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AI art '🚇 Lyra's Underpass Diary, Entry 7-10' with user description 'We last saw Lyra, a blue-haired emo girl, who never wears panties, before Christmas. It was so long ago that many of you weren't even born yet... here on BW 😆

I never finished her story though. Maybe now is the right time to do it, as my contribution to the "Alter Ego" Challenge 😏 (And I have no credits to generate anything new 🙈)

@cef_ultra @octavian @warmicestudios @parda @cro_bo @terror2 @barry915 @bad77 @thoughtzi @candylover @gildenstein @reptorn @artfx85 @kendarfulgrim @doggomage @zerogroupe21 @goobygubby @ririfake @casca_kirei-onna @a_casual_prompter

So... At the next interchange, Lyra rises with the crowd and slips out just before the doors close behind her.

She changes lines. Onto an older branch of the subway, where the stations are smaller, the lights dimmer, and the trains rattle through tunnels that seem to belong to another age.

Twenty minutes later, she emerges onto a quiet dark street. Night has settled over the city.

Lyra walks three blocks beneath flickering streetlamps until she reaches an old apartment building squeezed between two newer towers. Its stone façade is stained by decades of rain, its entrance narrow and unremarkable. She pushes through the heavy door and crosses the deserted lobby, presses the highest button... The elevator groans upward.

Four.

Seven.

Ten.

Twelve.

With every floor, something in her changes. The shy girl who spent the afternoon avoiding people's gazes seems to disappear somewhere between the floors.

Ding.

The elevator stops.

Lyra steps into a narrow service corridor, climbs the final flight of stairs, and pushes open a steel door.

Cold night air rushes toward her.

The rooftop stretches beneath a black sky, surrounded by a glittering wilderness of windows, antennas and distant neon. Far below, traffic flows through the streets like rivers of red and white light.

Lyra walks toward the little maintenance shed beside the elevator machinery. Hidden behind a loose panel is a narrow metal case.

She opens it.

Black fabric.

Gloves.

A mask.

Cat ears...

Lyra smiles. Only slightly.

A sleek black superhero outfit hugs her silhouette, practical and almost entirely matte, broken only by subtle dark-blue details that catch the city lights. Her dark-blue ponytail spills freely behind her now, dancing in the wind.

She walks to the edge of the roof. The girl who couldn't look a stranger in the eye stands twelve floors above the street and calmly looks down at the entire city.

A siren wails somewhere in the distance. Her eyes narrow behind the mask.

By daylight, she is Lyra — the quiet emo girl in the back of the room, hood up, headphones around her neck, hoping nobody will notice her.

But night belongs to someone else. Someone bolder. Someone dangerous.

Lyra places one boot on the parapet.

The wind catches her ponytail.

A tiny grin appears on her lips.

“Okay,” she whispers.

Then she pulls the mask firmly into place.

“Let’s see who needs me tonight.”'

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🚇 Lyra's Underpass Diary, Entry 7-10

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AI art "Glass challenge tests 🪟"

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Glass challenge tests 🪟

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AI art 'Myconids' with user description 'The term "mushroom girls" might invoke lustful fantasies in some.

However, reality is often disappointing...'

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Myconids

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AI art "Fruit painting"

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Fruit painting

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AI art "R.O.X.I Does she like it?"

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R.O.X.I Does she like it?

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AI art "Musketeer's squad"

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Musketeer's squad

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AI art 'Wolfbound Beauty for @hollenwulf 🐺' with user description 'I brought out one of my most beautiful creations for this one.
Show the man some love, he absolutely earned it! 🐺🖤

@octavian @peterco @warmicestudios @smut317 @gildenstein @casca_kirei-onna @heihund @bad77 @a_casual_prompter @parda @terror2 @hollenwulf @varcolac @zerogroupe21 @goobygubby @cro_bo @saltymajor778 @zesoul @azariel'

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Wolfbound Beauty for @hollenwulf 🐺

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AI art

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Untitled

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AI art 'Kura: Cold Shower' with user description 'Did you miss her? She didn’t notice. ❄️⛓️
Kura is back, as cold and expressionless as the day she left. She doesn’t need words to command the room, and she certainly doesn’t need a smile to capture your attention. The silence has ended, but her icy stare remains the same.'

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Kura: Cold Shower

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AI art '🛀 Girls in Bathroom'

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🛀 Girls in Bathroom

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AI art 'Your favorite girl'

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Your favorite girl

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AI art 'Storia' with user description 'From a world setting I had in mind years ago — a world based on stories. Here's a little taste of that world.'

