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Nocturne: Night's Children
This is a story about reality, told through the metaphor of a supernatural world existing sort of as a shadow world to the normal world. Or something like that. The story starts out with Alice, whose twin brother, Andrew (Drew for short), has been missing for two years. Alice has moved on, for the most part, going to college and majoring in whatever the hell she's majoring in (is it really important?), but at the same time, she's still stuck in time, pondering obsessively the reasons why Drew left. Like any normal relative of a missing person, she claims that he isn't dead- only whereas their hope is purely based on faith, Alice's hope is more of instinct. Basically, upon meeting a stranger (who is as strange as any stranger a person could meet), Alice's world is turned upside down, and she's drawn into the world of the Night- where the supernatural is more real than one could have ever thought possible. At Nocturne- a bar beyond space, time, and dimension- Night's Children are gathering... Okay, so this is vague. So sue me. I can't give away too much. Night's Children isn't actually just about Alice's search for her brother. It has more depth than that. The first x-number of chapters explore different character important to the story. Later in the manga, these character must face the result of the actions they performed in those beginning chapters. Then there's the main threat- the dangerous possibility of the world of the Night colliding with the world of the Day (aka the normal world) through the forbidden union of magic and science. The end is naturally the resolution of this main conflict. So why is this called Nocturne: Night's Children instead of just Night's Children? Nocturne was originally a bunch of different stories that take place in the bar Nocturne. Night's Children is what Knockin' on Heaven's Door was to the Cowboy Bebop series: a movie- only this isn't a movie. This is sort of like a story from Nocturne, only it's drawn out, since there's a lot to it. So it's an epic :3 Night's Children refers to the characters (in the way Yami no Matsuei- Descendents of Darkness- is a reference to most of the main cast in the series). In one of the Nocturne stories, Gabriel- a 19-year old runaway- explains that the only way to find Nocturne is when you've lost everything, and your only companion is the Night. What Gabe was describing were Night's Children- those who are lost in this world, wandering the Night alone (by the way, this isn't the only way to find Nocturne). As you can imagine, this means I'm going to screw over a few characters with psychological and emotional torture. But how is the question :3 |