So, Chapter 2 Is Out And This Time I Wanted To Talk About The Cover.

So, chapter 2 is out and this time I wanted to talk about the cover.

This is actually my 3rd favorite cover I've made.

Originally, it was going to be the main characters, but I can't really draw and couldn't handle the embarrassment of what I actually came up with 🤙

So, instead, I made this! I was thinking it could be seen as the "what do you seen in the black and white blot" test, but I made it to be a representation of the two characters and their personality/feelings.

Why it's in black and white has to do with the theme.

I didn't want to go with the gray area because the MCs aren't changing, they're allowing themselves to be who they are in a world of black and white.

Personally, trying to change who I am so people will like me or want to be my friend has never really worked, so I wanted to make a story based on that feeling. The feeling that you'll never have friends just because of who you are, but you don't want to, or shouldn't, change who you are. It's meant to be uplifting and give people the sense that there's no need to change yourself just to make friends.

For a while, I'm going to take over and instead just talk about the relationships my characters have.

If you wanna check out a few drabbles I've written already, check out my bio for my Royal Road page :)

Anyways, so I'll start with Ankara again to start from the basics.

Ankara is the founder and CEO of a world renowned media company named Wry Co. He is 30 years young and attracts a lot of attention from... Just about anyone who likes men, though he's mostly unaware of this attention.

“I went to one of the premieres of our latest film, and I guess there must have been a picture taken of me. Everyone is saying I could bust them or I should… split them in half.” Cassie tried to hold back her laugh. “Do I really look scary?”

His naivety aside, Ankara acts as a mostly supportive figure to Cassie allowing her grow within his company. They produce a vast amount of media including movies, books, magazines, comics, games and they are currently attempting to start a record label.

Ankara was slated to become a doctor, but took on the role of owing a business for his own love of movies and games. It soon blew up and is now one of the most well known companies.

Cassie works under him in the literature department where her stories are turned into small comics or full fledged novels! His relationship with her is built off of the first time he read her works.

His relationship with the other character is mostly business and will be elaborated on in time!

With the few character's I've talked about already, he has no actual relationship with Brayleigh past knowing he exists and Aki is similar.

Akuma, on the other hand, is a young rival of his in this story. Him and Akuma constantly fight over their business practices as well as their decisions within their respective companies.

Akihiko has a very long history as a character. Having gone through several changes to being based on my actual life, Akihiko is an ideal boyfriend I made up when I was in middle school. Having dealt with a serious crush I never acted on, I always felt like I could bring myself some confidence to tell him my feelings if I just wrote what would happen. So Aki is made in his image and it made for an interesting story. Instead of Aki and Cassie ending up together, they wind up breaking up. Why, because when I decided to make them break up was at the same time me and my crush graduated from middle school and were going to different highschools. I felt like I should let him go and maybe my interest in him wasn’t reciprocated, so I shouldn’t force someone to like me, when they might not be interested in me. I wanted to show that sometimes you’re not meant to be with the “perfect” person, just the person who fills the half of you, you yourself can’t.

Oh man, for some reason I got cold feet trying to post this chapter to the Discord server I'm in. That feeling of intimidation came over me and more or less I felt the exact way Cassie does in this chapter.

Sometime I managed to convince myself maybe I just self-diagnosed myself and I don't actually have anxiety, but then stuff like this happens and my hands start shaking and my heartbeat is through the roof...

I'm just gonna go play totk to calm down. We all know I won't stop thinking about this though.

I have a story I'm currently publishing on Wattpad about a young anxious college girl who's trying to find out why she feels so different from everyone. Check it out here if you want!

I also have a few WIPs from my writeblr into and some others I did more recently.

Hiiii… Active writeblrs?

hi there. just curious about what u guys are writing about. u can link ur work here if u wanna. tell me about the new character, the plot, the vibes. go ahead :) reblog if u like (I also wanna follow some active writeblrs, go ahead and like this/reblog if ur doing ur thing)

Oh, here we are again 👋

Honestly my entire life is absorbed by my stories and I give myself headaches from thinking about them. If you're like me, maybe we would get along, idk.

Anyways, this time my world building is more about the environment.

All The Screams is a story I wrote in highschool to display my feelings of what I deemed was a "curse" that bad things always seemed to happen to me. I don't mean like I lost my pencils, I mean I would sometimes have to redo entire assignments thanks to my teacher losing my work 🤦

That stuff bothered me as a kid so instead of rebelling, I became a nerd and made this story.

Little Miss Ann was so invested in this story she even drew stuff for it.

Prepare for amateur art from a highschooler though I pretty much didn't get any better than this

(as usual) Cassie

Kyo (I never finished him 😔)

Curil (who's the most badass one)

Quana in her two different forms

During the course of the story, these guys meet up in a variety of ways, most uniquely is Quana who is a fairy spirit who acts as a parasite.

Then I made monsters

That last one is the main antag, and in order to not spoil anything (in case anyone wants to ever read this), it's meant to be a creature that has no form, it changes from time to time, but when I got my 1st phone, this is the very first thing I did with a drawing app 🤓

These monsters are very important to the story. They frequently become obstacles for the crew and sometimes they need to find something in order to progress.

So, I clearly need more monsters and plethora more of fauna and flora, but while this story digs its grave in my mind, this is all I can do.

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