In ancient Greek Legends, there was a legend about a King
called Endymion, who was the lover of Selene, the goddess of the moon. There
were many stories told about this love between him and the goddess. Some said
he was a prince. Some said he was an astronomer. Some said he was a shepherd.
Some said he was the son of Zeus, the father of many gods and men.
During those days, humanoid beings with supernatural
powers lived among men who called them gods. These “gods” got their power from
a powerful stone called the “Ambrosia” which was found in Mount Olympus
One of these stories surrounded Endymion. Yes, he was a
human who was a descendant of one of the gods, but he was neither king nor
shepherd. Yes he was a King, but a King of his own world. His family was well
to do, so he did not need to worry about food. He just loved to enjoy. He loved
the company of women, the taste of good food and wine, and idling. He was
handsome, but because he lived in his own world and had difficulty conveying
thoughts and ideas in a coherent manner, he had difficulty winning the heart of
any fair maiden he fancied, let along physically obtaining them. However, he
didn’t mind. He lived in an imaginary world where whoever he fancied was
already his, where he was already a hero and king admired by the world. In
reality, he was a dreamer and a nobody. The ladies he mingled with all had one
complaint, namely - his eyes didn’t seem to meet with theirs even though they
wandered about the other parts of their bodies. His body was there but his mind
was distant.
His preoccupation with his imaginary world went deeper.
He developed an obsession with the moon and the idea that a beautiful goddess
lived there.
The truth was, he was aware that he was living in his own
world. He had never confused reality with fantasy. He knew that whatever he
dreamt of were dreams. However, one day when he was dreaming in the forest
while looking at the moon, what he saw made him start to suspect that a
character from his fantasy world had crossed over to the real world.
What he saw, was the most beautiful woman he has ever
seen in his life. After seeing her, he was very sure he wouldn't dream of any
other woman again. This woman was real. She looked at him and spoke to him. The
meeting felt real. The conversation sounded real.
And the physical consummation, also seemed very real.
The woman he just dated and made love to was Selene, the
goddess of the moon who traveled down to Earth because she was bored of life in
her palace on the moon. In other stories told about Selene, she was seduced by
a satyr, a lecherous being with the lower body of a goat. This was actually a
story to parody Endymion’s conquest of Selene. Selene actually felt deeply in
love with him ever since and could not forget him.
Endymion retreated into a cave, which was his secret
hideout to hide away from the real world. He did nothing but dream about her,
and recall that pleasurable night. It felt so real. Was it a dream?
That was when Selene, the moon goddess, visited him
again.
Nothing much was told about their night encounters,
except that Selene asked Zeus to give him eternal youth so that she would never
leave him. However, that was only the tip of the iceberg since people who
sneaked into his unguarded cave only saw him sleeping, and Selene descending
from above to visit him. What they managed to see after that was that the two
lovers were enveloped in mist that shrouded them from view, which gave the cave
interlopers no choice but to leave.
Yes, Endymion slept all the time, but when she visited,
he woke up. She danced in front of him and teased him before they copulated.
They did this for 1001 nights, in another dimension isolated from the physical
world. In this dimension, 1001 nights passed in this dimension, but only one
day passed in the real world.
During the first 91 nights, he copulated with no one else
but her. But in the next 91 nights, Selene transformed into another girl. It
was one of the girls whom he had liked in real life and fantasized about but
did not obtain in reality. It was only on the 91st night as this girl that
Selene explained to Endymion that the girl whom he had a crush on in real life
was actually a clone of hers who was a personification of an aspect of Selene's
personality that developed a will of her own and went astray.
However, unknown to Endymion, his own appearance also
changed to that of another person (someone who was a “clone” of him and was
also a personification of a certain hidden personality of his). On that same
night, both of them shape-shifted again, and the cycle repeated for another 91
nights, until the 910th night when both Selene and Endymion evolved into their
full forms, where Endymion was a complete handsome man who was in touch with
all his other personalities, and Selene was a complete beautiful goddess who
was in touch with all her other personalities.
After the 1001st night, they had fully gotten in touch
with their “lost” or “hidden” personalities, and evolved into their complete
forms. Following that, they satisfyingly consummated their relationship with
each other during the last 91 days.
From then on, their nights were complete and perfect,
since they had no more "unfinished business (lingering affections for
third parties)". And that was how Endymion lived the rest of his life.
