Hey kirakana! Is there any name you prefer us to call you by or is your forum name alright? Also, how did you come up with the story for HS?
Approximately ten years ago I had a really vivid dream.
In the first scene a group of people amidst the snow at the nightfall chased by shapeless monsters. There was this great fear of leading the pack to the our home, so they were all willingly acting as a bait, taunting the monsters into coming after our group. The communication between the group was entirely soundless. They were like a single person being split into different bodies.
Then one of the group gets caught by the monsters, while the rest fled away.
One life for many. All in the name of a greater good.
In the second scene, the leader of the group was arguing with a member on the council for a reasons I can’t disclose (since that would be a spoiler). Let’s just say that the leader wasn’t all too happy with how certain things were done.
In the third scene, a fight has erupted in the Homeland. Secrets were revealed, people got hurt and loyalties betrayed.
You can probably guess that the leader came to be Captain A and the member of the council Raven. The original A was a stoic, proud hunter, torn between their duty and their sense of right. Raven, however, was a lot more passive, soft-spoken and unassuming.
Team Alpha was formed next. At first they had no names nor personalities, more like dolls than humans. Twelve and Zero were the first two to get any kind of colour, because their characters made sense. The rest? I knew I had to have a team, but no idea what they were like. So I wrote a list of possible characteristics, motives and backstories, then tried to spread them evenly between the team members. I had trouble between distinguishing some of them (especially Five), but it got easier with every scene I created.
Captain B was entirely unplanned. I wanted to have a sort of uptight rival for A and B sort of wrote themselves into the story.
Chancellors Fox and Bull were present in the dream, but only as background figures. Like team Alpha they became what they are now through manual brainstorming.
The leader in my dream was plagued by their childhood friend, who you now know as Trouble.
Fun fact 1: the Homeland in my dreams was actually build inside a giant tree and the entrance to it was hidden somewhere deep under the roots.
Fun fact 2: Raven’s Flight is also a result from a dream.
P. S.: You can Mia (or Kira or Kirakana). I’ll respond to all :)
