The Web of Stories
Vahula Naltompar is the younger sister of Julanti. Unlike her sister, she wants the Barxanite Empire to end their imperialistic ways. She looks to Hally’s home as a model for how people should behave, generally speaking. Having graduated with Hally, she hopes that her people will change and fears that her people will forever be associated with conquest, so she uses her willpower to make her hope a reality.
Julanti Naltompar is a Barxanite woman from the Barxanite Empire’s capitol world of Marza Prime. The bigger sister to Hally’s classmate, Vahula, Julanti was held back after failing a critical exam to promote her from Greenling to Witchling, where the future Protectorate earns their hair flower. After that blunder, she sought power of a different kind, power with her family’s oldest ally, Zeromega! Now she’s his “trusted” right hand woman. So far, she’s kept her ambitions well hidden from her “master”.
Zeromega is a member of the same race as the Corps’ Guardians, but he never agreed with their philosophy. He believes that emotions must be controlled by one person and, after a military disaster that lost him and his people their home world, he believed that person to be him. As such, he created a massive empire of robots to subjugate and enslave everyone to make sure no one is ruled by their own emotions, but the emotions HE chooses for them. He created seven cyborg clone generals of himself, each focused on and named after a specific emotion in the emotional spectrum. His ultimate goal is to find the Source Light (the source of all emotions) and all nine emotional entities to bring the entire universe to his will. His current right hand person is a Barxanite woman called Julanti Naltompar and now he has gained a nemesis in Duchess Hally James.
Ramona: Lords and Ladies, rejoice!
Winona: Your establishment is about to be relieved of its financial burden!
Ramona: And we’re the ones to do it! Look upon the Regents of Robbery!
Winona: The Countesses of Crime!
Ramona: The Princesses of Pilfering!
Winona: The Thief Twins!
*clap!*
Together: Ramona and Winona!
Ramona and Winona are twins that are bored with their dull, high-class life. To escape it, they stage all sorts of robberies from clothes to money to jewels; nothing is safe from them! …Then again, nothing remains in their grasp for long. For all their bluster and well-rehearsed speeches, they aren’t the brightest bulbs on the Christmas Tree. Their plans aren’t that well thought out and their getaways are constantly intercepted by Hally James, her friends, and the Royal Guard. Despite their frequent robberies, they DO have their standards, such as no killing and no…illicit bedroom behavior. Their respective pairs of magic flintlock pistols only fire stun spells. They don’t want to HARM Voluminia, they just want to shake things up.
The signature flowers adorning the heads of Corpswomen, they are found in the Spectrum Gardens and seek out new wearers when fully bloomed and charged.
Reapers’ Grace: One set of one blossom. Worn on the right of the head. Allows wearer to raise the dead.
Wraiths’ Rose: One set of three blossoms. Worn on the left side of the head. Allows wearer to unleash hellfire.
Outlaws’ Gamble: Two sets of one blossom. Worn on ends of pigtails. Allows wearer to summon robbery tools.
Specters’ Bouquet: Two sets of five blossoms. Worn on each side of the head. Allows wearer to see what target fears most.
Protectorates’ Will: One set of one blossom. Worn on the left side of the head. Allows wearer to power through any situation within reason.
Belles’ Brim: One set of one blossom. Worn on top of the head. Allows wearer to power allies.
Healers’ Fan: One set of ten blossoms. Worn as a laurel around the head. Allows wearer to heal any injuries if quick enough.
Princesses’ Blossom: One set of one blossom. Worn on the right of the head. Allows wearer to teleport to lovers.
Angels’ Bed: One set of five blossoms. Worn on either side of the head. Allows wearer to use the abilities of other Corps.
Joan Stacy is a human from Earth. The daughter of US Marines, Joan always wanted to protect her entire planet. When Hally James was incapacitated, the Protectorate Guardians had to find a new protector of Earth. The Guardians were almost attacked by Earth villains until Joan stepped in. She almost died, but was given the Protectorate’s signature hair flower, the Protectorate’s Will. Now she protects her planet AND the rest of the universe.
Hally James has the honor of being the first human from Earth to join any Ballgown Corp. She was once a fighter pilot from the USA, but during a flight, she hit an alien craft bearing an alien woman in a green dress and hair flower. The alien was dying and gave her the hair flower. She said that Hally James needed to keep her flower safe. Hally then asked what’s going on and, before she died, the alien explained that there was a major threat that would devour the source of all Ballgown Corps’ power, the Emotional Spectrum. As such, the alien (Malmanur) needed to keep a source of willpower safe. After she died, the flower took Hally James to the Hidden Galaxy, the home of the Spectrum Guardians and their Corps. The Guardians of Willpower then tested Hally and she became a Protectorate, with her destiny to be the greatest of all time.
Gilda Gracie is a hotshot human woman from Earth. Hailing from the USA, she’s a total Army girl and isn’t one to shy away from a fight. However, this often gets her into trouble, both with her enemies and her friends. This stems from the need to prove herself as she was never acknowledged on any level while serving in the Army. She was chosen to help beat back the heinous Zeromega before he conquered Earth. After doing so, she was trained and became a Protectorate Color Guard, one of the most coveted positions in any Ballgown Corp.
