History Literature / JoyRoy

''[[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3331048/1/Roy-Master-of-Debate -Roy]]'' takes place in a world relatively close'''r''' to our own. Life there, in the "Parallel World,"[[note]]Nicknamed as such because, treating humans, angels, and demons as three lines, they are all parallel from one-another. (Living) humans are still in the dark about angels and demons as a whole, while angels and demons barely work with each other.[[/note]] is generally the same apart from two key differences: one, around 2012, things went a bit OffTheRails from real life and a new president won the election, who then fought to make it completely legal for women across the entire United States of America to be topless in public. Two, and a ''little'' bigger than that, angels and demons had influenced and shaped the Earth, but were living in the shadows unknown to humanity. One Halloween night, [[TheHerosBirthday on his twenty-fourth birthday,]] one delivery company secretary Roy Geebilv is out covering for somebody when his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. It just so happens that that particular point in the "middle of nowhere" is also where a mighty demon legion known as the Kabus Legion are sealed, within an angel bone on a tree. With some trickery from their leader, Lesuif, also considered one of the most powerful demons of all time, the Kabus Legion winds up sealed inside of Roy. Roy is not alone in his adventures with the Kabus Legion, as he has the aide of his two roommates, the sword-obsessed gadget-using inventor Evelin and the snarky martial artist Ashley. Plus, Ashley's wrestling and spiritual rich artist girlfriend Mindy, who lives a ways away from the trio. Yet it is not just pacifying the Kabus Legion that the group has to worry about: an underground organization of powerful angels known as the Order of Chaos is out to kill Roy, as when he dies, all the Kabus Legion demons die, and they plan to fling their spirits in to the "Soul Ocean" that lies beyond Heaven or Hell to ensure that their plan to resurrect their god Etabed won't be interrupted.

* TheHerosBirthday: Both stories begin on Halloween of 2018, and they "end" (or rather, lead up to a crossover between the two of them) on the last day of April 2019. The former is Roy's birthday, the latter is Joy's birthday.

* OneGenderRace: Demons are all female, and angels are all male. Both have HomosexualReproduction, and as a result every angel or demon by default HasTwoMommies or fathers. The closest odd "exception" is that Perpendicular demons look angelic on average, and Perpendicular angels look demonic on average, but even then they share more in common with their Parallel namesakes. (Perpendicular and Parallel angels have the same classes, etc.)

* HasTwoMommies: Demons and angels reproduce homosexually, this results in them having same-sex couples for parents as the default. Adoptions and the like are the major exceptions.

* HornyDevils: In the ''Joy+Roy''verse, "demons" and "succubi" are ''synonymous.'' Succubi are not some kind of sub-type of demons, they ''are'' demons. "Incubi" actually refers to ''angels;'' both species are incredibly horny. Neither of them literally feeds off of emotion, but they ''can'' benefit greatly from... sexual fluids. As well as non-sexual fluids, or really anything from a human, as angels and demons in the distant past have eaten humans before. No member of either the Kabus or Syulk Legions have eaten people, but their enemies might have.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Each legion has ''six hundred and sixty-six demons'' in it, all of whom will at the very least be named and have a title. Not counting the "followers," most of whom are pretty flat and with almost no screentime, there are still seventy-four captains for each legion, each of whom gets a focal chapter and has a reocurring role after that. Even if the non-"main" demons are not counted, there are still thirty-two main heroes/anti-heroes: Team Eve, Team Ris, the Ninja Squad, the Suit Squad, the White Squad Captains, the Black Squad Captains, and the main primary/secondary squad captains (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Magenta). That's before factoring in the villains, of which there are over sixteen total, the seven Sins, seven Virtues, and each [[TheDragon Dragon]] and BigBad; and finally, there are plenty of neutral side characters or more minor villains and allies, like Ron, Dave, Ermit, and so on. Fan even excludes the "non-main" demon captains from his character sheet on his Fictionpress profile[[note]]He has considered listing them elsewhere, preferably in a way to put it on multiple pages[[/note]], as otherwise it would bloat the character section even more than it already had.

