While I'm In The Midst Of Posting My College Romance *ahem*here*ahem* I'm Also Working On Like 20 Million

While I'm in the midst of posting my college romance *ahem*here*ahem* I'm also working on like 20 million other stories, very specifically two stories I'm revising from my childhood.

I need to stop gatekeeping my damn stories so I figured there's be no harm in brain storming here.

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So, there are two stories somewhat connected as they share the same universe. My main issue is I need better world building. Rn, both these stories are just BOTW or OOT, and I don't wanna copy them.

I'm not set on having a world with extreme climates but just a world with a lot of mystery to tie in with bith the stories themes.

Oh, what are the two stories about? Well I'm glad no one asked.

One is titled Kingdom of Bumalia and it's a origin story, since I like Zelda think of it as the Skyward Sword of my universe. The people of this world are de-evolutions of the "normal" humans that show up later. It's a spin on the classic thought of evoultuon that humans evolved from monkeys or lizards. My species are called Bumalians, their defining trait is they all have some animal apendage. For ex. My MC Cassie is a rabbit born from a rabbit mother and a wolf father, which every trait was more dominate, is what the child ends up with. So far I have:

Rabbits,

Birds (specifically hawks)

Wolves

Insects (I'm terrified of bugs so I really only have one that's been described -_-')

Aquatic animals (Dolphin, mermaid, and an Orca)

And Mice

During the course of revising this story, I added a TON of animals. Originally, I really only describes the main characters which were three wolves, two rabbits, the family of hawks, and a Dragonfly. I know now I need to add more and that's what I did. However, I can't just have animals, I need other things.

I creates a fruit called a Magadear and a herb called Grayseed for tea. I of course need more, but I'm just too disorganized to actually come up with some.

I wanted to make a staple flower for a certain scene that involves the Kingdom's current Queen, so I'll be thinking about that along the way.

Really I'm posting this (and a few others) in case anyone has any good ideas. Some people come up with things that get my brain flowing and it's always nice to discuss fictional worlds, who knows maybe we can start some kind of thread of ideas and play around with stuff!

I usually have a ton if fun discussing stories and I'm honestly missing that. This is a good way to get back into it.

All the Screams World Building >

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.

I love how my WIPs are dormant until I get some random idea for a scene, then I can continue writing as if it was locked and I needed a key to see it.

Cassie’s father is a lax individual who doesn’t take very many things seriously. He’s a little bit of a manchild in the fact that he’s carefree most of the time and takes on anything that catches his interest. In the main story, he’s the son of a police chief and he intends to make his father proud, but that’s not very possible. He works tirelessly but eventually loses his drive and that’s where he meets Kali…

They have an origin story of their own where Kali tries to help her mother out of an abusive relationship with her new boyfriend after her father dies. Kali resorts to stealing so she can make enough money to get her and her mother somewhere else and away from the boyfriend plaguing her life. Instead of Leios being her savior, Leios acts as a support system for Kali to talk to. He slowly becomes her friend and is the only person she can tell this side of her life to. He helps her, he doesn't become her savior, and that's all Kali could ever need.

It's a little sad that I'll always be confined by the scope of my gender.

But!

I'm not one to let anyone but myself stop me. Yeah, there's nothing more I wanted to say, I just felt like saying that 👋

I love telling myself that I'm stupid, because when I do something smart, it's way more impressive.