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Post by June Scarlet on Jul 24, 2019 20:44:48 GMT -5
Thanks for all the replies, everyone! I suppose I should have said, " Most everyone is twelve years old." There's a few characters who I imagine as adults still. People like Sharron and Athene, for being parents of other characters. Maggie because Beatrice particularly remembers her from her childhood, investigating a ghost at the Wrighton Inn. The Boss because he's kind of fits in the same vein, though now I kinda want to see him de-aged and going "Hello fellow kids," because that sounds funny. And Scip I imagine as an adult, and I imagine a role for him too, actually. I would love to include NPCs like Dion and Itzel (Ginz messaged me saying I could use her). The hard part of this is going to be balancing all these different characters. I'm used to having two, maybe three characters in a comic, and I'm looking at closer to a dozen here. It's going to be a fun challenge, I think. Killix Thanks! Velia will be a good addition to the team, I think. How would she handle a group of kids who sya they investigate supernatural happenings around town? Would she join in, even if to just throw suspicion off herself? Thorn Dion makes me sad in this AU, because she has to start off all by herself again. I imagine her in the distance of the panels, watching curiously. This might be interesting though, because she could catch things the others miss. Gelquie Heh, Alexis would suddenly be the oldest of the group. Pretty straightforward though, yeah. Like I mentioned earlier, I still imagine Athene to be the mom, though it's still fun to imagine what she was like back then. Celestial Could I say that Fionn is in Wrighton visiting for the summer? This story will take place in summer so I don't have to worry about school, so that would be convenient. Huntress Kathleen sounds like a lot of fun. An active imagination will be very helpful in uncovering the oddities around town. Liou How would Ayo feel about decorating a clubhouse from scratch, per chance? There might be a new clubhouse that needs furnishing, who knows. Twillie Would Liz have access to Mary at this time? On one hand, not until she was grown up and found the mirror at her job. On this other hand, this is technically an AU and not a prequel, so that can change if you want it to. Or maybe the kids could find the mirror in a future adventure? I'm already thinking about future adventures and I haven't got the first one planned out yet. Fraze Poor Scip. Did he read Middle Grade Novels from around the ship at that age, at least? Just for fun. Anyway, yeah, I have a cameo for him, I think. Ginz ❤ Was Itzel mostly the same as a child as she was an adult? She looks mostly the same, from the pic you sent, but I was wondering about her personality as well. Did she still want to travel? June Scarlet My goodness, don't forget about Beatrice after all that.
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Jul 24, 2019 22:49:45 GMT -5
June Scarlet Yes, Itzel would be pretty much the same. Maybe as a kid it'd be more about fantasy lands and going on magical adventures, rather than wanting to learn about different cultures and stuff, but the desire to travel would be there already. Thank you for asking and for wanting to include her as well!
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Post by Thorn on Jul 25, 2019 4:41:07 GMT -5
June ScarletI should clarify that canon Dion wouldn't have been in Wrighton when she was twelve- but this is entirely AU, right? So that's fine? Just wanted to be sure! (especially since when she was twelve years old was a....long, long, long time ago. xD)
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Post by Celestial on Jul 25, 2019 5:55:05 GMT -5
June Scarlet, yep, totally happy for Fionn to just be visiting over the summer. This means his dad would be around town but I have no idea what kind of person he is or what he looks like, so it's probably simpler to write him out. xD Fionn always struck me as a free range sort of child anyway.
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Post by Killix on Jul 25, 2019 11:05:46 GMT -5
June ScarletGood question! When faced with such a proposal I can see poor 12 year old Velia immediately panicking, thinking that somehow her cover was blown. XD Once it's clear that they're not suspecting her, and their plan isn't to poke the "monster" to pieces with pitchforcks, then I think she would go into sabotage mode when agreeing to help... though, once its apparent that whatever supernatural thing they're investigating isn't her, that plan would fall to genuine curiosity. XD Her sabotage attempts could go well, or fail miserably, depending on where you wanna go with that. Either way, I think her quiet, wallflower nature would be a boon to keeping her under the radar. XD
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Post by Twillie on Jul 25, 2019 12:55:00 GMT -5
June Scarlet Technically Liz wouldn't have had access to Mary at that age, but as an AU, I'd say go for it if you'd like to include her! Whether she's already there or they find her mirror while adventuring is up to you, plus whether or not she's full grown. This got me thinking what twelve year old Mary would look like, so I made a little sketch for your reference if you'd like x3 She'd probably act similar to how her normal self would, just maybe clumsier and a bit less threatening. She's still technically dangerous, but she doesn't quite know how to use all her pointy ends. Also she'd be way nosier than she already is.
