, there was a woman (a witch, actually) who took a pile of potatoes, cast a spell on it, and the potatoes turned into a baby, aka the main character girl.

Everyone hated the girl and ostracised her just cuz she was made of potatoes. But Potato Girl's friends still stuck by her and still insisted on being her friends anyway, so Tater Girl feels better. There was also a boy who kept bullying Miss Tater Tot cuz of her being a clump of potatoes, but her friends told him off and told Tater Girl not to care about the boy.

Tater Girl decides to find the truth about her existence and find her "mother" (the witch who created her) to get some answers, like why she created her in the first place. Tater Girl leaves the orphan-slum and goes out into the city. Eventually she bumps into a lady who is actually the sister of the witch (so she's kinda like Tater Girl's "aunt"). Aunty, after learning about Tater Girl's origins, immediately accepts her as family (way better treatment than what the majority of the orphan-slum gave Tater Girl) and invites her to her home where Tater Girl meets Aunty's children (Tater Girl's "cousins", I guess?).

They all get along really well, despite them knowing that Tater Girl is, well, a Tater Girl, and Tater Girl comes to the self-realisation that if God allowed her to exist despite not being conceived the normal way for humans, then He definitely gave her a human soul and He definitely loves her as a human anyway, and she definitely deserves as much love as any other human does. Also, Tater Girl decides it doesn't matter whether she meets her witch "mother". She's already happy with her friends and her newfound family, and she doesn't feel the need for any more answers.

After Tater Girl goes home, she is hanging out with her friends at the mall one day, when she bumps into this guy (who is actually the Chinese cameo I was talking about just now; I won't say the celeb's name, though. I'll just call this guy Cameo from now on). Cameo recognises her and tells her that they were actually friends when they were young. Ever since they separated, Cameo had been looking for her, and he had even written a song about her (yes, Cameo is a famous singer in my dream, just like the celeb teen in real life). Tater Girl tells Cameo about her being a clump of potatoes but he doesn't mind.

Later on, the boy who had been bullying Tater Girl goes to see her, and acknowledges that he was in the wrong for bullying her. Tater Girl has already let go of Bully Boy's past bullying, but she walks away from him to let him figure things out on his own. Also she just wants to live her own life in peace. She's not offering friendship to Bully Boy yet, but she acknowledges that he was at least decent enough to acknowledge his mistakes.

Then I woke up, the end.