#starlightwip

thanks @megarywrites for the tag!

and guess what? new Fear Me content out of left field!!! bet nobody saw that coming

Kirsta is standing beside me on the deck when I look around, even though I never saw her come up. She leans against the railing, watching our fate approach with an unreadable expression, the wind playing at the fine pieces of hair that don’t stay in her braid. The sun brings out the green in her eyes, not at all the green of the sea but something warm and alive, like new leaves in spring.   I sidestep closer, rest my elbows on the rail beside hers. It’s not as if I’m never going to see her again, but I know somehow that after today it will never be the same between us. And for a terrible moment I am glad for it, I must confess—not that you were stolen from me, but that we were apart so I could have this time, so that I could have them for myself, all to myself. That I have been a me and not an us.  But that’s a secret I’ll try to keep from you. 

(no pressure) tagging @thesunwrites @goldfinchwrites @klywrites @jamieanovels @idontwantrobyntodie

From Fear Me:

thanks @illarian-rambling for tagging me!

Prompts: A line about the weather, A line about a secret, A line said sincerely, A line about a house, A line about water

I'm going to use Fear Me for these, since they seem particularly on theme for that one

A line about the weather:

The rain batters the roof in varying waves of intensity, and Jathan’s rigidness ever-so-gradually washes away. I want to ask him what he thinks is going to happen—but that’s not right. I want to ask him something, but I don’t know what. No, I don’t want to talk about any of it. I just don’t want to be alone.

A line about a secret:

A small rectangle of leather—perhaps a wallet? No, the leather is wrapped around something else. Breathless at my own audacity, I inch the package out of its pocket. To extricate it fully, I have to bend my wrist at the most unnatural of angles.  Kor’s arm pushes back at me when I twist against it, the message of “Stay still, you idiot!” coming through as clearly as if he were smearing it into my mind like you would. 

A line said sincerely:

“I’ve been waiting so long for the moment when I finally get to take you home with me,” says Adira, squeezing my hand. “Did you know I even have room ready just for you?” How could I, when I for most of my life I didn't even know she existed? I wasn’t even sure if she would know that I existed. If only Saref were still alive so I could shake him by the shoulders until everything he didn’t tell us fell out of his mouth.  The image of his wrecked corpse flailing loose-jointed at my violent hands rises unbidden to my mind, and I have to cling to her hand to avoid stumbling.  Room. A room just for me. “How did you know I was coming?” I ask. 

A line about a house:

Home is shining golden in the purple dusk, the prettiest house on the street, leaking warm light from every window. She points it out to me casually as we approach. I imagine our cousin—what was his name? Jathan?—growing up in such a pretty house, staying in one lovely, familiar place all the years of his life. 

A line about water:

It’s snow-runoff cold, and I’m aching and numb in a moment, but I stay put, rubbing at my arm and watching the blood bloom out pink into the clear water. My clothes feel heavy and pull me off balance in the current, so I stumble back and strip them off and throw them onto my rock.  This time I wade out free and dip my head all the way under. The tips of my ears throb with the cold of it.  When I surface I am very awake, so awake it’s dreamlike. 

tagging @thewriteflame @tragicheirs @cc-writes-stuff @the-orangeauthor @akindofmagictoo

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

A line about the sky

A line said in anger

A line about earth/dirt/mud etc.

A line about a surprise

hi :):) don't mind me treasuring up this ask all day (and maybe finishing 1 1/2 drawings so I could have portraits of all of them that I don't hate)

but yes here we go!

Alya (psychic propaganda) is the main character of my wip Fear Me (which belongs to the larger starlightverse [read: a planned trilogy]). She has "mind powers" including a telepathic connection with her brother and, importantly, the ability to basically beam emotions and basic ideas into other people's brains without their knowledge. Before she knows she has this ability, she kind of uses it accidentally, and chalks it up to just being naturally good at talking her way into things. But, as you can imagine, that power has a lot of potential for political uses and literal propaganda, making her a coveted pawn in, well, the plot.

Eli (plagued by "visions") is Alya's aforementioned brother. He is also a coveted pawn, mainly because he has the power of...knowing things (terms and conditions apply). This is not fun for him, in case you were wondering. If I go with the current plan he is the mc of the third book.

Mar (necromancer on a revenge quest) is also from starlightverse (mc of the second book I think?), but her connection to the other two is a secret. But. um. she comes from a group whose culture and language has been mostly erased in an attempt to also erase their magic system, which involves blood magic teleportation and ancestor necromancy. She starts out on a quest to avenge her father's death, and it gets worse.

Pasha (magic rock) is from my wip Deep and Dark, Beautiful and Bright (DaDBaB). I haven't talked about her a ton yet, because there are two timelines to the wip (past and present) and I've mostly been writing the past and she belongs to the present. But basically she has a...seeing stone, if you will, which mostly helps her to find things. When we meet her, she is being exploited by a group of treasure hunters...or maybe she is exploiting them.

Lya (unkillable amnesiac) is one of DaDBaB's two pov characters. A lot to unpack here. She's a zombie but she's still alive. Possessed by an evil entity but also she's the one in charge. Dies a lot but comes back every time. She can pass through gates between realms. There's maybe more than one version of her running around at once? She gains and loses different parts of her memory. In the past timeline she was this religious chosen one figure in a really weird political/social/religious position. She triggered the apocalypse but also she was right?

Trip (magic battery) is the other pov character from DaDBaB. He's also an amnesiac but there were too many other words in his description. He regains his memory more linearly though. Um...as part of the apocalypse a lot of their tech and zombie-destroying weapons stopped working, and he's the only one that can power/use them...for secret reasons. Saddest guy in the world but doesn't remember why. In the past he was pretending to be a Chosen One mostly to stay out of prison, and then things got complicated.