After the Calling

Sorry for the disappearance! Life. This is probably the worst time to put anything up, but I wanted to get this out before Thanksgiving. And 5 in the morning the day of still counts as “before”. Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate and a happy Thursday to those who don’t .

I’ve been really trying to get into different past events to help explain the characters a little bit more, although I’ve totally stalled on the background stories and while I’m working on Ten Years, I’m doing it at a snail’s pace. But one thing I’ve really wanted to do were couples studies… sort of. They probably fit in with the background story idea, but they’re longer and they aren’t necessarily in a familiar POV. And they aren’t focused on psychic ability… not extensively… a little bit… depending. And they’ll be based mildly on themes: youth, need, convenience, fear, understanding, and other stuff. Maybe.

There are only four that I have any interest in. Jax and Chloe and their youthful beginning… so they’ll be “youth”. Chauncey and Mickey (as if we haven’t heard enough from them) around the time that Chauncey was a smidge suicidal, and they’d be “need”. Loris and Arden, who weren’t a romantic couple, but a couple none the less, they’d be “convenience” . And Hadrian and Troy, right before Hadrian jacked Aeryn’s shit and was basically trying to get out of dodge before he did just that. And before Rowanne found him and killed everyone. I think they’d be “fear”. I don’t know, they’re the only one I didn’t write yet.

I’m playing around with doing one on Harper and Troy basically showing how they got together, but the vague idea in my head might not flesh out. I was also thinking of one on Sirian and Kensee, because, something came out of that, although not quite romantically. I can’t believe that I fell in the “romance me male vampire *swoon*” trap, without even realizing it (!), and I wanted to get into my one female vamp/non-vamp relationship (Rowanne and Nyxon don’t count, that shit wasn’t love, that shit was ridiculous). But Kensee and Sirian’s roles in the story are shady enough, and while it might help explain them a little bit, their relationship was short in that Sirian died and Kensee spent most of it asleep. Soooooo, yeah, gonna probably stick with three or four. Or I might only do just what I’m posting today. I don’t know, I’m lazy.

These vignettes would be set during times that would not fit in either the main time frame or the Ten Years Prior time frame.

Right now I’m posting the first of two parts of Jax and Chloe, and I’ll try to follow it up with Part II, but I might put up Mickey and Chauncey first. Don’t be frustrated if that happens. OR, I might even update my regular story, instead of continuing to indulge my random forays into… randomness and ellipses. Tommorrow, I’m not doing poo but driving around and eating food, so if I end up on a computer, I’ll put my procrastination energy into finishing pictures.

ANNNND to say that there are sexual themes in all of them is like saying this is the internet.

Annnnnnd thanks to Penelope for letting me whine to her about Jax and making me giggle uncontrollably over his birth name.

AND! Pictures are now correctly linked.

Before I ask the question, I just wanna mention that I’m traveling for work right now, but I will be posting tommorrow hopefully eventually start giving myself realistic deadlines. (Got back home later than I thought. More tired that I thought.)  Not for the chapter unfortunately, but something you might otherwise enjoy. Or be annoyed with, I can’t judge. But thank you for your patience with me.

Okay, I don’t want anyone to take this question to mean a damn thing, NOT A DAMN THING (Penelope), it is just a question. For writers and readers alike.

When is it okay for the protagonist to die?

“Okay” Meaning, you feel the story would lose nothing/resolve conclusively/ remain enjoyable/not make you want to sit in your bathtub with gallon of gasoline and a lighter, if the protag dies.

Please

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In the future of this story two characters have a conversation. About something. At a place. Where things are happening.  And that conversation got me thinking about… stuff. This stuff might be completely banal to you, because I’m trying to get fictionally scientific, and at first I wasn’t really going to indulge my wordy theories because I was only concocting them to keep some of my story rules in check. They aren’t really going to come up, but they might be helpful to know. And I thought maybe some readers might have thought about some of what I was tossing together and could be interested in the bio-genetic flap and yap that I pulled out of thin air.

The main thought that triggered my scientific evalution was, “Jax should probably have every form of hepatitis available and Chloe should probably be on baby number 27.”

If that ever crossed your mind, you can find my convoluted explanation and subsequent rambling tangent on the origin and genetics of vampirism, here. You can thank insomnia.