INTRODUCTION
Hello! Virgil Casper here.
Some things to know about me!
I'm a black, Indigenous and Iranian American, queer, alt and trans artist and writer working on their debut trilogy.
✧ they/them
✧ 30-something y/o
✧ in mpls metro of the US
✧ happily married in t4t relationship
✧ graduated from an art college in 2018 for comics only to use degree to draw my ocs like I have been all my life.
✧ currently focusing on fantasy genre
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Pearls of Wishes
A queer gaslamp fantasy adventure about a young future prince discovering the atrocities of the kingdom he's being married into. As a privileged model minority, he witnesses the oppression of others within and outside of his diaspora in a nation he's supposed to rule for the first time. He has to figure out if and how he can make needed change, while picking up the pieces of his own family's generational trauma.
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The descendant of refugees, now an assimilated model minority, Ceelyo lives a life of comfort as a soon-to-be prince. However, a mysterious visitor sets him on a new path to reconnect with the culture and family his grandfather wants to leave behind. As he begins to peel back the picture of a nation overcoming its racist past, he discovers that his privilege depends on him following the rules, but even more might depend on him breaking them.
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Long and short of it, I'm making a story about a white-haired anime boy who's on a journey to find himself, but ends up finding out how racist and bad the nation he's supposed to inherit is while running from a religious nationalist cult.
The MMC has been my brainchild since I was a child and I'm finally bringing him to life. Started actively in fall of 2023, finished the first draft end of 2024 and currently halfway through the revisions.
If any of this interests you... hello! nice to meet you! I plan to share my random thoughts and art on here while I finish up book one and prepare it for beta readers!
Returning to this blog maybe. Most of my beta readers have given their feedback, so it's time for final revisions before off to the querying trenches!!!