Kylasni is a Wologmor woman from Wolog. She is one of the older Protectorates after becoming one to save her planet. Protectorate life was way too enjoyable for her to consider retiring, so she’s become a drill instructor. Initially distrustful of humans after learning how savage they can be, she was put in charge of training Hally James so she could be a Protectorate. After a rough patch, she became Hally’s best friend and mentor, occasionally calling her “Ranjii” in affection. Now she’s got a few more in her coven.
Parntu is a Gonaza woman from Edenaxa. She is the most skilled gardener of her people, placing faith in nature creating beauty. That is what attracted Mother Spirit’s attention and she offered Parntu the chance to spread her ideals across the universe like she would with her own plants. She went through tests of faith and hope and became a Blue Belle in no time. Now she helps the Guardians tend to the Spectrum Gardens, the source of all Corps’ hair flowers.
Mother Spirit is a Laruvan woman from Laruva II, the last of her family. A plague had struck her home planet and she sought to find a cure once her family had died. Her ship stumbled across a wormhole and she landed in the Spectrum Gardens, tended to by the Guardians of Hope. She passed several tests and became a Belle, then took some Healers with her and saved her planet. These days, she’s second in command for the entire Blue Belle Corp.
Narfu is a Phantorma woman from Elemax VI. She was a simple nun that wanted to do more for her people. When the entire planet went through a crisis of faith thanks to the all-powerful Zeromega, Narfu refused to give in to a deity she deemed false. Just as Zeromega was about to kill her, a Belle Brim chose her and gave her the power she needed. That restored the planet’s faith in their gods and they fought back Zeromega. Now she works for her people as a full-fledged Blue Belle.
Arkisma is a Ledulan professor from Ledulas V’s greatest university. She was studying the effects of fear and the brief boost fear brings when trying to escape a horrifying experience. Sadly, her planet’s leaders tried to weaponize her research. They used her as a test subject until she stopped fearing them. That made them scared and that’s what attracted the signature hair flowers of the Yellow Specter Corp to her. They gave her power and she managed to make the cowards flee her homeworld. Now she teaches at the Specters’ Academy to help people learn fear and how to use it to protect the universe. Her research was so instrumental, she became Phobisna’s Chief Fear Researcher and one of her lieutenants.
Phobisna is the Tolukar Queen of the Solar Alliance. She was originally a Green Protectorate, but her people’s enemies kept evading the organization. She left the Protectorates in disgust, then the Guardians of Fear approached her, offering to make her their second-in-command. She accepted and became a Yellow Specter, the greatest of them all. Thanks to the power she obtained, Phobisna became a force to be reckoned with. Thanks to driving away the enemies of the alliance, she and the Specters became the de facto protectors with her in command. She still keeps in contact with her old friends in the Protectorates and helped Hally James become the greatest Protectorate.
Devinak was once a normal dog from Earth, but aliens abducted her and experimented on her. She was injected with the aliens’ DNA and altered to the appearance she has now just so she could be a breeding slave. What they didn’t know was that the experiments boosted her strength, speed, intelligence, and power. She began plotting a way to instill great fear in her would-be slave masters, then a set of Specters’ Bouquets gave her the power she needed. She then used her new power to move to Tolukas Prime, Phobisna’s homeworld, and soon became one of her top Lieutenants. She then started dating the Shevam Princess, Goantilu of the Red Wraiths and they work well together, delivering fear and hate onto their enemies.
Lunuk is an Alpasian from the planet Lutakno. She lost her eye in an attack on her homeworld, but she learned that the person who was behind it was pressured into committing such an act by his home’s government. She then healed the soldier and helped him overthrow the dictatorship of his home, helping him spare the innocents forced into service. That compassion is what earned her a place among the Purple Healers and she always helps the innocent where she can, whether they are her allies or people among the enemy camp
Keelanu is an orphaned woman with no knowledge of her people or home planet. She had to resort to stealing to survive. When a fire broke out in the apartment building she was in, she initially thought to save her own neck, but her conscience said the other people needed to be saved. She got a majority of the people out and nearly died from smoke inhalation, but rescue crews arrived in time to save everyone else. She was healed along with the people in the apartment building and admitted to her crimes. She was about to be imprisoned when the Healer’s Crown, the signature hair flower of the Purple Healers Corp, chose her for her compassion. Now she’s atoning for her old crimes and helping to heal those who suffer.
Manasu is a Raliod woman from Ralios Prime. She was a princess of a happy land, but evil people attacked and enslaved her home. In spite of all the pain she suffered, she still went about her duties to heal those she could. That kind of compassion is what helped the Purple Healers free her home. She accepted a position among the Corp and now she helps those in need throughout the galaxy.
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Grasnitu is a Tarantus woman from the moon of Wevon. She came from a poor family, like most Outlaws do. The rich continued getting richer and the poor continued getting poorer. Grasnitu desired to change that, make it so that the system changed. That was when twin Outlaw Flowers sought her out and made her into an Outlaw. She soon became a notorious robber of the rich and famous giver to the poor. Thanks to her new powers, she’s made a gang of intergalactic highwaymen, though she does NOT rob from those who use their money and power for good.
Falomeer is a Tentrax woman from the Mulgavin Asteroid Cluster. Unlike many Outlaws, she was a rich girl. But, unlike her parents, she did GOOD with her wealth. Her desire to continue to use her status in a good way is what attracted the Outlaw Corp to her. She had a rough start in robbing indiscriminately, but Grasnitu set her straight and now she only robs from the corrupt rich, forming her own intergalactic highwaymen gang.