Gen One
Ethereal is the protagonist of Generation One. She's an albino, a person devoid of her natural coloring due to a genetic defect. She lives a quiet and peaceful though isolated life behind locked doors with a small yard surrounded by large, white walls. Ethereal initially doesn't mind the situation. She's been told she's an important part of a plan for The Company, the organization who has been taking care of her.
Eden Yonder is the one out of the three people Ethereal knows who treats her with kindness and love. She chooses to go with him when he breaks her free from the compound. It's then that he tells her the truth. Ethereal was one of a multitude of albinos created by The Company in order for them to sell them to rich, adoptive parents as the outside world glorifies those without color. The process in which the children were created, however, left the results with too many defects and disabilities. Ethereal came out the strongest, so she was kept in order to grow her in an environment devoid of love or care so when The Company eventually used her body as a baby factory to make healthier albino children to sell she wouldn't care about them being taken away.
Though they've escaped the building, the two aren't completely free. Eden failed to get the evidence needed to bring The Company's illegal works to light. He did, however, steal an injection they created that when given to Ethereal turns her green. This allows her to hide in plain sight while Eden and his friends continue to try to get the required evidence.
Eden and Ethereal are given a house to live in within the suburbs of the city of Berrybrook. They take on the role of brother and sister, and Ethereal uses the name 'Meadow' while green. She is introduced quickly to Eden's best friend, Blaze Vivid, and his nephew that he's raising, Amaranth.
Amaranth wastes no time getting around Ethereal's shyness. He takes her to meet his friends: Allium Charm, Frost Chill, Sunset Glory, and Sunflower Morning. Ethereal gets along with them easily enough but struggles in hiding from them all the basic things about life she doesn't know that she should. Eden home-schools her for a time until Ethereal manages to catch up─ thanks to her now revealed genius levels of intelligence. There are the ups and downs of life, and Ethereal cannot imagine ever going back into her cage.
Years pass, and Ethereal is in high school. A looming threat puts more pressure on the situation. The injection Eden took is limited, and Ethereal wakes up one morning to discover its duration is steadily decreasing. Little progress has been made in outing The Company, yet there's nothing more she can do but wait and hope.
Despite her worry of having to disappear once she can't be green anymore, Ethereal experiences some romance during her teenage years. She dates Allium for two years until the stress of her slowly hinting at her situation breaks them apart. Amaranth is determined to be with her, having been in love with Ethereal since the first time they met. Ethereal hesitates, but Amaranth promises that if she disappears he'll just have to come find her. It doesn't take that much longer before it comes out that Blaze and Amaranth work for The Community, the group opposite of The Company who's been working to free her, and they've known her secret the whole time.
The worst comes to pass. The injection runs out, and Ethereal is kidnapped by The Company who finally found her location. They artificially inseminate her as soon as they learn she's ovulating, and Ethereal experiences abuse at the hands of a cold-hearted worker, Stratus. Ethereal's attempt at escaping quickly fails, but she's able to find a solution by way of a high ranking employee, Jac. This Jac turns out to be Allium's father, who took off when his son was still an infant. Ethereal sways him to her side, and he gets in touch The Community. He and Ethereal escape a gun fight held in the building where a waiting Eden snatches Ethereal into a grand hug. She berates him for not having told her a secret she learned before she was taken─ that they are actually brother and sister.
Ethereal and Amaranth take time to recover while The Company's vast corruption is revealed. Ethereal has to deal with the abuse she endured and the worry of her becoming pregnant. Amaranth does his best to cope with the fact that he'd killed, having to shoot Stratus during the gun fight. Both find solace with each other, and Ethereal decides to keep her child when she does become pregnant. The two promise to marry in the future while Amaranth explains he plans to keep working with The Community's resources to discover who murdered his parents, as he does not believe their deaths were an accident like he was told. An albino baby boy, Wisp, is eventually born. Ethereal and Amaranth then marry at a beautiful beach venue once Amaranth's schooling is complete.
Ethereal and Amaranth have created an idyllic life for their children. Coal is their third and youngest son. He is the protagonist for the Generation Two. Coal begins recounting his story by saying he used to believe his life was near perfect, but that he understands now life can never truly be that way. He, his family, and his friends spend a normal day together. However, when Amaranth departs to get ice cream, he doesn't return.
