#zverse

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I lied y'all get to see the protags today

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Protagonists for my upcoming novel, ‘Fair Lord, Dark Lady’. If you like sci-fi and are interested in xenofiction, this will not be one to miss, as it continues my Z-Verse series (available through my site).

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Interface and concept art for the upcoming VN, ‘Night Has Fallen’. This visual novel follows Qwatajawa, our protagonist from ‘A Sense For Memory’, as she searches for a lost childhood friend, whom is missing in more ways than one.

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An illustration from my latest novel, ‘Triangulum’, which you can read all about here: http://zirconaworks.com/triangulum/.

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Didn't get to answer this last night before heading to bed so I'm answering it now ( @agentchimendez )

I kind of do, In the sense that I have some plans. I think I've covered most of what I have on Renee. But I can talk more about how she does end up getting better. Having the worlds slowest redemption arc. Not because she's still convinced she was in the right after team plasma is dissolved. Because once she's left to reflect she realizes how naïve she was to ignore all the red flags. But rather because Trevor is so livid and upset with her, He refuses to take her apology the first dozen times until she's given him enough reason to believe her.

I like and enjoy exploring complex characters and character dynamics. Renee is not at her core an evil and irredeemable person, rather she was manipulated and exploited under the guise of bettering the lives of Pokémon and ended up being too caught up in what she grew accustom with to care when the plans turned to world domination. Which is to say she had gotten comfortable and it became harder and harder as time went on to snap out of trance the praise she received for her work in team plasma got her. Being feed "you're important to the cause" and "we cant do it without you" after coming from a field where she was regularly undermined was captivating and felt nice. Renee was never stupid just vulnerable. She was a newbie in her field as a researcher. Sycamore being the one person to give her a genuine shot to show what she was capable. And that's what team plasma targeted.

While eventually Trevor does forgive her. I don't want his forgiveness to come easy. She abandoned him for what he considers a cult and she didn't seem too bothered with that the first time they met after years of not knowing her were abouts. All because she was so desensitized to the harm the group was doing. She had brushed off his feelings as irrational because after years of doing 'the right thing' even if it meant stealing, lying, or harming innocent people she lost her ability to empathize with him in the moment. In that moment he was just another detractor trying to stop them because they simply don't understand the good they're doing. Despite the fact the goal was now just to take over Unova. And that's exactly how they wanted it to be. Slowly building her tolerance to commit crimes and enact violence until it was just the norm for her even if it meant hurting her own child.

He is justified for being reluctant to trust someone who chose a busted cause over him and his sister. But he has the hind sight of knowing team plasma is/was a villain organization. Renee on the other hand did not. When they approached her all those years ago they made it out as a newly formed Research organization intent on studying the effect captivity has on Pokémon to draw her in. Then slowly disabling her alarm bells until she no longer had any to go off. She was smart and better yet she wasn't from the Region so who was going to come looking for her once they pulled her in. Trevor is still however fully justified in not accepting her apologies. Words don't mean a whole lot when they come from the woman who sent his whole friend group into a fit in seconds.

But she does want to try. She knows the damage she caused will always be there. She hurt her kids seeking validation from a group who only cared about exploiting her. She knows she'll never get to experience a lot of firsts with her kids. Especially Trevor as the younger sibling. But even then its still not about what she missed out on but rather what her leaving caused her children to miss. Trevor had to take his older sister to school events as a stand in for her. Endure being picked on for not having parents that were around. Dodge questions from adults because talking about it was uncomfortable. She did that to him.

You asked about the dad so lets talk about Jules, their father. He went with her to Unova because he was born there and knew his way around. The trip was meant to be short with Sycamore volunteering to watch the kids in their absence. He never expected they wouldn't come back.

He and his family moved to Kalos when he was about the age of most protagonists are (10-13 ish) and met Renee in school. They hit it off right away with Renee being (like Trevor is now) a straight A student with a passion for Pokémon and a dream to become a proper professor one day. While he wanted to follow in his mothers footsteps and become a renown trainer. They were friends for a long time before they ended up dating. As he got older he found himself more passionate about protecting Pokémon and became a Ranger.

When Renee got into the research field and started working with Sycamore the fairly new professor who was in walking distance from their home he was elated for her. He came to really trust Sycamore considering him a family friend and even pitching in with his work since he was around Pokémon all day anyway. So when sycamore asked her to go to Unova for a bit to do some field research Jules went with her after being assured Augustine didn't mind keeping an eye on their kids. He trusted him and wanted to help Renee find her way around. What he didn't expect was not being able to trust Renee.

When Renee started pushing back the trip home he excused it for the first week or two. She had made some research buddies in the region and he understood that she was excited. But as a few weeks turned into months he grew ever more suspicious of her as she kept making excuses as to why she needed to stay longer. Eventually he started to assume there was something up with her friends and red flags were raised. About a year into this trip he started to confront her and later them. He didn't want to doubt her judgement but it was getting to the point where they hadn't seen their kids in over a year. Her friends were shady. She was doing things behind his back. And kept pushing to stay longer.

He brought up multiple times that he thought something was wrong with them. "I think they're using you", "I think you're being manipulated", "Renee there's something wrong about this". With Renee brushing him off as being either Jealous or him trying to make it out like she was stupid. He didn't want to leave without her and yet he couldn't get through to her because her researcher friends had planted these ideas into her head whenever she lamented about his concerns or started to question them herself. He was growing ever paranoid that something bad was going to happen to him or worse Renee. And they wanted him gone before he broke through to her.

