A Journey through Wifcovia
Before Wifcovia just turned into the Faywylds/Overworld/Underworld of Hinsay, Earth, Wonderland, and the Third world (and there may or may not be some weird connection with the Cursed World but it’s weird right now).
Wifcovia: The land which the Rodentfolk and any magical creature moved to after so many wars with the humans. Generations passed with only a few knowing Earth (Mouserinks knowing and Hating Drosselmeyer as bitter enemies; Sugar Plum Fairy; Dis Pater; Alameth.) And people thinking humans are just myth or legend of old.
It’s the reason why I was so adimate that I kept Caroline/Clara turned into a mousefolk because Wifcovia was an AU version of the MouseHunt mobil/FB game world and humans are greatly feared. So to counter that, Dis Pater or Alameth had turned Caroline/Clara into a Deer Field Mousefolk and the chaos ensued when she was seprated from them due to Farfello (Code name: Unkillable Bishop. Curtious of Ca'thul), being not able to keep his attention for long enough. Who is Farfello? Why have I not mentioned him? That’s because he’s the Twin brother of Mourniach, King of the Dark Elves, and… he’s been used by quite a few villains and he will eventually come into play in other ways. But for now, just know the Dorky Evil Assassin exists. As he kinda caused quite a bit of the issues for the villains…
Wifcovia existed without a name for the longest time. It wasn’t until I found the Nutcracker Prince Community on DA when I decided to shift it into a Nutcracker Retelling, and also when I met @shaylalaloohoo. I started my second half of College at FAU and I was feeling rather out of my depth as no one I knew from the Community College followed me to the same college. Meeting Shay was one of the best things to happen because even when other things happened where I couldn’t write or focus on much on my art, (break up from an 8 years of relationship abuse being one of them) I at least tried with bursts of creativity because we talked about things. I was able to heal and I didn’t feel so behind when creativity finally did slowly come back.
So thus Wifcovia finally was given a name and started to shift a bit more closer to the Fae Wylds instead of just “another world” that just happened to be based in fantasy. the Rodentfolk though hadn’t been turned into Fae yet. They still have the similar backstory to the Caroline story And Dis Pater was kinda stubborn to exist. But from there he decided to take up the Human name “Antionio” And instead of Clara being part of the Stalhblum family, she was raised by Drosselmeyer with no memories of being the “Forgotten Princess of the Marzipan Family”. The Pied Piper of Hamlin situation didn’t start coming into play until I want to say Ca'thul started to exist as his own enity insted of an AU version of Wack Lizardi. But Alameth was only second in command and Dis Pater became the “Pied Piper” and also had a redesign.
The changes:
- There’s four main kingdoms: Winter, Spring, Autumn and Summer. And between them was the Kingdom of the rodentfolk which the Mouse King ruled over, and the Winter Prison.
- Summer was the domain of Suzaku, The Phenoix Fae.
- Spring was the domain of Plumina, the Sugar Plum Fairy, as it also was the land of sweets (she won it through revolution I had decided).
- Autumn was kinda being figured out but for a time it was ran by “Mother Ginger” who was the abused sister of Oberon who died in a different story idea that was turned into an RP at the time. She and her brother were Spriggians, and the reason why Phouka was around was because she was the only one who could use iron since she didn’t touch metal but manlipuated mentally. She was able to keep Oberon’s rule pretty tight due to being his attack dog for so long until Baccus came around (Much like Farfello, will come into play later). I didn’t make Oberon or Phouka because they were AU versions of a friend’s other charaters and he wanted to see how vastly different if they were not his created race but Fae. (eventually they had a brother, Kaygan, who was the one which Plumina usurped through revoluion). The idea was that this place was based on Amusment Park/Fall Festivals. This idea came around before I’ve seen The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and was just obessed with circuses, marry-go-rounds, and also the Amusment Park theme from Nier.
- Winter was the Domain of Shong-Shang, God of Death, Father Winter, and Warden of the Prison. This place had the most changes later on, but the idea was that Shong-Shang came to live here. This version was kinda an AU version as he was suppose to be the son of Arwan and Taitana Winterhell. She died by the hands of Arwan who cheated on her with Narcissa (mother of Kaygan, Phouka, and Oberon) and he took up his mother’s position as Warden of the Prison since no one wanted it. Kaygan came to live with him and learned real quick that he had to outgrow his immaturity. Suzaku was the illgitamate son of Arwan and the previous queen of Summer but he took over. Suzaku also was the “older”, and was very overly protective of Shong-Shang as he’s the only one of “Arwan’s Children” that looks the most imposing gaining both features from his father and mother and his mother’s ability to turn into a decaying looking dragon. Unfortantly Suzaku’s “protection” involved making him isolated from the world around him and making sure he ate decayed stuff as he couldn’t handle normal fae food. Which only made things worse for the poor guy and why Kaygan decided to try to take matters into his own hands and… kidnap a human to give him company which was not what Shong-Shang wanted. (I probably could have easily turned this into a Beauty and the Beast Retelling, but for one: it was an RP with an ex-friend, and 2: I was sick and tired of beauty and the beast retellings thanks to ACOTR being that at the beginning.) Good news: At least Shong-Shang got actual cooked human food when this happened as it still counted to not being Fae Food.