No one is able to figure out what happened to him. Not the police. Not even the special officers whose jobs were created solely to protect Ethereal's family from retribution. Coal only gets a glimpse at understanding his father's disappearance when he hears Blaze getting from Ethereal Amaranth's goal of finding information from another mysterious group. Ethereal genuinely believes he has been killed. Coal grows depressed hearing this, and it takes some help from his group of friends to guide him out of it.
Two other large problems plague Coal's months. Ethereal is also pregnant with another child, a pregnancy Amaranth didn't get to know about before he was taken. The new child causes Ethereal to be constantly sick. Then there's Rosemary, Coal's adopted cousin who comes to struggle with a custody case between Eden and his wife and her birth father. Although her birth father eventually wins the case, he sees the grief this puts on Rosemary. He gives up his rights to her to allow her to stay with her chosen family. Ethereal eventually has to go into labor early, but she gives birth to a new daughter, Glade.
Coal wishes on shooting stars for the universe to bring back his father. The only thing that happens is that years go by. Mimosa, one of his friends and Allium's daughter, convinces him to try to give a romantic relationship a chance as she's been obsessed with him since they were little. Coal agrees to one date and gives her the answer that she's only ever been his friend. Another girl, however, does spark some passion. Coal has a fling with a classmate, Candy, and the two share their first time before Coal discovers the passion wasn't meant to be for the long haul.
Unlike his friends, Coal can't decide on his career goal by the time the end of high school comes around. He works at a local bookstore instead of going to college and puts together a meet-up group when the loneliness of all his friends being gone weighs too heavily. It doesn't go well at first, so Coal adopts a dog, Doodle, to be his companion. Prism, Coal's older brother, helps him get the group running better where Coal makes several new friends. An incident helping one of those friends from a dangerous person inspires him to become a cop. The incident also scares Holly, Mimosa's older twin sister, into kissing Coal from a fear of losing him, leading to the two dating and Mimosa to become infuriated.
Amaranth abruptly returns home one day much to everyone's immense shock. He explains The Company was behind his capture, but when it's revealed to him Coal knows he's lying he simply tells Coal to stay out of it. Ethereal sadly must crush the joyous atmosphere the next morning by revealing she has lung cancer. The doctors are optimistic it'll go into remission, yet Ethereal has steadily been weakening over the years to concerning levels. It goes so far as to make Coal think she has passed away when he returns home from a party one afternoon to hear Desire, his older sister, crying on the phone. He runs away in distress.
This running away leads to Coal being captured by the same man who took Amaranth, Buckeye, for Coal had accidentally opened some of Amaranth's secret files to send the mysterious group on his scent now. His violence-loving captor beats Coal into submission and sets him working in the group's warehouse during the day. It doesn't take long for Coal to understand Buckeye has been acting and abducting without permission, but nothing comes of this until the group's leaders come for a surprise inspection. They discover Coal, and all three of them learn important truths. The two leaders are Coal's grandparents. They hadn't been murdered by the group as Amaranth thought, but faked their deaths because they were high-ranking in the group and wished to keep Blaze and Amaranth out of curse of their family business. Buckeye attacks Coal when they try to send him home, breaking ribs and blinding his right eye in the scuffle.
The loss of half his sight prevents Coal from becoming a police officer, so he plans to one day run the bookstore instead. Mimosa then sends waves, having been off her medicine for her mental difficulties, by pretending to be Holly in order to finally sleep with Coal. She tampers with his condom to cause a pregnancy only to threaten to abort the baby when Coal still refuses to love her. Through a lot of fighting, anger, and pain, Mimosa comes to her senses, Coal promises to forgive her one day, and he and Holly mend their relationship threatened by the deception and unintended betrayal. A girl, Ember, is born, and the passing of years sets everything right once more.
Dianthus is Coal and Holly's youngest daughter, and the pink protagonist for Generation Three. She learns the pain of loss early, being there when Ethereal succumbs to her weak body. Amaranth has her promise to keep herself healthy to prevent her from also dying early, and this is one of the inspirations for Dianthus deciding to become a doctor. She studies hard from a young age, being a girl with a strong sense of both responsibility and good management skills. Dianthus is able to balance work and fun and so wastes no time inviting the new brown student, Timber Mountain to the summer festival. Eden's death, unfortunately, stops the peaceful afternoon.
