WIP Intro - The Princess, the Pauper, and the Pirate
Three strangers. Three stories.
When Kai, Vera, and Rune’s paths cross in the middle of the forest, the three of them share stories and swear to help each other, come what may, as allies in a world out to get them.
Together, they face everything from pirates to cruel parents, and work to try and take down the system that stacked the cards against them from the start.
Will they succeed, or will they be crushed like everyone else?
Genre - High fantasy
Status - Planning/first draft
WIP tag - #wip ppp
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There's a lot of the letter p in this story
Official number one fan - @irisisasleep
Characters:
Vera Wolfe (real name Veronica Frost) - Human, princess in hiding from her parents
Rune Alastair - Half-elf, pauper on the run from the law
Mordechai "Kai" King - Tiefling, pirate escaping from his old life
Character intros:
Kai
Vera
Rune
Cover:
Thanks for reading this far, I should be posting more of this soon :)
Got tagged by the lovely @fire-but-ashes-too, thanks for that!
So i may have got slightly carried away with this, it's under a cut for a reason
Tagging - @druidx @dogmomwrites @new-royston-cursebreakers @holdmyteaplease @oh-no-another-idea @irisisasleep (do you have ocs? idk but this is funny and i think youd approve) and anyone else who wants to this!
Here's the link to the quote generator I used!
So, this is technically a ships tag, but I only have two main ships (Harper and Luke from Superlosers and Rune and Veronica from PPP) so I did those two as well as their two friend groups because I thought it was funny and got a bit carried away.
Also sorry if the spacing is weird, I did half of thi on mobile and half on desktop
Enjoy!
Luke and Harper:
Luke: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives.
Harper: I wake up at 4:30 AM every day to train.
Luke: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives.
Harper: Act natural.
Luke: For this kind of situation, the most natural thing would be to panic, so technically I can panic.
Harper: NO, that’s not what I meant! Act like it’s a normal day!
Luke: My ‘normal’ days of late, consist of a lot of panic.
Harper: Will you just cooperate?
Luke: When a person is panicking, they are not apt to cooperate very well!
Luke, sweating: Harper, there’s something I need to ask you-
Harper: Finally! You’re proposing!
Luke: How’d you know?
Harper: Luke, you’ve dropped the ring five times during dinner.
Harper: I even picked it up once.
Harper: Are you okay?
Luke, crying: Yeah, it was just the onions.
Harper: *Picks up an onion* What the fuck did you say to Luke?
Harper, skipping rocks on a lake with Luke: It’s such a beautiful evening.
Luke: Yeah, it is.
Luke: *whispering* Take that you fucking lake.
And here's the whole group!
Ivy: What starts with F and ends with Uck?
Asher: No it doesn't.
Harper: Firetruck!
Luke: FUCK!
Luke: *running into the room* Harper just said they don’t love me anymore!
Ivy: What?!
Harper: *following them in* I did not say that. I just said that we are not driving all the way across the country just so you can punch Asher in the face.
*Ivy drunkenly wanders around the house and Harper is drunkenly giggling*
Luke, completely sober: *sighs* Well, looks like it's just me and you against the wold, Asher.
Asher, going to their room: Nope, just you. *shuts door*
*during a group project*
Asher: *does 99% of the work*
Luke: *has no idea what’s going on*
Ivy: *says they’re gonna help but does not*
Harper: *disappears at the very beginning and doesn’t show up again until the very end*
Harper: That's ridiculous, Luke doesn't have a crush on me.
Asher: Yes they do.
Ivy: Yes they do.
Luke: Yes I do.
Ivy: Made you all playlists!
Ivy: Asher, yours has only heavy metal, and is dark like your soul.
Ivy: Luke, yours has sad songs and blues to pair with your crippling depression.
Ivy: And Harper has the ABBA Gold album.
Asher: *sees Luke and Harper together*
Asher: They're cute. I would put them on a boat.
Ivy: You mean... you ship them?
Here's Vera and Rune!
Vera: I’ve been dropping them the most insanely obvious hints for like a year now. No response.
Rune: Wow. They sound stupid.
Vera: But they’re not. They’re really smart actually. Just dense.
Rune: Maybe you need to be more obvious? Like, I don’t know… “Hey! I love you!”
Vera: I guess you’re right. Hey Rune, I love you.
Rune: See! Just say that!
Vera: Holy fucking shit.
Rune: If that flies over their head then, sorry Vera, but they're too dumb for you.
Vera: Rune.
Rune: I am so cool. I am an absolute Chad. I am the epitome of coolness and awesomeness—
Vera: Hi.
Rune: melts down in a flustered heap of softness
Rune: Do you want to explain the text you sent me last night?
Vera: It was autocorrect.
Rune: Autocorrect wrote "You're so hot. Please step on me."?
Vera: Yes.
Vera: Are you really planning to shoot the demon?
Rune: Don't worry, it's a holy gun.
Vera: How so?
Rune: It makes holes.
(thank you quincy morris)
And the whole friend group!
Vera: wow you and Kai are home early from the movies. What happened?
Rune: We got kicked out because Kai wouldn't stop yelling diving scores as people jumped off the titanic.
Kai: That last guy had a solid 8, I'm telling you!
Vera: So how’s the food Rune made?
Kai: It's great! Compliments to them.
Vera: goes to the kitchen
Vera: You're adorable.
Rune: blushes
Vera: We all have our demons.
Rune, grabbing Kai: This one’s mine!
Vera: Why did you guys dress up as each other for Halloween?
Rune: Kai is the scariest thing I could think of!
Kai: Rune told me I should pick the dumbest costume possible.
Kai: Ooh, somebody has a crush
Rune: Pfft, I don’t have a crush on Vera I just think they’re cool, it’s not like I stay up at night thinking about them.
Later that night
Rune, very much awake: Uh oh.
Happy STS! Let's talk about secrets. Do your characters or world have them? Are they considered a good thing or bad? Who in your cast is most likely to spill one? ♥️
Hey Tori! Thanks for the ask!
Ooh, this is a really good question!
In The Princess, the Pauper and the Pirate, Vera's main aspects is that she doesn't tell the other two who she is - she hides it because she doesn't want Kai and Rune to assume that she's the same as her cruel parents, the king and queen. The truth comes out in the end, of course, and Kai and Rune choose to look past her parents to who she really is.
Secrets aren't considered inherently good or bad in universe, but most people don't like being lied to.
In the main cast, Kai is probably the most likely to spill a secret, but it could be any of them depending on what it is, who they're keeping it from, and how serious it is
