30 Days of Writing: #5
Sep. 3rd, 2010 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathriel5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
I've had plenty of characters where their story starts with their birth- as in, their birth is a part of an ongoing story. So I'm not sure who my "youngest" character would be, cause inevitably they do grow up. But if I had to guess, it would be Leona. Leona is also a part of the Lotus Children series- she is Malcom's youngest daughter, and the only one he has with his omg-star-crossed-love Leila Nuit, the Praji warrior princess originally sent to kill him when they were both 14.
Ahem.
Leona's birth is disputed (due to prophecies abounding), and people even attempt to prevent it, ie kill Leila. But born she is, in the safety of another/parallel universe, and yes she does turn out to (almost) be the cause of the end of All That Is. During her birth, so many cosmic forces come together that Leila almost dies, but Malcom, also being The Man when it comes to cosmic power, uses all his "magic" to save them both, and ends up in a kind of coma, that is more like suspended animation. Leona is, of course, crazy powerful. She grows and matures mentally and physically at a terrifying speed, and at 12 months she looks 13 years old, and talks/thinks like a genius. Inevitably, her power and knowledge become so huge, without the emotional stability of an adult, that she becomes rather god-like, or rather demon-like because in drawing on energies from pandimensional sources her body transforms into some scary multi-limbed thing with wings- and almost destroys Existence, because it's so awful. (Hello, Willow...)
But, Malcom come backs and stops her, proving once and for all that he is not a pawn of the prophecies that have ruled his life since birth.
My oldest character is, technically, Gabriel, the enchanted bear in the Weirding Wood, in part VIII of The Poppet and the Lune. Over a thousand years ago, he came as a young man to the Weirding Wood to hunt magical game, and for his punishment he was turned into a bear. He's not such a bad guy after a few hundred years, but when he gets the idea of escape into his head, he forces the patchwork girl to work some magic on him, which ultimately kills him. Oops!
Again, Malcom is the first character I created. I think I was 10 at the time :) The most recent character I've created is Sam Ack, the incredibly ordinary girl who wants more than anything to be touched by the extraordinary. She's a definite work in progress.
I've had plenty of characters where their story starts with their birth- as in, their birth is a part of an ongoing story. So I'm not sure who my "youngest" character would be, cause inevitably they do grow up. But if I had to guess, it would be Leona. Leona is also a part of the Lotus Children series- she is Malcom's youngest daughter, and the only one he has with his omg-star-crossed-love Leila Nuit, the Praji warrior princess originally sent to kill him when they were both 14.
Ahem.
Leona's birth is disputed (due to prophecies abounding), and people even attempt to prevent it, ie kill Leila. But born she is, in the safety of another/parallel universe, and yes she does turn out to (almost) be the cause of the end of All That Is. During her birth, so many cosmic forces come together that Leila almost dies, but Malcom, also being The Man when it comes to cosmic power, uses all his "magic" to save them both, and ends up in a kind of coma, that is more like suspended animation. Leona is, of course, crazy powerful. She grows and matures mentally and physically at a terrifying speed, and at 12 months she looks 13 years old, and talks/thinks like a genius. Inevitably, her power and knowledge become so huge, without the emotional stability of an adult, that she becomes rather god-like, or rather demon-like because in drawing on energies from pandimensional sources her body transforms into some scary multi-limbed thing with wings- and almost destroys Existence, because it's so awful. (Hello, Willow...)
But, Malcom come backs and stops her, proving once and for all that he is not a pawn of the prophecies that have ruled his life since birth.
My oldest character is, technically, Gabriel, the enchanted bear in the Weirding Wood, in part VIII of The Poppet and the Lune. Over a thousand years ago, he came as a young man to the Weirding Wood to hunt magical game, and for his punishment he was turned into a bear. He's not such a bad guy after a few hundred years, but when he gets the idea of escape into his head, he forces the patchwork girl to work some magic on him, which ultimately kills him. Oops!
Again, Malcom is the first character I created. I think I was 10 at the time :) The most recent character I've created is Sam Ack, the incredibly ordinary girl who wants more than anything to be touched by the extraordinary. She's a definite work in progress.