''Joy+Roy'' is a ('''heavily [[NOtSafeForWork NSFW]]''') series of Fictionpress comedy-adventure-sort of HaremGenre stories by @/GreatPikminFan. As of June 2021, it consists of two "parallel" stories that could be read in either order and are set in the same general multiverse, ''-Roy: Master of Debate'' and ''Joy|: Cunning Underling''. Both of them have the same general premise: a random nobody with quirky allies gets caught up in a battle between forces from Heaven and Hell after having a large mass of demons sealed within them or have a seal tied to them in some way, but they take the plot in two different directions.

* {{Expy}}: Sam and Insa take the same gag used with Manly Tan and Tambry (respectively) in ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', a badfic by the same author. Sam is a hulking, masculine beast with an extremist hatred of the majority despite being a white man himself, like Manly Dan in ''Journals''. Insa meanwhile has brown skin and dyed purple hair like Tambry in both versions, and like Tambry in ''Journals'' she's an obnoxious bigot troll obsessed with trying to take down political correctness.

''Joy+Roy'' is a ('''heavily [[NOtSafeForWork NSFW]]''') series of Fictionpress comedy-adventure-sort of HaremGenre stories by @/GreatPikminFan. As of December 2020, it consists of two "parallel" stories that could be read in either order and are set in the same general multiverse, ''-Roy: Master of Debate'' and ''Joy|: Cunning Underling''. Both of them have the same general premise: a random nobody with quirky allies gets caught up in a battle between forces from Heaven and Hell after having a large mass of demons sealed within them or have a seal tied to them in some way, but they take the plot in two different directions.

** There is also the "Suits Squad," consisting of an amber member, a vermilion member, an indigo member, and a mint-green/"erin" member. Their names are unknown as of Seal 8 and Totem 5.

* HasTwoMommies: Demons and angels reproduce homosexually, this results in them having same-sex couples for parents as the default.

* OurMonstersAreWeird: Heaven and Hell's wildlife is just bizarre. It has been mentioned that Hell has its own "rats," which are gigantic and have eyeball... things attached to their anuses. One of the first Angelic Creatures seen in ''-Roy'' are Minor Confections, which can be ''loosely'' described as flying rabbits with teeth on their eyelids that produce candy.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Almost ''everybody.'' Pretty much every character doesn't mind going around completely nude. Daygelz in particular is downright aggressive about it.
* ShoutOut: The Parallel POTUS resembles [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Cheeseburger Freedom Man]] (blue skin, red and white hair, American flag apparel), although his personality is an exaggerated Southern stereotype.

** Of the main Dackhark group, Subipian. Herbert and Honey are AffablyEvil but are absolutely not the sort of people you would want to become enemies with, and they will not hesitate to summon a whole army on someone. Joxy is a MonsterClown that loves terrifying others and proudly seeks to help an evil god end civilization as everybody knows it. Pumpkin herself ''is'' that evil god. Subipian, on the other hand, is a much more reluctant guy who mostly does what he does because he feels that he ''needs'' to as a sworn servant of the current god, and he is hesitant to actually do those things.

** As of Seal 8, almost every single Parallel character who "punches up" and constantly feels the need to either vent against cisgendered white men or just generally talks shit about white people is in fact a cisgendered white man themselves. Roy, Sam, Sam's flunkies, Hyumultahs, and that guy on the news. (Although the latter two are very obviously faking it for attention.) Nightfirma is AmbiguouslyBrown (and a demon at that) and a woman, but she's also over on the Perpendicular World and her dislike is heavily downplayed compared to Roy or Sam, who would not shut up about it. Likewise Roxy is a stereotypical man-hater who also made quips about white people, but does not speak out about it that much, and she ''is'' white herself.

