call me kennedy mclune (just a pen name). i make a ridiculous amount of art writing/whatever/about my own series, which is apparently so interesting to me i've been doing it for more or less 9 years straight. (haha!! oh no!)
this page should serve as an easy directory for the series in question's several storylines. like my bio says, they all take place in a universe where the characters are technically light beams, so most (not all but most) people have colour names as a result. collectively the storylines are referred to as "The Magnicanon" (named after their planet magni). i know what you're thinking... really it's only a 🤏 liiittle bit esoteric and is mostly a grounded(ish) comedy despite the slightly-insane concept...
i would also say it's not directed at a young audience at all, but i won't write anything really explicit here or anything. stories listed in their "intended reading order", but not necessarily chronologically:
1. The Loneliness Motif
rigel anthelion, a "boring" and uncreative 17-year-old who lives in the shadow of his younger sister celeste, has a newfound passion for creative writing ignited by his patient and compassionate creative writing teacher, miss vanilla "annie" duchenne. their relationship slowly gets more twisted and codependent as she pushes him to get better and better at writing, to the point where one has to wonder if it's just a cover for something else. intentionally pretty messed up!
this one's on the backburner but figured i might as well include it in the case i return to it someday. 18k script i did in 2023 just waiting to be rewritten lord help me
2. Luna Sloth
semi-episodic goofy shenanigans about characters emeralde "emmy" mordente, the storyline's namesake and 6ft-something-tall schlubby/off-kilter lesbian with luna moth wings,
her best friend indigo "indie" mondegreen- seemingly average guy with a tendency to blend into the background (despite wearing a signature green scarf everywhere), and a college history student who makes music with emmy,
indie's classmate iris abney- an impeccably-dressed goth girl with eyesight so good it's distressing, keeps to herself but fancies herself as possibly the single most unique person on the planet,
and aquamarina "mary" moreton, a thrill-seeking twiggy menace, master impressionist and serial dater with perpetual eyebags. by the time she runs into emmy + indie, she's desperately trying to escape her past as a former corny sitcom actor 6 years ago...
not mentioned but also very-real points of note are emmy's eccentric rich family (includes her grumpy dentist dad and workaholic older sister), what i can only describe as an emmy -> iris -> indie Crush Conga Line, and the specific details of mary's backstory. i probably make the most doodles for this one by far so be on the lookout!!
3. The Murder of Teal Taylor
i'm being so real this story is barely formed rn. but basically, the main character (cerulean tyndall) is a cynical (extremely british) 30ish-year-old man with memory problems, and a wild past he tried to step away from, preferring to take up a humble life as a... bike... fixer? he gets caught up in the murder case of teal taylor, a journalist, and has so little faith in his ability to be a good person, he assumes he must have done it and forgot everything. but surely there's no way...
he has to talk to the other 4 suspects, all people with drastically different relations to the victim, and find the truth of the matter himself, constantly fighting his instinct to stick his head in the sand and take the easier route (instead of the right one).
AGAIN this one is so underbaked so be aware. the characters have designs and there's the vaguest hint of a plot but that's it. takes place roughly 20 years before the rest of the stories
4. After Effects
excessively methodical fuckass-bob-wearing teenage girl, vermillia "millie" spherichrome, hears via her dad (and his government job) that the mayor of another city (violet abney) is part of a conspiracy to extract precious resources (like glass) from the environment. in way over her head, she persuades him to let her move from mellamnis (which is like the usa but with more honey) to aquaria's capital city glacington (which is like if new york was in england (and was also blue)) with her auntie, accidentally going through a near-death experience in the process.
she wakes up in the house of lazuli "lazzy" tyndall, a cheery (but weirdly mysterious) kid about millie's age or older, and finds out that the physical trauma of what happened gave her chromatic aberration- effectively, this gives her a deadly "glass allergy", which as you can see from above is a big problem. she begrudgingly has to accept lazzy's help in her quest to learn more about mayor abney. emmy is also here for some reason. it's about 2 years after luna sloth so she has longer hair but is otherwise the exact same. her laidback nature has her work as a foil to ambitious-high-strung millie
i probably draw the 2nd most for this one!
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anyway HAHA YAY that should be everything!! so excited to actually post eventually!! time to hit it big and get maybe like 5 notes per post perhaps
i've made a handful of discord-emoji-style drawings of my weirdos for fun but alas don't have nitro so i can't actually use them all that much. it's fine tho i've been vicariously living through people who do
stupid idea that wouldn't leave my head until i drew it. emmy/indie/mary watching the tadc finale. mary 100% would misinterpret herself as a Jaxlike (condolences)
wet indie (mary's trying to "benefit" him by covering him in water, showing him the resulting horde of goth women that materialises to ogle at him, and making him finally realise other people can find him sexy instead of denying it every time because "hmm i just don't really see it :)")
quirky-maximalist-fashion-enjoying photographer zoomer ollie (oliva) flores who affects people in her life emotionally a normal amount. she's 100% sympathetic and adorable (not an act), which makes it sting just that bit more when she acts reactive and unintentionally manipulative to people, for example emmy
more or less what rigel (from the first story in my pinned post) looks like btw. i don't think i've even drawn him in the past... 2-3 years or so, and probably won't draw him for a long while until i feel ready to tackle that whole thing, but just good to keep this on hand
(btw he's not supposed to be a literal angel but the similarity is intentional. people just happen to be Winged in the area he's from and it's very cloudy... it superficially looks heavenly but is just an extremely boring and practically-dying city. like a meta-gag)
it doesn't deserve some rando (me) directly reblogging it with a picture of their blue guy but shoutout to this post (he canonically likes solitaire so it's realer than you think)
does an extremely overly blatant homage/ripoff of flight of the knife because i just really really like that album (and its cover).... can you blame me
