#aohendo

Heyo, been a bit since I updated anything!

Call me Hendo. She/her. I write mostly fantasy and sci-fi, with the occasional horror short story.

Happy to beta read/critique swap most things. Don't be afraid to message about something. In particular, if you've got a flying scene you need eyes on, I'm a pilot--I might be able to help.

Here's what I've got going on. Might do proper WIP introductions if there's interest. Questions, tags, and ask games are welcome!

WIPs

Seed - sci-fi - 12k/55k?

Think Flowers for Algernon meets Mickey 7. Mayfly clones with a research grant.

The first draft for this thing is, for some reason, turning out to be mostly dialogue, which is a bit odd and going to be an absolute PITA to edit up later.

Molly's Maple Mill - cozy fantasy - 35k/70k

"The trouble with semi-sentient maple trees wasn't that they were sentient, but that they weren't sentient enough."

Small town vibes, MC must figure out how to stop her sugar grove from migrating before the next tapping season. Lots of small magic and random things becoming semi sentient/sentient, including Rock, the MC's pet rock.

Tyrant for Sale/Tombspell - high fantasy - 6k/120k

Book 2 in Prince for Hire/Wordbound.

The end goal for Prince was for Kiris to willingly accept a hug; the end goal for this is for Kiris to realize he can give them, too. Also, gotta overthrow a tyrant.

On the Habitats of Gods - academia/high fantasy - 25k/???k (too long)

Think Pokemon's Pokopia meets Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries

In the same universe as Prince/Tyrant, set about 6 months prior. The MC is a student sorcerer working towards her house scholar degree, but in order to pass her alchemy practical, she must complete an independent study. She chooses to research the difference between ingredients unwillingly and willingly given--which is to say, she needs to figure out how to attract gods, and quickly. It's a good thing the cute inquisitor-select student is being forced to help her out.

Untitled - YA fantasy - 3k/70k?

Mermaid flying fish dragon shifters + balls/debutante season.

This thing's mostly concept art right now, I'll be honest.

Completed

Reverberate - military space opera - 105k

Some Desperate Glory + The Vorkosigan Saga

Status: shelved, but realizing there's some spots for edits, so poking at it in my spare time.

Wordbound (formerly: Prince for Hire) - high fantasy - 112k

"When a fugitive god-king whose involuntary prophecies create reality foresees the death of his adoptive parent, he infiltrates an empire’s hostage court to undo his parent’s prophecy before his parent realizes he murdered them."

HI @aohendo!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK :D (also looking forward to get to know you as a writer more hehe)

Time for an off the cuff real-time writing of an Episode 2 scene for Stars, Bits, and Bytes!!

---- ---- ---- ---- The ship had been dancing in orbit for what seemed like forever, to Lyric, anyway. Through the bright and beautiful sea of stars that surrounded the ship, in his dazed state being half asleep and half awake he began to point out many of the constellations that appeared at the forefront of his vision.

The harsh roar back to life from the Titania's engines startled him out of that state and immediately made him more alert. As the ship lurched forward slowly, gaining speed, he pulled his seatbelt tighter so he'd feel more safe.

Without any warning from the AI and the knowledge of Arietta and Quintus, who Lyric and Ottava just endearingly called 'Mom' and 'Dad', the ship banked left and out of that large dome window, Lyric saw the stars rise up and sink down in slow succession. This was proof enough for his brain almost instantly registered that something was definitely off.

"...Guys? What's going on? Why is the ship rotating?" came the terrified voice of Ottava, with her cadence being shaky and unsure, cowering in fear in the very back seat of the ship with her seatbelt fastened as tight as it could go.

The ship continued to go in that slow banking motion for a while, slowly petrifying both Lyric and Ottava in their seats out of fear.

Which of your characters from your most recent WIP is your favorite? What makes them your favorite?

(and/or: who's your favorite ATLA character and what situation do you wish we'd seen them in during the show?)

ahh, hi there! thanks for teh ask! and happy blorbo blursday to ya too!

well, for my recent wips, ahh. . . i'm working on my fanfics rn, so my original works are on the backburner. but i can answer it. :3

for blasted scorn, titanrin is my fave. bc they got revamped and they live on riling others up. they're the headhuncho of the crew, looking after them. and they prefer staying out of any outsider's business. but that change when an incident occurs.

as for the second question. . . toph is actually my fave character of all time! and over-all. and i guess i wish this had happened to her. it's a fun concept that's be cool to see in canon. ^-^

dirk: are there any famous stories in the story?

i haven't gotten around to fictional stories or pure legends, but there are some famous historical figures like Telos of Dëis who came up recently in a tag game

flail: is there an aspect of your wip that you’re struggling with?

finishing

Emerald: Which of your characters is hardest to write?

Tiger's Eye: What are the tropes of your main cast?

And also, since it's Storyteller Saturday, how do you keep track of your worldbuiding/plots/characters?

Hi and thank you for the ask! ^^

ASK GAME

Emerald: Which of your characters is hardest to write? Probably Márgerdra and maybe Ereanth, her ex-husband. I had some issues with Márgerdra as in the begining I wasn't sure with her arc and direction. Should she be the innocent younger sibling? But I don't want the 'perfect girl from nextdoor'. Should she be an absolute asshole? Also no. Then I started listening to film noir-like songs and here we go down the rabbit hole. Sooo, she became the femme fatale (not bad, not good, just complicated, tragic but sweet nonethless). And Eri boy? He was supposed to be the rebel with a heart of gold but I later realised that would be awfully too similar to another already existing character who's based on an actual 'mythological' being. At least in my way of interpreting his character. So in the end I had to cut a lot of things from his original arc, make him a side character, driving force for Márgerdra's arc and let the silly funny au become the actual cannon xd

Tiger's Eye: What are the tropes of your main cast? To name a few: femme fatale, antihero, found family, bad boy/rebel with a heart of gold, absent parent/mentor, rivals to friends to lovers (then to strangers to lovers again, hehe), rivals/enemies to best friends, the underdog,...

STORYTELLING SATURDAY

Actually, I don't...?? The thing is I first started to create the first bits of lore 10+ years ago. The characters were original just there to keep me company whenever I was home alone or when I went from school home and vice versa. But my passion for mythologies and folk stories got the better out of me and I decided to write the bare skeleton in Word (outline for the plot for 1 book in the cycle, I use the 27 chapters method there) and occasional comments on the margin in Google Docs during an actual writing/editing. Mostly, though, the lore and scenes are tied to the music which I listen to. In other words, there's also a made up music video in my head while playing the song xd And details for characters which are directly inspired by a certain mythology (Loki, Sun Wukong, Zmey,...) - I try to depict them as close to the source material as I'm able to.

TL;DR I kinda don't write everything down because I managed to memorise majority of the details during all those years. Especially when it comes to the original lore and characters.