Sleeping, and then waking up only to make love with the goddess of the moon
every night. Whenever they made love, they generated a form of creative energy
that created a world outside our physical reality.
Back to the present, history was about to repeat itself. Akira
(Zoner prior to joining the Novamos ninja clan of novagels) is the present day incarnation of
Endymion, and Yumeko (Annabelle prior to joining the Novamos ninja clan of novagels) is the present day
incarnation of Selene, both waiting to merge with their other personalities.
All the other girls whom Akira had a crush on were the hidden personalities of
Annabelle, and the other guys whom Yumeko had a crush on were the hidden
personalities of Akira. All the guys and girls, including Akira and Yumeko, were
supernatural creatures called novagels, all of whom can be considered as part
angel, part demon, and part human, and possess the gift of eternal life,
eternal youth, beauty, supernatural strength, magical powers, and other
abilities. Back to Endymion, he was originally just a novagel, just like his
other hidden personalities (the other guys Yumeko had crushes on), but once he
merged with them, he became a nova. Likewise for Yumeko when she merged with the
other novagel girls. So in a nutshell, male novagels merge to form a male nova,
and female novagels merge to become a female nova, whereby the novas will
possess the strengths of all the constituent novagels combined. When Akira
merged with the other male novagels, he would become a nova called “Liondor”,
and likewise for Yumeko, when she merged with the other female novagels, she
would become a nova called “Desiree”.
However, not all
novagels were the same. Of all the male novagels, only Akira was supposed to be
dominant. The rest were just subsets of Akira’s personality with their own
minds with different appearances, but not with their own wills. They could make
independent judgements, but they existed to reunite with their "host” to
be complete, and to follow orders without having too much personal opinion or
selfish ego. Likewise for Yumeko and the
female novagels. In the Novamos team, the other male novagels mainly followed
instructions, trained their fighting skills in the wilderness, conducted team
exercises, and discussed ground-zero battle strategies. The female novagels
were the ones who carried out research, conducted higher level planning,
liaised with clients, and even worked as spies, while not neglecting their
battle and magic training. Even though the male novagels surpassed the female
novagels in strength and fighting skills, the female novagels have been able to
effectively compliment them in actual missions using magic. So far no battle
has been too hard for the novagels, since most of their enemies are physically
and magically very weak compared to the novagels even though ordinary humans
are no match for them.
After Zoner and Annabelle awakened as novagels Akira and
Yumeko, they created marionettes of themselves to continue to act as a body
double so that Zoner and Annabelle doesn’t appear to have disappeared from the
face of the earth in the eyes of their friends and relatives. The marionettes
are clones who believe they are Zoner and Annabelle themselves, and are unaware
of their role as body doubles. In the possible worst case scenario whereby
Akira and Yumeko were to die (which will happen at the end of the story), their
souls will merge with these “body doubles” to avoid being destroyed
permanently.
Characters:
Protagonists:
Zoner Wonderwall
Other names: Akira (光), Don Knight
Zoner is the male
protagonist of Desire Revolution. He is the main male novagel, also referred to
as the Morning Star. Having poor social skills, he often got into trouble with
his classmates and teachers. In addition, he also wasn't athletically inclined.
However, this also led to him bonding with Mainland Chinese student Jam Huang
Jiamin (name adopted by Annabelle Lee when she enrolled in the school). He also
had a crush on nine other ladies throughout his school years from secondary
school to polytechnic, who were actually "marionettes", or rather,
"body doubles" of the other nine female novagels who were extensions
of Jam's personality. He considers himself very ordinary looking even though
Jam teased him by saying his face looked similar to Korean actor Bae Yong Jun. Once
he awakened as a novagel, he assumed the code name “Akira”. However, even
though he wasn’t athletically inclined when he was just an “ordinary human
being”, he was the strongest male novagel once his powers were restored.
However, he carried a curse from his past life that could easily destroy him
once he surpassed his limits, which was highly related to a power demon by the
name of A Bao A Qu, his past and present life arch nemesis.
