Wind's Goings On

Hello! I wanted to write something for this today because I DO want to document a lot of stuff. It's just that I'm still getting used to this format and so everything's all a little clunky and heavy. 

So we're doing a quick character cast instead! Later on I can expand these into dossiers (I have art of Millie!) but not today. Today we're just getting that dopamine hit. 

Millie (she/her) - Millie is a reporter who can't get with the manufacturing news beat and is too nosy for her own good. She's mentored by a person who used to be in the city's underground (the Rot) and who becomes her contact for when things get too dicey. She also gets mentored by this person roughly, as she continues to dig deeper and deeper until she cannot turn back. Oh I actually... forgot about the pressure she's under. Right gotta remember that and work that back into the story. What a very First Draft vibe this is but I'm writing to finish then I can edit.

Roz (she/her) - I made Roz when I wrote the first draft of this story in like 2017, 2018. She was what happened when I looked at Leigh Bardugo's Kaz Brekker and went, "oh bastard of the barrel, O demon, O love." His whole deal is so compelling to me. Brick by Brick? Absolutely. A hundred percent. 

Roz isn't quite there anymore. I need to work out what I want to do with her because I changed the game of Hardwire enough to push her into a brand new space, but ideally I want to synthesize the original idea with the current one. Actually, writing that I have an idea. Actually fuck it! We put ideas here now. I'm thinking what if her Bastard of the Barrel (the Rot, for me) is a mask she constructs at the point I'm at in the novel. Sort of a, "A monster they called me, so a monster I became" situation. That could be very fun. Rather than the reverse we typically see of humanizing a monster. 

So far she's the jilted student of a mentor she and Millie shared, albeit asynchronously. 

Omen (she/they) - Omen is a new character this time around. They mentored Roz and Beloved and left before Beloved died. Roz needed them and holds a deep grudge, but Omen went so dark Roz thought they died. IT wasn't so. They found Millie when she pushed too hard. They have a deep mastery of the Rot, a space that's liminal and abstract, and they're sort of my window into showing a lot of advanced things the Rot can do.

Beloved (any) - Beloved is a ghost that lives in Roz's mind. Oh, Roz can see ghosts this time around. Not a lot I can say here that isn't spoilers, which I haven't cared about so far but they're compelling spoilers!

The Rot - The Rot is the underground in the city, but it's also an abstract place. It exists within the margins and the lost spaces of the city and with enough experience a person can traverse it. At advanced levels, a person can traverse it through most shadows, as a shadow is lost to a city for a time. 

Just a quick little rundown! This was fun!