Project: Project Hero
Current Word Count: 37k
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Tagline: A spliced kitchen worker gets pulled into keeping the prince alive.
Themes: coming of age, pining idiots, lgbt+ cast, internal conflict,
family - blessing or curse, love and sacrifice, social mobility.
Main Characters: Keona Warden, Bastian Warden, Ace Firefly, Cairo Wildfire, Wyatt “Wick” Barrington, Cordelia “Quin” Barrington, and Xavion “Zay” Staffordshire.
I’ve been working on project hero for... a few weeks now, and at the point of writing this I am at around 37k. I’m hoping to hit at least 40k by the end of the month, meaning that I will be at 90k at the end of April, and hopefully near the end of the novel!
More information about Project Hero below the cut!
spliced kitchen worker keona warden may not have the perfect life, but at least it’s relatively normal. she gets up in the morning, kisses her mom goodbye, and heads to work with her brother and her father. she visits her father in the stables. she bothers her brother out on the grounds. she works until she can’t feel her fingers anymore, and she goes home to sleep it off until the next morning. but all of that is thrown for a loop when her father is injured by a horse kick to the ribs.
when she gives him one of her mother’s potions to keep him from the brink of death, she captures the interest of one prince wyatt barrington- a young man dying for a distraction. and when a prince takes interest in you, interesting things are bound to happen… especially when that prince is caught up in the facts and exactly how these circumstances do not match the facts at all.
someone who is spliced is at least 10% animal of some sort… and spliced cannot be a host for the magic required to make such potions. keona didn’t make it, which should be easy to explain, except… her mother is a moon mage living in hiding, afraid to be captured and sent away to serve another kingdom, since their healing magic is so rare. so keona lies… and everything gets even more crazy from there.
Keona "Keo" Warden: kitchen worker spliced with reptile DNA.
Bastian “Bas” Warden: Keo’s adopted brother, a rose ‘planter.’
Ace Firefly: a fey sex worker and Keo’s best friend.
Cairo Wildfire: a Moon Mage raised by the fey.
Wyatt "Wick" Barrington: a Magica prince with a learning focus.
Cordelia “Quin” Barrington: the crowned Magica princess, Wick’s sister.
Xavion “Zay” Staffordshire: prince of Podusan, Quin’s husband to be.
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ESLAIPAN: a Magica based country that is the center of the story.
VENADA: a nearby Magica based country.
PODUSAN: a nearby Shifter based country- home to Xavion.
KAIRYN: a nearby dragon based country.
