In the fractured reality of BMC x ULTIMATE, two parallel worlds stand in delicate tension as split halves of humanity that inherit the individual power of neo-gens. The Positive Zone, home to Ultfinites, synthetic crystal-infused mutants forged through generations of controlled evolution and imperfected breeding. Driven by a vision of forced evolution, while the Negative Zone houses the mass-produced Armigers who believe in the sanctity of creationism and wield Metagallions, techno-magical armaments that house forgotten cosmic truths, remnants of an era long buried in war and betrayal. Connecting these realms is Itea Eroemil, a multi-tiered purgatory in the form of a hierarchical city entwined with golden leylines of geocosmic nanites that uphold the biological cycle of existence and serves as a nuclear bunker of the Megiddo’s Sanctuary, a splintered supercolony that observes the world, holding many old relics and genetical experiments tied to an old period known as the Primaldian Age, a lost era where holy entities known as the Lux Order where charged with upholding life. It first appeared in the form of an immense cosmic tree known as the Sephirotic Yggdrasil, sustaining Itea with bio-mechanical pillars that serve as a hierarchial network and as gateways to an unfathomable lifeblood and power source from a sentient reactor known as the Nexus. Which remains the key to unlocking an alchemically shifting mass that dictates the base matter of existence itself by allowing genes to mutate, evolve, and ascend beyond its limitations. However, betrayal and propaganda shattered this utopia, and the last to inherit the Nexus’ remnants are bio-weaponized hybrid subjects known as Vessels that have been stuck in a cycle as they attempt to find the truth. During this time period, the outrage of a bio-weapon creature in the disastrous event known as the Genesis War dispersed the Nexus into a radioactive spew of energy, opening an unstable passage between invading worlds and has created a passage in the Megiddo Sanctuary known as the azure garden, said to be the passage to the promised land where the origins of the world are hidden through the Nexus. Hiding the truth of life’s cycle.
Among the first wielders of this forbidden power was the False Zodiac, an entity whose origins are obscured by sin and suppressed across multiple eras. Yet the Nexus appears to be guiding people through a neurotic signal within the Megiddo Sanctuary’s branches for hidden truths. Leading to a conspiracy and revolution upon the leylines’ sectors being uncovered with an energy source known as Ichor, causing the Ultfinites and Armigers to fight in an everlasting struggle of determining the future of humanity between magic and technology. All while an emerging force of metamorphosizing phenomenon known as Nosoimones led by the Legion Realm, a mysterious conglomerate of techno-organic hybrids that wield the collective power of the mutative Cataclysm and nuclear bio-organic mechs, following an exiled figure tied to the Genesis War and enforces selective survival, deciding who is worthy of “ascension” into the next cycle of reality by hunting any faction to rule with an iron fist and convert the last remnants of humanity. They view themselves as liberators that free individuals from an existential prison, even as they warp flesh and mind into grotesque, ever-morphing forms.
The Protagonists
Elpis and Lyra – The Orphic Vein and Melodic Oracle
A cyborg assassin and combat medic belonging to the sacred Talon Regime, an aerospace order guarding the sacred frontier of the known world. Elpis carries a hereditary illness that has twisted his genes, manifesting in the form of a parasitic snake that saps from his heart and reconstructs his cells. Causing him to rely on atomic-powered bio-technology due to how he lacks a neo-gen due to how the more he fights, the more unstable his body becomes, forcing him to search for the promised land within the Megiddo Sanctuary, an outerworld anomaly sensed through his Chromesthesia, drives him to seek a cure, a truth hidden in the forbidden depths of the world’s past and to purge both sides of the war. Yet he struggles due to his lack of emotions and sense of self, driven by a compulsive desire for one thing; freedom.
Guided by fragmented memories of an ancient feud, Elpis embarks on a journey through the war-torn lands of Itea, piecing together the shattered history of a conflict that predates even the Primaldian Age. Alongside him is Lyra, his sister and a homunculi supersoldier who is endlessly hunted, tested, and broken by Nosoimones for her miraculous Nibelung Pendant. Awoken from stasis, Lyra seeks to restore her power and repent for generations of failed transmutation experiments and her past in the Vessels Project with the lives she’s failed to save haunting her through forbidden knowledge. Determined to settle the difference between Ultfinites and Armigers upon the awakening of a pathogenic conduit spreads bio-mechanical superweapons split off from Megiddo as part of a conspiracy surrounding the two’s missing idol that developed a genetical cache.