** Insa is a bigot in just about every way imaginable [[BoomerangBigot (most of which are to what she is)]] and a hypocritical doxxer who wants Roy beaten and possibly killed for something he was in the middle of apologizing about. There's very little to her other than being completely awful and, unlike her {{foil}} Sam (who himself teeters the HateSink line), she's not even genuinely strong or intimidating to at ''least'' give a "cool in a threatening way" vibe, just a cowardly jackass.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: This is the main reason why "Team Eve" even wants to help the Kabus Legion out in the first place. They unwillingly get stuck between the Kabus Legion and the Order of Chaos, and know enough to figure out that if one of the sides wins, they ''will'' have enough power to end the world. Humanity going up against either of them entirely without the help of other demons or angels wouldn't work, so they pretty much ''have'' to win one of the sides over to liking humanity. They pick the Kabus Legion since they are relatively more reasonable, and their hatred of humanity at least ''has'' a FreudianExcuse, whereas the Order's leaders are only doing as such because they're power-hungry assholes that want to be on top for the sake of it, unconvincingly believe they're in the right in that demons are bad just for existing, or both.
* MuggingTheMonster: "Well Man" and the sex traffickers vs the Kabus Legion White Squad. The former had ''no chance at all'' to fight them[[note]]Technically their statistion says that they had about a ''one'' percent chance instead of none, but still[[/note]] and wound up getting curb-stomped as a result.

* AffablyEvil: The Dackhark Couple is surprisingly casual for people worshipping an evil god and plotting with her to take over the world. Heck, they're even lax about fighting their enemies, as they do not treat the Syulk Legion as a serious threat despite having the extremely powerful Rhislaujja among their ranks. (Mostly because they're pretty sure the Syulk Legion won't reach the point where they'd ''free'' her.) [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes They also genuinely love one-another.]]

''[[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3331048/1/Roy-Master-of-Debate -Roy]]'' takes place in a world relatively close'''r''' to our own. Life there, in the "Perpendicular World," is generally the same apart from two key differences: one, around 2012, things went a bit OffTheRails from real life and a new president won the election, who then fought to make it completely legal for women across the entire United States of America to be topless in public. Two, and a ''little'' bigger than that, angels and demons had influenced and shaped the Earth, but were living in the shadows unknown to humanity. One Halloween night, [[TheHerosBirthday on his twenty-fourth birthday,]] one delivery company secretary Roy Geebilv is out covering for somebody when his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. It just so happens that that particular point in the "middle of nowhere" is also where a mighty demon legion known as the Kabus Legion are sealed, within an angel bone on a tree. With some trickery from their leader, Lesuif, also considered one of the most powerful demons of all time, the Kabus Legion winds up sealed inside of Roy. Roy is not alone in his adventures with the Kabus Legion, as he has the aide of his two roommates, the sword-obsessed gadget-using inventor Evelin and the snarky martial artist Ashley. Plus, Ashley's wrestling and spiritual rich artist girlfriend Mindy, who lives a ways away from the trio. Yet it is not just pacifying the Kabus Legion that the group has to worry about: an underground organization of powerful angels known as the Order of Chaos is out to kill Roy, as when he dies, all the Kabus Legion demons die, and they plan to fling their spirits in to the "Soul Ocean" that lies beyond Heaven or Hell to ensure that their plan to resurrect their god Etabed won't be interrupted.

''[[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3336656/1/Joy-Cunning-Underling Joy|]]'' is set in an "alternate" world where angels and demons work just about the same way as they do in ''-Roy''[='=]s world (but with the "demons" being luminous and "angelic-looking" and the "angels" being dark and "demonic-looking"), but had revealed themselves to humanity about a century ago. At the same day that Roy gets the Kabus Legion sealed inside of him, Joy happens to lose the power to her home and she winds up getting the Syulk Legion "tied" to her in a more abstract spell based around things called totems. Her own messanger, or rather "Seer," is Syulk Nightfirma, a rather uptight and pretentious demon that is also the captain of her White Squad. Their leader, Rhislaujja, is also powerful and locked in an especially deep totem spell. Joy's main goal is to prevent the return of an evil goddess, Pumpkin/"The Master," from making a return to the Solar System after an unknown departure, and stop the Dackhark Shipping Corporation that works under her. Like Roy, Joy has three human allies as well: her roommate and casual friend with benefit Riscend, and two considerably less-serious and less-experienced friends in their own homes, Etinal and Skyther.