Timber is able to comfort Dianthus through her grief. The two become fast friends. Such fast friends, in fact, that Dianthus lies to her family for months in order to arrange a meet-up for Timber with his mother who Timber's father, Russet, is adamant he not contact. The two are hit by terrible and sad luck when they find the strays cats they were tending to at the scheduled location were murdered. Timber's mother also doesn't show up, and Dianthus accidentally falls into the lake. At the hospital where she recovers, Russet reveals Timber's mother is a cold women who messed with people like she did with them.
Dianthus's part of the family then temporarily moves to Tinseltown before a hurricane hits an already drenched Berrybrook. She and her twin sister, Gilly, get to experience what it's like to live in the land of movie stars and adjust well. Their older sister, Ember, on the other hand, has a hard time after becoming pregnant by her older, secret boyfriend. His age causes some problems, especially with Coal, but the two convince everyone their relationship is serious, and Ember gives birth to an albino boy, Flurry.
Back in Berrybrook for high school, Dianthus does well for herself going into her senior year. She's the top student, student council president, and already takes several college classes at the prestigious Twilight North. Things get troublesome when she volunteers to be the project partner for the rough and gruff new kid, Arbor Thicket. He and Dianthus get off on the wrong foot, but an increasing amount of time spent together smooths out the bumps, leading to them dating. Arbor even trusts her with his heartbreaking past, having been kidnapped and sexually abused by a doctor.
She and Arbor do their best to maintain a long distance relationship when he goes overseas after high school. Dianthus's anxiety and stress from school cuts them off for a while, but she is surprised how forgiving Arbor is when he returns. The two date again. Arbor also agrees to move with her when she, Gilly, and Gilly's girlfriend, Confetti, move to Tinseltown at the end of the upcoming summer.
Merlot, her younger brother, unknowingly helps Arbor in getting him the little sibling he always wanted beforehand. Merlot hides Willow, an abused transgender friend of his, in his room with Dianthus eventually walking into the secret. Merlot and Willow run away for a time not knowing Arbor's parents wished to take Willow in. Willow thus is adopted by the Thickets when the wayward teens return home, and life seems content.
Dianthus's life takes a dark turn when a surprise Timber promised her is him revealing he works for The Company before knocking her out. She wakes in a pretty prison built for her where Timber tells her his disturbed tale. Buckeye was Russet's father, who was killed in order to prevent Coal's death. Russet trained Timber, who is unable to feel anything, to become close to the Vivids all while masterminding many of the unfortunate events experienced in their lives. Timber reveals he also arranged the murder of Gilly and Merlot. He then keeps her locked up, using her for his physical wishes, and making it impossible to tell whose children she's pregnant with, as Dianthus had slept with Arbor the night before Timber's reveal.
Timber doesn't find out that fact until Dianthus gives birth to her twin girls, Cinnamon and Nutmeg. It is obvious Cinnamon belongs Arbor and Nutmeg belongs to Timber, a fact confirmed when Cinnamon is given a paternity test. Timber kills the undesired Cinnamon before turning his gun on Dianthus as he sees he can't control her. Dianthus can only think of her failed promise to Amaranth as Timber pulls the trigger.
Years pass, and Ethereal is in high school. A looming threat puts more pressure on the situation. The injection Eden took is limited, and Ethereal wakes up one morning to discover its duration is steadily decreasing. Little progress has been made in outing The Company, yet there's nothing more she can do but wait and hope.
Despite her worry of having to disappear once she can't be green anymore, Ethereal experiences some romance during her teenage years. She dates Allium for two years until the stress of her slowly hinting at her situation breaks them apart. Amaranth is determined to be with her, having been in love with Ethereal since the first time they met. Ethereal hesitates, but Amaranth promises that if she disappears he'll just have to come find her. It doesn't take that much longer before it comes out that Blaze and Amaranth work for The Community, the group opposite of The Company who's been working to free her, and they've known her secret the whole time.
The worst comes to pass. The injection runs out, and Ethereal is kidnapped by The Company who finally found her location. They artificially inseminate her as soon as they learn she's ovulating, and Ethereal experiences abuse at the hands of a cold-hearted worker, Stratus. Ethereal's attempt at escaping quickly fails, but she's able to find a solution by way of a high ranking employee, Jac. This Jac turns out to be Allium's father, who took off when his son was still an infant. Ethereal sways him to her side, and he gets in touch The Community. He and Ethereal escape a gun fight held in the building where a waiting Eden snatches Ethereal into a grand hug. She berates him for not having told her a secret she learned before she was taken─ that they are actually brother and sister.
