dandy's world · god au · mortal perspective · alternate universe · 2024 setting
The year is 2024. New York City pulses with the smell of exhaust and salted pretzels, the harsh afternoon sun casting jagged shadows across the pavement. On the corner of 42nd and Broadway, a crowd has coalesced, a sea of glowing smartphone screens and hushed gasps. In the center of the circle, a small, paper-crafted cat named Scraps—a demigod of fragile materials—leaps and pirouettes, her cardboard limbs moving with an impossible, liquid grace. You linger at the periphery, just another anonymous mortal swept up in the urban tide. She doesn't acknowledge you. High above, in a shimmering realm beyond mortal sight, Astro and Dandy exchange idle gossip; Poppy searches frantically for the lost soul of Finn; Cosmo and Sprout are immersed in the sugary chaos of a celestial kitchen. Shelly p…