Stories

Kenah

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I grew up loving dinosaurs and birds, wearing fake wings and walking an invisible dog on a coathanger-and-fabric leash. On the school yard I roleplayed an Eevee who could change to and from any Eeveelution at will (note: this was during first gen times), and then later a purple falcon named – wait for it – Prplfalcn. I would go on nature trail walks with my parents and surround myself with imaginary woodland creatures called Chompers. I watched my imaginary best friend fly alongside the school bus on the way home. I wrote a story about the fabled CyndaRitaDile, the most powerful starter (in gen 2). I twirled wooden chopsticks to make magic and threw together random liquids for potions.

Don't worry, I had real friends too. And I never drank the potions.

I jumped through rainy puddles and travelled through the basement storage room into other worlds. I started to daydream about a girl who would do the same, ending up in a strange place called Kenah and finding herself transformed into a dragon.

Kenah is the world in which the majority of my OCs live. It was an isekai before the term became well-known, though obviously the concept has existed for a long time – in Narnia, in Spirited Away, in any number of the webcomics that inspired me growing up. Being a childhood heartbreaker epic, my goal with it is not to create something that will necessarily reach a lot of people or be wildly successful. I just want to create the story that's been in my head for ove twenty years now, to the best of my ability, keeping as true as I can to its core while also expressing my abilities as an artist and writer.

Xephre Drakis, Warrior of Light

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I got into Final Fantasy 14 in September of 2021. For a long time my Warrior of Light (the player character) wasn't anyone in particular, just a vessel for me to experience the story. But towards the end they began to take on a life of their own, and now they're a fully fleshed-out, distinct character.

As a general rule, there are a few base traits that apply to the WoL based on the events of the story. Of course, people take or leave these as they see fit for their own characters, but mine fits fairly closely: they have a love for travel and adventure, strive to help others, and enjoy a good bout of combat.

There are many other in-game systems and details that might influence one's decisions on their WoL, and the one I picked up on was the fact that, if you lose in a given fight, you're reset to the start of it and sometimes get The Echo, which is a buff to make it a little easier. I took it a little more literally and gave Xeph a time loop curse, destined to repeat the events of the story until they get it right.

The result is an incredibly experienced but extremely exhausted hero with a sisyphean task and a lot of angst. Which is my favourite thing to write! And because the story of FFXIV is so long, there are seemingly endless things to explore. This has been the source of much of my creativity and inspiration in the past few years, and I can't describe how much this game means to me on many levels.

How Not to Handle Relationships

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What was originally a roleplay between myself and a friend spiralled into a hyperfixation on my main character in that story, Levi Snow. HNtHR is the overarching title for the series; the roleplay of the same name involved a lot of drama, poorly timed run-ins, a cat shapeshifter hell-bent on giving her fellow feral cats sentience, old exes, coworkers with their own levels of drama to deal with, and maybe a little bit of Chthulu-esque monsters. The roleplay depicts Levi's adult life and relationship with his eventual husband, Corvin Meyers.

I began to dive into Levi's past, starting with his univeristy life, in a story called The Phoenix. My aim with Levi's backstory is to always depict it from the point of view of the person most important to him at that point in his life. In the Phoenix, it's Keandre, a classmate who meets Levi by accidentally setting his shoe on fire. Levi comes into his own during his university years, focusing his powerful magical abilities and learning about independence.

Then I went further back, in a story called Watching a Butterfly Hatch, to his final year of high school and his time with Terrence, who starts out as a bed partner and eventually becomes much more. WaBH is, in small part, realized as a webtoon here. I really enjoyed making it, but the amount of time it took to make each episode was ultimately just not something I could commit to.

HNtHR is by nature an 18+ setting; Levi has always been a sexual person, even from early on. All characters involved in sexual activities are 18+ and the sex isn't explicit. Levi's backstory includes themes of child sexuality, neglect, abuse, and trauma.

Project Cyreneas

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Cyr is many things. It's a semi-futuristic city of hedonihilism. It's a dating sim that may or may not ever be made. It's the setting in which my indulgent self-insert takes place. It's definitely 18+.

If you've seen me on the internet for more than a minute, or read that one journal I wrote, you've probably heard me talk about my self-insert, and how I strongly recommend that everyone try writing one sometime. I won't repeat myself (this time). But you should give it a shot.