Ethereal and Amaranth take time to recover while The Company's vast corruption is revealed. Ethereal has to deal with the abuse she endured and the worry of her becoming pregnant. Amaranth does his best to cope with the fact that he'd killed, having to shoot Stratus during the gun fight. Both find solace with each other, and Ethereal decides to keep her child when she does become pregnant. The two promise to marry in the future while Amaranth explains he plans to keep working with The Community's resources to discover who murdered his parents, as he does not believe their deaths were an accident like he was told. An albino baby boy, Wisp, is eventually born. Ethereal and Amaranth then marry at a beautiful beach venue once Amaranth's schooling is complete.
Gen Two
Ethereal and Amaranth have created an idyllic life for their children. Coal is their third and youngest son. He is the protagonist for the Generation Two. Coal begins recounting his story by saying he used to believe his life was near perfect, but that he understands now life can never truly be that way. He, his family, and his friends spend a normal day together. However, when Amaranth departs to get ice cream, he doesn't return.
No one is able to figure out what happened to him. Not the police. Not even the special officers whose jobs were created solely to protect Ethereal's family from retribution. Coal only gets a glimpse at understanding his father's disappearance when he hears Blaze getting from Ethereal Amaranth's goal of finding information from another mysterious group. Ethereal genuinely believes he has been killed. Coal grows depressed hearing this, and it takes some help from his group of friends to guide him out of it.
Two other large problems plague Coal's months. Ethereal is also pregnant with another child, a pregnancy Amaranth didn't get to know about before he was taken. The new child causes Ethereal to be constantly sick. Then there's Rosemary, Coal's adopted cousin who comes to struggle with a custody case between Eden and his wife and her birth father. Although her birth father eventually wins the case, he sees the grief this puts on Rosemary. He gives up his rights to her to allow her to stay with her chosen family. Ethereal eventually has to go into labor early, but she gives birth to a new daughter, Glade.
Coal wishes on shooting stars for the universe to bring back his father. The only thing that happens is that years go by. Mimosa, one of his friends and Allium's daughter, convinces him to try to give a romantic relationship a chance as she's been obsessed with him since they were little. Coal agrees to one date and gives her the answer that she's only ever been his friend. Another girl, however, does spark some passion. Coal has a fling with a classmate, Candy, and the two share their first time before Coal discovers the passion wasn't meant to be for the long haul.
Unlike his friends, Coal can't decide on his career goal by the time the end of high school comes around. He works at a local bookstore instead of going to college and puts together a meet-up group when the loneliness of all his friends being gone weighs too heavily. It doesn't go well at first, so Coal adopts a dog, Doodle, to be his companion. Prism, Coal's older brother, helps him get the group running better where Coal makes several new friends. An incident helping one of those friends from a dangerous person inspires him to become a cop. The incident also scares Holly, Mimosa's older twin sister, into kissing Coal from a fear of losing him, leading to the two dating and Mimosa to become infuriated.
Amaranth abruptly returns home one day much to everyone's immense shock. He explains The Company was behind his capture, but when it's revealed to him Coal knows he's lying he simply tells Coal to stay out of it. Ethereal sadly must crush the joyous atmosphere the next morning by revealing she has lung cancer. The doctors are optimistic it'll go into remission, yet Ethereal has steadily been weakening over the years to concerning levels. It goes so far as to make Coal think she has passed away when he returns home from a party one afternoon to hear Desire, his older sister, crying on the phone. He runs away in distress.
This running away leads to Coal being captured by the same man who took Amaranth, Buckeye, for Coal had accidentally opened some of Amaranth's secret files to send the mysterious group on his scent now. His violence-loving captor beats Coal into submission and sets him working in the group's warehouse during the day. It doesn't take long for Coal to understand Buckeye has been acting and abducting without permission, but nothing comes of this until the group's leaders come for a surprise inspection. They discover Coal, and all three of them learn important truths. The two leaders are Coal's grandparents. They hadn't been murdered by the group as Amaranth thought, but faked their deaths because they were high-ranking in the group and wished to keep Blaze and Amaranth out of curse of their family business. Buckeye attacks Coal when they try to send him home, breaking ribs and blinding his right eye in the scuffle.
