After the Calling

Hi all! I hope the holiday hassle isn’t wearing you out!  Between work and preparing for family (…meh), I haven’t really been able to get to editing my photos for the upcoming update. Editing my pictures literally takes me about 15 minutes, because I don’t do much to them, but I just haven’t been able to put aside computer time for it.  So, to hold you over, I’ve decided to post two character profiles that I already uploaded.  The first is Roux’s and the other is Troy’s.  I was originally going to save them until the next chapter because I really like Troy’s story, and Roux’s kind of reveals something cool, if you remember a particular name-drop earlier in the story.  Roux’s “surprise” was going to come out a little farther down in the current chapter, and Troy was going to return in the next chapter, so I figured, what the heck.  I’ll try to be out with a real update asap. It might be after the 25th though. So enjoy! Links below and in the “Characters” section under Site Trimmings.

Troy Oliver

Roux Silver

So, I have been attempting for months to jazz up my character profiles before posting them, and I really just despise them. So I’m going to scrap them.  INSTEAD, I’ve decided to make little background revealing mini-stories for each character.  The stories will be based on the character’s first manifestation of their psychic power, OR the first moment they actually became aware of their power, OR the first moment they realized it was actually a “power” that they had, and not just a fluke, or something.  It’s all really fuzzy, just go with it.

If they don’t have powers… well, I have yet to figure out what I’m going to do, so the psychics and the latents will be posted before the plain old humans or the artificial intelligence…ces…esss…s.

The characters outside of the main character will be left nameless, unless the target protagonist says their name. You may recognize some of the secondary characters, but there aren’t any true spoilers. Just certain facts that were either going to come up anyway, or will just help you learn a bit more about each character.

I’d really love some feedback on this, whether you guys think it’s a good idea, or if you actually want me to post some character traits.  We all know how I am with updating and schedules, but because these are a hell of a lot shorter than my full updates, I am going to try and crank these out a bit more often.

Very inspired by Mao’s Little Bits of Fiction, which prologues her phenoenal KiD and WoS series. And also by atomicspacekitty’s forays outside, above, under, and around her storyline over at Worlds Apart.

I won’t be posting in any particular order.  The first character story up will be Aeryn’s, but that’s only because her background bit was the easiest to set up, by far.  She can be found under “Characters” in the Site Trimmings category, or just click on her name above.

Hi all! Sorry it took me so  long to update. I’m still recovering from the onset of the holidays. Hope Thanksgiving was wonderful for those who celebrate. And for those who don’t, I hope you had an awesome Thursday.

WordPress has updated it’s dashboard which, unfortuately and predictably, is totally not working for me, and is screwing around with my urls (!), so I’m just waiting for the site to fall apart. Cross your fingers.

Also, I was trying to switch over to photobucket in order to avoid any future picture eating, and it completely destroyed my picture quality.  I already don’t have the most spectacular shots, so I was pretty peeved, but if anyone has a remedy to that (I’m looking at you Mao), it would be awesome, because I no longer trust anything WordPress.

Anyhoo, update below. No warnings.

Thanks,

     Veron