I remember reading your sweet 50 word tasker between Ashuri and Saddie in Witchery and Cap'n Wither. (So cute!)
You gift us with some background on Cap'n Wither and the terror of the Void. It rips him from what he knew and strips away who and what he was. Ascending from the black puddle he fights mightily to escape the Void. The floating concrete islands make me think of video games and how the characters had to jump to the different levels. There's a good amount of battle, weaponry, corpses and gore to the action as the story carries along and he journeys forward (are the Void creatures ones like him that have been pulled in and fully corrupted or are they natural denizens of the Void?) and makes it to the island that is protected from the Void. Furious, the Void wants him back but he is able to summon a galaxy hopper and take off. (Though I'm not sure how he knew to tap the pillar to do this.) Poor man, now decayed and changed into a Wither, knowing that he's missing what made him himself and having to come make amends with the himself of the now and carry forward - with a purpose to fight the corruption of the Void.
But that time shall come when the right man in the wrong place shows up. But that time shall come, and without mercy make me live a farce of that entire tragedy. But that time shall come.
Of course it will come (well it sorta did), since you're writing it. ;^)
UwU ~ Thanks for reading and thanks for the compliments! Indeed, the 50-word tasker came first which then lead to the creation of Witchery and Cap'n Wither. Indeed, other than introducing the Void properly, this served as his final moments in the Void itself. Indeed, I utilized Xen (from Half-Life) and some fan projects that feature a void-like creature in a spin-off series where Deadmos suffers in the afterlife of the Madness Combat setting. (Indeed, I was reacting to their version of an animated void with my literary version of such.) The creatures of the Void are all victims of the Void sickness (which we see in Saddie and Octo later on); only a few are inhabitants like the spider-vestige limbs. Indeed, if a victim long enough in the Void, corruption will take over - be corrupted longer and over time you begin to wield the powers of the Void to an extent as seen in Flipping the Script. Stay in the Void long enough and yah'll begin to be able to tell from the Void's enforced reality and the bland reality that underlies the warped reality. He'd been a Wither for a long time, and forever changed he is that he's severed from his original Other thanks to the annihilatory beast that is the Void and now he has to cope with this new Other of which is all to alien to him.Indeed, and I shall as long as I need to make the ultimate scene happen! The Final Battle against [Data beyond this point doesn't exist... Generating false data to cover up the mess... Error, error... the Void between Him and His True name cannot be filled... Patching over and redirecting...}
Thanks again for taking the time to elucidate regarding the Void, its denizens, the sickness and the Captain. (I should make up a facts sheet to help me organize these points so I don't muck up anything when we co-write. 😁)
Hue hue hue! Have fun making the facts sheet!