Mutants. Despite their unique appearances and awesome powers, the species itself is pretty much a dime a dozen. There are as many of them in the world as there are humans and in most many cases they have the look of humans and its just the abilities that set them apart from the average beings. However there is a special connection between humans and mutants that make both species are more alike than what most would assume. A connection that a great number of people would find too fantastic to believe. This special connection doesn't involve DNA per say, but has more to do with one's spirit. And two particular mutants happened to share in this spiritual connection. These mutants were Kurt Wagner and Logan.
You're probably wondering just what this spiritual connection is. Well, to put it simply, its a cross between a warlock/witch familiar and an animal spirit guide. These beings are known as Phantomal Guides, which are half ghost and half mortal beings with the looks of anthropomorphic animals. The types of Phantomals vary in animal species such as feline, canine, equestrian, avian and so on. The person assigned with a Phantomal Guide is called a Phantomal Host because they have to more or less "house" the specter like creature until the term of the Host and Guide staying together has ended. The causes and or reasons of a term ending between Host and Guide can be one of three things. First, the Host dies of natural causes or otherwise and the Guide is assigned a new Host. Second, the Host no longer requires the services of their Guide and they separate naturally. And third, the Phantomal Guide is forcefully removed from their Phantomal Host by a magical artifact. But when they're together Host and Guide share a deep bond that has the combined strength and love of a blood relative and a close friend.
This is where humans and mutants come together because no two mutants are always likely to have a Phantomal Guide. Many humans are assigned with a Guide as well and a human and mutant are twice as more likely to share in this spiritual connection. The way people are assigned a specific Phantomal Guide depends on either the Host's physical features or the type of aura they give off. For example, a person who has crow like features or gives off a crow like aura would be assigned a Crow Phantomal Guide. True to their half ghost heritage mutants and humans with no Phantomal Guide of their own cannot see, hear or feel the specter like beings unless the Phantomal Host vocally announces their Guide. Mutants and humans with no Phantomal Guide or any such type of connection are referred to as Uidentibus. And just as the Phantomal Guide faction represent themselves as good specters there are also malevolent specters that pass themselves off as false Phantomal Guides. These entities are known as Fraudulenti Spiritus, and come in as many varieties of species as real Phantomal Guides do. However unlike real Phantomals the Fraudulenti Spiritus' force their chosen vessel to house and can choose whomever they wish to act as their vessel. But they are typically very weak and cannot stay out of the body of a host for too long or else they will perish.
As mentioned before, Logan and Kurt share in the connection between Phantomal Guides and Phantomal Hosts. But what makes the connection between them even more special is a unique factor. The respective Phantomal Guides of Kurt and Logan are actually soulmates, and the two mutants have had budding romance for quite a while themselves. The likelihood of two Hosts falling in love is one type of uncommonness, but it's nearly unheard of when the Hosts in love have Guides that are destined soulmates. This leads us to Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, and the key role they play in romantic relations between Hosts and Guides. Alpha Guides only attach to Alpha Hosts, Beta Guides only attach to Beta Hosts and Omega Guides only attach to Omega Hosts. Any of the three factions can mate together but Alpha/Omega pairs are classified as soulmates given that they are both rare in the world. Given this fact the Alpha Logan and Omega Kurt are considered a soulmate pair that are destined to have a strong love and even stronger offspring.
And that concludes the introduction of the basics of Phantomal Guides and Phantomal Hosts. I hope that you all have found the information I have presented to you useful. But I know that one very important question has been left unanswered; How do mutants, especially mutant heroes, manage day to day life with Phantomal Guides? Well to learn the answer to that you'll just have to see how the story of our two star Phantomal Hosts progress. There will be loss and love, trial and triumph and adventure and romance.
This is the story of Kurt Wagner and Logan.
I hope that you all enjoyed this first revision of the nine others to come. I'm sorry that I took so long to make it. My plan was to make an advent calendar of sorts for my revisions but I got sick and was busy trying to earn some money for presents by doing writing commissions so that plan didn't go quite well. So now I'm just posting revisions by and by. Thank you all for your patience and support. Don't think of it as Ralyena Starrling leaving and making a comeback, think of it as an old friend knocking on your door.
Uidentibus = Latin for "normal ones"
Fraudulenti Spiritus = Latin for "trickster spirits"
