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OMG this sounds so awesome lol. Very excited to read…..As much as I loved Count Kagura i admittedly still havent read your other works quite yet so I’ll have to get on that….. ;>

Im going to be writing about my characters Adair and Ximun (as I often do.) I have a lot of big plans for rewriting the origin story of their friendship that I had made last year, and I wanted my jam entry to be a sort of concept idea for the new prologue to that.

Against their will, Adair is always super popular no matter where they go. They were born with an extremely rare power that constantly broadcasts itself to those around them by emitting this huge aura of magic. Basically like a neon sign over their head that says “I AM SPECIAL”. Around the time this story takes place they have begun to fall into a deep depression. They obsessively mask nearly every aspect of themself to try to avoid any negative attention, but also to try to dissuade others from wanting to actually get to know them.

Meanwhile, the most notoriety Ximun carries with him is simply a little bit of a reputation among his fellow track kids for how erratic his behavior can be (he is plural). But then he similarly ends up getting shoved into the spotlight, albeit temporarily and to a lesser degree, for a significant athletic achievement.

Adair and Ximun meet as a result of their similar situations bringing them together. They become fascinated with each other almost instantly. In my original version of this story, Adair is really the one doing the heavy-lifting for their friendship in the beginning, but in my new version things are a lot more balanced between them right away.

I like to make it to where everything about their relationship seems really romantic from the outside, even though neither of them see it this way at all (Adair is even specifically aromantic.) It amuses me. I would say that nowadays my idea of their relationship is very QPP-like. That term doesn’t even exist yet when they become friends though…..lol

SWANCHIME156 days ago(+3)

ohh what's the (magical) setting like? it sounds heartwarming, lovely, and sweet despite various adolescent (?) difficulties and hardships and enjoying each other's company together. is adair accepted for their gender (presumably nonbinary?) but not well understood or respected for their aro-ness? is it fundamentally a tale of deep friendship?

additionally, if DID/plurality is an important subject to you, these two new games of mine involve it (I have DID).

https://swanchime.itch.io/alteraltar

this one below is done in decker

https://swanchime.itch.io/uguisu

treegravy156 days ago(+2)

OOO nice ^_^ I will check these ones out!

Yea, most of the stories i write currently are about the characters in their high school years. Adair is at this point in the story’s timeline closeted nonbinary (AFAB). As for the aro thing, while not being understood for it quite as well by most people they know, they are definitely understood in this way by Ximun and a couple of their other shared friends.

I like to write about more intimate sorts of relationships that are non-traditional in nature. Mostly framed as very deep friendships, yes, such as in Adair and Ximun’s case, but also sometimes i like to write some alternate sorts of romances. So as a result Adair isnt even the only aspec character, I write a lot of them and a lot of different kinds of them. I would say Ximun also is aspec, though he primarily considers himself to be bi.

The magical setting involves everyone being born with magic blood types. So like instead of A, AB, O, etc. the blood types are magic and have special properties. Adair has the rarest one, which is astronomically more rare than all the others and makes them 1 in half a million. The magic in this setting is very weak however, I like to focus more on magic in more mundane everyday settings.

SWANCHIME156 days ago(+3)

oh nice! it's interesting to see how ur taking a very...gentle approach? to spreading awareness about that kind of thing in the nature of the positivity of difference, almost, rather than the extreme alienation / dehumanization of it (was thinking about the differences between how you work w/ the concept of "rare among rare" as something that's not, like, how i write about it, where one among a million only comes to be as a result of the extreme damnation of trauma (and that is how a genius (god) is born) (i write a lot about divinity where god is analogous to humans having god complexes / there is no difference) ~~(a line in alteraltar and gentleman jack is "who is god but the first killer?")~~ and that conception of traumatic alienation creating "a godhood that should not exist / should never have existed" in that "being dehumanized can also create gods, not just monsters."

those themes will also appear in the vn im making this time (STARTING TO WORK ON IT TODAY!!)

treegravy155 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Hehe I do go for the alienation and dehumanization angle too. And how isolation especially can have such dire effects on the psyche. In the context of my own work, I think portraying the depths of misery that can come from being isolated by the scars of trauma just makes it feel way more special and important that the characters end up finding solace in each other’s company. I started writing to try to give myself hope in dark times, so I specifically wanted to show characters that have gone through (or even still go through) some pretty horrible stuff still managing to find their own happiness.

(edited to fix typo)

SWANCHIME154 days ago(+3)

I'm happy for you that writing about your hope in dark times has been therapeutic and healing for you. that's really great, and I'm glad you've made it out of the horrors enough to write about that special and important happiness. it sounds very meaningful to you