- This was when Markos replaced Asnazi and Hansel was the *Former* Mouseking while Markos took it from him. it was also when I decided to make them brothers. Them becoming identical (or close to it) twins came a bit after when I realized I really did make them look similar and markos was the “Dark Mirror” of Hansel. Only reason why Hansel inhearted the throne through, much to Queen Mouserink’s chagrin was that he had inhearted their mother’s magic and Markos didn’t. So this is how Hansel also became one of the “6 Wizards”.
- The 6 Wizards now existed, this was later scrapped due to reasons, but the Sugar Plum, Drosselmeyer, Hansel, Sapphire (Queen of the Vampires) and the Pied Piper were five of the 6. It turned out the reason why Clara was able to survive the death curse was because she was the unknown 6th and Drosselmeyer realized that when she was younger. That was going to be revealed later on.
- The Marzipan Family was the royal family of Hamlin before it’s fall. They were one of three “Guardian Families” which were to keep the gates to Wifcovia protected. As long as someone from the families lives, those gates are given protection from the ghost of one of the other members. However someone had been trying to tear down the families. First Marie Antoinette as she was the last of her family, then the Romanovs of Russia, And then the Marzipans in Himlin. Clara was part of that last family and Parlipat became the guardian ghost of the gate. So the Piper got extreamly confused how this was the case. There were rumors of a lost Princess, so since no one knew of Clara’s existance, they assumed it was Anastasia Romanov that created the legends. Christan Drosselmeyer may had a hand in that but who knows. this idea still here but in a slightly different from.
- Parlipat now existed. At some point I had considered having it where someone took Parlipat’s face, locked her in a cage as a Spirit Swan since she was already dead and masquraded as her as cruelly as possiable. But that got scrapped quickly because it took away from everything else when I attempted. But the main idea was suppose to be a Swan Lake Reference, where Parlipat was the Odette and the person who stole her vintage in life was the Odile. Haven’t fully figured out how the new changes will change Parlipat, but she hasn’t been forgotten in the changes.
- It was around this time I had wanted to explore a way to incorpate dancing into magic and fighting. I also was becoming incresing obessed with Final Fantasy 14 (FF14 or FFXIV) as an MMORPG and they had just came out with the Dancer Job for ShadowBringer. And thus the start of the Sugar Plum creation and Clara’s new found use of her ballet learning. Also had decided Clara had some Romani in her and hence the darker skin tone. This is also one of the reasons, after doing some proper research on th Romani, is why I eventually dropped the whole “6 Wizards” thing and have it where Clara’s magic isn’t due to that harritage, but something else that is just her.
- Hansel pretty much gained a lot of traits from the Bard and Machinest Jobs from FF14. So his design leaned into the 18th century I was going for, but also with a lot of FF14 clothing design based on the Aiming class much like Clara’s “battle outfit”. This was also when I was thinking he wasn’t fully turned into a Nutcracker and only his limbs were wooden but the rest of him wasn’t.
- And the final thing is that Nigel went from being a silly old mouse into Nigel Pantaloon. An old Librarian and historian which Hansel and Clara get the idea to try to get this one stolen book only for them to accidently ran into each other and thus… the infamous smacking across the face with the tome and Clara gaining the name “Face Punch”. Nigel also was the one who have been keeping Hansel safe since his half turn from being a nutcracker and giving him merc jobs, though not really all that serious since Hansel always found other ways to get himself into trouble. He’s also now a Widower who lost his wife during the time there was the whole turn over between Markos and Hansel. So he’s very much a Romantic and sees the “love” between Clara and Hansel when they don’t see it.
- Clara was engaged before the start of the story. But three years later she broke it off with him, and it was the second year after the break up which her ex-fieancee shows up again, turns out he’s a Vampire and he screwed up royality. Also Clara had fallen in love with Dr. Fletcher the Veternarian, but he “died” due to an carriage accident. (turns out he was just a human guise of Antonio using the now Dead Oberon’s face as that guise, this later changes where Bojin Fletcher was an actual real person but kinda makes it more tragic)
Since I’ve hit the limit of pictures. I would go a bit more depth next time of Clara’s relationships because this is where a lot of the shifts happened.
