#armenach

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Wow, has it really been a whole year since I did any work on Armenach? Where did all these new ideas and ~backstory~ come from?

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desktop-warrior said: PREQUEL TIME.

I don’t think it’d be a prequel, per se. In my opinion, it’s too far in the past (about 12 years) to really be a prequel. More likely an origin story if anything, but even that runs into its own difficulties. It’d fall into the same series because they’d both be from the same fictional timeline / universe, but it’s almost strong enough to exist as a stand-alone title.

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tfw you've developed your backstory so well you start to seriously think it could become a story all of its own

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As usually happens in creative design, two months of frustration is absolved in ten minutes of clarity. I finally have a stage name for my Indian character!

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I'm been trying to develop the profile of this new character (an Indian pilot who captains a successful mecha-fighting team and whose talent is exceeded only by his arrogance), since he'll probably be playing foil to the main character.

Unforunately, my brain returns the same result when the keywords "Indian", "talented", "arrogant" and "captain" are put together. 

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desktop-warrior said: He’s not big on you writing stories, eh? And I’m not sure how you’d get a passport here if you weren’t a Canadian citizen at birth, like I was.

Something like that.

That being said, the protagonists have legit work visas, so I don't think there'd be much problem for them, assuming immigration works similarly in Canada as it does in Australia. Only thing they could get pulled up for would be having counterfeit Russian passports (and they'd've been cleared in Russia already).

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I get through that roadblock of how and where to start the story and within two hours I've already got the first 9 chapters dot-pointed out, AND they've set me up to bring the first antagonist in by the end of 12.

Is this what being on a roll feels like?

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I'm starting to get a vague idea of how this story's gonna kick off lol never heard that one before. Not sold on the idea of a prologue (perhaps something like in the Dan Brown books?), but after that, I can already think of how the "first" chapter's going to look.

Now that that's all sorted out, it's looking like Armenach's first proper arc is gonna be taking place in and around Toronto.

And while I know next to nothing about Toronto itself, its proximity to Detroit means I have a crumbling abandoned city handy for the mecha fights (if I feel like shoehorning a continental match into the story).

Hm, maybe that'll be where the antagonists first show up...

But before I get ahead of myself, I'm off to research Canadian customs procedure for international arrivals!