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So in early 2021, I decided to draw ALL Pokémon to date with Pikachu cosplaying all of them. Never finished it, but it was all sketched out! Yeah, there are ~1400 of them because I was including regionals and other forms.

I have not learned from this

#WIP #dead WIP #my art #fanart #Pokémon #spinda is looming in the corner because it is physically impossible to draw a billion of them I am sorry

they’re real!!

#ed edd n eddy #clay model #i was about to do a chain that one of my mootie patooties did but i have absolutelyNO mutuals in here… i am so sad… 💔💔#they’re orange but its okay #eene #dead wip

halfdone pic of human mettaton :)

#mettaton #human mettaton #undertale #suggestive #dead wip #my art #fanart

A very old wip I don’t plan on finishing

#I think it’s obvious why #wip #dead wip #newts doodles

sorry about the quality. this is from years ago when i tried to write a gothic novella

#my writing #dead wip

I have a lot of wips, both active and dead, as many of us do. Most will probably never make it to the light of day and that’s alright. It’s how the creative process works. I want to share one of my dead wips with you guys because it’s one I like. why let a wip I like die? It was a bit too much like the series Harry Potter. At least I think it was, I’ve never actually read/seen Harry Potter, but this story was inspired by the fandom, Cursed Child stuff mostly. I saw a lot of people saying it could have been better and I wanted to try to make it better. I tried to make it my own thing, but I ended up still being really similar. I still like it, but it could never be it’s own thing.

Background: There are five categories of magic; spell (magic that needs words, works instantly), hex (magic that needs words, works after a period of dormancy), potion (liquid magic, each with a specific use), charm (magic contained in an object), and curse (any of the first four, but illegal). This senior at a boarding school for magi (there are many of these schools) had ambitions grew to big and deemed to dangerous. She was thrown aside in an attempt to stop this behavior. Before leaving though, she placed a curse on four sixth graders (magi begin practicing magic in sixth grade) that would come to fruition in their senior year. They were suppose to lead an army of their classmates for her to overthrow the Magi in power, but things didn’t go according to plan. They still lead her army like the curse intended, but against her and those who stood with her. Many lives were lost, but the cursed students won.

Premise: The story follows the children of those four students and how they try to find themselves apart from their parents’ legacy and their fears.

Characters: (all main characters are 15)

Benjamin “Benji” Abbey - Named after his great uncle, who was named after another family member and so forth (Benjamin is a common name is his family), Benji comes from a wealthy and powerful family in the magi community so he’s expected by his parents to always be well behaved. He goes by Benji with most people, but his parents and some teachers call him Benjamin. He is a people-pleaser and wants to be what adults expect of him, but he finds this clashes with who he wants to be sometimes. When he was in sixth grade, he had a teacher encourage him to try new things, find himself, but when he started doing that, his parents didn’t approve. They didn’t want him to be the odd one out, they wanted him to fit in. As he got older, his family self and his school self started to separate more and more, to the point that he completely different clothes, wears his glasses instead of contacts (like his parents insist), uses potions to dye his hair, and wears charmed piercings that don’t leave marks. He feels like he’s living two lives sometimes, but it’s the only way he can be himself and keep his parents happy. He is very smart, excelling in his magic and language courses. He loves school and it’s where he feels most at home.

Avery Brown - Named after one of his parents’ friend who died in the war, Avery is a bit of a rebellious kid. This is because of his overprotective parents. He knows they just want to keep him safe, but he doesn’t need protecting. The war is over. He just wants to have fun and be a kid. Often, he feels out of place in the world. He isn’t very good at magic and honestly doesn’t care for it much. He doesn’t feel like he belongs to that world. The non-magic world isn’t much better though, because magic is still part of him and he feels the secret separates him from that world. He feels like he’s stuck in between two worlds, destine to never fit in. The only time he ever really feels normal is when he’s messing around with tech. He likes taking stuff apart and putting it back together. He likes knowing how it works. Avery is also hard of hearing, having difficulties with high sounds. He wears hearing aids because of this. He and his family knows sign language (I don’t have a specific one in mind because I don’t know where this takes place) because his grandpa was deaf, but he doesn’t really need to use it.

Emrys Brown - (apparently this is traditionally a boy’s name, but I thought it was a girl’s, either way it’s her name, not changing it) Named after one of her parents’ friend who died in the war, like her twin Avery, Emrys is like the mom of the group. In contrasted to Avery, Emrys is very mature for her age. Her siblings don’t know the reason why, though. The war really did a number on their parents, but they hid a lot of it from their kids. One time, during the night, Emrys and her siblings heard a noise from their parents room. Emrys went to see what happened. Her dad had knocked over a lamp during a panic attack. Her mom insisted everything would be alright, but Emrys was scared and wanted to help. Her mom told to just put her siblings back to bed. Later on, her parents sat her down to explain what they went through as kids. She taken on the role of protector ever since. She didn’t want her siblings scared like she was and never let on how badly their parents were emotionally scarred. She tries to keep her brother and her friends out of trouble, not that they listen often. They sometimes see her as a stick in the mud, but she just does’t want any of them to get hurt.

