Or, at least I think this is what’s going on so far. Please fact check me in the comments if you’re following the challenge. I’ll also update this as the plot thickens (cuz smack someone just posted another part of the challenge and I’m like, “Damn, son”)

1) Angela (the “protagonist” so far) is chilling with her younger sister, Lola, and Lola’s boyfriend, Raul (can’type the accent, my goood he is my OC get it together); Lola and Raul are students at an expensive boarding school that is away from Lola’s home. Angela is in her twenties and works a “mysterious job” that Lola knows jack shit about. Lola and Raul are total geeks, reading a fanfic by @poeticpages (“blindfolded truth.” - check it out, y’all. It’s the real OG) Angela gets a call from Carlos and, begrudingly, has to leave Lola and Raul and head to work (the plot of “reality check.”)

(It’s kinda funny how the story is going so far, because Angela was actually supposed to be an ex-escort and Carlos is her pimp... BUT I LIKE THIS PLOTLINE BETTER LIKE HELL YEAH)

2) Okay, so the plotline diverges here because both @Writingthewords and @TaiSensei wrote deadass amazing entries, both of which you should check out. I think they come back together at one point when James Burns is introduced. In “The Encounter,” Carlos basically drags Angela into an alley and it stops there after Angela leaves the school. In “The Mark,” it explains the dynamic Angela has with Carlos and her family; basically, the women in Angela’s family are to eternally be born by male demons, or Incubbi (I think) then, when of age, they are seduced and impregnated by different males, continuing a long ass line of half-blooded women. The next in line is signified by a “mark” on their arm (is it the Mark of Cain? It kinda seems like the Mark of Cain.) Carlos is Angela’s “mate” and he mistreats her. It doesn’t say if Lola is apart of the line, so I’m assuming its only the first-born daughters who inherit the mark.

3) So I’m tired af atm so idk if I get the premise down right, but @Jfrogg75′s “Angel of Darkness” is saying that Angela is actually this super OP deity (I think Santa Muerte) and she’s like a minion to Carlos, who is still a demon in this; she constantly does his favors (some innappropriate). This changes, however, because it’s later said that Angela is something called a “Possessor” (details about what a Possessor is hasn’t totally been fleshed out yet, but I’m excited to see what people come up with!)

4) After “Angel of Darkness” though, it goes back to Angela getting jumped or whatever tf by Carlos (who can shapeshift into random ass, pasty-looking men lol) and he takes a lock of golden hair from this vial she carries around, which I think he uses to gain leverage over her (“Revelation,” by @Teesha). The hair that he’s taking from her, however, is shown to be fake and a very peculiar and eccentric demon hunter with a troubled past, named James Burns, leaves this card in Angela’s pocket during the drama (“Decisions,” by @doublejoywilson). This dude is highkey magical in a lot of ways (no particular practice is mentioned, so I’m assuming that he’s a jack of all trades or just born magical) and, after Angela trashes the card he leaves her, he just goes and outright follows her home, another card appearing in her pocket (I think so he can track her location). Apparently, James Burns wants revenge against Carlos for something unsaid. This is explained in an untitled entry by @InvisibleWriter.

(There’s another version of this, where the plot diverges again, called “The Curse” by @carissa7127. Nobody picked up after that, but if someone does, hit me up because I really like what she did there)

5) James Burn’s backstory is explained in “James Burns” by @Vik_Blot. He’s half-human, half-demon, much like Angela, and he still wants revenge against Carlos for making him the way he is. James also killed his mother at birth (because human women can’t handle giving birth to demons. It makes perfect sense). When reevaluating what he saw in the alley, James then hypothesises that Angela is a “Possessor”

6) Finally, in “A Meeting” by @kelli_rie, James and Angela meet each other because James kinda broke into her house (did he watch her change clothes? That’s some Twilight kind shit omg) and Angela, freaking out, puts all her personal business out there and James is like, “Uh-huh, okay, yeaaaaa” while he’s analyzing her. He admits to her that he wants revenge against Carlos, knowing that she wants him out of her own life. And, shockingly, they pull some Luke and Leia shit because the two of them are siblings (I guess Angela is the older sister?). Crazy, right?

