#ruptured world

[thewastelandwonderer]

Baby Abby’s bedroom in Salt Lake City.

I made young Abby’s bedroom in Inkarnate. :P

Abby grew up in salt lake city, and compared to most kids who were born post outbreak she had a life that was as close to “normal” as you could get.

Her bedroom was a converted hospital room, and it was adjacent to her father's room.

Unlike most kids who either had to share rooms with their parents or bunk with other orphans in barracks, Jerry’s importance and closeness with Marline afforded both of them certain luxuries like Abby being able to have an entire room for herself.

While Jerry's status as a doctor earned him protective status in any group he was a part of, (he was always a non-combatant) he was very aware of what the world was like outside, what being out there did to people/turned people into and wanted to raise Abby in a “normal” environment as posible.

So Baby Abby was very sheltered.

And while Jerry’s intentions were good, Sheltering Abby from most of the brutality of the world, meant that his death and the fireflies' disbanding was an earth-shattering event that changed Abby for the worse.

In one day she not only lost her family and her home, but also suffered a massive ego death and thrust into a world she was unprepared for.

And that left her vulnerable to someone like Isaac, Abby sought him out in an attempt to regain the sense of normalcy she had, and instead fell into the hands of someone who was a parasite that latched on to her, pulling her down into a violent world Jerry wanted to protect her from, because he didn't want to be trapped in that hell alone.

[theartofmany]

“Dark underwater music of sunken cities compiled by Dahlia's Tear for Cryo Chamber Artwork: Simon Heath/Atrium Carceri ” From Youtube channel Cryo Chamber: Dark Underwater Ambient Absolutely fantastic...

[thewastelandwonderer]

Well shit she’s got a name now. 😳

Rambling about writing under the cut.

So much for Jessica lol 😆 I'm not changing though!

I really want to explore Lev’s relationship with his mom.

I find their mom to be the single hardest character to write for, even though she only had one prominent scene, I write their home life with two ideas in mind: Yara was Lev’s primary caregiver and the breadwinner of the house, and if the two of them lived in the modern day? They would be in and out of foster care.

I imagine she wasn't born in seattle but arrived there with a group of people that included Yara and Lev's father, I imagine she is in her late forties by the time she met her end via table, and that there really was no romance between her and their father.

It was a situation like Mel and Owen, an “I really don't want to be alone in the apocalypse” kind of situation and Yara was the result of that.

She is not a mentally sound woman. And whenever I write for her, I keep in mind the word “eternal victim.” She has a massive victim complex, if you sneeze it becomes a deliberate conspiracy to make her sick, in Jessica’s mind the whole world is out to get her.

So I make all her dialogue options, as few as she has, circle back to the word “me”.

Essentially, shes written like a spoiled toddler.

Because that's what a lot of abusive people are, they are just these incredibly entitled and incredibly cringy people, who are completely incapable of turning their eyes inwards and self-reflecting.

Jessica/Miriam cannot empathize with anything beyond her own nose.

And why is she like that? Imagine she is the child of generational trauma. That life did in fact snap her like a twig, and she had no chance at being normal.

This is why I imagine Lev views abby much more like a “mom” and less of a big sister, he already had a big sister (Yara), and calling Abby a big sister would feel like he was trying to replace her, but he's never really had a “mom” before.

[thewastelandwonderer]

This scene from chapter 3 just became relevant to chapter 11.

Will or William is the Slave that takes charge when Ellie frees them.

And I won't dare spoil a thing but…. Abby sincerely fucked up in that moment, trusting Lev’s safety to him, even if she had no choice.

[thewastelandwonderer]

Guess who just finished the outline for chapter 11?!

This guy! 😎👍

[thewastelandwonderer]

This is in response to a comment I got on chapter 7 of RW. 🤭

Cosmic horror books were a massive parts of my childhood. 🥰 But chapter 7 is specifically referring to a short story I read many years ago that I can no longer find.

The story was on YouTube that was based on The King in Yellow.

It was about a private investigator looking into a Theater where people mysteriously disappear. They buy tickets and watch a movie there; the movie is surreal and soundless, but ultimately uneventful.

But later that night, the investigator starts having disturbing dreams about a woman all dressed in Yellow.

Even her skin was yellow, like she was jaundice.

The investigator goes back a second time, but this time they leave a recorder in their pocket. When they come home, they realize it had picked up the voice track.

And I remember this part of the story clearly; it was my favorite and is directly quoted in chapter 7.

“The sound was Yellow… festering Yellow, the sound of yellow teeth scraping across yellow flesh…. Yellow……….. warning signs are yellow….. I decided to pay attention to my warning.”

The investigator, after that, nopes out of the investigation; the missing people are never found, and one day someone burns down the theater.

The use of yellow in chapter 7 also opposes the canonical use of the color Yellow in tlou, Yellow is supposes to represent Innocence and guidance, The Giraffe is yellow and the Giraffe toy is a reoccurring environmental symbol and Yellow tape/paint is intended to show you where to go.

In Tlou, Yellow is good.

In Ruptured World, Yellow is bad.

The infected are yellow and Warning signs are Yellow.

[thewastelandwonderer]

Part 1 of Chapter 5, of Ruptured World.😎

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

There were only a few people in the world, who knew what the Cordyceps brain infection was truly capable of.

Who knew the truth.

And Joel was not one of them.

That night, Joel Miller saved His World by killing the only man who could save The World.

Now six years later, the consequences of his decision are beginning to manifest.

This story takes place after Abby and Lev escape the Rattlers, arriving on Catalina Island, only to find the FireFly’s missing and clues to a much greater threat.

This sends them both on a journey across the American wasteland, where Abby must learn to be the person she was always meant to be, and where Lev must come to terms with all that’s happened to him, and find a place where he belongs.

[thewastelandwonderer]

Chapter 8 of Ruptured World.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

There were only a few people in the world, who knew what the Cordyceps brain infection was truly capable of.

Who knew the truth.

And Joel was not one of them.

That night, Joel Miller saved His World by killing the only man who could save The World.

Now 6 years later, the consequences of his decision are beginning to manifest.

This story takes place after Abby and Lev escape the Rattlers, arriving on Catalina Island, only to find the FireFly’s missing and clues to a much greater threat.

This sends them both on a journey across the American wasteland, where Abby must learn to be the person she was always meant to be, and where Lev must come to terms with all that’s happened to him, and find a place where he belongs.