Octaviaverse

This is the side blog for @lyraoctavia and I will be posting everything relating to my writing, artwork, music, games, etc here from now on. I thought it would be better to split the two to keep things more focused on the ridiculously expansive interconnected universe I’ve created over my many years as a human being, featuring literally dozens of ideas because I am a slave to my own creativity and my work is never finished. Sound good? Of course it does!

What kind of stuff do I do?

Writing: I like to write stories, usually fantasy, with epic, sprawling worlds, intricate magic, sarcastic and often completely ridiculous humour, identifiable characters with a ton of emotional development and campy ass villains who will entertain you so much that you’ll want to grind them into a fine paste with a large boot. However, I wouldn’t be adverse to also writing some slice of life stuff too. I am a certified Alice Oseman fangirl after all. I tend to not shy away from commenting on certain serious issues (e.g. abuse, death, self harm, attempted suicide) as well, so a lot of my works contain trigger warnings. However, I don’t enjoy writing explicit sexual content or stuff with a ton of blood and gore so don’t expect any of that.

Games: I am currently a game design student so most if not all of my game ideas are just that. Ideas. Ones that I will undoubtedly be crafting into the incredible experiences I know they have the ability to be. Most of my ideas are for platformers or RPGs with very little in-between and will all have, hopefully, perfect blends of story and gameplay. I personally hate when a story based game is bogged down by too many cutscenes, especially if the gameplay isn’t really that interesting so I’ll always try and strike a balance or find a workaround. My games all have amazing stories to tell but a story ain’t all a game is. Might as well make em fun first, right?

Music: I got a little less to say about this one. Most of my music writing is for my games that don’t exist yet, so I literally have hundreds of tracks just kinda sitting around waiting for me to use them. Sometimes I make other music but that’s rare. Most I’ve got for now are a couple remixes and the score concepts I’ve made for an animated series of Into the Phantasm (please gods let this happen, it would slap so dang hard).

Art: I draw cartoon characters and that’s about it. I am not a professional artist by any means, but my silly little guys can’t just stay sitting in my head forever, sometimes I gotta put ‘em on a page, even if I ain’t some modern Picasso.

Current WIPs

Into the Phantasm (epic action/fantasy 5 part book series)

Jeans on Toast (Text-based, slightly unhinged comedy, choose your own adventure video game for release on Steam)

Finished works

A Penguin’s Tale (stop motion movie)

News

The prologue of Into the Phantasm (the first five chapters) is available to read and the book 1 rewrite is going smoothly. Hopefully it’ll all be available soonish.

Also me to my characters:

"You are my PLAYTHINGS. And I get JOY out of making you SUFFER! I'm the one who causes pain for FUN."

💙Blue: How is your character when it comes to expressing and communicating their emotions? 

Okay wow that is a question I’m going to have to try not to turn into a dissertation

Into the Phantasm, especially as it goes along, is pretty much about how almost every character expresses and deals with their emotions so I’m gonna have to try and keep things surface level to avoid getting into massive spoiler territory.

Sarah: Sarah is generally pretty up front about her feelings, unless she feels like they will end up affecting someone else. If that happens, it goes right to the back of her mind for her to think about later or pretend isn’t there.

Maya: Maya tends to get pretty vocal if she’s feeling positive, but if she’s feeling negative, she’ll tend to clam up and only express herself through anger, snapping at people and then regretting it later.

Lillian: Lillian is a bright ball of sunshine who talks a mile a minute and has never ever cried. Even if you saw her crying… no you didn’t.

Kora: Kora takes a more logical approach. If she’s feeling sad, that sadness is a puzzle to be solved with a specific brand of good vibes to get back to contentment. Same with the people around her. There’s always a way to make her friends feel better. She just has to find it.

I could go on and write about pretty much all the characters in the Phantasm series… but I am not going to do that right now.