7) Angela, in @EmberJoy’s “Turning Tables,” reflects on the conversation she had with Burns a few hours before. She seems to have denied his offer because she was convinced that associating herself with another demon would result in James later claiming her after Carlos dies. Angela then meets a witch named Marion who gives her the ability to kill Carlos in exchange for her mother’s hair. At first, Angela refuses, but later relents and allows Marion to cast a spell on her and sews the hair in with the mark on her hand/forearm, intensifying Angela’s Possessor abilities. The entry ends open endedly with Carlos coming for Angela and Angela ready to kill him.

8) Okay, so this is gotta be one of my favorite entries so far because @SG took the pimp-mentality I was going for and the sadistic bastard y’all made and turned it into something absolutely sinister. In “Carlos,” the ‘Carlos’ Angela was about to kill was an apperation made by the actual Carlos, who is watching everything unfold with her, James and Marion from the distance. Carlos is actually manipulating the three of them into coming together so he can do whatever tf evil schemes he has cooked up. This man is sick, like jfc, and the indirect incest is killing me holy shit. The only thing I’m confused about, and someone fact check me if you can, is if Angela is lowkey Carlos’s daughter, or if she’s the daughter of Sarah, Angela’s mother, and another man/demon. It’s still canon that James and Angela are siblings, though, both bore from Sarah.

This is all I have so far. I’m really enjoying the way the plotline is going, especially with everyone’s different writing styles coming together (it’s actually building up smoother than I thought it would). My plan is that, when this challenge is done, I’ll go back and fully flesh out Angela, Lola, Carlos and Raul. Highkey don’t know who exactly made James, but message me his info. I wanna go back and write out the story again, with everything together, so it makes slightly more sense and so it’s one, whole thing.

Edit: So the challenge is almost over, meaning that I'm going to flesh out the characters I've already made using a lot of the concepts people have added already. My only thing about the entries so far is I am hella confused about the dynamic with James-Angela-Carlos and whether they're all related through Carlos. If so, where would Lola (Angela's little sister) come in, who is essential to the plot because she is Angela's TLC. When I go to write the story, I want to add Lola adn Raul (or maybe kill Raul), but I've gotta flesh out whether she's related to Angela by blood or another relation. If anyone has suggestions, please hit me up.

#ProseChallengeLXXVII #WhoIsAngela #WhoIsJamesBurns #WHOTFISCARLOS

I am not sure how I am still alive, after drinking that cup of love

I am not sure how I am still sane, after drinking that cup of poison

That cup which upon sipping will enslave you for a lifetime, yet

That cup which upon sipping will grant you a happiness of a lifetime

Oh, if I was wise and had listen to those who had drank before me of that cup I wouldn’t have been here, I wouldn’t have lost that joyous playful lad that once lived in thy heart

How I’d give the world for that joyous playful lad

For that lad and only that lad can bring light into my dark cold world

A world which there is no day only cold dark nights

Oh, how I’ve search throughout the busy world filled with little dim lights for my bright lamp yet, the only light I see is emanating brighter than the sun from the castle of the evil witch who had once fed me from that cup,

What does one do who has come in the cross path of life?

Live in the dark lonely world as a freeman,

Or live in the bright glamorous castle as a prisoner?

What does one do, what does one do?

Does one learn to become a robber to rob others’ lights, to become a sucker to suck others’ energy, to become feeder to feed others from thy cup, to become a lover and to love others?

But how can one be a lover when one can’t even love thy own-self?

Oh, how I pray and I pray, and I only pray to you the one and only the creator of ups and downs, heavens and hells, light and dark, righteousness and wretchedness, yesterday and today, today and tomorrow, life and death, love and hate, to free my light from that witch or free my body from thy earth for I’m just a empty vessel with no soul roaming the endless road of life with no goal don’t know where it’s taking me but its getting to me more and more

So I pray to you, I pray to you and only you to give me the light so I can see again,

What will you lose?

It’s as if a drop of water is dripped from a ocean or a grain of sand is given from a desert so I ask you again what will you lose oh divine one

-Rishad Qahar