I Have So Much Writing Material But Can’t Actually Write It All: A Lament :)

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Ok this is just a writing dump, feel free to come and go as you please.

Some of you may know that I am currently writing a book with one of my best friends from school, and it comes with a LOT of material, a (mildly) sloppy plot, and characters with so much emotional baggage that if they where at an airport, they would have to take at least half of it out of their carry-on bags because it’s too heavy.

🙂

Anyway, so I’m just going to tell about the world and backstory, and the characters’ basic outline (actually we’ve spent more time on the characters and world than the actual writing).

The most crucial information to know is that there are two worlds: Earth (which is just Earth nowadays), and Vandrad, a magical world (heavily inspired by Croatia, at least for language). In this universe, sorcery is the only way between the two worlds, and only female sorcerers can travel between the worlds, but they can bring a certain number of other people with them (including men) depending on their power level.

However, sorcery is outlawed in Vandrad, and there was a Holocaust-esque event in which almost all of the sorcerers in Vandrad were killed. People suck. Anyway, there were a few sorcerers who built this school hidden somewhere in Vandrad that trained young sorcerers in magical, intellectual, and social aspects of their life, including how to not seem like you practice magic. One of these sorcerers was Mira Treacher, who’s really important later. (I’ll give you her emotional baggage some other time).

In many of the nations of Vandrad, if a person gets accused of sorcery, even by unreasonable suspicion, they can be killed. Not great, I would say. In other nations, if you get accused of sorcery, you get enlisted in the military. There are about 2 countries that couldn’t care less if you are a sorcerer, because you’re still a human being.

Another really important piece of background info is that there was this sorcerer king (we haven’t named him yet, give me ideas) who crafted this magical stone that could both give and take away the gift of sorcery. Each sorcerer has 3 powers naturally, but with the stone, you can either get rid of them or get more and basically be all-powerful. However, if you get rid of your powers, the effects are permanent, and you can no longer gain powers from the stone. (I think we were going to have it so that sorcerers have a special gene that gives powers, and the stone either gets rid of it or amplifies it, but i dunno if we’re going that.)

Ok now on to the characters!!

1. Ainslee “Pierce” Winthrope (girlboss)

• A sorceress
• Powers:
  • Fire creation and control
  • Can learn almost any physical skill within the first time learning or seeing it
  • Has the ability see a person’s recent or most important thoughts & memories through touch
• Easily irritable
• Goes by her middle name cause she’s trying to “remake” herself
• Lots of trauma
• An amazing singer (this isn’t really relevant but it’s nice to know)

2. Liam Harrison

• A thief (but a nice one 🙂 )
• Powers: none (or does he…?)
• A cinnamon roll <3
• Lots of trauma
• Has an older brother who’s a sorcerer but I genuinely don’t know what happened to him and I’m writing this story (rip Daniel, you and your girlfriend Hailey le Blanc were so cute)
• Um apparently he’s also a good singer (duets with Pierce when??)

3. Rosanna Grove

• A sorceress
• Powers:
  • Electrical manipulation
  • Can change her appearence
  • Can figure out the powers of others through touch
• Hates being called a ginger (she’s a redhead)
• Dude so much trauma I can’t even
• Flexible (like a gymnast) and can play the banjo

4. Oliver “James” Winthrope-Brown

• A sorcerer
• Powers:
  • Ghostify himself (can pass through things once he makes physical contact with it)
  • Psychometry (object reading)
  • Poison touch (activated through intense anger or fear)
• Pierce’s long lost brother
• Got adopted by these two detectives, so he’s basically a junior detective
• The same trauma as Pierce
• He’s really good at braiding hair (he braids his adopted sisters’ hair all the time)

5. Juliette Abara

• A sorceress but no one knows that
• Powers:
  • She can’t be killed (comes back to life (she can only die of old age))
  • Art manipulation (can make paintings and stuff come to life temporarily)
  • Can turn into a rainbow fish (don’t judge me; I know it’s random and useless)
• Has 8 siblings (3 of which are adopted)
• NO TRAUMA!!! (minus the first time she died I guess)
• She can ride a motorcycle 🙂

6. Samuel Reyes

• A sorcerer but is completely normal about it
• Powers:
  • Travel back in time ten minutes
  • A “smolder” (can make someone do what he wants just by looking at them) but he hates using this power
  • Can erase specific memories from people’s minds (I wish)
• loml fr
• His mom is Caucasian, and his dad’s mom is Korean & his dad’s dad is Spanish
  • His family tree is cool 🙂
• No trauma! 🙂
• Good at playing piano!!

7. Apollo Treacher

• A sorcerer
• Powers:
  • Memory manipulation (like Sam)
  • Immune to other sorcerers’ powers but not magical artifacts
  • Healing 🙂
• A mama’s boy but his mom doesn’t love him (very sad)
• YEAH TRAUMA
• Was supposed to be the secret villain but now he’s like “i was gonna be a villain but y’all are my found family.”
• Really good at lying and acting (go figure), can play the harmonica (he was in prison for a while), and singing!

8. Mira Treacher

• A sorcerer
• Powers:
  • Mind control/manipulation
  • Yeah she only has one so far help me out bro
• A TERRIBLE PERSON AND AN AWFUL MOTHER AND A POWER-HUNGRY PSYCHOPATH
• Yeah if you can’t tell, she’s the villain
• Was married to a king but then he died and she wasn’t allowed to be queen so she went crazy and neglected her son 🙂

Let me know what y’all think and give me ideas for Mira’s other 2 powers!