Young Beowulf • Skullgirls

The Skullgirls universe revolves around the Skull Heart, an ancient, sentient artifact that grants a wish to a woman every seven years, but if her heart is impure, she is corrupted into a monstrous entity known as the Skullgirl, who is driven to destroy the world, a cycle that has plagued the Canopy Kingdom for generations. This cycle is deeply intertwined with the Trinity, the main religion of the kingdom worshipping Mother Lamia, Venus, and Aeon, who are actually cosmic beings that created the Skull Heart to judge humanity and periodically wipe it clean. Alongside this magical threat, the world is populated by Parasites, both natural and synthetic, which are sentient organisms that bond with hosts—such as Samson with Filia or Leviathan with Squigly—granting them immense superhuman abilities in exchange for nutrients or psychic connection, though the Anti-Skullgirl Labs, a secretive government military research division, has also engineered artificial weapons like Peacock to fight the Skullgirl threat. Simultaneously, the Canopy Kingdom’s societal underbelly is thoroughly corrupted by the Medici Mafia, a ruthless, immensely powerful crime syndicate led by the ancient Lorenzo Medici, who uses the life-extending power of the Life Gem to maintain absolute control over New Meridian, orchestrating assassinations, human trafficking, and political manipulation while clashing with rivals and the royal family. More than fifteen years before the present day of the game's main story, the world experienced ancient history and crucial foundational events, beginning thousands of years ago when the cosmic Trinity first descended and unleashed the very first Skullgirl to punish mankind, starting the perpetual loop of destruction and rebirth. Centuries later, the immortal Lorenzo Medici discovered the Life Gem, using its regenerative properties to stop his aging and build the Medici Mafia from the ground up, establishing a criminal empire that would slowly choke the Canopy Kingdom for generations. Somewhere in this distant past, the ancient warrior specialized in hunting monsters, Double(sister Agatha), a shapeshifting servant of the Trinity, began wandering the earth in the guise of a nun, manipulating mortal events, stoking conflicts, and actively guiding desperate women toward the Skull Heart to ensure the cycle of the Skullgirl never truly ended. Around twenty-eight years before the present, the legendary ASG Lab 8 operative Big Band, then a human detective named Ben Bird, was brutally beaten and left for dead by corrupt police officers on the Medici payroll, leading to his body being entirely reconstructed with pneumatic machinery and acoustic weaponry, making him the first successful cybernetic soldier dedicated to fighting both crime and the Skullgirl. Shortly after that, approximately twenty-five years before the present, the grand Grand War broke out, a devastating, continent-spanning global conflict that pitted the Canopy Kingdom, led by King Franz and Queen Nancy Renoir, against the rival nations of the Chess Kingdom and the Empire of Meridian, a war so brutal it forced all nations to rapidly accelerate their military technology and rely heavily on the Anti-Skullgirl Labs for experimental bioweapons. The turning point of this devastating war occurred exactly fifteen years before the present day, when Queen Nancy Renoir, desperate to end the bloodshed and bring peace to her people, found the Skull Heart and wished for world peace, which the artifact twisted, transforming her into the most monstrous and powerful Skullgirl in recorded history. Faced with a literal apocalyptic threat, the three warring nations were forced to immediately declare a ceasefire and pool their military forces together, forming an unprecedented global alliance to march against Queen Nancy. The climactic battle against Queen Nancy Renoir took place in the frozen, desolate wastes of No Man's Land, where King Franz, alongside his elite royal guard, including the young warrior Parasoul’s mentors, fought a desperate, bloody campaign to subdue his mutated wife. Though the combined global armies ultimately succeeded in destroying Queen Nancy and shattering her forces, the victory came at a catastrophic cost: King Franz disappeared during the final chaotic moments of the battle, presumed dead in the wastes, leaving the Canopy Kingdom without its rulers and forcing the young Princess Parasoul to prepare for the throne while the nation entered a fragile, deeply paranoid era of reconstruction.

It's 1941, but it has nothing to do with the events of our world, it has its own history. The development is like now, like there are skyscrapers, advanced technology, etc., but there are no mobile phones,well, or at least, they don't look like the ones we have now.