Emerged

Emerged From The Shade (Emerged for short)
Left - Meta (xe/xem) | Right - Corey (he/him)

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Corey (if you ask him, it's short for Hardcore; no one buys this) had always wanted to start one of those cool post-hardcore duo-based bands where one of them does the clean vocals and the other one screams. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to find anyone who could provide the proper contrast in vocal range...until he accidentally broke the wrong ice floe and released a long-constrained variant of Wyrmwound plague. He was left sick in bed for 3 weeks, but after he came out, from either the plague or the bizarre treatments, he'd found the perfect band partner in the form of new bodymate Meta and set out to the Hewn City to seek his fortune as the future king of the musical murder scene...and also because he was instructed to leave or be killed so he wouldn't infect the rest of his clan.

At first, Meta wanted nothing to do with him, but quickly mellowed both upon realizing that they were stuck together on grounds of being attached to the same body and also listening to Corey's music taste and liking what xe heard. It turned out that Meta was, in fact, quite good at screaming so the duo have teamed up into Emerged From The Shade, set to be the hottest sensation on the Hewn City post-hardcore scene.

There's just one problem. The Hewn City doesn't have a post-hardcore scene. Also, Emerged doesn't have anyone to do instrumental backing. It's hoping they can recruit Riku and convince him to actually learn to play music. After all, what's more attractive to edgy folks than being in a band? Nothing. It tried to recruit Emoviolence for her skills on keyboard, but she immediately decried them as posers and said she'd rip their faces off if they ever called themselves hardcore in her presence again. That might have just been a song reference, but Emerged would prefer not to find out.

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