Binary opposites.
A theory put forward by Claude Lévi-Strauss of the Structuralist school of thought.
The theory suggests that human understanding is built on contrast. That the world we live in defines things not just by what they are, but by what they are not.
In other words, for light to be understood, darkness must exist.
If there are heroes, there must be villains. Where truth thrives, lies linger in the shadows.
If life has meaning, so must death.
And ultimately, if the possible exists, then the impossible must, by extension, have a place too.
Astrovia was a world where the line between what is possible and what is normally deemed impossible for humans had long since been blurred.
Where the laws that bound Earth’s reality were no more than flexible suggestions. Gravity lost i