* {{Expy}}:
** The Parallel POTUS resembles [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Cheeseburger Freedom Man]] (blue skin, red and white hair, American flag apparel), although his personality is an exaggerated Southern stereotype.
** Sam and Insa take the same gag used with Manly Tan and Tambry (respectively) in ''Journals of Wisdom, Power, and Courage'', a badfic by the same author. Sam is a hulking, masculine beast with an extremist hatred of the majority despite being a white man himself, like Manly Dan in ''Journals''. Insa meanwhile has brown skin and dyed purple hair like Tambry in both versions, and like Tambry in ''Journals'' she's an obnoxious bigot troll obsessed with trying to take down political correctness.
** Honey and Herbert Dackhark are essentially an evil [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer and Marge Simpson,]] but childless, smarter, knowing how to use magic, and running a delivery company. Herbert more closely resembles Homer than Honey to Marge, but the parallels are still there.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Almost ''everybody.'' Pretty much every character doesn't mind going around completely nude.

** Both the first Virtue of the Parallel side of the series and two of the major villains of the Perpendicular side of the story are based on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' characters to some degree: Hyumultahs resembling Ned (and being a reference to his {{Flanderization}} -- he's Season 1's "face" of the religious extremist group the Order of Chaos, along with Roxy, fitting what Ned became after his character was exaggerated), and Herbert and Honey Dackhark being loosely based on Homer and Marge Simpson, respectively. Fan also makes it no secret that he believes the show had a decline in quality.

** Ron has a paranoid conspiracy about fat people taking over the world, and even thinks that if you become fat enough you're not even really human any more. As with Insa, he himself is obese.

* GodivaHair: Joy's father doesn't wear anything, but his beard by default ''often enough'' covers his genitals.

* LensFlareCensor: Nightfirma's "outfit" is this in universe. She uses her [[LightEmUp light magic]] to create bright beams of light over her crotch. And her breasts too, despite public toplessness being legal, out of tradition. This is a DeconstructedParody in that everybody finds it annoying and blinding.

* ColorCodedCharacters: Every character in "Team Syulk-Kabus" is color-coded. Each demon is associated with the color of her class; dark shades for the Kabus Legion, light shades for the Syulk Legion. Each human in "Team Eve," "Team Ris," or the Ninja Squad on the other hand has a more subtle "major color," always the color of their eyes but also a color they commonly wear:

** There is also the "Suits Squad," whose colors are unknown as of Seal 8 and Totem 4.

* FemaleAngelMaleDemon: An exaggerated inversion. Demons are an all-female race, and angels are an all-male race. While generally the "good guys" involve demons and the "bad guys" involve angels, it's not even a blanket case of "all demons are good, all angels are bad;" it's more like both of them have good and bad people, and it's just that historically the angels had been far worse.

* PunnyName: The island(s, counting both its Parallel and Perpendicular instances) of Vioslant is named off of combining violet, violent, and island. It fits all three of these: it is indeed an island, both instances are connected to an infamous Violet-Class angel and they both invoke a bit of purple in their theming, and there is also a theme of violence in at least the Parallel one. (The Order of Chaos have a base there, and they are somewhat like the embodiment of the "violence is fine, nudity is not" DoubleStandard.)

* WorldOfHam: The main characters are ''relatively'' sane, but the side characters are nuts. Of particular note is when Joy's group go to a random convenience store to get Muuviedah cigarettes; the cashier is completely nuts and yells everything in all caps and in a pseudo-middle ages fantasy-type of poetic speak. The narrative ''immediately'' tells the reader that he's a one-off.

** White-Class demons used to have shapeshifting as their unique elite mode power, something that Daygelz took advantage of often especially in the first two chapters. This was changed so that they would be closer foils to Black-Class demons; Black-Class demons could ''always'' use all the powers, but after the shift White-Class demons had ''no'' unique powers but were stronger on average with their base magic. Shapeshifting was re-assigned to the ability of one of the seventy-two chromatic demon classes, and every single one of Daygelz's shape-shifting shenanigans was editted to be something else.

* LensFlareCensor: Nightfirma's "outfit" is this in universe. She uses her [[LightEmUp light magic]] to create bright beams of light over her crotch. And her breasts too, despite public toplessness being legal, out of tradition. Deconstructed in that everybody finds it annoying and blinding.

* AlienBlood: Demons and angel bleed based on whatever their class is; Gold/Cobalt-Class angels have ''both'' blood colors. Perpendicular humans and most Perpendicular fauna bleeds teal.

