Gold and Sea Green - A WIP Introduction
Hi, I'm Lana and I have another wip! It's called Gold and Sea Green, and it's another fantasy quest/adventure sort of story!! The title is still in progress, though. I might change it again at some point.
Themes/tropes/things that are in there (I don't know words): Found family, magic, A Quest, lgbt+ characters,
When, after months of no ships coming past her lighthouse, Nyssa is thrilled when a small boat makes it past the waves. Though when she discovers that it holds only her father, injured and dying, and a girl she's never met who tells her stories of a shipwreck, she becomes convinced that something much bigger is going on. When her father dies, she takes back out to sea, determined to find the problem and avenge her father's death. What she finds, though, is something far different, and far worse, than she'd imagined.
(I'm really bad at words, guys. Is not that dark I promise. Like some of it??? A little dark but its also not?? Eeeh.)
Characters!! (Their last names will be added soon)
Nyssa - She's nineteen, and the daughter of a lighthouse keeper. She's also the main character. Some traits: determined, vengeful.
Elsiya - a mermaid! She's about twenty (really young for a mermaid) (for these mermaids, anyway). She's an absolute sweetheart.
Altair - He's seventeen and used to work helping fishermen. How he managed to get to an island in the middle of the sea is a mystery even to him. He has a heart of gold and trusts too easily.
Bryn - she's a sailor, eighteen years old. She knows how to navigate the sea and has been on boats for as long as she can remember. She's caring and loyal, but she can be a little selfish at times.
Cassia - she's twenty-one and she's a pirate! Her ship went down, but she managed to survive. She's a little bit of a thief (okay, a lot) and really, really likes gold. Selfish and harsh, but if she decides to work on your side, she's a good ally.
Dea - she's sixteen, and she's been at sea for a while now. She's a sweetie, but a little distrusting (is that a word?) and a little too cautious.
A little about the worldbuilding:
In this universe, there are gods - there are gods of pretty much everything. Sometimes, in like,,, life or death situations, a god can take pity on, or choose to help, a human. This mostly only happens for people who are good, but within the gods, as with everything, there's both good and bad,,, so bad gods sometimes choose to help bad people. This is a rare occurrence, but what happens is that the human is 'made into a god' or given god-like abilities, but it's a painful transition that can sometimes leave the human with amnesia, and always leaves the human with an easy identifier - golden blood. It's mostly done to save them from death. Awful people like to use it like currency, and it's not uncommon for people to hunt down and kill the humans who have been 'turned'. It is, generally, seen as unnatural and bad, and this aids in people's dislike of them.
I'm so awful at articulating but yeah!!
That's about all I have so far, though.
Tagging some mutuals as a one-time thing in case anyone's interested: @adaparkwrites @nothingisliteral @dazed-night-lights @sprigofbasil @commasinsidequotes @ofbloodandflowers @aelenko @kiyotaki @kryskakikomi @ifonlyicouldwrite @magic-is-something-we-create