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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!
"After all these years, who knew we'd make such a good t-e-a-m?"
Ooh, trauma! XD Anyway. Do you have a pattern for your character’s magic, or is it more like everyone just gets random powers because it fits them? And what kind of magic are you looking for for her?
The squirrels are collecting more nuts than usual this winter. I've already lost 3 relatives.
It’s more like they have random powers because I think me and my friend came up with this rule that they have like a really powerful power and then the other powers are just free reign I guess 🙂
I’m looking for powers that could either be used for great good or great evil, ones with not a lot a gray area because Mira kind of manipulates people into thinking she’s this hero and that they should join her cause (she wants the magical sorcerer stone thing to become all-powerful). So maybe something that can be good in moderation but she secretly uses it for her evil benefits?
"After all these years, who knew we'd make such a good t-e-a-m?"
Hmm. Maybe she could have the power to heal people, but also to hurt people? Like she could take away their pain/illness by putting it in a jar or something, but than be able to easily infect/hurt people with it? Or maybe she could create food from nothing, but because of this she could also poison people really easily? Or if she could control electricity, she could help power things and prevent power outages, but she could also cause a massive outage, and refuse to fix things unless people give in to her demands. Some random ideas.
The squirrels are collecting more nuts than usual this winter. I've already lost 3 relatives.
🤩🤩 oh my gosh I love these ideas!!
Me and the friend iny writing this book with had had the idea for pain manipulation, which I guess can either make people feel pain when they’re not hurt, or take it away, which is kind of like what you said.
I absolutely love the idea about containing people’s diseases and illnesses! That sounds awesome!
"After all these years, who knew we'd make such a good t-e-a-m?"
Thanks! I’m glad that helped!
The squirrels are collecting more nuts than usual this winter. I've already lost 3 relatives.
Oooohhh love it Ry!!
I haven’t read through the whole thing yet but I will come back later, because I wanna know more!
(actually we’ve spent more time on the characters and world than the actual writing).
Think you’ve just summed up the entirety of an aspiring author’s process 😂. But figuring that stuff out beforehand is fundamental
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love never fails. -1 Corinthians
And guess what? His is eternal (:I love this so much!! These characters are ✨a m a z i n g✨
Power ideas for Mira…. Ummm… Idk. XD My brother and I were going to write a book together at some point and one of the villains has the ability to manipulate sound. Either he can manipulate how someone hears something or just sound in general. We’d thought it’d make it creepier, lol. We haven’t written any of this book yet, so don’t feel like you’re stealing our idea. XD You can totally use it if you want. 😉
Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende
Eeeek girlie I forgot how much I love your charries 🤩🥰
Um ideas for Mira’s powers…honestly y’all already said what I had in mind 🙂 But if I think of something else I’ll let you know!!
I’m sorry that wasn’t very helpful 😅
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Hey guys I’m back. I’m mildly recovering from a cold, so bear with me here.
So I just thought I would write down some of the connections that the characters have with each other, but it’s really complex because what’s better than actually writing the book? thinking about writing! 🙂
ok anyhoo.
- Pierce:
- James’ long-lost older sister
- Liam’s crush 🙂 <3 I love love.
- Mira’s mentee before Pierce finds out Mira is evil 🙂
- Mom is Harlowe Winthrope
- Dad is Orson Winthrope
- Also mentored by Liam’s older brother Daniel <3
- Liam:
- Rose’s long-lost neighbor / childhood best friend/ childhood crush
- Pierce’s crushy crush <3
- Haven’t named his parents but his brother’s name is Daniel 🙂
- Daniel had a girlfriend named Hailey le Blanc but I think they both died
- Rose:
- Liam’s long-lost neighbor / childhood best friend / childhood crush
- James’ crush 🙂
- James:
- Pierce’s long-lost younger brother
- Rose’s crush
- Juliette:
- Sam’s and Apollo’s crush <3
- Sam:
- Juliette’s crush 🙂
- Also related to a prince (not Apollo) so technically he’s a prince too because his mom is sisters with Prince Carl’s and Princess Candace’s mom so he’s like a prince-nephew to Queen Aunt or whatever (we haven’t named her so give me names please) and like a prince-cousin to Carl and Candace. (what is the cousin of a prince called cause he’s higher than a duke or archduke but idk if he’s technically a prince but his mom was a princess so yeah I guess he is but he doesn’t want to actually lead a country.
- Don’t mind my bad grammar please
- Apollo:
- Not Juliette’s crush 🥲
- Mira’s son (aka a prince WHATTT)
- Mira:
- Apollo’s mom (technically she was a queen for a short period of time cause she was married to a king (I stan King Magnus) but no she’s atrocious)
- Pierce’s mentor before Pierce finds out that Mira’s evil
Ok that’s all I got for y’all. Have a good spring break for all y’all who are on spring break rn.
"After all these years, who knew we'd make such a good t-e-a-m?"
I love this so much!! Characters are my favorite ✨
Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende
I love all the crushes here.😂
Daniel had a girlfriend named Hailey le Blanc but I think they both died
I don’t know why, but the way you phrased this made me laugh. Poor things. 😂
The squirrels are collecting more nuts than usual this winter. I've already lost 3 relatives.
Daniel had a girlfriend named Hailey le Blanc but I think they both died
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ dude why did I write that
"After all these years, who knew we'd make such a good t-e-a-m?"
AHH I love itttt 🤩🤩🤩 (And I’m sorry you have a cold, I hope you feel better soon🥺)
All the crushes are so adorable oh my goodnessss 🥰 I hope at least one couple gets together and survives but I’m kinda afraid to hopeðŸ˜ðŸ¥²
Oh and here’s a few names that I found for Queen Aunt!
Alexandra, Catherine, Adela, Calista, Calla, Kira, Kiana, Leona, Vera, Carianna, Chana 🙂
whoa a lot of those rhymed lol😅
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