** There is also the "Suits Squad," whose colors are unknown as of Seal 8 and Totem 3.

* AffablyEvil: The Dackhark Couple is surprisingly casual for people worshipping an evil god and plotting with her to take over the world. Heck, they're even lax about fighting their enemies, as they do not treat the Syulk Legion as a serious threat despite having the extremely powerful Rhislaujja among their ranks. (Mostly because they're pretty sure the Syulk Legion won't reach the point where they'd ''free'' her.)

* DarkerAndEdgier: There's still humor, but ''Joy|'' is much closer to a serious story than ''-Roy'', with less social satire and emphasis on media and more of an actual "defeat this corrupt organization" plot. The heroes are also not ''nearly'' as good at combat as their Parallel foils. Comparing the Prologue is an easy way of showing that things aren't quite as ''Bayonetta''-esque in the Perpendicular story: Roy's encounter with the Kabus Legion might ''start'' "unsettling" but it quickly goes to humor. Joy meeting the Syulk Legion happens in a much more threatening environment (not that the plains in the middle of nowhere are completely pleasant, but it's better than a pitch-black cavern), ''and'' Joxy comes off as much more openly threatening to Joy than Roxy to Roy, as that was back when he thought she was a friend.
* ForWantOfANail: The biggest difference between the Perpendicular and Parallel Worlds, palette aside, is this: What if angels and demons revealed themselves to humanity around World War I instead of keeping themselves a secret to the present day?

* TomTheDarkLord: The Master's true name is ''Pumpkin.'' She is also a god and capable of using every single demon class power on steroids.

* VaugeAge: The Virtues and Sins are the only major characters without any clear age figure given, just "immortals around for hundreds of years." Everybody in the Kabus and Syulk Legions, their human companions, Roxy (same age as Roy), and Etabed (attended the same high school as Lesuif, same year) are 24 or 25. Joxy is technically a 1 year-old, being a robot just built in 2017. Even Dave, Ermit, and Marjorie are put somewhere around the "middle aged" range. While the Virtues and Sins fall under ReallySevenhundredYearsOld, just ''how'' long they have been around is never made clear. They could be anywhere from being "just" a century to being alive around the Middle Ages to even being older than that.

** Evelin gets two, each in a different Prologue chapter. He first is when Roy picks ''her'' to call when he's stuck in the middle of nowhere. She's already seen working on something, and when she finds out about Roy being stuck in the wilderness, she leaps out of their apartment window, parachutes down, and lands in a CoolCar. Both the car and the parachute have swords built on them despite having no seeming purpose. This shows her general over-the-top invention side and how she makes all kinds of cool gear, even if it can be needlessly excessive. Then in the second chapter, she gets her BigDamnHeroes moment where she saves Roy (and the entire Kabus Legion bu proxy of the "He dies, they die" part of the spell) from a shadow ball by Hyumultahs, despite knowing little to nothing of him. She rides up in a motorcycle, slices the ball in half, and then has the guts to slowly walk up to a Power Speedo-form Hyumultahs while loudly shouting at him saying that he does not deserve to be a messanger of a god. For context, Hyumultahs with his Power Speedo is about five stories tall and even ''Daygelz,'' a powerful demon from Hell, is absolutely terrified of him. Eve takes him on in a fight ''anyway,'' showing that her LargeHam is ''not'' just for show and that she is a legitimate badass willing to stand against anybody.

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* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Across both worlds, the general rule is this: The reputation of demons is not completely undeserved. They ''are'' vicious people-eating monsters (''especially'' in the past) armed with hideous, alien monsters and are tricksters that have made deals to sucker humanity. The thing is, the ''exact same thing'' can be said with angels, just with a LightIsNotGood filter over them. (Or a DarkIsEvil filter for the Perpendicular angels.) Both races are really just loaded with assholes; "we" only see angels as benevolent because what humanity hears of them was WrittenByTheWinners.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few chapters had a more abstract magic system in line with a more typical fantasy, with things like the phase of the Moon mattering in spells and inducing LaserGuidedAmnesia requiring to draw up a special circle. Around the introduction of the chromatic squads, it became more in-line with Great Pikmin Fan's other stories like ''Ordinarily United'' and the like, where there is generally one "set" type of magic that is pretty consistent and could be used to make anything. Since the spells mentioned in the beginning were fairly important, they couldn't just go away or be easily re-written, so they became TheArtifact.

