Aw balls. I almost forgot an intro
Hi, I'm Katie! I'm a writer with four ongoing wips that I like yammering about, so ima do it here!
Other interests: art, dnd, the Magnus Archives, anything Cosmere related, martial arts, Critical Roll
My wips are set in the same universe, on the planet of Illaros, fifth from the last star left living in the universe. There's a continent, some islands, and other assorted junk down there. The gods have a dyson ring, but they don't like to talk about it. The stars are the eyes of an ancient primordial force of destruction.
Honor's Outcasts follows a rag-tag group of delinquents trying to survive psycho pirates with family ties, a siren theocracy, magic that rots in your blood, and the Horrors. Their number includes such mighty heros as: a kid who can explode people with her mind, a buff shark lady who survives regular eldritch encounters by not paying attention, a mute aroace siren man with a bitchy attitude, and the world's sweetest gang mamber. Of course, they're one big family, and what's family without a little religious terrorism?
The Mystery of the Mortal God asks what happens when magic and science collide in a world where ethics panels haven't been established yet. Set a few decades down the line from HO, this story follows a cowboy witch with a chip on her shoulder as she discovers a mysterious robot laying broken and confused on the side of the road. At the same time, in a city on the other side of the globe, a blue blooded detective investigates a cold case suddenly gone hot. In time, all players will meet, including the mage who set this whole conundrum in motion.
The Final Voyage of the R.S. Starbreaker is sci-fi with ghosts! More accurately, as the magical societies of Illaros take their first steps into space, they don't use unmanned probes, but instead call upon the gods to send ghosts to be bound to a mighty runic galleon: the R.S. Starbreaker. This first skeleton crew consists of an honorable former Flying City pilot with a seedy past, a brash elven astronomer infamous for her incomplete work, a meticulous selkie cartographer determined to map the solar wheel, a laid-back fae man with a dangerous set of ideals, and the key to this mission's success: a former part of an eldritch hive mind on a hunt for his extinct people's missing afterlife.
Wild Type, set in the rapidly modernizing city of Juntsov, delves deep beneath the city's streets, to the dingy basement of an alchemical laboratory, where a young transductant (an animal/human hybrid, bat/human in this case) goes about his daily life of performing tests and talking to a bucket. He has never left the lab, its walls are all he knows. Meanwhile, up on top, a pair of government safety inspectors - one a career-driven siren holding her life together with grit and cigarettes, and the other a kindly old man who's worked at the RDSS for longer than anyone else - prepare to inspect a facility know as Alchemical Horizons. As they push far enough down, they find not only the hybrid kid, but a web of secrets and coverups that threatens both their lives and the life of the child they're trying to save.
Anyways, if you're here, feel free to say hi! I'll mostly be posting whatever bullshit comes to mind, but maybe you'll get lucky and something entertaining will come out? I certainly hope so!
An addition! Here are my characters' introductions by series (:
Honor's Outcasts: Sepo Kaiacynthus, Izjik Meautammera, Twenari Devaris, Djek Kagura
The Mystery of the Mortal God: Astra DuClaire, Mashal Darezsho, Ivander Montane, Elsind Cavernsight, Avymere Spearsong
The Final Voyage of the R.S. Starbreaker: Faalgun Falani, Nyda Burningrock, Kaulakri Ondohuroata, Pashananath, Anarac Fifth-blood
Wild Type: Dehlus Vorobey, Ozzy Chertok, Kid
(Curious as to which character you might relate to the most? Here are some quizzes that might help you out!) (First is for MG and HO, second is for Starbreaker)
Let's see what protag you get from either of my books
All of these are wrong answers ngl
A second addition! Please feel welcome to check out my new Illaros library! These are short stories written (mostly) in my setting that I've shared before on here, but I figured I'd put all the links in one place :)
Down in the Deep Dark - 2,500 words - The tale of how Izjik and Sepo met
Violating the 4th - 11,000 words - Coverage of the first Surgeon case from the POV of Ceyrel (Ivander’s detective partner)
Rel's Haunting - 16,000 words - A story of a fallen angel, the dead god who made them, and finding wonder in the supermarket
Full Saturation - 2,000 words - A short horror story set on modern Earth about saturation diving and places better left untouched
Out of Battery - 6,000 words - Post-canon Astra and Mashal nightmare hurt/comfort (MG spoilers)
Trial Run - 3,000 words - [[18+]] - Post-canon Astra/Mashal smut
Sometimes Your Bro is a Fish - 5,000 words - Sepo and Djek navigate how to get home from the bar when one of you is a 16ft mermaid now and the other can't lift more than 80lbs
This is the Body Swap Episode - 18,000 words - Post-canon Elsind and Avymere shenanigans in the realm of the fae
Mashal and Ivander hanging out
Izjik making Sepo a flute in the Trench
The cast of Mortal God gets a beach episode
Mashal teaches Astra to ride a horse
Again, have a bitchin' day <3
