tka lore because ive been dying to talk about this

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tw for character death, human experimentation, and generally dark topics I'm finally talking about this on this site!!! light spoilers for TKA but I don't really care because the full story will probably not be on this site. so TKA, or the kinetic apocolypse, is based off of the DAST chronicles, an eas scenario series by easalert88 (update: i am aware they are a weirdo and i do not support them). basically, in the eas scenario, there is a government agency called DAST that kidnaps people and experiments on them to turn them into elementals, or humans that have elemental powers. though elementals are not only created through experimentation, they can also be born naturally (i'm assuming that this is part of the original lore, it's never really explained in that much detail.) Elementals can also be called kinetics, though this isn't important in the og lore and doesn't really matter FOR NOW. Blaise, the main character of this eas scenario, is implied to be a natural born fire elemental who got kidnapped by dast at a young age, who also killed his parents and separated him from his twin brother. he then became fixated on getting revenge on dast, and to a further extent, the world that had treated him coldly. enter like 4 mass arson rampages which happen across multiple cities in canada and the us. alright now onto the actual TKA lore. tka is basically an au/worldbuilding expansion of the dast chronicles. there are 4 (technically 5) main characters. helen, five, hiley, and kaira. helen is a natural born fire elemental who was also kidnapped by dast at a young age, but instead of her parents getting k/ lled it was her brother. they basically threatened her parents that they'd bomb the town they lived in if they didn't give up helen. helen gets put in a dast cell for about like 8 years before making an escape. she has major trust issues and really bad paranoia now, thinking that dast is constantly watching her. five is not a natural born elemental. she gets kidnapped by dast who ends up k/ lling her gf archie. they also kinda give her like forced amnesia because she was really fighting to escape. her powers are quite strange, as they are supposed to be a replica of miss radioactive's from the hit eas scenario radioactive queen (by radiogirl00) but it goes horribly wrong and her powers are extremely out of control. she has to wear hand protection at all times to avoid giving people she makes contact with radiation poisoning. also she's named five because she's the fifth attempt at doing this and yet it still turned out a failure. like helen, she ends up running away, meeting helen along the way. and then the two of them kinda get a crush on each other. hiley is a pretty normal guy living in the fictional town of rust, lousiana. he moved here to live with his bf tyler (who owns a restaurant called the rusty stool, which is where most downtime stuff in tka happens.) after a hurricane hit the town that he was originally living in. at first, rust seems like a pretty normal town to him. but then he learns about the dast facility near the town and all the strange happenings that have occurred lately. it's the whole "seemingly normal suburban town with a dark secret involving the government" thing. later, helen and five take shelter in the town when on the run from dast soldiers, and hiley shelters them and eventually has kaira (next character) come over to their side. kaira is a former dast employee who kinda got manipulated into doing her job which is kidnapping people to experiment on. she's oblivious to how bad her objective is until a mission goes horribly wrong, one of her coworkers dies, and the person they were trying to retrieve back to the facilities (who just so happens to be blaise from the eas scenario) tries to convince kaira to leave. she declines because that guy just k/ lled one of her coworkers right in front of her, but she starts to come back to reality in what she (and dast as a whole) is doing. her last straw is when she is sent to retrieve helen and five. long story short huge battle happens between kaira and one of her higher ups (urie) and she defects and joins the two elementals (and hiley.) urie gets really mad at her and promises that dast will destroy everything she loves if she keeps on going down this path. kaira pretends not to be intimidated by urie, but in reality she now lives in fear of her old life coming back to haunt her. the four main characters make it their mission to subdue rouge elementals/kinetics who have gone on destructive rampages trying to get revenge after their usually horrible past. their goal in the end is to hopefully redeem them (because k/ lling would make them too much like dast in kaira's eyes) although the missions don't always go as planned. {cont in the notes and credits}