Hiya!
🖤: what are your MC names?
💔: give a brief character bio of your 3-5 MCs
Please and thank you!
Thanks for the ask!!! I'm going to answer these as combos since I will name them and then write their info out! These are the characters from my actual WIP, Scrapbook of the Unexplained, a sort of cozy/horror/magical realism story taking place in Michigan in 1978.
Lina Shaw - A freelance news reporter who lives out of her VW bus with her three-legged border collie, Oreo and showed up in town to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several local teens. Her family fled the Balkans after WWII when her reporter father vanished after confronting government corruption. She knows her job can be dangerous, and tries to protect herself the best she can from the results of her stories by being out of town before the news breaks.
Matti Brinkerhoff - A farmhand who moved to the area to help his cousin, only to find out that his cousin is one of the missing people. Now he's trying to manage a farm that isn't his, while keeping his biggest secret safe from the tenacious investigative reporter asking questions. If she finds out he (and half the town) are feldgeister, creatures that most people believe are firmly in the realm of old German folklore, they'll have bigger problems than just missing persons.
Jim McBride - A post office clerk/mail carrier who came to town hoping for a fresh start. His highly publicized childhood kidnapping, and subsequent safe return, have made his family highly protective. But he's sure there's more to the story than the one people seem to have accepted, because there's something he can't quite explain about the ways he seems to have changed after his return...or why he can't remember anything about his life before it.
Will Bauer - A local teenager who is trying to keep his crumbling family functioning. He's grieving a mother he never knew, but also becoming increasingly worried there's something deeply wrong with him. Something that's causing him to sleepwalk and wake up with no memory of what happened the night before...and more concerningly, occasionally covered in blood.
Milo Beck - The town storyteller and folklore expert, who became something of a strange outcast after a farming accident left him disfigured and prone to having strange visions of creatures that are somewhere between human and monster. Most of the locals find him odd but harmless, but tourists tend to wonder what's wrong with him when he starts telling them stories from folklore as if they're everyday fact.
