#oc: jonas devlin

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Jonas: Do you want to try my drink? Sebastian: What's in it? Jonas: *lists ingredients on label* Sebastian: Does it have root beer in it? Jonas:...No? Sebastian: Okay *chugs drinks* Oh man that's horrible! Jonas: It's good for your health Sebastian: Certainly not my mental health!...Hey Sam you wanna try this drink?

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Sebastian: Why don't they just have cars? Jonas: Because they hadn't been invented yet Sebastian: Well that's dumb, they should just invent cars, it would solve a lot of their problems

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Jonas: Stop touching him Sebastian: Yeah, no PDA Samantha: Do you even know what that means? Sebastian: No public distribution of affection

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Out of Context Line Tag

Hooray! I got tagged to play this by @cat-esper

The rules are to share a line I wrote recently but without any context, and now I also tag @sugarlesswriting to join me! And anyone who wants to be tagged feel free to say I tagged you! Then I'll know to tag you in the future!

From my Nano project Shades of Night

“Harvey sacrificed his brother’s life to get rid of that thing once and for all and you’re telling me it was for nothing?”

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Shades of Night WIP Intro

Book Title: Shades of Night

Genre: Fantasy

POV: Some parts first person some parts third person

Inspirations: Steampunk, Supernatural, Celtic/Irish Mythology, Portal Fantasy

Setting: The dimension of Shadow has very early 1900s London kind of vibes, steampunk with lots of clock-powered items as well as some magic items powering things instead of electricity

Plot: Sebastian Devlin has been to other dimensions before - technically just the one other than the one he was born in. That doesn't make it any easier though when he's dragged through a portal by the monster he's hunting. On his own this time, he'll have to find a way home, if that's even possible. Before he can do that though, he'll have to solve this new dimensions monster problem.

Plot in 20 words: Stranded monster hunter can’t find a way home, instead cures a plague, becomes immortal, and falls in love on accident.

TW/CW: mentions of blood, violence, illness, injury, death

Main Characters: (under the cut)

Sebastian Devlin (narrator) - 25 he/him - Sebastian is part of a family of monster hunters and this has been his purpose his entire life. The problem is that while he's got the muscles to take them down he doesn't care much for the strategy or the research parts of his calling. Instead, he just relies on his dad to do all that work for him, lets himself get pointed in the right direction, and then goes to work.

Jonas Devlin - 55 he/him - Jonas has dedicated his life and sacrificed pretty much everything to be the perfect monster hunter. He's done everything he's ever been asked and he's done with 110% effort. So why does the universe never seem to want to give him a break? He's lost his father, his wife, and now his son, whom he spent so much energy trying to keep out of danger like this. When is it going to stop?

Samantha Devlin - 32 she/her - Samantha has always been the golden child, got perfect grades, had nice friends, never been arrested, got engaged to a very sweet man, hunts monsters to save the world, etc. But no matter how much she wants to start her own life and go her own way she still gets trapped with the responsibility of looking after her impulsive brother. Except this time it's gone wrong, she didn't do the perfect job she usually does, and now her brother is gone.

Emerson Stokker - 30 he/him - Emerson is a detective in the dimension of Shadow and he's part of a league of monster hunters that formed about 100 years ago. His world has no protection from monsters like Earth does so they have to take it upon themselves with no enhanced abilities. They're struggling to survive and he's struggling to stay motivated with all the loss around him, until his son stumbles upon a strange visitor with a lot of knowledge about monster hunting who also appears to be unbreakable.

Captain Rodnee Dommers - 42 she/they - Rodnee has lived a lot of different lives in their time on Shadow, but right now she is living the life of a ship's captain. Is she a pirate? That's a loose term, they can't answer that. The ships have always been safe from the plague, something about the altitude, so if she has to, she'll stay up here for years to protect her immunocompromised son. And if they have to steal supplies and provisions in order to stay up here safely without landing? Well, you can answer that for yourself.