A summary of the world for important facts in an upcoming story.
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World of giants and humans living semi equally
Town this takes place in is run by giant mafia families and humans are used by them for a number of reasons
Using their smaller size to commit certain crimes
Threats of if they’ll do this to a human what would they do to a giant
To look unhinged and threatening
humans can get to a place that’s a lot safer, but it’s super expensive
It’s super far even by giant standards
They have to have pay the family that owns the exit they’re using enough to leave
It’s easier if giants help them leave since it’s just the cost of travel
humans sell themselves and each other to bars and mafia families to get the money to leave
Some do it willingly to save their families from the risk of catching any of the giant mafia’s eye others get tricked so some folks can get the money to escape
This doesn’t exclude younger folks either unfortunately and at least a few of our cast would have been sold through a trick of other people.
If any human is known for a skill or talent they’ll get an offer, refusing will backfire on their family if they have one. If they don’t have a family they don’t get a choice
This is a world of giants eating humans although it’s been considered a treat in most of history
It’s been considered wrong for a long time by normalsociety
Mafia families are known to flex their power by using humans like this
Tl;dr humans are illegal to eat/buy but the mafia gives 0 shits.
Bars have humans working in them and specifically cater to the mafia families
Those bars will sell the humans or give them as ‘treats’ in certain drinks if a client pays enough
It’s not an uncommon thing for the heads of families to share drinks like this and it’s something horrifying for the small people who have to see it
Pretty common for the people trying to suck up to a stronger family by offering a human like that.
humans bought can be taken home and some people in these mafia families keep them as trophies, ‘treats’ for later, or stress relief
This excludes ones purchased for their use. If they have a skill the human can be treated almost like an equal. They get kept on a short leash and will be punished for attempts to escape.
Now who is our main family? God crew aka the Kamia family. I won’t list all the roles here but pretty much everyone except Fate is involved….Fate may be the prior head before Vitus took over.
Vitus is head of the family and has been for some time. Has a reputation of being ruthless including biting down on the ‘treats’ in drinks. Still taller than the average giant and keeps a stoic face which keeps almost everyone intimidated
Never actually hurts anyone if they can’t switch out the person he uses ice to make it seem like he’s hurt them and makes use of his already quiet nature
Alessia is his daughter and works as a bouncer at a bar that fronts selling and serving humans, but actually helps get them out of there
She has a lot of skill in combat and guns. If she gets involved most other giants will stand down.
She intercepts a lot of ‘gifts’ that were supposed to make it to someone in the bars she works at. No one wants to tell her no.
Rhys is his son who works on keeping the truth of the bar and how their family works from the public eye.
Known to make a thinly veiled threats pretty often
Controls information tightly, if he wants something kept secret it’s kept secret
Felix is his son known for lavish spending and goes around buying humans he knows aren’t going to survive long.
He also uses his skills with creating things to make small look alikes/body doubles of humans.
Frequently uses those skills when someone shows up with a ‘gift’ for his ‘ruthless’ father
Ryder is an adopted son, he’s human and helps them with planning for getting others out without raising suspicion
Felix bought him under the guise of his family enjoying training hard to control humans
They offered to get him to one of the safer towns, but he liked what they were doing and wanted to help.
He sometimes helps planting the body doubles
There are more humans than Ryder, but he was the youngest they’d saved as well as grew attached to Felix and Rhys quickly
Dabria is Vitus’s wife who (when I finally write for this) has been missing for about ten years.
Had been a terrifying figure if she got involved
Nicknamed Goddess of Death for her role in handling situations
This was for both humans and giants since the giants would be dead and the humans they had gone
Random other giants are part of the family.
There’s smaller families considered part of the god crew family.
They didn’t like what’s going on with humans, but didn’t have the power to do anything.
The head before Vitus used their skills to bring their own family to a strong point and recruited the smaller families that didn’t like humans getting treated so badly
They don’t know all the tricks the main family uses, but they know that a human brought to them doesn’t die.
The main family isn’t stupid. If the tricks got out they’d lose their position and it would turn into all out war in the city
There’s some pretty torturous tech that can turn a giant human rumored to exist
It’s traumatic both from pain and their drastic change of view, so they usually lose their memories and potentially go insane after
The most the average person remembers is their name and glimpses of the people they used to know
It’s a good way to trick them into thinking they’ve been saved or sold
It’s rumored to exist
It completely exists
Most people even the big and powerful families don’t know if it’s real
It’s known specifically by the people who were thought most likely to use it
This means sadistic and cruel assholes
There’s no way to undo it, if you’ve been made human that’s it
There is a lot unknown so maybe someday, but at the time this takes place it’s permanent
There are a lot of unknowns on how this can change the health of the subjects long term
They usually don’t live long enough for it to matter
The Kamia Family works with a bar they know that’s good people and keeps humans safe
Vitus is a bartender
Alessia a bouncer
Rhys just someone who’s there to control information spread
Felix hides in back if he’s there to prepare doubles for anyone they need to get out safely and can’t risk them being seen getting taken away
Ryder acts as a server
The giants of the family and who own the bar keep a close eye on him since he’s putting himself in the middle of everything