Hayleigh Char - Named after her late paternal aunt, Hayleigh is a serious troublemaker, if that word even covers it. Her mother is a magus, but her father isn’t, nor is her little sister, technically (when you have one magus parent and one non magus parent, you might not inherit magic. It’s less common for girls to inherit magic over boys too, like colorblindness and if you don’t have magic, you’re not always consider a magus). Hayleigh doesn’t like people expecting so much from her because of who her mother is and tries to lower everyone’s expectations of her being this perfect girl as soon as she meets them. She’s really good at reading people and knows how to push just about anyone’s buttons within minutes of meeting them. She might be sociopathic, but has never been diagnosed because she’s too young. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t care for anyone, she cares deeply for her family, including her small group of friends (these five). Rules are more like suggestions to her and this would definitely lead to trouble if she got caught, not that she does often. She has a bit of a temper too, but it tends to only come out for her family more than herself, especially when someone is mean to her sister.

Naomi Medina - Also named after someone who died in the war, Naomi one a quiet person. They tend to just go with the flow and, while they usually follow the rules, they’ll choose following their friends over following the rules almost every, if not every time. They trust their friends, maybe too much. Their friends can be a lot sometimes, but Naomi loves them all the same. Naomi is introverted in nature and prefers reading to most things. Sometimes, when everyone is just hanging out, they’ll just stay to the side, reading. They like being able to just escape in a book and put reality aside for a moment. Naomi also really like history, it’s their best subject. They know a lot of relatively obscure facts too, primarily history based. They’re a good person to talk to if you need someone to just listen. They’re also genderfluid, using they and she.

Plot: At first I had this convoluted idea where there were living spells that got lose and they were going to kill non-magi if they weren’t stopped, but it was just too much. I ended up going with a simpler idea.

Hayleigh and Avery were getting into trouble like usual when they accidentally let the headmistress’ pet escape or something like that. It’s grounds for expulsion if they’re caught, so they enlist the help of their friends to find and put back her pet. Emrys is hesitant, but ends up going along with it because she doesn’t want to see any of them get in trouble. In the end, they get caught, but, while their parents are called about it, they aren’t expelled because of who they are, or more accurately, who they’re parents are. They think about calling out this hypocrisy, but stay silent, not wanting to get expelled.

There was also this plot b where Benji starts developing feeling for Avery and goes to Naomi to talk because he finds it all very confusing. He’s never been attracted to boys or girls or anyone but Avery before and Naomi is ace-aro and part of him thought maybe he was too, but he’s young so he wasn’t sure. They try help him understand his sexuality, but labels are confusing and frustrating to him and he chooses to just go without. It turns out Avery, who is gay, has been harboring a crush on his friend the whole time. They end up dating.

There is this one scene in particular I have in my head towards the end of the book. Benji’s dad comes to the school after being called by the headmistress and Benji doesn’t have time to change his clothes and hair before his dad arrives. His dad is mad at him for breaking rules and lying and and everything. During this, Benji ends up telling his dad he’s dating Avery (not like he accidentally said while arguing or anything, he knew what he was saying). They’re quiet for a moment before his dad says “I’m always disappointed when you lie to me, but I more disappointed in myself that felt like you had to hide that.” He tells him that he’s alright with him being gay and Benji explains to him that he doesn’t really like boys, just this one boy, a lot.

Extra info:

I had this idea that magi would have their own language, Magan. I never did anything to make the language, aside from a couple rules. It’s alphabet is a combination of Latin and Cyrillic, the letter X would make a sh sound, and J didn’t exist, it was replaced with I, making it both a vowel and a constant, like Y. This was what Benji and his dad were speaking in the scene I described because Avery was also there, but he sucks at Magan and Benji’s dad didn’t want him eavedropping. (Fun fact: Avery is the only one of the five who can’t speak Magan and Benji is the only one who is truly fluent)

There are these places called hidden towns (well, they’re called that in Magan, I just don’t know the Magan words). They are small towns that are completely hidden from non-magi where you can buy potions, charms and other stuff. While most magi now live alongside non-magi, some still live in these towns.

Avery and Emrys’ dad explains at some point why magic is hidden. When there is a group a people that are perceived as “better” than another, one of two things tend to happen. Either the “better” group is worshiped by others and that power goes to they’re head and they abuse that power and the people who follow them, or more likely, the “better” group becomes feared and hunted and no one from the group is safe even if they have never harmed a soul. Both of these have happened before to the magi and the decision was made to stay hidden from non-magi and one can only tell a non-magi about magic if a council agrees to it. (this is how Hayleigh only has one magi parent)

In the beginning of the story, the five play this game they call truth. They place out a bunch of drinks, one containing a potion that temporarily turns skin blue. Before starting, they all drink a truth potion. Everyone asks each other questions and then have a choice, answer or drink. They play until all the drinks are drank and someone is stuck with blue skin for a day.

Wow, that’s more than I realized. A lot of this was just sitting in my head rather than on paper. It’s one of the only character driven ideas I had too. Most things I come up with are plot driven. This was fun to think about when I was still working on it. Like I said before, this wip is dead, but it was a useful one. It helped me with character development. A lot of characters I’ve written tend to just have the story happen to them, but these guys helped me see how the characters can affect the plot. I guess what I’m trying to say is, no idea is a waste, you learn from every piece you work on, even if you decide to drop it. I also wanted to share this idea with someone.

I know this is crazy long, so thanks for reading this far.