The loss of half his sight prevents Coal from becoming a police officer, so he plans to one day run the bookstore instead. Mimosa then sends waves, having been off her medicine for her mental difficulties, by pretending to be Holly in order to finally sleep with Coal. She tampers with his condom to cause a pregnancy only to threaten to abort the baby when Coal still refuses to love her. Through a lot of fighting, anger, and pain, Mimosa comes to her senses, Coal promises to forgive her one day, and he and Holly mend their relationship threatened by the deception and unintended betrayal. A girl, Ember, is born, and the passing of years sets everything right once more.
Gen Three
Dianthus is Coal and Holly's youngest daughter, and the pink protagonist for Generation Three. She learns the pain of loss early, being there when Ethereal succumbs to her weak body. Amaranth has her promise to keep herself healthy to prevent her from also dying early, and this is one of the inspirations for Dianthus deciding to become a doctor. She studies hard from a young age, being a girl with a strong sense of both responsibility and good management skills. Dianthus is able to balance work and fun and so wastes no time inviting the new brown student, Timber Mountain to the summer festival. Eden's death, unfortunately, stops the peaceful afternoon.
Timber is able to comfort Dianthus through her grief. The two become fast friends. Such fast friends, in fact, that Dianthus lies to her family for months in order to arrange a meet-up for Timber with his mother who Timber's father, Russet, is adamant he not contact. The two are hit by terrible and sad luck when they find the strays cats they were tending to at the scheduled location were murdered. Timber's mother also doesn't show up, and Dianthus accidentally falls into the lake. At the hospital where she recovers, Russet reveals Timber's mother is a cold women who messed with people like she did with them.
Dianthus's part of the family then temporarily moves to Tinseltown before a hurricane hits an already drenched Berrybrook. She and her twin sister, Gilly, get to experience what it's like to live in the land of movie stars and adjust well. Their older sister, Ember, on the other hand, has a hard time after becoming pregnant by her older, secret boyfriend. His age causes some problems, especially with Coal, but the two convince everyone their relationship is serious, and Ember gives birth to an albino boy, Flurry.
Back in Berrybrook for high school, Dianthus does well for herself going into her senior year. She's the top student, student council president, and already takes several college classes at the prestigious Twilight North. Things get troublesome when she volunteers to be the project partner for the rough and gruff new kid, Arbor Thicket. He and Dianthus get off on the wrong foot, but an increasing amount of time spent together smooths out the bumps, leading to them dating. Arbor even trusts her with his heartbreaking past, having been kidnapped and sexually abused by a doctor.
She and Arbor do their best to maintain a long distance relationship when he goes overseas after high school. Dianthus's anxiety and stress from school cuts them off for a while, but she is surprised how forgiving Arbor is when he returns. The two date again. Arbor also agrees to move with her when she, Gilly, and Gilly's girlfriend, Confetti, move to Tinseltown at the end of the upcoming summer.
Merlot, her younger brother, unknowingly helps Arbor in getting him the little sibling he always wanted beforehand. Merlot hides Willow, an abused transgender friend of his, in his room with Dianthus eventually walking into the secret. Merlot and Willow run away for a time not knowing Arbor's parents wished to take Willow in. Willow thus is adopted by the Thickets when the wayward teens return home, and life seems content.
Dianthus's life takes a dark turn when a surprise Timber promised her is him revealing he works for The Company before knocking her out. She wakes in a pretty prison built for her where Timber tells her his disturbed tale. Buckeye was Russet's father, who was killed in order to prevent Coal's death. Russet trained Timber, who is unable to feel anything, to become close to the Vivids all while masterminding many of the unfortunate events experienced in their lives. Timber reveals he also arranged the murder of Gilly and Merlot. He then keeps her locked up, using her for his physical wishes, and making it impossible to tell whose children she's pregnant with, as Dianthus had slept with Arbor the night before Timber's reveal.
Timber doesn't find out that fact until Dianthus gives birth to her twin girls, Cinnamon and Nutmeg. It is obvious Cinnamon belongs Arbor and Nutmeg belongs to Timber, a fact confirmed when Cinnamon is given a paternity test. Timber kills the undesired Cinnamon before turning his gun on Dianthus as he sees he can't control her. Dianthus can only think of her failed promise to Amaranth as Timber pulls the trigger.
So excited yes finally so glad you're back!! Onto gen4!
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