Video
https://youtu.be/sTsIk6lwHUQ
Manifestation
New Wirral’s skies are bursting a sunset pink.
A new angel sings of a living throne whose armrests wrap me in a velvet embrace.
This palace, I reign.
The archangel, Confidance, holds a ball in our hall, where all guests dance, no longer longing for a belonging.
Under the pink shimmer of chandeliers, the people gleam,
their pores pour brooks of bliss, through skin their souls once saw as cages.
The Lore
In Cassette Beasts, players end up in New Wirral, a world between dimensions. This world is filled with monsters, which were once thought as angels. The largest and most impacting ones are still called Archangels as they are misunderstood, and there are even a set of cultists that praise and seek these Archangels.
The archangels are created through manifestation of human ideas, such as Greed and Conquest. Because of that, I sat down and reflected: what kind of archangels would my feelings and ideas create? That's where Confidance came through, with lots of references to pink. I hope the poem embodies my confidence in my queerness and identity.