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Post by Liou on Jul 26, 2019 9:04:38 GMT -5
Liou How would Ayo feel about decorating a clubhouse from scratch, per chance? There might be a new clubhouse that needs furnishing, who knows. So excited! So very excited! Like a bird building a nest! Their work probably wouldn't be super polished because they are still twelve, but they'd be enthusiastic about including at least one thing to suit each club member's taste, and if anybody requests wild things like an ice cream machine (as you know kids will) they should be able to refuse that in a gentle way.
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Post by Gelquie on Sept 8, 2019 15:03:44 GMT -5
So I had a dream last night. That the story was published as a series of serial comics. I didn't get the exact number, but I think there were as many issues as there were characters? Each issue featured the "character sheet" of a character on the first page. Not in the D&D and thus numbery-sense (though the books were about the size of a D&D handbook). There was a profile picture and basic info, and then a whole bunch of information written about the character along with highly detailed illustrations. And then there was the rest of the comic that detailed the events of Wrighton.
I was in my old bedroom pulling out issues of these (in random order because dream logic) to check out the character sheets. I went through a few characters, though I don't remember what all I saw were. (And I think one of them was Ene?? The spoiler-version, that is.) Eventually, I found mine (for Alexis) and looked it over. Then Huntress teleported into my room to discuss Wrighton and I asked her to autograph my character's sheet. She did so in big letters. But I think she chose a blank spot to do so.
Wish I could remember more, but I don't. But have a dream/mental image! xD
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Post by Twillie on Sept 8, 2019 18:54:52 GMT -5
Were it not something that'd take up more time than I care to imagine, that sounds like a legitimately cool idea to execute xD
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Post by Gelquie on Jan 24, 2020 3:09:47 GMT -5
Me: *Reading my old post about mermaids and the Marinos' relation to the Sea Queen. Gets to the part where Omir talks about what part of themselves to use for the ritual; specifically scales and not blood because I didn't like that mental image.*
*Thinks.* They just need to use a mer part of themselves... Blood counts, so DNA must count...
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Why didn't they just use a bunch of their saliva?
...Maybe no one in the family has thought of that.
(Or maybe someone tried it once but the Sea Queen got really mad because they were basically spitting at her.)
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Post by Huntress on Jan 24, 2020 10:32:50 GMT -5
Me: *Reading my old post about mermaids and the Marinos' relation to the Sea Queen. Gets to the part where Omir talks about what part of themselves to use for the ritual; specifically scales and not blood because I didn't like that mental image.* *Thinks.* They just need to use a mer part of themselves... Blood counts, so DNA must count... ... Why didn't they just use a bunch of their saliva? ...Maybe no one in the family has thought of that. (Or maybe someone tried it once but the Sea Queen got really mad because they were basically spitting at her.) Fingernails? On one hand, kinda gross. On the other hand, use of discarded fingernails is incredibly old magic in folklore and the superstition of not leaving fingernail clippings around willy-nilly goes back centuries across a lot of cultures precisely because malicious forces could find use for them. On the third sorta-perpendicular hand, if the Sea Queen vibes with ancient powerful magic then giving her fingernail clippings might be giving her entirely too much power and one day she'll just burst out of the sea to conquer all mankind in her fingernail clipping armor and do we really want this sequel?
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Post by Killix on Jan 24, 2020 10:52:49 GMT -5
Would fingernails count as a mer-part, though? XD
I don't know how I feel about fingernail clipping armour, so maybe it's for the best if it doesn't count. XD
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Post by Liou on Jan 24, 2020 11:37:18 GMT -5
On the third sorta-perpendicular hand, if the Sea Queen vibes with ancient powerful magic then giving her fingernail clippings might be giving her entirely too much power and one day she'll just burst out of the sea to conquer all mankind in her fingernail clipping armor and do we really want this sequel? Well of course now that you've put it this way I want it more than anything!