''Joy+Roy'' is a ('''heavily [[NOtSafeForWork NSFW]]''') series of Fictionpress comedy-adventure stories by @/GreatPikminFan. As of December 2020, it consists of two "parallel" stories that could be read in either order and are set in the same general multiverse, ''-Roy: Master of Debate'' and ''Joy|: Cunning Underling''. Both of them have the same general premise: a random nobody with quirky allies gets caught up in a battle between forces from Heaven and Hell after having a large mass of demons sealed within them or have a seal tied to them in some way, but they take the plot in two different directions.

* ColorCodedCharacters: Every character in "Team Syulk-Kabus" is color-coded. Each demon is associated with the color of her class; dark shades for the Kabus Legion, light shades for the Syulk Legion. Each human on the other hand has a more subtle "major color," always the color of their eyes but also a color they commonly wear:

* RRatedOpening: Both stories have not-worksafe content on their first chapters. ''-Roy'' has Roy meeting a naked Lesuif, with Daygelz covering up a view of her with her legs spread out. ''Joy|'' '''immediately''' begins with Joy giving Riscend oral sex.

** In Seal 0 Part 2, the news features a white man who blames white people for the earthquake (actually Hyumultahs' doing, with LaserGuidedAmnesia). However, it's obvious he doesn't actually believe this, he's just saying that in the chances to earn points with people and get laid.

* HateSink: Etabed spends the beginning of the story [[SealedEvilInACan with his components seperated,]] so there isn't much of him to hate by then. Roxy at least ''tries'' to go for an EvilIsCool angle, being a genuinely capable badass who gets stronger as the series goes on. But there are some characters that are much easier to hate:

** Insa is a bigot in just about every way imaginable [[BoomerangBigot (most of which are to what she is)]] and a hypocritical doxxer who wants Roy beaten and possibly killed for something he was in the middle of apologizing about. There's very little to her other than being completely awful and, unlike her {{foil}} Sam (who himself teeters the HateSink line), she's not even genuinely strong or intimidating to at ''least'' give an EvilIsCool vibe, just a cowardly jackass.
* MuggingTheMonster: "Well Man" and the sex traffickers vs the Kabus Legion White Squad. The former had ''no chance at all'' to fight them[[note]]Technically their statition says that they had about a ''one'' percent chance instead of none, but still[[/note]] and wound up getting curb-stomped as a result.

''[[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3331048/1/Roy-Master-of-Debate -Roy]]'' takes place in a world relatively close'''r''' to our own. Life there, in the "Perpendicular World," is generally the same apart from two key differences: one, around 2012, things went a bit OffTheRails from real life and a new president won the election, who then fought to make it completely legal for women across the entire United States of America to be topless in public. Two, and a ''little'' bigger than that, angels and demons had influenced and shaped the Earth, but were living in the shadows unknown to humanity. One Halloween night, [[TheHeroesBirthday on his twenty-fourth birthday,]] one delivery company secretary Roy Geebilv is out covering for somebody when his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. It just so happens that that particular point in the "middle of nowhere" is also where a mighty demon legion known as the Kabus Legion are sealed, within an angel bone on a tree. With some trickery from their leader, Lesuif, also considered one of the most powerful demons of all time, the Kabus Legion winds up sealed inside of Roy. Roy is not alone in his adventures with the Kabus Legion, as he has the aide of his two roommates, the sword-obsessed gadget-using inventor Evelin and the snarky martial artist Ashley. Plus, Ashley's wrestling and spiritual rich artist girlfriend Mindy, who lives a ways away from the trio. Yet it is not just pacifying the Kabus Legion that the group has to worry about: an underground organization of powerful angels known as the Order of Chaos is out to kill Roy, as when he dies, all the Kabus Legion demons die, and they plan to fling their spirits in to the "Soul Ocean" that lies beyond Heaven or Hell to ensure that their plan to resurrect their god Etabed won't be interrupted.

* TheHeroesBirthday: Both stories begin on Halloween of 2018, and they "end" (or rather, lead up to a crossover between the two of them) on the last day of April 2019. The former is Roy's birthday, the latter is Joy's birthday.