Recent content by WooHooMan

You're throwing a little too many plot points at me without me having a good grasp on the story. I guess to kind of break things down: - Conventional story structure would imply he dips into his most "antagonistic" (as in, most monsterous) at the middle point. But just because that's the...

Well, there’s an impulse from his human side and an impulse from his vampire side. The human side, the conflict’s protagonist, is sending the impulse not to harm her through the logical process of “I know and she’s a friend”. The vampire side, the conflict’s antagonist, is sending the impulse...

Generally, you use a character arc to demonstrate a character’s struggle. A personal or psychological struggle would mean that they are both the conflict’s protagonist and antagonist or, in other terms, they are their own worst enemy. This can take forms like them working off of faulty...

My rule of thumb is to never address one word responses. Especially when it’s an interjection like “yikes”. To speak to your initial response, I think you bring-up a good point about addressing the apparent racial bias within the story. To a divine spirit, I’d assume, they wouldn’t care to...

Just shoot me a conversation message thing and we’ll go from there.

“The lantern casts its faint glow through the cavern. Light bounces off the walls and searches through the cave’s cracks and crevices. Quickly, it turns its gaze to [character’s name here] and unveils his worried expression.” I guess my advice would be not to worry about using the most...

This may be kind of a weird thing to throw-out there but I have experience in photoshop and I’ve been looking to get some practice in. If you’d like, I can probably put something together for your book pro bono since a map like that doesn’t seem like it’d be too challenging or time consuming...

“Synth” can mean synthetic or artificial. If you take the approach that your AI are like god-kings, you can render that as “synth-kings” or “synth-lords” maybe. Calling the setting a “synthverse” implies an artificial manmade nature to it while also kind of suggesting it exist in a “synthesis”...

I think a big part for the personality-less-ness of the names come from “meta” being in vogue. Like, cyberpunk likes using suffixes like cyber- and techno- to emphasis the importance of technology as both a theme and setting focus. So, I guess an easy question to start with would be asking...

I’m going to be honest: I’m not really picking-up on much of the mood/aesthetic/personality of this setting from this piece of writing. For whatever reason: it made me think a little bit about Tron but not specifically the janky surrealism of the original nor the cool harshness of the sequel...

I would assume that this being wouldn’t perceive linear time like mortals do since they exist outside of material reality. So, the god (I’d strongly recommend a name change, btw) may have incarnated in a single moment in the astral plane but that translates to seven different moments in the...

Ok, so just to make sure I’m clear: the central premise of this idea is that the powers-that-be in this setting had “elevated” mortals into divine beings to fulfill a specific purpose (killing Mother Winter) but not only was that purpose not fulfilled but it was ultimately proven non-beneficial...

Alright, understood. In any case, I’d go back to questioning why any of them would pursue the “demon killing” mission if there’s no authority ordering them to pursue that cause. Especially since the “falling in love with demons” angle implies that the two aren’t inherently/instinctually...

So, are solar maidens an organization? If so, who or what sets their agenda? You mentioned that the original solar maidens were “designed”. By whom?

Just a thought: as the sun (or stars more generally) provide light and heat to the universe, I’d imagine the counterpart of your solar maidens would embody darkness and coldness, like the cold void of space. I think that would fit in well with your “old gods” idea but I might be misinterpreting...