I’ve mentioned to some people that I’ve been writing some fiction. All my attempts at explaining the surface plot have sort of failed… there I am stammering like “well, I’m trying to express blah blah…” and “I’m trying to make you feel like blah blah”.
Well, you’ve waited long enough!
Here’s the 30 second synopsis of my fiction project:
The only two nations that exist on this fantasy-ish planet have been at war for pretty much all of recorded history until the son of the emperor of one nation learns how the war started in the first place (sorry, no spoilers), decides to try and stop the war by taking human form and seducing the queen of the other nation. He hopes she’ll love him, understand, bring peace, etc. However, she finds out who he is prematurely (due to her form of innate magic), immediately distrusts, fears the worse etc, and decides “fuck my life” (only more melodramatically) and when their halfbreed daughter is born, she sends her into hiding and disappears herself to go form some kind of underground resistance to the tyrany that she thinks is her in-laws’ people.
This changes the form of the war, but doesn’t end it. Boo fighting. And no one can find or kill John Conner I mean, mommy dearest, the leader of the human resistance (not to mention her disappeared kid).
My story begins about 16 years later when her daughter finds out that not only was she adopted, but she’s also the daughter of this woman all her school teachers are told to say is a crazy insurgent nutjob (and probably dead). She goes totally emo (also her form of magic is waking up, and going haywire since she’s zomg only half human) and she runs away.
Her younger adopted brother, who loves her to death regardless of how fucked up she’s becoming, is the “main” character of the book I’m writing now, and he’s run off to find her and restore her sanity/stability and help her on her quest to find out who and why she is (uncovering all the backstory and history and politics along the way). Eventually it becomes their job to clean up the mess left behind by the previous generations.
At some point, the story will loop back to the origins of the war once daughter and father meet up, which is tied to the “genesis” of humanity on the planet (all of which is lost to human history). If I ever finish it, it will be a several book series… somewhat epic. OR, I could simplify it quite a bit and it will just be a young adult coming of age novel from either the brother or the sister’s point of view.
Okay that’s it! No stealing my ideas! Feel free to laugh at my silly summary. :)
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@Emily: Interesting! Kinda like a female Dante (demon/human) from “Devil May Cry” or Belldandy’s older sister Urd (goddess/demon) from “Ah! My Goddess”… Both kinda twisted too, lol… Although in this case, if the queen thinks in terms of “being violated”, wouldn’t she try to kill her daughter first of all? Hehe, just my two cents, of course. ^_^
I don’t think it’s silly at all, but I’ve already got a few questions that if you 1 have thought of won’t be tough to field at all and if you 2 haven’t thought of might cause you some grief.
- The queen finds out who this emperor’s son is AFTER she’s conceived, right? If this is the case, why doesn’t she confront him or how does she conceal this? Since she uncovers his identity PRESUMABLY in the between-time of sleeping with him and giving birth (else why would she bed him at all?), there’s a sizeable window of crap-he’s-the-enemy realization and it’ll be interesting to see how you handle that.
- I just answered my second question, so you’re actually only left with that one. I’m sorry.
PS that took me like two minutes to read&comprehend. 30 seconds my arse.
Hey! Thanks for the questions
The short answer to your one question is that yes, that time between conception and birth are intentionally there as part of the queen’s character and her own plans and motivations for doing what she’s doing.
Plus you have to think of the politics. This world is supposed to be as “real” as possible and if you suddenly unexplainably (literally by magic, and in this case, a type of magic no one has seen or heard of before) discover without a doubt that your husband is not who he says he is, but have no evidence for it beyond your gut (haha) feeling, do you really think you’d just confront him?
What was your second question even if you already answered it?
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