#wip description

Hello, all! Thought I’d do this, seems like a good motivator.

I go by Reefy online - don’t ask me why, because I’m not even sure~

I’m 25 years old and recently graduated from university with an English degree (I just got my diploma on Thursday!!!).

I’ve been in a relationship for 11 years as of this month, and am happily engaged. ;)

I’m bisexual and it shows in most of my characters tbh.

I’ve been writing since probably about third grade. I began to see writing as something I was good at that I enjoyed and could probably do forever thanks to a teacher boosting my ego a bit that year.

I went from writing by myself to writing with other people through forum roleplays when I was rather young. I still RP to this day, though mostly with my partner (who I actually met through forum RPing).

I’m very interested in fantasy above all other genres, but I still read other things here and there. Some of my stories have hints of sci-fi, but it hasn’t been a major focus yet.

My hobbies include:

Playing lots of dress-up games to make my characters (including Love Nikki).

Playing lots of video games in general (lately Apex Legends and FF14 - I’m on Brynhildr!).

Roleplaying with my SO

Recently really into DnD

That said, listening to Critical Role

and reading~

The Smoke Collection

word count: 10,338

genre: supernatural drama, short story collection

The Magic Stuff: Sean has been chosen to spend millennia ferrying dead souls across the river once he dies, so he’d rather like to stay alive. Mason is a human who buries himself in his job at the Dust Management Office for the fae. 

The Non-Magic Stuff: Desiree struggles with the knowledge that her soul mate’s disease could kill her if she becomes infected. Saoirse is attacked in the street and can’t decide whether she'd be better protected by destroying all weapons or having scarier ones of her own. 

Changes Since Last Update:

1. I will most likely not be including drawings. It turns out that I’m...not too keen on drawing.

2. Two character names have changed: Rai became Nayara, and Jon became Jason. Hektor was a close second choice for his name.

3. Gender has been flipped on its head. That is all.

4. The tales of Chesa, Mason, Hiro and Desiree have become about 20% spoopier. Oops.

The person who tagged you will give you the title of their WIP. You will then explain their WIP. You may look in the WIP’s designated tag, the character tags, anywhere on the blog EXCEPT THE ACTUAL WIP PAGE.

tagged by the awe-inspiring @inexorableblob for their WIP Unliving, Not Unloving (great name, i love it)

okay here’s what i think it’s about based solely on the title: a thrilling (and steamy) vampire romance about a vampire working in a corporate office, which is sucking out what’s left of their soul. Until! a beatiful and alluring (presumably) living person bumps into them, and the two hit it off immediately. It is then revealed on their first date that the (presumed) human is on a rad crime spree that they drag the vampire into and show them how to “live” and love again

okay here’s what im guessing based on actual research: Dawn, a high school girl who’s dad is the principal has to show around the mysterious, porcelain-doll-like new girl, Celeste. Celeste may or may not be dead? she disappeared from her home with 2 sisters and changed her name, they think she’s dead and are now resorting to witchcraft to find her. Meanwhile Celeste and Dawn become closer, Dawn finds out about Celeste’s backstory and they have to get her back to her family. (im totally guessing on that last part i couldnt find anything im sorry, what i found looks really good though!)

tagging: @ink-on-poppies @cupcakeswriting @atbwrites @kenny-d-juice @jadeswritinggarden @cometworks and anyone else who wants to!

Hiraeth

Ten years after being kidnapped off the streets, twin sisters Dahlia and Iris Lillium are uncomfortably reunited with their elder siblings. Plagued by their memories of the struggles they’ve faced, the mischievous duo struggle to make the reunion last. However, eager as they are to slip away from their overprotective family to explore the world they long since left behind, they soon find themselves face to face with a force threatening to consume it - as well as an old threat that followed them home.

My major project, based on some characters me and some friends made. Dahlia and Iris are very near and dear to my heart, and I’m doing a lot of wordbuilding on this one in order to assure some grand adventures for them. This story includes: A doting older brother who cooks, multiple girls with magical books, an ancient scholarly tower, elves and cat girls and dragon people galore, sisterly hijinks, a golden dragon that is ridiculously large, and the power of love.

Serene Phobia

Every night, Faye is haunted by the same dream: The ocean, a song, and a pale girl. With each iteration comes a growing longing that slowly eats away at her, leaving her to grasp at every chance for distraction. But when the dreams begin to seep into reality, Faye finds herself faced with a choice - stick to the mundane life she’s come to know, or dive headfirst into into an unknown fate?

Something that started as a comic idea, but I can’t really draw very well (at least, consistently) to be honest. I took the plunge into making a story full of lesbian mermaids because I liked the dynamic of a bratty mute mermaid princess and her tough girlfriend who will fight anybody for her. This story contains magical singing, morbid curiosity, lots of hugging, mating dances that lead to souls intertwining forever, a mom for the small lesbian herd, and second chances at happiness.

