WHITE NOISE /// A WIP BY LUCIA F. TRASK
genre: coming-of-age with heavy supernatural and sci-fi elements
warning(s): though there’s no heavy blood or gore (for NOW), there are heavy themes regarding cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and harassment/bullying. if you are sensitive to these themes, proceed with caution.
meet carmen rosa mendozo. she is fourteen years old (and in january 2018 she’ll be fifteen), ecuadorian, and lives in new york city with her parents. though she has a little sister on the way, her life is uneventful for the most part - she’s in her first year of high school and as an escapism from her dreary and sometimes stressful daily life, has started going online to gush about her favorite cartoon “the stars and us” with her fellow fans. one day she finds a blog that claims to be recruiting content creators for a fanzine and being a budding artist herself, carmen enters.
what she encounters, however, is not what she expects.
she finds herself greeted by a strange young girl known as A.I.R.I. who claims that carmen is a perfect recruitment for the organization “white noise”, dedicated to hiring special individuals from across the world to fight crime. starstruck and reminded of her favorite cartoons and magical girl shows, carmen agrees and begins her new double life.
yet as she continues work, more questions arise. what does white noise want? why her specifically? and what’s going on with A.I.R.I.? it certainly doesn’t help that as carmen spends more and more of her time online that she attracts attention for her fanart and fanfiction for “the stars and us”... and not all of it is positive. eventually her circumstances spiral out of control, and carmen must find a way to unravel the truth amidst the chaos and save herself.
pov: third-person limited
you might be interested in this wip if you like...
latine main characters (especially girly-girl characters of color)
autistic/neurodivergent main characters
magical girl aesthetics and cartoons
in-depth exploration of the effects of trauma, especially that of bullying and harassment
taglist ( please ask or dm me to be + / - ): @austrohungarianwriteblr / @blueinkblot / @cecilsstorycorner / @lamentationsofthewouldbeking / @pe-ersona