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raisedbymoogles) wrote2015-10-17 09:57 pm
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OC Meme, 14 and 15
Playing catch-up again. This time let's have some really original characters.
OC #14, Orune [original series]
This whole thing actually came from a dream. There’s a vaguely feudal-Japan/Korea setting, haven’t nailed that down yet.
Princess Orune has just been betrothed to the prince of the mountainous kingdom to the north, and she is not happy about it, but she’s being encouraged to follow her father’s wishes for the good of the kingdom - the northerners and southerners have historically had conflicts off and on, and their last war was less than twenty years ago, so a marriage between the two royal houses would help to settle things down. So she’s just about made up her mind to suck it up and get married when her stepmother* stages a coup, using hired shapeshifting assassins to kill the king, his sons, and Orune herself. Unfortunately, Stepmom shows her true colors a bit early, double-crossing the assassins she hired, so during the retreat the assassin who dropped Orune shapeshifts her and steals her out of the castle, saving her life as revenge for the betrayal.
A bewildered Orune gets to know the assassins - a family group of transplants from fantasy-Africa - while hiding amongst them from Stepmom, and starts to learn what it’s like to be a commoner and an outsider. Part of her wants to stay with them - she’s developing a crush on the guy who saved her life, for one - but the country is destabilized thanks to Stepmom’s coup, civil war threatens, and the northern kingdom is more than a little pissed that the princess they were promised was killed. So Orune has to emerge again and try to wrest control of the country back from Stepmom and renegotiate the alliance with the northern kingdom on her own terms. She’ll have to choose between the husband chosen for her and the boy who saved her life, at some point, for her country’s legends paint queens ruling alone as warmongers.
*Actually her biological mother, but tradition dictates that Orune be considered the daughter of the queen, the king’s first wife, with the second wife essentially acting as a… pregnancy medium? Of sorts? It’s weird. And probably has a lot to do with why Stepmom rebelled.
OC #15, Lettie Drakonas [original series]
The main character of - what was supposed to be a steampunk-ish short story, but is rapidly turning into a novella. XD
Lettie is an engineer in the employ of the Tyrannical Empress, in a world where engineers and scientists risk madness thanks to the influence of a vast underground mechanism known as the Underclock. She’s also the daughter of a notoriously vicious noblewoman and an engineer of uncertain lineage who died mysteriously when Lettie was thirteen. Lettie has found her own way in the world after escaping the influence of her mother - only to have it come crumbling down around her ears when a determined witch named Helen breaks into her workshop and later kidnaps her. The event leads Lettie to the truth about her world, the Underclock, and her own origins - wilder and more strange than she ever imagined - and to an impossible choice that will shape the destiny of the world.
…sorry to be all mysterious about this, but I'm not very good with Lovecraftian style. ^_^;;;;
OC #14, Orune [original series]
This whole thing actually came from a dream. There’s a vaguely feudal-Japan/Korea setting, haven’t nailed that down yet.
Princess Orune has just been betrothed to the prince of the mountainous kingdom to the north, and she is not happy about it, but she’s being encouraged to follow her father’s wishes for the good of the kingdom - the northerners and southerners have historically had conflicts off and on, and their last war was less than twenty years ago, so a marriage between the two royal houses would help to settle things down. So she’s just about made up her mind to suck it up and get married when her stepmother* stages a coup, using hired shapeshifting assassins to kill the king, his sons, and Orune herself. Unfortunately, Stepmom shows her true colors a bit early, double-crossing the assassins she hired, so during the retreat the assassin who dropped Orune shapeshifts her and steals her out of the castle, saving her life as revenge for the betrayal.
A bewildered Orune gets to know the assassins - a family group of transplants from fantasy-Africa - while hiding amongst them from Stepmom, and starts to learn what it’s like to be a commoner and an outsider. Part of her wants to stay with them - she’s developing a crush on the guy who saved her life, for one - but the country is destabilized thanks to Stepmom’s coup, civil war threatens, and the northern kingdom is more than a little pissed that the princess they were promised was killed. So Orune has to emerge again and try to wrest control of the country back from Stepmom and renegotiate the alliance with the northern kingdom on her own terms. She’ll have to choose between the husband chosen for her and the boy who saved her life, at some point, for her country’s legends paint queens ruling alone as warmongers.
*Actually her biological mother, but tradition dictates that Orune be considered the daughter of the queen, the king’s first wife, with the second wife essentially acting as a… pregnancy medium? Of sorts? It’s weird. And probably has a lot to do with why Stepmom rebelled.
OC #15, Lettie Drakonas [original series]
The main character of - what was supposed to be a steampunk-ish short story, but is rapidly turning into a novella. XD
Lettie is an engineer in the employ of the Tyrannical Empress, in a world where engineers and scientists risk madness thanks to the influence of a vast underground mechanism known as the Underclock. She’s also the daughter of a notoriously vicious noblewoman and an engineer of uncertain lineage who died mysteriously when Lettie was thirteen. Lettie has found her own way in the world after escaping the influence of her mother - only to have it come crumbling down around her ears when a determined witch named Helen breaks into her workshop and later kidnaps her. The event leads Lettie to the truth about her world, the Underclock, and her own origins - wilder and more strange than she ever imagined - and to an impossible choice that will shape the destiny of the world.
…sorry to be all mysterious about this, but I'm not very good with Lovecraftian style. ^_^;;;;