Seelie

Unofficial Description: There are two rules when interacting with the fae: Never make a deal with them, and never deny an invitation to the Fae Queen’s court. Teenage Rore’s life is turned upside down when an invite to the court leads to her friend Elliot breaking one of these simple rules, forcing her to challenge the Queen in order to change their fates.

Inspired by the album that got me through my last couple of semesters at uni (which I listened to twice today just having thought about it), Seelie is one of my secondary WIPs that I haven’t given much attention yet. It has a very general completed outline, but the details are still left up in the air. I won’t say much about this one beyond the description - partially because there aren’t many details yet to share, partially because it’s going to be a mere ten chapters overall (length of said chapters undecided currently, though).

Untitled (”Fourth Witch”)

Unofficial Description: Once upon a time, three witches were born every century. However, after three witches born as triplets tore the world apart, the cycle mysteriously ended - taking all traces of magic with it. However, rumors of a red-eyed girl have stirred not only rumors of the cycle’s return, but remnants of its past.

So I don’t remember what spurred this idea, honestly. I think I was planning on making an RPG because I know it spawned from messing around with RPG Maker (specifically just messing with the character creator and coming up with designs). It’s pretty much a story of two twins and their two friends going on adventures while some kinda gay shenanigans are going on under their noses.... is the best way I know how to describe it. This one doesn’t have much of a plot yet, but I do plan on getting around to it eventually - it’s just kind of on the backburner. Definitely contains some reincarnation bits, polygamy, some weird aunt-and-uncle-esque pair, and annoying siblings of both the normal and magical variants.

Untitled “Beauty and the Beast”

Unofficial Description: The world is filled with curses bred from sorrow and anger. A rose born from the cycle of pain is cursed with the power to ease it at the cost of herself. By chance she stumbles upon the one who is willing to go to the ends of the world to free her from this fate, as well as others like them who are just looking for a place to call home.

I had a dream recently about a woman happily married to a man who was cursed to be a beast. Key features of this dream were the two of them being very very in love, the girl being cursed in some way, the setting being a somewhat ruined castle on a cliff on a moving island (the staircases were dangerously suspended over the sea with no railings), and the enchantress being a black elf woman who the beast was cool with who was speaking of how the woman would eventually die if she took on too many other curses. Not much to this yet except it’s already turning very much into a found family story.

Untitled “Asylum”

I don’t actually have enough to go on for this one to write a summary at the moment. Also based on a somewhat recent dream (but older than the above), it’s more of an aesthetic right now. A girl wakes up in an asylum run by a witch who very specifically wants her. She tries to escape with a younger boy who is used to the asylum and an older man who was trapped in a fantasy world and is trying to cope with the fact the mundane life he knew was a lie. I wrote down a pretty long summary of the dream, so I have a good deal to work with and already have three of the major characters designed. I’m a bit excited for this one because it’s got a bit of a horror aesthetic going on and I’ve never really touched on horror before.

so he ends up dragged into this mirror world, and from there I just have concepts mostly. floating islands. an antagonist group that’s after this girl for some reason. a missing princess who isn’t the girl, but the girl was friends with her. potential mirror versions of people between the earth and fantasy world.

17: Does your WIP have any themes or motifs?

You know, normally I would be absolutely blindsided by this question because I don’t super think of themes when I’m plotting stuff, but for Hiraeth in particular, I wrote a whole essay self-analyzing my own work so I’m kind of prepared

The theme of Hiraeth is probably ultimately belonging, with the conflict being the uncertainty of not knowing where you belong. This is somewhat reflected in the title:

Iris and Dahlia spend all their younger years missing home, feeling like that’s where they belong. They never are allowed to get attached to any place in particular. When finally they feel like maybe they belong somewhere else, they’re ripped away from the life they made for themself and put right back in the place they longed for all along - only to find that there’s now a disconnect from their family, from “their” home, and they start to wonder if they really belong anywhere besides just with each other. Their siblings are still holding onto the idea that they all belong together, that they can protect them now, but the girls don’t think they especially need protecting at this point.

I’m still rounding out a lot of the other characters, though I’ve put enough into Salana in particular to know this theme is reflected in her, too. She leaves her home at a young age, determined to make a life for herself (which she does, and it’s a good one), but then spends a good portion of the story wondering if that was the right decision or if she was just running away from the place she truly belonged.

There might be other things that pop up, but I feel like this is one of the main things this early on in the WIP. 

Hiraeth Main WIP.

Genre: Fantasy 

Untitled: “Beauty and the Beast”

The world is filled with curses bred from sorrow and anger. A rose born from the cycle of pain is cursed with the power to ease it at the cost of herself. By chance she stumbles upon the one who is willing to go to the ends of the world to free her from this fate, as well as others like them who are just looking for a place to call home.

A WIP based on a dream. Contains:

Fairy Tales

True Love

Found Family

Curses