Aspen Rayne

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No pursue, but I do have chase. So have a threat that is 100% meant.

5/ know where the 2% comes into play? Yeah that's the percentage of trans people in the US (or was when I was writing). Adesina realizes she's acearo. The ending is bittersweet. She gains freedom from the government not allowing them to be who they are. But she loses friends along the way.

4/ and lives on a farm, working closely and getting close to others. She meets a lesbian couple, a gay disabled man, her roommate is nonbinary. Some of these are Elites, some merely didn't fit in the world they were meant to be forced to.

3/ However Adesina is an "elite" or "evolved" depending on who you ask. A subset of this generation (about 2% that number matters) that kept genes from super soldiers created during the Last War. Adesina is discovered during graduation and has to go on the run. From there she meets other Elite...

2/ So I started this in the 2010s and it was originally thought up of as a Uglies fanfic. I never wrote the fanfic because it very quickly diverted away.

But the story follows Adesina, a 18 year old, about to find out what job she would have in her very cishetnormative world (this is important)...

1/ Well, I started editing my oldest completed draft. But I do have a wip i've been working on for about a decade (wild because now it takes me about 4 months to write a whole novel)

But I still love that novel and want to get back to it. I just forgot where I was in it...

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Well I've disappeared for a week and switched projects, so now we're going to be answering from my urban fantasy novel.

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Maybe it's a stretch, but in a magitech world, science doesn't really come up as a concept. So instead have a bit with knowledge (the only synonym I had) that's about the science of oppression.

justified, it's justified.

because he's seen aether weapons used "correctly." Magic shapes him by proximity, it's why he believes hesitation gets people killed.

Captain Vahl(Ant): Uses sanctioned aether tech, boundary plates, crowd tools, detection lamps, weapons. He treats legality like physics. If protocol says it's...

violence snaps. That's where lives get shaped.

Meralyn(SC): minimal aether use, office utility stuff. Her life is shaped by procedure, not power. Magical enforcement makes her cling to documentation, until she learns paper can be a knife.

Hosk(SC): Barely casts. He trusts tools and bodies,...

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Most of the cast in book 1 (and all the books in this series in all honesty) can use magic. But the main cast:

Fira (MC): Uses aether practically as a healer. But their real magic comes from the fragment of Vortanor in them. They can feel escalation points before...

In a smaller sense, there are charter boards and guild combines but all they do is negotiate profit and quotes, not rights, and they have no real power. Cities and villages can have their own councils but they only have power until the empire says otherwise.

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The Xopis Empire is at its core a dictatorship posing as a monarchy. There are councils and power groups, but they exist mostly to advice, compete, and take blame. Any real authority stays strictly with the sovereign.

Baby!!

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No billow, but I do have swell.

One of my current WIPs is a school of magic duology. It takes place in a highly stratified society. Only the Right People can get into the College. If a student accidentally kills someone, they'll get expelled and will have to pay for the funeral.

#Febchantment day 17

WIP 1: It varies by country. Most countries place an age limit on when one can start learning it due to the danger. It’s often taught only at a university level. The 7 Empires is unique in teaching people as young as 9 years old but thats because-

reassignment. By the time you "get a hearing" your life is already wrecked.

it's "can the state document you as guilty cleanly."
There is no universal right to an attorney. Representation is something you buy, inherit, or get through favor. Most people stand alone.

Pretrial punishment is routine. Detention. Asset freezes. Ration downgrades. Travel locks. Work...

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Empire courts don't exist to find the truth. They exist to make outcomes look legitimate. THere are no juries. Verdicts come from appointed adjudicators who answer upward, not outward. A "trial" feels like an audit. The real question is rarely "did you do it"...

Witness-mark powders that tag you for later. "Nonlethal" crowd tools that still poison streets and lungs. The law is as physical as it is paperwork.

threaten lives.
- aether denial and scrub work
- unlicensed warding and boundary setting
- record and seal manipulation
- wide area destabilization

And this is all enforced by the law using magic. Posted boundaries you can't cross without getting dropped. permit locks keyed to seals. ...

tracking. Clinic ledgers. Guild rolls. information. Audit lamps that can spot residue patterns. You don't get arrested for being dangerous, you get arrested for being unapproved.

Some techniques are forbidden even if you're a competent caster, because they threaten control more than they...

are hunted down and killed.

Enforcement of any restriction starts with paper. Permits. Registries. Gear requirements. "Safety" codes. Ratin tiers. Travel restrictions. The system squeezes citizens into compliance long before it sends anyone with a weapon.

Then comes surveillance. Device serial...

issue," which means permits, fees, inspections, and someone else deciding what you get to do.

God magic is different. It doesn't come from aether. You can't meter it. You can't tax it. You can't reliably predict it. So it is functionally illegal. (Publically it doesn't exist) And those with it...

It's common enough that it hardly reads as magic to anyone. It's just normal life.
The law doesn't ban that. It doesn't try to. It tries to control everything else beyond that. The moment aether use becomes powerful, public, or hard to predict, it stops being a "skill" and becomes a "safety...

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1/? Another long post because there's a lot here:
Law and magic are intrinsically tangled because aether is everywhere. Most people can do small, practical aether work, cleaning grime off tools, warming a cup, sealing a tear in cloth, nudging a stubborn latch. ...

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2 for 1 on the word today. Some might say that's some great value. 🥁

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In a local sense, that would be the imperial police and route security. On an empire wide scale, that is the Fliwarn, the empire's very corrupt military force. They are the ones who decide how and when laws apply.