#the leech queen

[justmccallie]

Inktober Day 21 - Drain

That awkward moment when you see your likeness on the walls of a sub-surface church. Starring @fiship‘s oc, The Leech Queen.

[peoniepoetals]

original characters: Charlotte Vane, The Leech Queen. 

— Cathy Linh Che, from “Go Forget Your Father,”

[merflk]

First Impression Tag

tagged by @timeenoughforamasterpiece, thank you!!

This is for my novel The Leech Queen!

1. First sentence of WIP

When he was younger, he was told that devils do not fly.

2. The genre

it’s a new adult fantasy novel, including romance, coming-of-age, angels and demons, and a lot of musing about morality.

3. Name and age of MC

It’s a dual pov, with Cody Pennings, age 21 and Charlotte Vane, an immortal who stopped aging at 19 but is by now about 130 years old. 

4. First line of dialogue in WIP

“Cody, behind you!” he screams as he approaches the other angel, slashing at a demon’s wings.

I’m tagging @shorecatcher and @helenstroy! 

[merflk]

5, 8, and 14 if they haven't been asked already!!

thank you!!!

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

honestly? Cody White from The Leech Queen. Full disclosure: it’s not so weird that I would write him, it’s just weird that he would be my main pov/character. I’m usually really not into big, blond, muscular, morally black and white thinking angelic saviour types. Gimme morally grey heroes at all times. But Cody? Cody’s my main man. And that’s odd. 

(Of course, he has hidden depths…. But I assume all of the characters that fall into this archetype do! I just never take the time to find them!) 

8) favorite genre to write

fantasy. hands down. 

14) do you make playlists for your current wips?

can I get a frick yes? for example, on the playlist for The Leech Queen you can find hearse by von grey

get to know your author asks!

[merflk]

WIP game - ironic. thanks!

thank you!!!

ironic:

Cody laughs. “I guess.”He brings his hands up again and clenches and unclenches them. “Competing witha mere human. She should have gone for someone her own size.” 

Sefu looks away. “You areno longer human now.”

Cody chuckles sadly. “Andironically, she’s can’t fight me anymore either. I lost her the minute I caughtup with her.”

- The Leech Queen, chapter 1

send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

[peoniepoetals]

original characters: charlotte vane, the leech queen

She had dangled between her Victorian morals and the violence of Hell before retreating into the quiet waters of the modern age. It was horrible. She couldn’t help but be either a modest debutante or a ruthless monster. It took her years to find the human in herself. 

[peoniepoetals]

original characters: Charlotte Vane, The Leech Queen

— Sun Yung Shin, in “Immigrant Song”

[peoniepoetals]

One Character One Word Each Tag

I was tagged by @writerofwriting on my main @merflk <3 Figured I’d put the answer over here again!

I picked The Leech Queen as a project to narrow it down!

Cody: determination  Sefu: responsibility  Kája: passion  Charlotte: anguish  Mephisto: frustration  Lux: arrogance 

There’s a summary of the work under the cut! And this is the novel’s tag.

Cody is the Chosen One and everyone has an opinion on what he should be doing with that power. Stay in the city of the angels, Babel, and train? Go back to Earth and purify it from evil? Devise a plan to kill the devil, Lux? But to Cody, none of this matters. He just wants the girl he loves back from Hell - even though he knows she’s a demon. But even knowing that she is a demon, Charlotte still has a lot of secrets he doesn’t know about.