[M4F] The Real Life of Imaginary Friends
Imaginary Friends.
You're probably familiar with that term but what are we really? For some children we are just that - figments of their imagination. For others, well...we are something far more.
I'm going to have to handwave a lot of this since the story spans eons beyond human understanding. At some point in history fae and daemons waged war with the realm of man as a battleground. After several battles, the worlds of fae were cut off from humankind and only a few gates were open for passage. Then came the Sundering and it got easier for fae and daemon to pass between realms. That's the just of it.
Oh so what are we? Well, we are those fae and daemons that got caught between the realms when those barriers went up. We could not go home nor could we tread fully alongside humans. What we could do, however, were appear to those children that had some fae or daemon blood.
So that brings us more or less to today. I'm one of these Tweeners (cool name, huh?) and have connected with too many humans to count over my time here. Most of the time they forget about me and go on, living a happy life. But you...you were different.
See you forgot about me for a while and had a life. School, college, a first job - all those things. And then one day, after a bad date, you apparently remembered me and just like that I was yanked back to your world. Into an apartment that is strange to me but home to you.
Which explains why I'm waiting when you get home at some ungodly hour and wave...or I think I'm waving - it's hard to remember exactly what shape I took with you.
"Hey... remember me?"
A modern fantasy take on imaginary friends. Looking to craft a story where I reemerge in your adult life...for reasons. What do I look like? What's my name? Let's figure this out! My prompts are open if one catches your eye.