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
If you want to be added to the taglist, check out this post
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 :)
Happy Saturday Ask-A-Thon from the @ask-a-thon team! Here's your question for today:
What's your most interesting or unhinged WIP fact? Tell us about it! How did you come up with this?
Hey! Thanks for the ask! Tumblr is being weird with notifications so I only just saw this, so sorry for the delay!
One of the most interesting facts about The Princess, The Pauper and the Pirate is about one of the main characters, Kai.
He was originally part of a trio of ghost hunting ocs who i eventually repurposed into the three protagonists of PPP, and his original name was Elias.
I originally changed them into fantasy characters about six months before I had my gender crisis, and when I realised that I was a boy, I realised that the name that fit me most was the same as my favourite oc - Elias
Yeah, I named myself after my favourite badass tiefling pirate and it honestly inspired me to keep writing since I loved him so much
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.
Tagged by @dontjudgemeimawriter, thanks for that! I did another poll for stories that I'm actively writing now (here), but i have a lot of stories that I have vague concepts or plans for, and this poll is for those.
Summaries/more info and tags under the cut!
So, what should I work on?
The Princess, the Pauper and the Pirate (high fantasy, wlw romance)
God of Chaos (low fantasy, gods interacting with mortals)
Follow the Light (low fantasy, family dynasties, wlw romance)
For All In-Tents and Purposes (camping, coming-of-age/self discovery)
Eyes in the Woods (camping, eldritch horror)
Voting ended onAug 16, 2023
The Princess, the Pauper and the Pirate:
High fantasy
Three characters (take a wild guess what kind of people they are) cross paths, two of them fall in love and they start a revolution along the way
The romance isn't central, and might end up being a qpr if it turns out that I'm as bad at writing romance as I remember
My friends really like it so you might make a couple of them happy if you vote for it and I start working on it again
God of Chaos:
A god is banished to Earth and they have to survive their new situation with the help of two mortals
For All In-Tents and Purposes:
Based on my experiences as a closeted trans boy at scout camps
Closeted trans boy Elliot is the oldest and most well known scout in his group, but all he wants is to get through his last camp with his head down and leave with his sanity intact and identity known to the ones he trusts. But his tent mates and friends aren't going to let him off that easily, and navigating a week in the middle of a field miles from civilisation without his phone might be harder than Elliot thought.
I just made that up on the spot I'm quite proud of that summary
Eyes in the Woods:
I have barely anything for this, I just wanted to write something set on a camping trip to do with eldritch horror
Voting for this might give me a chance to figure out what this might look like
Tagging - @primroseprime2019 @new-royston-cursebreakers @toribookworm22 and anyone else who wants to do this :)
Tagged by @druidx (I think it was a sideblog, but you'll see this anyway and I don't want to tag the wrong one)
Here's a snippet from my recent return to The Princess, the Pauper and the Pirate!
“What in the name of all that’s unholy is he doing here? Mother, is he not a criminal?” Those were my exact words, I remember them well.
“Captain Hadrian is here for you. He’s going to take you off our hands, for a small sum. He’s always looking for new crew members, and we’re sure that you’d be a wonderful addition to his crew!” Her voice was bright, I remember. Far too bright for a woman who had a wanted man in her living room and too happy and willing for a mother who was about to sell her only son to that wanted man.
“Mother, you- you can’t do this!”
“I’m afraid that I already have,” she said. Technically, she also called me by the name that she gave me when I was born, but that name is none of your business, and I have done my best to forget that it was ever my name at all. I’m sure that you understand.
“W- Why?”
“It’ll teach you how to make your own way in this world,” she was smiling as she said this, like it was a joke that she thought I was a part of. She couldn’t even think up a decent excuse. That was how little she cared for me. That was how much she wanted me gone.
Tagging - @e-lisard @primroseprime2019 @dontjudgemeimawriter @oh-no-another-idea and anyone else who wants to do this!