As it stands its undecided how they tried to get rid of him. But it is decided he's alive/Survived whatever they attempted. (I won't kill Trevor's dad). Everyones welcome to pitch ideas. Its also undecided who makes it back to Kalos first.

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Another 3D print, this one of an original #zverse character from my books. This one is 12cm or so tall. Ready to paint! https://www.instagram.com/p/B7EzXAFnH7s/?igshid=scvmz7i1wldm

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𝐌𝐔𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 “𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.”

Zelda, also known as #522N04, is still on the run from the Anti Mutant Organisation (The AMO) and the Mutant Resistance (The MR), which in recent years has become as corrupt as their enemies. Alongside a group of Mutants and Humans who only want their freedom, they evade both extremist sides of the war by travelling by cover of night. She helps with covert missions to liberate captured civilians from outposts around the country, both human and mutant alike. No discrimination. [READ MORE FOR LORE INFO.]

ANTI MUTANT ORGANISATION (A.M.O) ↳ In 2006, the A.M.O., originating from New Hampshire, began as a small-scale hate group when a student at a boarding house for mutant children, located somewhere in the large expanses of New Hampshire’s wilderness, murdered three humans. At the time, there were so few members that no one paid them any attention until their attacks escalated from verbal threats to physical ones.

↳By 2007, several wealthy families with a similar disliking for mutants funded the unruly group and took it over. Under the guidance of these politicians, and through the use of benefactors and propaganda, the disorderly group was reformed, and, parallel to others’ contempt for mutants and their increasing confidence to voice those feelings, the group’s numbers inevitably grew. Come December, the boarding house for mutants was attacked. 150 mutant adults and children were killed.

↳Between 07 to 08, privately funded science facilities were erected. At the start of the new year, after the attack on the boarding house, mutants started to go missing. The A.M.O. began to run tests on kidnapped mutants. Vera Keneally, an agent working for the acute mutant branch in the Australian government, travelled to the boarding house in the U.S.A to investigate the disappearances.

↳At present, in 2018, the A.M.O. run the U.S. government and have the entire country on lock down with an enormous military presence. Their greatest opposition is the Mutant Resistance, led by Eliza Thompson and, before his mysterious death, Weston Keneally, Vera’s son. The A.M.O. have ordered every mutant to be captured and sent to facilities to be experimented on, some are indoctrinated into a special militant force to fight against other mutants.

MUTANT RESISTANCE (M.R.) ↳ The Mutant Resistance banded together in response to the A.M.O. increasing threat. At the start, the M.R’s goals were to protect mutant civilians. As things with the A.M.O. group began to escalate, the views between the M.R’s two leaders became increasingly more divided. Whilst Weston continued to want to serve and protect, Eliza’s hatred for humans grew. During an attempt to put a stop of Eliza’s slaughter of innocent humans, Weston was murdered.

↳The boarding house for mutants which had become a symbol of the M.R’s revolution, and involved itself more than once with the resistance’s efforts at the start of the M.R’s birth, denounced Eliza and the Mutant Resistance. Zelda, who had been rescued from a facility by Thompson and Keneally in 2010, is considered to be an associate of Thompson’s by the A.M.O, despite her rejection of it. Her past ties to the group have painted her as a target.

POWER NEGATION BRACELETS ↳A regrettable invention created by Vera Keneally that was later augmented and incorporated into the A.M.O’s regime. Mutants who are captured are inserted with a chip, or clasped with cuffs, which prevents them from using their powers.

INDOCTRINATED MUTANTS ↳As a result of the experiments run on Zelda Niles back in 2010, by a man named Johannes Earl, the scientist’s extraction of the mutant gene in Zelda was successfully used to indoctrinate other mutants. Whilst killed by the M.R and his facility burnt to the ground, Earl’s research was salvaged and developed by the A.M.O.

THE LEADER OF THE MUTANT RESISTANCE ↳Eliza Thompson started the Mutant Resistance, alongside Weston Keneally, to rescue and protect mutant civilians who were being held captive in A.M.O facilities. Eliza and Weston were the two to rescue Zelda from Johannes Earl in 2010. THE CONCORD AND THE BOMB ↳Mid 2011, Vera Keneally and Co. held a meeting with the government with the goal of signing an agreement to end the A.M.O; the Mutant Resistance, led solely by Eliza Thompson by this point, attacked those at the assembly, bombing and murdering mutants and humans. The A.M.O. used this as a way to gain power, which they did. A.M.O FACILITIES ↳Facilities are everywhere, some military grade, some for the purpose of science. A.M.O scientists run experiments on mutants, indoctrinating some and turning others into mutated beasts, husks of their former selves. The militarised facilities use mutants for target practice, and carry out executions. M.R. OUTPOSTS ↳The Mutant Resistance hold certain area throughout America and run strongholds that are built by captured humans. They execute the ones too weak to work. THE CITADEL ↳A safe haven for innocent mutant and human civilians alike, founded by Vera Keneally and Alice Anderson. Zelda’s cousin, as well as friends that she had made during her time at the boarding house, reside here.