"Okay, hold your questions to the end, it's a hell of an infodump," Kon said, raising his eyebrows. "Basically, we're in another universe. In this universe, belief is really powerful, and there are a lot of mythical beings, like Santa and the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, except they're all real people or mythical creatures that became powerful and immortal through the belief of kids. Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Jack Frost, the Sandman, and Anansi the Spider are a group called the Guardians, brought together by the Man in the Moon and they used the powers the belief gives them to protect kids and give them gifts and easter eggs and stuff."
That was pretty self-explanatory, right?
"One of their worst enemies was Pitch Black, the Bogeyman, who gets power from the fear of the kids of the world. He's a power-hungry moron so he opened this giant magical door that was holding out a great evil, trying to get an army of shadow creatures called fearlings that corrupt and transform children to make more of themselves. Only when he did it, he opened the door to this horrible dark god named Kuk, this being of total darkness. Now that the door is open a crack Kuk wants to get all the way into this universe and then use it as a stepping stone to destroy all of existence - every world, everywhere. He captured a whole bunch of the good myths, including all the Guardians other than Bunnymund and Jack Frost, and imprisoned them in this crystal prison in the pocket dimension outside his magical door, where he can feed off of their belief. His army of fearlings is terrorizing the world and they're trying to make more of themselves out of innocent kids."
Also pretty self-explanatory.
"Kuk's making reality in this world thin so belief and fear are even more powerful. That means things that kids fear become real, like horror movie monsters and stuff. It even sometimes bends reality so certain areas get all twisted up in fiction, like part of a neighborhood can suddenly twist up to be like a horror video game. The monsters and villains are either made up wholecloth or pulled from dimensions where their stories really happened. Kuk's recruited a lot of these monsters and villains to work for him, although some of them cause problems all on their own. The other side of the coin is that the kids' belief is also bringing in good characters from their fiction."
He raised his eyebrows again.
"Us. Either it's just coincidence that writers in this world thought up our stories or the inspiration for them somehow traveled through the multiverse but we're all fiction here and the belief pulls us from the universes where we're real. The belief of the kids also gives us powers or changes them so that we're like the myths here. And those powers are tied into the belief of the kids. The more believers you have the more powerful you are. My powers are a lot weaker here, for instance, but as I've picked up a few believers they've gotten a little stronger again."
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That was pretty self-explanatory, right?
"One of their worst enemies was Pitch Black, the Bogeyman, who gets power from the fear of the kids of the world. He's a power-hungry moron so he opened this giant magical door that was holding out a great evil, trying to get an army of shadow creatures called fearlings that corrupt and transform children to make more of themselves. Only when he did it, he opened the door to this horrible dark god named Kuk, this being of total darkness. Now that the door is open a crack Kuk wants to get all the way into this universe and then use it as a stepping stone to destroy all of existence - every world, everywhere. He captured a whole bunch of the good myths, including all the Guardians other than Bunnymund and Jack Frost, and imprisoned them in this crystal prison in the pocket dimension outside his magical door, where he can feed off of their belief. His army of fearlings is terrorizing the world and they're trying to make more of themselves out of innocent kids."
Also pretty self-explanatory.
"Kuk's making reality in this world thin so belief and fear are even more powerful. That means things that kids fear become real, like horror movie monsters and stuff. It even sometimes bends reality so certain areas get all twisted up in fiction, like part of a neighborhood can suddenly twist up to be like a horror video game. The monsters and villains are either made up wholecloth or pulled from dimensions where their stories really happened. Kuk's recruited a lot of these monsters and villains to work for him, although some of them cause problems all on their own. The other side of the coin is that the kids' belief is also bringing in good characters from their fiction."
He raised his eyebrows again.
"Us. Either it's just coincidence that writers in this world thought up our stories or the inspiration for them somehow traveled through the multiverse but we're all fiction here and the belief pulls us from the universes where we're real. The belief of the kids also gives us powers or changes them so that we're like the myths here. And those powers are tied into the belief of the kids. The more believers you have the more powerful you are. My powers are a lot weaker here, for instance, but as I've picked up a few believers they've gotten a little stronger again."
That was all the basics, right?