(Update: I've settled on the story, now just in the process of inking the pages :D I'll show it off in the art forums when its done)
.... about the immune system process.
wait, don't run away yet!
I have a hard time putting my mind into two separate places at once, in this way. Combining my creative writing brain, which usually detaches from the rules of reality by blaming everything on magic. With the side of my brain that is relying on reality's rules of biology and science to get through my day-to-day assignments and soon to be job. I'm trying not to write something stupidly cliche and boring, but also not something that would be too... long lol
I need short and sweet so I can present this without it taking foreverrrrr
I also wanna draw stuff for it
If you don't know anything about biology, would you give me feedback on the story without that part in mind?
If you DO know about this part of biology, feedback on that would be awesome too!
Here's my idea upon making this post:
Think of a kingdom that is peaceful and balanced (the body bein all happy and healthy). Now, think of it being tormented by foreign invaders, a massive heat wave (fever) and spontaneous fires (inflammation? lol)
One girl flutters down from the heavens (lol she's gonna represent a virus or something, so she's one of these invaders. There would be many of them but this gives a character focal point?). There are bird creatures that try and stop her from reaching the ground (enzymes, maybe?), but they fail to do that.
The girl lands in the center of the kingdom, in a ring of some sort of round structure. Idk, stonehenge type of thing, lets just imagine that for atmosphere lol.
When she comes to, she finds that this world is very uncomfortable by the heat, like, unbearably so. It would kill her if she was weak enough. Before she could figure out much of where she is, she could be met with some beastly figures (phagocytes) who try to eat her.
Another character calls out. Someone who looks similarly to herself, another virus. They flee together and this character protects her. They explain the situation, giving the character and the reader an idea of what is going on. Only to be gobbled up by a Neutrophil--a beast which self destructs after consuming its victim.
The girl escapes again and continues on, but is being stalked by another character (A Natural Killer Cell). She doesn't catch onto this until later, but maybe this would turn into a final showdown situation where either this assassin kills the virus, or the virus wins and the kingdom falls.
Somehow I want to express the mindset of the virus characters. There are many of them "infecting" or invading the kingdom, but they aren't doing so intentionally. They're confused when they arrive, have no knowledge where they come from, but if they survive long enough they come to realize that their existence is tormenting this world and causing it to fall apart.
So they either die or this world suffers/dies.
I'm great at positive stories, aren't I lol
Maybe for something less depressing, the viruses find a way to return to the heavens and everyone lives. Except for if you know enough about a virus, once it leaves the body it either infects someone else (thus repeating the characters' torturous lives) or they die after a certain time lmao
Idk, does this make enough sense? :vanora_xd:
Does it suck terribly, or too morbid? I dont know how NOT to be morbid since the immune system is all about killing off foreign invaders to keep the body healthy lmao