#project demetrius

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my newest novel is up on tapas! go check it out 🥰

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WIP WEDNESDAY - 09/16/2020

Aidan should have known that following a mysterious voice in the forest was probably not the best idea. Spirits resided where people were absent, and from his mother’s stories, he knew that he should leave them alone. They only brought troubles, she told him.

However, there was something in the voice that compelled him to come searching for it. Perhaps it was a spirit, after all, but Aidan steeled his resolve and trudged down the stream. It didn’t take him long to find the owner of the voice.

That doesn’t look like a spirit, was Aidan’s first thought.

He was a young Mannain, with hair as dark as the void — a hair color that Aidan had never seen before. He wore deep red vest over his black clothes, with a grey sash tied around his waist. He sat between a boulder and a campfire. When he looked up, there was something in his gaze that made heat creeping up Aidan’s face.

“Oh, hello”, the dark haired Mannain greeted, his voice soft. Yet, Aidan could detect wariness in that friendly voice. “I wasn’t expecting to see another traveler. Unless you’re a bandit — then I will tell you not to bother as I have nothing much for you to rob.”

“I mean you no harm”, Aidan told the stranger, raising his hands in a surrendering gesture. “I just— I heard a beautiful singing voice, and I thought I’d take a look.”

“Oh”, the stranger said, a small smile slowly curled on his lips. “My name is Erik. Come sit with me by the fire. It’s already cold without standing in the river.”

Only then Aidan realized that, indeed, he had been standing in the river. He had to have looked ridiculous.

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quiet night

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redraw old OCs and redesigned them a bit.

red haired one is aidan, he’s a sunshine himbo. black haired one is chronus, he’s a war criminal.

they’re boyfriends :3

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more boyfriends stuff

i know i call them boyfriends but chronus is actually omnigender while aidan is agender

im so soft for them akdjskajd

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TRIVIA TUESDAY - 09/15/2020

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one of my novel projects, project demetrius / guardians of the realm, had been written on and off since 2003

it began as a comic project, before i redid the whole thing and turned it into novel instead

recently, around the beginning of 2020, i brought the project back to life and redid the whole thing again

the main character, aidan, used to be 14. he’s 18 in the 2020 version

this is how chronus used to look in the 2008 version

want to know more about this story? check my patreon for sneak peeks and character ref sheets