Tag game: get to know your story
Many thanks to @lilamina for tagging me in this.
I know I talk about Demonologue a lot on here but y’all have seen approximately .00001% of any actual content. That’s on purpose. I’m fine whoring out my fanfiction, but I’m quite leery of posting any original works for which I haven’t been paid, for lots of reasons.
But am I leery of talking ad nauseam about the story?
ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. To that end:
Are there any particular themes present in your story? What general feeling does the story as a whole give off?
Well shoot I have a whole list of themes I’m trying to work into the story!
- the blurring of the line between good and evil Subthemes therein (not an exhaustive list): - Power, originally used to do good, corrupting a person - When and to what extent the ends justify the means - “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” - What realistic roles neutral-aligned characters play, and how their desire to stay neutral can shift the story to one side or another
-the psychological, cultural, societal, existential functions of monsters/demons and how they represent us (not just the parts of ourselves that scare us)
-Judeo-Christian mythology and how it has shaped (warped) our morality and senses of self
- abuse, trauma, and how different personality types cope (or don’t)
- coming of age
-apocalypse
-an aggressively obvious commentary on how everything in the world is connected, so if one part is sick, the whole is sick
-an exploration/overturning of the hero/ Chosen One trope
-misanthropy and how it interacts with heroism
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it hits the high points. As far as a general feeling to my story, that’s pretty much what tone is. And that evolves. It starts out pretty bleak, because my main character is jaded, misanthropic, angry, and depressed. It keeps that throughout the story (which is, by now, on track to encompass at least 2 novels), because this is an apocalypse-story. But there is uplift. Things get weird, and the tone shifts to uncanny-bizarre with an undertone of manic energy. Then once Seth stops fighting so much with herself, it gets less bleak. But by then I shift the story to multiple viewpoint characters, so each of them carries with them their own tone. But the bleakness remains throughout until the very end, and is balanced by a feeling of dogged, exhausted, unconditional determination that crops up within the first 5 chapters. If that sounds familiar, good. It should.
Hey I know I don’t follow or am followed by a lot of hardcore writeblrs, but if you have a story you’d like to talk about, please do this! I’d love to hear you talk about your works. <3