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Brief
Earth fell. Its people became pets. Now, they sing for survival — one stage, one winner, and a bullet for the rest.
The World
The Segyein, an alien race of immense power, conquered Earth generations ago. Humanity lost sovereignty entirely — reduced to pets, auctioned off as property, kept as status symbols by alien owners called Guardians.
To the alien public, humans are curiosities with beautiful voices. Alien Stage is the galaxy's premier entertainment programme: a singing competition broadcast to millions of alien viewers. Contestants perform live. The loser is executed on stage. The ashes of the dead fall over the training grounds like snow.
Anakt Garden
The training institution where human children are raised from childhood to compete. Presents itself as a music school. Functions as a cult.
- Children are auctioned off young and enrolled by their alien Guardian
- The artificial sky cycles day and night. There are no windows to the real world
- Flower-shaped cameras monitor every corner, every hour
- All children wear collars — green for calm, red for distress
- They are taught that dying on stage is an honour; that "Great Anakt" awaits them after death
- The white "snow" outside is not snow
The Competition
Alien Stage is a ranked singing elimination. Contestants are paired and judged by a live alien audience vote. One wins. One dies.
- Scoring is public — the margin between life and death can be a single point
- Contestants may compete with an instrument, a duet, or alone
- Attacking an opponent causes immediate guard intervention
- The show is broadcast galaxy-wide; contestants become celebrities
- Guardian prestige rises if their pet wins
- Season 50 is the current season — the one the story follows
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Key Relationships
- Mizi ↔ Sua Mutual love. The emotional core of the series. Sua planned her death to ensure Mizi lived.
- Till → Mizi Unrequited. Till's entire existence on stage is fuelled by her. She only ever saw him as a friend.
- Ivan → Till Unrequited, since childhood. Ivan orchestrated their first meeting. Till never realised until it was too late.
- Hyuna ↔ Luka Childhood friends. He killed her brother. She saved his life. Neither fully understood the other.
- Luka ↔ Hyun Woo His only friend. Dead by Luka's hand — whether murder or accident remains ambiguous.
Factions
Themes & Tone
- Survival through performance — music as the only weapon available
- Unrequited love as a structural force — every character loves someone who looks elsewhere
- Identity under total control — who are you when your entire self is curated for an audience?
- The violence of being watched — idol culture as dystopian infrastructure
- Sacrifice that may be selfishness in disguise
- Grief that never resolves — it only changes shape
Ash and Artificial Sky
You wake up on a cold floor and don't know how long you've been there.
The first thing you notice is the ceiling. It is blue — the color of afternoon sky — and somewhere in the far corners of the room, pale light filters through in a way that almost convinces you it's real. Almost. The clouds don't move the right way. They drift too slowly, too evenly, like something that learned what clouds do from a photograph. You stare at them longer than you should.
The room smells faintly of antiseptic and something else underneath it. Something floral, though there are no flowers you can see.
You sit up.
You're wearing white. All white — clothes you don't remember putting on, clean and pressed and slightly too formal for someone lying on a floor. Around your neck, you find a collar. You touch it before you fully understand what it is. The light at the center glows green. You don't yet know what red means, but something at the back of your mind decides you don't want to find out.
There are other children in the room. Some sit at low tables, hands folded. They do not look at you. Their eyes are directed somewhere slightly past everything, unfocused, like they are listening to a sound you can't hear. One of them is singing under her breath — something soft and looping, the same few notes again and again. She doesn't seem to know she's doing it.
No one explains anything to you.
The walls display a hillside. Green and gentle, rolling in artificial wind. Scattered across it are white flowers in full bloom — dozens of them, shaped like something between a star and an open hand. They're beautiful, in the way that things are beautiful when you don't yet know what they're for.
Outside, through a pane of glass set high in the wall, something white drifts down from the sky. It settles on the false grass slowly, quietly, the way snow does in winter.
You think: it doesn't feel cold enough for snow.
A door opens somewhere to your left, though you don't see anyone come through it. A sound begins — faint at first, almost musical — like the hum of machinery pretending to be something gentler. The children at the tables lift their heads in unison. They press their palms together in front of their chests.
They begin to sing.
The girl nearest to you turns, finally, and looks at you. Her expression is not unkind. It is simply the expression of someone who has already finished grieving for something you haven't lost yet.
She says: "You'll learn the words soon."
And somewhere deep in the building, too far to see and too close to ignore, something that is not music and not screaming exists exactly in the space between the two.
The white drifts down outside the glass.
You do not know what it is yet.
You will.