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Post by Gelquie on Jan 24, 2020 18:51:18 GMT -5
On the third sorta-perpendicular hand, if the Sea Queen vibes with ancient powerful magic then giving her fingernail clippings might be giving her entirely too much power and one day she'll just burst out of the sea to conquer all mankind in her fingernail clipping armor and do we really want this sequel? ...Ha ha, nooo, no, of course not. =D Don't mind me scribbling notes, it's for, uh, research. In more seriousness, hm, fingernails is a thought. I didn't know there was so much folklore about fingernail stuff, and that's interesting to look up. It also kinda gives me some thoughts on the powers involved. =D But I'll need more research to figure out how that goes before going on to invent my own thing anyway. Anyway, thanks for pointing that out! That gives me some food for thought. Though Killix has a good point... Would fingernails count as a mer-part, though? XD I don't know how I feel about fingernail clipping armour, so maybe it's for the best if it doesn't count. XD Yeah, that's a good question. At the time, I think I was figuring that they have to be directly related to their mer-self. Because merfolk like the Sea Queen are prideful like that and all "only mer stuff counts, huff!". And blood I figured certainly counted. (And saliva... Wait, do marine creatures even make saliva? *Looks.* Well, my thorough 5 seconds of internet searching reveals that sharks don't have salivary glands, so if that's worth anything, I guess that quashes that anyway.) Fingernails... I guess it'd depend on whether or not merfolk have fingernails? Which... I have no idea. xD Would they evolutionarily need fingernails? I know humans do for fingertip protection and for help grasping things. Would it help them in their oceanic needs, or is the need for them on the surface quashed down there? The things I think about for thoroughness. I'll have to ponder this. "But Gelquie, are you even going to use this information in a story?" Who says I'm not? "Your executive function on writing a story." ...Well, if I believe that, then I certainly won't write it, so I'm certainly going to keep saying I'm going to try.
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Post by Huntress on Jan 25, 2020 5:58:48 GMT -5
On the third sorta-perpendicular hand, if the Sea Queen vibes with ancient powerful magic then giving her fingernail clippings might be giving her entirely too much power and one day she'll just burst out of the sea to conquer all mankind in her fingernail clipping armor and do we really want this sequel? ...Ha ha, nooo, no, of course not. =D Don't mind me scribbling notes, it's for, uh, research. In more seriousness, hm, fingernails is a thought. I didn't know there was so much folklore about fingernail stuff, and that's interesting to look up. It also kinda gives me some thoughts on the powers involved. =D But I'll need more research to figure out how that goes before going on to invent my own thing anyway. Anyway, thanks for pointing that out! That gives me some food for thought. Fingernail folklore is so universal, it's ridiculous - Mexico, the Philippines, West Africa, Solomon Islands, Armenia, Italy, China, take your pick, everyone has it. And also this corner of the world; when I was a kid, I read an Estonian folktale about a guy who found the devil's hat made of collected fingernail clippings, which the devil used to turn himself invisible and to fly around. (The guy stole it and ran off to have shenanigans, obviously, but the point was that it was a cautionary tale about not leaving your clipped fingernails lying around lest the devil turns it into a flying invisi-hat.) Other cultures have wildly varying ideas about what the malicious forces can do with them, so your take might depend on what culture your merfolk stem from (well, Greek-ish, I'm guessing.) ...look, I swear I'm not weirdly obsessed with fingernail lore, I just translated a book on superstition a short while back and the universe seems bent on conveniently aligning itself for me xD SPEAKING OF WHICH, LOOK, A DISTRACTION: I never did show you guys the Wrighton Cathedral, did I? Funny story with this one - originally there was just a cathedral because a town has to have one. When I first drew it for a chapter header, I based it on the Cologne Cathedral with all its impressive spiky gothic bits. Only that was entirely wrong, wasn't it; the Wrighton Cathedral was simple, and friendly, and welcoming, and made of warm yellow sandstone, and not so impossibly tall that you wouldn't be able to converse with people on its roof should such a need arise. So one day sometime well past the roleplay had ended, we're taking our usual bus line 40 into town past Charles Church up there and all of a sudden I go "wait, hang on, this is exactly the Wrighton Cathedral, isn't it?" It's stupid impossible to take a good picture of it under most circumstances because it sits on an island between major roads to the center and is also surrounded by trees, so either it's behind a blob of green in summer or under mucky grey sky in winter. This time of the year is the only optimal time to photograph it, and I recently started going to the adjacent national library to work so I was able to make decent use of a rare sunny morning.
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