Day 1 Of 'Questions I Ask When I Write My Stories'

Day 1 of 'Questions I ask when I write my stories'

What's actually needed for a teaching degree? Does it very depending on what you teach?

Context: a MC of mine is studying to become a teacher, specifically a science teacher for around the 6th grade. I just made up whatever, but I was curious to you need a science degree ontop of the regular teaching degree.

Maybe I'm looking too into it

So, I wanted to do this, cuz I love character clothes as they tell an interesting story about the character through colors and styles.

For this, I wanted to talk about the clothes the Obey Me boi's wear✨

Why them?

Well, because it's pretty common to hear people ragging on their clothes. Saying they look ugly and whatnot, but personally I can't agree. I'm glad they're not generic outfits and they rep the character's personality very well. I also have headcannons for their clothes, so I wanna share them!

I won't be talking about their RAD outfits or event outfits (Lucifer has a notable exception). I wanted to talk about their casual wear and human world fits.

So...

Lucifer's Casual Clothes

Lucifer is a typical stoic character complete with the CEO suits. In all seriousness, Lucifer has to keep up appearances and I feel why his outfit is over the top for "casual clothing" comes from his history.

As a former Angel, he most likely feels as if he should uphold the honor he once had even as a demon. Alongside that, he's pretty much the boyfriend second hand of Diavolo and has to maintain an air of importance and you're not gonna get that just wearing anything.

He's not a stiff, but he understand his importance and value and showcases that in his attire.

Lucifer's Human World Fit

I'm not gonna lie, when I first saw this, I thought we were gonna be in college or something 'cause he looks like a professor here. I'm sure we'd all like that. Though, what I said above applies here as well 💁

Lucifer's Beach Outfit

I wanted to talk about this, 'cause I remember seeing a Twitter thread of people upset that Lucifer wasn't shirtless. I wanted so bad to say "of course he's not, Lucifer would never be naked in public."

It's canon that Lucifer is a hot commodity and Mammon is always looking for a chance to sell his photos. Lucifer has explicitly stated that he's "not like that anymore" when referring to a more free and relaxed version of himself. So it's perfectly in character that he's not shirtless and I love that the devs didn't just forget that part of his personality in favor of fan service (personally I like the wetsuit, it looks really nice in his card).

For a while, I'm going to take over and instead just talk about the relationships my characters have.

If you wanna check out a few drabbles I've written already, check out my bio for my Royal Road page :)

Anyways, so I'll start with Ankara again to start from the basics.

Ankara is the founder and CEO of a world renowned media company named Wry Co. He is 30 years young and attracts a lot of attention from... Just about anyone who likes men, though he's mostly unaware of this attention.

“I went to one of the premieres of our latest film, and I guess there must have been a picture taken of me. Everyone is saying I could bust them or I should… split them in half.” Cassie tried to hold back her laugh. “Do I really look scary?”

His naivety aside, Ankara acts as a mostly supportive figure to Cassie allowing her grow within his company. They produce a vast amount of media including movies, books, magazines, comics, games and they are currently attempting to start a record label.

Ankara was slated to become a doctor, but took on the role of owing a business for his own love of movies and games. It soon blew up and is now one of the most well known companies.

Cassie works under him in the literature department where her stories are turned into small comics or full fledged novels! His relationship with her is built off of the first time he read her works.

His relationship with the other character is mostly business and will be elaborated on in time!

With the few character's I've talked about already, he has no actual relationship with Brayleigh past knowing he exists and Aki is similar.

Akuma, on the other hand, is a young rival of his in this story. Him and Akuma constantly fight over their business practices as well as their decisions within their respective companies.

I love how my WIPs are dormant until I get some random idea for a scene, then I can continue writing as if it was locked and I needed a key to see it.

While I'm in the midst of posting my college romance *ahem*here*ahem* I'm also working on like 20 million other stories, very specifically two stories I'm revising from my childhood.

I need to stop gatekeeping my damn stories so I figured there's be no harm in brain storming here.

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So, there are two stories somewhat connected as they share the same universe. My main issue is I need better world building. Rn, both these stories are just BOTW or OOT, and I don't wanna copy them.

I'm not set on having a world with extreme climates but just a world with a lot of mystery to tie in with bith the stories themes.

Oh, what are the two stories about? Well I'm glad no one asked.

One is titled Kingdom of Bumalia and it's a origin story, since I like Zelda think of it as the Skyward Sword of my universe. The people of this world are de-evolutions of the "normal" humans that show up later. It's a spin on the classic thought of evoultuon that humans evolved from monkeys or lizards. My species are called Bumalians, their defining trait is they all have some animal apendage. For ex. My MC Cassie is a rabbit born from a rabbit mother and a wolf father, which every trait was more dominate, is what the child ends up with. So far I have:

Rabbits,

Birds (specifically hawks)

Wolves

Insects (I'm terrified of bugs so I really only have one that's been described -_-')

Aquatic animals (Dolphin, mermaid, and an Orca)

And Mice

During the course of revising this story, I added a TON of animals. Originally, I really only describes the main characters which were three wolves, two rabbits, the family of hawks, and a Dragonfly. I know now I need to add more and that's what I did. However, I can't just have animals, I need other things.

I creates a fruit called a Magadear and a herb called Grayseed for tea. I of course need more, but I'm just too disorganized to actually come up with some.

I wanted to make a staple flower for a certain scene that involves the Kingdom's current Queen, so I'll be thinking about that along the way.

Really I'm posting this (and a few others) in case anyone has any good ideas. Some people come up with things that get my brain flowing and it's always nice to discuss fictional worlds, who knows maybe we can start some kind of thread of ideas and play around with stuff!

I usually have a ton if fun discussing stories and I'm honestly missing that. This is a good way to get back into it.

All the Screams World Building >

So, chapter 2 is out and this time I wanted to talk about the cover.

This is actually my 3rd favorite cover I've made.

Originally, it was going to be the main characters, but I can't really draw and couldn't handle the embarrassment of what I actually came up with 🤙

So, instead, I made this! I was thinking it could be seen as the "what do you seen in the black and white blot" test, but I made it to be a representation of the two characters and their personality/feelings.

Why it's in black and white has to do with the theme.

I didn't want to go with the gray area because the MCs aren't changing, they're allowing themselves to be who they are in a world of black and white.

Personally, trying to change who I am so people will like me or want to be my friend has never really worked, so I wanted to make a story based on that feeling. The feeling that you'll never have friends just because of who you are, but you don't want to, or shouldn't, change who you are. It's meant to be uplifting and give people the sense that there's no need to change yourself just to make friends.