Together, Elpis and Lyra fight against many factions in order to destabilize war and guide the lost Vessels through making the choice of erasing the Nexus, or completing their purpose.
Lin and Yu Mei – Heir of Longwang and Kuro Mao
Lin and Yu Mei are a pair of Nephillim, descendants of the Primaldian Age’s cross-breeding that lived amongst a dynasty underneath the Lux Order during the creation of the Vessels. Yet the world they were born into didn’t know how to accept them, seeing their breed as forbidden. Their father, once a proud member of the Lux Order imposed his views and tales onto Lin in order to help mold his future as the dragon’s successor with the Nexus. But their mother was often dismissed due to her genes being altered through forming a pact with her father. Her brother, Levita, viewed himself as a true heir due to embodying the traditions of the Lux Order and had no regard for being torn between his split heritage. Tragedy struck Lin and Yu Mei, causing the two to go their own ways in life. Yu Mei sought to start over as the tiger of the earth, joining a group of yakuza and detectives that investigate the underground for crimes left behind by an underground mobster that has left behind a series of killings with an energized drug. While Lin walks the path of a Devil Hunter to investigate the truth behind the Nephillim’s past and search for the family’s former relic, Autochronos, a time-manipulating blade tied to the fall of a former supercollider connected to the neurotic signal’s network that commands the Vessels and has been binding multiple dimensions via leylines.
The twins’ Nephillim heritage makes them heretics in the eyes of the Lux Order and an anomaly to the Abyssal Empire, paradoxical beings who shouldn’t exist for failing their trials in life. Yet they strive to go beyond and redefine the core values of their family by restoring their birthright and honor.
Ritsueto and Isobel – The Omen Prince and Papillion’s Riftblade
From the remote base of Tehom, Ritsueto serves as the prince of the Abyssal Empire, who believes that the flesh humanity was born with is a prison, seeking to return all beings to their primal shape-shifting form where consciousness is free from identity, limitation and morality. All in order to undo the damage of the Forbidden Zodiac and eternally preserve the records of the Lux Order through enforced order. He adamantly hunts down Elpis after their first encounter, seeking to test his limits. The Abyssal Empire’s supersoldiers, the Obyrith are ever-changing figures that are able to morph into weapons and shift through dimensions, or even sacrifice their bodies to become massive living constructs. They work with bio-mechanical deities that ruled within the Lux Order, preserving their minds in a collective consciousness carried within Ritsueto through a failed conduit.
Betrayed by his own order and cast into deep slumber, Ritsueto awakens in a world he barely recognizes, one where the Lux Order’s history has been rewritten while his distant sister, Isobel, has been living amongst Itea as a secret guardian intertwined with the signal. Driven by visions of the future, Ritsueto seeks to do anything for his perceived “greater good” within the Yggdrasil, all while Isobel believes that in a world so fractured by war, the only way forward is to embrace the past to unlock one’s inner fluidity by searching for the Lux Order’s return.
Brown and Shan – The Ecliptic Warlord and Celestial Gloom
Two proteges to the Matriarch of the Revolt Tyrants, Brown and Shan pursue any lost Nephillim and performs guerilla tactics in order to rebel against Itea’s order. Once born as lab subjects for unethical experiments designed to harness the elemental properties of nephillim blood, the two vowed to stick together and built a sense of family within their resistance. They believe they can stabilize the Yggdrasil regardless of those that want to burn it away such as the Regime, wanting to ensure that no one else suffers as they did. Seeking to overthrow those that dictate over others to ensure the world lives in peace upon entering a killing game.
Crossed Fates
As these four pairs traverse through war-torn landscapes and inter-dimensional hordes, they forge alliances, uncover long-buried secrets, and confront their deepest emotions. Their destined paths shall intertwine in the fight for the ultimate principle, a dying wish that echoes through the fractured realities. What is the true nature of existence? Is reality bound by fate, or can the laws of creation be rewritten? In the war between evolution and creation, between entropy and control, the fate of the multiverse teeters on the edge of revelation. And at its core, the shattered relics of an ancient war whisper of a being that once sought to transcend existence itself…
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