Stories:Come down to Earth
A story by The French Sim
Come down to Earth is a comedy/drama story. It starts with the Neebtadrizk family's crash on planet Earth; these Xk'krylg'hnreblvians were actually going on holiday when their spaceship's engine failed. After crash-landing in Pleasantview, Ymn'ixxu Neebtadrizk gives birth to a baby girl who, despite her parents' opinion, will be named after the planet. But things go wrong when Earth's father and Ymn'ixxu's husband, Orflad, is crushed by a falling space debris, causing his wife to brutally turn catatonic. Tattooed with the Krylgian symbol of adaptability, Earth will attempt to live like a normal Earthling, and later try to do something for non-human minorities.
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Origin
Believe it or not, the Neebtadrizks were created while playing around with the Boolprop command. The characters' names were made up before the classic Xk'krylg'hnreblvian "few consonants" style was adopted, which explains that they can be easily pronounced.
Cast
Main characters
Earth Neebtadrizk
Ymn'ixxu Neebtadrizk
Orflad Neebtadrizk
Alon Livingston
Larry Jordan
Minor characters
Oztal Neebtadrizk
Wegla Neebtadrizk
Sg'glu Neebtadrizk
Cameos
The French Sim
Fancy Brown
Guinevere Tular
Summary
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The story properly starts after Orflad's death, with a visit from a Man In Black who tells Earth's family about the accident, confirming that it wasn't a plot. Oztal doesn't listen to him though, causing his family to lose their allowances. Meanwhile, Ymn'ixxu remains in her catatonic silence.
Later, after entering her teenage years, Earth decides not to stay at home, makes friend with Alon Livingston and realises that high school teens can be cruel: from that moment on, she wears black shades all the time. After a nightmare, she also finds out that she'll only get her revenge on society by studying hard. By the time she goes to SimState University, her mother has just sunk further into insanity, yet she has no choice but to leave with Alon.
At SSU, she majors politicsn her projects revolving around becoming a famous politicswoman. Unfortunately, after one of her mother's visits, she sees that her mental disorders are getting worse; after ordering a
ReNuYuSenso Orb and attempting to cure Ymn'ixxu, Earth just makes thing worse, leading the unfortunate woman to be obsessed by cheese.
The "green Earthling" also befriends one of her roommates and slowly develops a crush on Alon. One night though, she gets abducted by the members of secret society, to which the roommate mentioned earlier belongs; infuriated by the lack of politeness such an act involves, she leaves the society's headquarters, becoming hated by its members. After coming back to the dorm, she's cheered up by Alon, who ends up kissing her. He later decides to move out with her since she's being harrassed by her new enemies.
The new house both move in turns out to be filled with objects stolen from the society by Alon, causing the couple to break up. However, the thief promises that she will meet his ex-girlfriend again...
Later, Earth hears that her grandmother died and that her mother couldn't handle it at all. She ends up being sent to "a country with lots of cheese"; namely, France, at The French Sim's, where she learns a few phrases like "Fromage fondu".
After graduating, Earth comes back home after fetching her mother at the airport, only to find that her house was robbed and her grandfather murdered. Ymn'ixxu, who had just started wearing normal clothes from Earth, has to be taken to the hospital.
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Real life and cultural references
- Earth's opposant, Mr Nepel, has a name made up by inverting the French far-right leader, Le Pen.
- The Grim Reaper talks in capitals, just like in Terry Pratchett's books.
- In the chapter where Sg'glu appears has two references to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
In other media
See also