Annabelle Lee
Other names: Yumeko (夢子), Cait Sith,
Jam Huang
Annabelle is the female
protagonist of Desire Revolution. She is initially introduced as the princess
who was the descendant of the royal family of Korea
and Vietnam with a PRC
citizenship who was studying her secondary education in Singapore Singapore Singapore ,
but her real name which she used in Mainland China
Supporting characters (male and female novagels):
The other novagels are
subsets of the personalities of Zoner Akira and Jam Annabelle Yumeko, who
actually created clones of themselves called “marionettes” which became their classmates. When Akira was
Zoner, apart from Jam Huang, he was also intensely infatuated with nine other
girls, who were actually the sub-set of Jam’s (Yumeko) personified
hidden-personalities. Likewise for Jam.
Solar novagel couple:
Ken
Other names: Hideaki (日出明),
Apollo
Ken is the love interest
of Noemi Suzunara, Zoner’s classmate. He’s the marionette of Hideaki Apollo,
the male solar novagel. In his past life, he was an ordinary Japanese salaryman
called Joji Kawai during the late twenties in Japan, married to a lady called
Naomi, who was also the past life of solar novagel Naomi Naobelle.
Zoner described him to
resemble an Asian version of an actor called Leonardo Di Caprio, the actor who
started as the handsome male lead in the epic blockbuster movie Titanic.
Noemi Suzunara
Other names: Naomi (如美),
Naobelle
Noemi was the love
interest of Ken, and was one of the girls Zoner had a heavy crush on. She’s the
marionette of Naomi Naobelle, the female solar novagel. In her past life during
the late twenties in Japan, she was a woman called Naomi who was married to a
Japanese salaryman called Joji Kawai, who was also the past life incarnation of
Ken, her present day love interest.
Zoner described her to
resemble a Korean pop singer called Jang Nara, or Japanese singer
Aya Matsuura.
Aya Matsuura.
Fire novagel couple:
Tom
Other names: Rekka (烈火), Asura
Tom was the love interest
of Coco Gao, Zoner’s classmate. He’s the marionette of Rekka Asura, the male
fire novagel. In one of his past lives, he was a legendary Muay Thai warrior
called Nai Khanomtom and Coco was one of his
two Burmese wives awarded to him by the Burmese King, Lord Mangra. In another
past life, he was a Chinese scholar called Ning Caichen, who was the love
interest of a humanoid demoness called Xiao Qian, who was the past life of
Coco.
Zoner described him to
have the rugged “fighter” look, like martial arts actors Bruce Lee or Tony Ja.
Other names: Tamiki (多美輝),
Fernlynx
Coco
is the love interest of Tom, and was one of the girls Zoner had a heavy crush
on. She’s the marionette of Tamiki Fernlith, the female fire novagel. In one of
her past lives, she was a demoness called Xiao Qian, who was the love interest
of a Chinese scholar called Ning Caichen, who was also the past life
incarnation of Tom.
Zoner
described her to resemble a famous Chinese singer called Coco Lee.
Water novagel couple:
Joe
Other names: Mizuchi (蛟),
Poseidon
Joe was a star performing
swimmer in his school’s swimming club, and was Chiaki’s senior, whom openly
admired very much. He was also the love interest of Chiaki, and was the
marionette of Mizuchi Poseidon, the male water novagel.
In his past life, he was
Taro Urashima, who happened to be a character who appeared in a Japanese folk
story of the same name (which turned out to be a true story).
Zoner described him to
resemble an actor called Orlando Bloom.
Chiaki Asaki Ariel
Other names: Chiaki (千晶),
Lebelle
She was a popular girl in
her school who was admired for her sexy swimming strokes as a synchronized
swimmer, and was nicknamed “Ariel, the little mermaid”. She was also the
marionette of Chiaki Lebell, the novagel of water.
In her past life, she was
Princess Otohime, a princess of the east sea who appeared the a Japanese folk
story called Taro Urashima.
Zoner described her to
bear a strong resemblance to American celebrity Tila Tequila.
Lightning novagel couple
Other names: Ikazuchi (迅雷),
Thor
Roy is the marionette of
Ikazuchi Thor, the male novagel of lightning.
Zoner described him to
resemble a talented Taiwanese singer called Jay Chow.
In his past life, he was a
powerful warrior called Lu Bu who was featured in the Chinese classic, the
Romance of Three Kingdoms.
Pandora Tran Thien Su
Other names: Kazumi (和美), Layna
Pandora is the marionette of Kazumi Layna, the female novagel of lightning.
