Corn Of Eternity began in 2020 as a way for my best friend's OCs and my OCs to play together. In this universe, Sören and his partners go to visit Sören's best friend Yeyette and her partners, who are inexplicably staying on a farm in Indiana. Through a series of chaotic events, Sören and his partners end up staying there long-term - they are all Force-sensitive, and when it gets exposed, the US government requires them to register, relocate and be monitored. Eventually their paths cross with Maglor, and putting together the pieces of who they are.
Unfortunately, that also means they're on the radar of Sauron, who has a lab to create special meth that turns users into Orcs, and is money laundering via a carnival. As time went on, we decided Sauron would also be aiding far-right politicians and lawmakers in the US and around the world - think Tr*mp, Putin, various Supreme Court justices. The battle evolves - not merely to keep the family together against Sauron's minions attacking, but a fight against good and evil... a fight for freedom and democracy itself.
As an added bonus, only one of the good guys is actually born-and-raised in America, everyone else is an immigrant. Suck it, Cheeto.
What makes Corn different from the other universes I write - besides the sheer amount of crack and over-the-top wrongness - is that the OC villains ended up becoming as much the stars as the good guys.
So who are the villains? What inspired them?
Larry Hortler is a composite character based on
1. someone I used to date in my very early 20s - a goth guy calling himself Shadow who did Ren Faire and took himself way too seriously, including trying to speak in mangled archaic English in casual conversation, so we'd literally be at a diner or something and he'd be like "I'd likest to ordereth the cappucino" [also, many people who attempt archaic English in fanfic of "high fantasy" canons do it badly and it sounds more like a parody than emulating the dialogue of canon, and hilariously out of place in erotic scenes, so that's an added bonus]
2. a mashup of the various Dark Fucklord characters thirsted over in fandom [e.g. Draco Malfoy, Kylo Ren] even though they would be abusive, terrible partners IRL and we don't understand the appeal. Going there with 2, it made more sense to us to make him the "son of the Dark Lord" archetype, like Mordred Deschain in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
Larry is short for Laurentius [though later he changes it to Laurentinius to make it even more ostentatious] - we thought it would be funny to have "Larry, the Son of the Dark Lord". The last name Hortler is because we use this series to make fun of far-right, fascist politics and the word "hortler" is slang for swastika graffiti/vandalism where the person doesn't even know how to make a swastika correctly [but somehow thinks they're superior]. This is even funnier in 2024+ now that one of us is Jewish and it is something of a moral imperative to mock Hitler. On that note, we decided to make Larry a Chaotic Stupid/Stupid Evil aligned character in the grand tradition of Mel Brooks villains.
Juniper Roberts is a Rule 63 version of my OC villain Justin Roberts, and an expy of Nancy from The Craft down to her appearance. We went with the name Juniper because it's a J-name [like Justin] and a lot of witches name themselves after plants and trees.
Jane Hortler [Larry's mom] and Bev Debussy [Jane's BFF and sometimes-girlfriend] are based on mine and Detergent's experience with retail/food service/customer service and having "Karen" customers from hell.
Any resemblance to other people, real or imaginary, is purely coincidental.