What are you working on, /lit/? Two black men find themselves

One about a man from a race of monkey people who, after his single mother dies, finds himself without ties to the world. He signs on to a cargo ship, hoping to find purpose, and it ends up shipwrecked- the only survivors him and a mute tiger-man servant. They end up on a continent of bird-people and have to... something. I haven't worked out much beyond that. They could find something world-changing or have to stop a threat to the world but I'm not sure. Sounds too trite. That's what happens when you work setting-first, I guess.

The other, a fairly typical urban fantasy. A man who lives by himself is slowly tormented into half-insanity by a box in his attic, sent visions each night in his dreams of opening the box and finding treasure inside. After he dreams of finding his mother in the box- his mother who has been dead for years- he decides enough is enough, and opens the box. Turns out it's the personal library of a wizard of some note, and he is thrust, alone, into a world of magic etc etc. I hope to make it different by not including very many other people- I want him to face things alone. Involves dualistic cosmology, with black and still angels, and white and wild demons.

Hmm. I hadn't realized it before now, but both of these heavily involve dead mothers as a starting premise. Perhaps I have a problem.

Well, that sounds pretty gay.

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A dark-enlightenment, nietzschean, body-building half-demon, along with his dominatrix older-sister, a sexually-repressed, fiend-hunting, zen martial artist, an immortal, homosexual, siberian werewolf shaman, a PTSD'd, manichaean lesbian, fight against an extradimentional, haughty dragon cuntboy, an anti-civilization, sumerian clayman, and the demon/immigrant mafia for the vagina of a normal girl.