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Storia

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AI art 'Fern - 4k' with user description 'Again i'm testing how to get higher quality images,
It's more "soft" than my usual because i want you guys to focus more on the quality 🙂‍↕️
If you have any question or need some help don't hesitate and ask me down here in the comments ❤️

Also if you have any idea or request of something you want to see just ask and if i like the idea i will realize it for you, post it and tag you on the post ❤️

ENJOY ❤️❤️❤️'

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Fern - 4k

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AI art 'Magazine Cover: Kura' with user description 'Next in the line -> Kura

Oh my dear Kura, the fisrt girl I created in a complete set and diferent poses.

She has something especial for me. That cold stare is appealing. I guess the shower is her natural habitat.'

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Magazine Cover: Kura

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AI art 'Hoodies' with user description 'Some people wear hoodies because they're comfortable.

Some people wear hoodies because they're cozy.

And some people somehow turn an oversized hoodie into an entire personality.

@octavian @peterco @warmicestudios @smut317 @gildenstein @cef_ultra @casca_kirei-onna @heihund @bad77 @a_casual_prompter @parda @terror2'

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Hoodies

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AI art "Cat girl Herta"

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Cat girl Herta

AI art "Sun vs Moon"

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Sun vs Moon

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AI art "Cloud girl"

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Cloud girl

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AI art 'Primordial Ink and the Inkblight' with user description 'From the setting of Storia.
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This post was made at the request of @heihund to know more about the world, and of @casca_kirei-onna to know more about the black hand girl from the post: https://betterwaifu.com/post/jh6djf4
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Primordial Ink.
It is found in a place called "the Inkwell", a large pit or a well at the heart of a crystal mountain.
Said to have been used in the making of the world of Storia and the Great Story, the ink was put on the white space of the world and was shaped into letters and meaning. Letters became words. Words became lines. Lines became chapters. And eventually, a story was written.

The ink a powerful a substance that can be used to change a story or even make a new one. It is a very valuable substance that has to be held with great care and responsibility. Ink exists in all things, making up the core essence and narrative identity of all things as stories. All stories have some level of influence and even power on the world around them, though most are too weak or small to have any effect. But they are an important part of one's identity and sense of self.

However, the ink is also dangerous if mishandled, as any character that comes into direct contact with the primordial ink runs the risk of blotting a part of their story. The order that is harvesting the ink from the Inkwell are known as the Whitehands — named for their all white clothing. In order to prevent a serious staining by the ink, they wear all white so as to notice the stains quickly. Additionally, they are all light or paled skinned and have hair colors that are bright, all to detect and spot any stains if they have any. This of course had caused a divide and prejudice by the Whitehands against other groups of people that did not fit into the requirements, while others have viewed the dark skinned people as blessed by the ink and the narritive. But that is a story for another time.

Inkblight can cause narritive gaps in their story, which if severe enough can result in the lose of memory, confusion, losing parts of one's identity, and the loss of the self. This is not an uncommon condition among the Whitehands, and one or two can be spotted in any group. Those that have learned how to handle, use, and apply the ink safely are known as Scribes, with a large group of them known as the Order of Scribes. The scribes are professionals who are capable of reading a story of something directly and apply the ink at the right layers without causing more damage. They are the ones most capable of treating Inkblight, changing details in a story, or creating a new one. The scribes restore stained stories by relying on previous records of their story and being, retellings of their story, in order to fill or add to the lacunae properly. Scribes have to make sure their work does not cause more narritive gaps in the story either, as it can again cause some confusion, sometimes forced to add details about their own connection to how the restoration was done to create coherence in the story.

But, it's not a perfect solution. Their restoration cannot restore what was implied or unsaid between the lines. They cannot restore any information that wasn't told in their story or mentioned. Not all details about someone are said outright, but are infered. Not all moments about their lives are recorded, and only portions of them is, whatever was necessary for the Narrative of the story. The worse the staining and the Inkblight, the harder it is to restore it to what it was before.

Unfortunately, some stories are too ruined to be restored in the same way. And such cases, eventually, a scribe isn't restoring a person anymore. They use records, testimony, journals, legends, and surviving passages to write a story about someone who should plausibly be that person. They become constructed from the story of themselves rather than the self that produced their story. Such people are referred by scribes as Textbound — somebody restored so extensively that they can no longer meaningfully exist beyond their documented narrative. Their personality, memories, and identity are largely reconstructed from surviving text and testimony. They are bound to what was written about them.'

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Primordial Ink and the Inkblight

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Animated Magazine!

Animated Magazine!

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