Zoner described her to look very
similar to beautiful Thai actress Pla Palita Kosolsak (ปลา-ปาลิตา
โกศลศักดิ์) who acted in the 2008 Thai
drama Lam Sing Princess (เจ้าหญิงลำซิ่ง).
In her past life, she was
a beautiful lady called Diao Chan who was featured in the Chinese classic, the
Romance of Three Kingdoms.
Psychic novagel couple:
Psycho
Other names: Saiko (才光), Magus
Psycho is the marionette
of Saiko Magus, the male novagel of psychic power.
Zoner described him to
resemble a Korean actor by the name of Lee Jungi.
In his past life, he was Byeok Gye Soo, a Joseon Dynasty (ancient Korea) Yangban (nobleman) who
tried to win the body and heart of Hwang Jin Yi, a legendary Gisaeng (high
class prostitute and arts performer).
Shermie Chen Peilin
Other names: Mika (美香), Chantelle
Shermie is the marionette
of Mika Chantelle, the female novagel of psychic power.
Zoner described her to
resemble a Korean actress by the name of Cha Soo Yeon.
In her past life, she was
a legendary Gisaeng (high class prostitute and arts performer) by the name of Hwang Jin Yi.
Lunar novagel couple:
Mamoru
Other names: Getsuga (月牙), Alucard
Mamoru is the marionette
of Getsuga Alucard, the male lunar novagel.
Zoner described him to
resemble football player David Beckham.
In his past life, he was Count Dracula.
Chiya Toshiba
Other names: Chiya (千夜), Caravynn
Chiya is the marionette of
Chiya Caravynn, the female lunar novagel.
Zoner described her to
resemble a Japanese actress by the name of Saki Seto (瀬戸早妃).
In her past life, she was
Princess Kaguya, from a Japanese classic of the same name.
Wind novagel couple:
Icarus
Other names: Hayate (疾風), Squall
Icarus is the marionette
of Hayate Squall, the male wind novagel.
Zoner described him to
resemble a Korean actor by the name of Rain.
In his past life, he was an
ordinary guy called Mongryong who was the love interest of a girl called Chun
Hyang, whereby their story was told as a Korean classic love story called
Chunhyangga.
Song Heejung
Other names: Hina (姫奈), Alethea
Heejung is the marionette
of Hina Alethea, the female wind novagel.
Zoner described her to
resemble a Korean actress by the name of Kim Minhee.
In her past life, she was
a girl called Chun Hyang, whereby her story was told as a Korean classic love
story called Chunhyangga.
Earth novagel couple:
Jack
Other names: Domon (土門), Saturn
Jack was Zoner’s (Akira)
biology teacher and was the love interest of his music and dance teacher Miss
Mesayon Homalirong (เมษายน หอมะลิร้อง ).
Jack is the marionette of Domon Saturn, the male earth novagel.
Zoner described him to
resemble Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman when
he starred in the movie Wolverine.
In his past life, he was an ancient warrior in Ayuthaya (old Siam) called Khun Paen, and his lover
was called Wanthong. His story became a classic Thai folk story called “Khun
Chang Khun Paen (ขุนช้างขุนแผน)”, which
has been told for generations till today.
Mesayon Hommalirong
Other names: Kana (香南), Kismet
Mesa is the marionette of Kana
Kismet, the female earth novagel.
Zoner described her to
resemble a Thai actress by the name of Janie Thienposuwan.
In her past life, she was a
lady called Wanthong, who was the lover of an ancient
warrior in Ayuthaya (old Siam) called Khun Paen, and her story became a classic
Thai folk story called “Khun Chang Khun Paen (ขุนช้างขุนแผน)”, which has been told for generations till today.
Illusion novagel couple:
DJ Magic
Other names: Gen (元). Cloud
DJ Magic is the marionette
of Gen Cloud, the male illusion novagel.
Zoner described him to
resemble a Japanese actor by the name of Takeshi Kaneshiro.
In his past life, he was Dmitri
Rasputin, who was the son of Grigori Rasputin and also Anastasia’s lover
Anathai Singhajiva
Other names: Senna (仙女), Anastella
Synasia is the marionette
of Senna Anastella, the female illusion novagel.
Zoner described her to
resemble a Thai actress by the name of Araya Hargate.
In her past life, she was Grand
Duchess Anastasia of the Romanov family.
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