Sequel: Homecoming, Another Blog on the Topic · 1:21am May 8th, 2015
So after a little bit of time floundering about on some particular slowness regarding the first chapter of the Displaced sequel, Homecoming, I've finally finished off Chapter 1. Coupled with the prologue, that's over 5k worth of text ready to be passed over. This of course means that once these two chapters are edited, I need only create a story file onsite, build a cover image, and submit. I'm contacting a few 'likely suspects' regarding editing, but I'll be actively looking soon enough.
I forget whether or not I've gone over this in previous blogs, and I'm kinda not in my own head enough to check over them right now, but I suppose a lot of people are wondering about the story. Themes, Genre, "Is Seven going to pull some of his infamous batshit insane grimdark bullshit in the last quarter?"
In terms of themes, as I've no doubt said before, Homecoming is about a pony coping with the slow realization that she is the reincarnation of somebody else, and a non-pony at that. Yes, we all know who I'm talking about. That makes the protagonist, Moonflower, a mix between old and new. She'll possess some character traits that Goldenrod possessed [some of which were more implied than others]. Don't get the wrong idea, though. It's not like a switch is flipped causing Goldenrod to overwrite Moonflower and goes "Ohmahgawd, I'm a little girl!"
Told in the first person past perspective, it is very much going to be a different story than Displaced. I am aiming for Slice of Life with the sort of minor 'adventures' you'd expect a six-year-old bat filly/reincarnated human to get up to thrown into the mix. A lot of it will of course center around her trying to make sense of memories and learning about who she was. I don't plan on throwing any sad, tragedy or dark tags in there, and though it will get silly from time to time—who's a silly filly? Moonflower is!—don't expect a comedy tag, either.
I'm sure just reading some of this, you're probably imagining some things that might happen depending on who she meets. I know I already have an encounter I'm looking forward to writing.
So she's got a lot of human mixed in there? If you absotively, posilutely can't avoid tossing in some batshit (hah!) crazy, you could always give her night terrors. Would be a way to include it without actually ruining the rest of the world.
3053552 I might have been looking at something similar to that.
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I would hesitate to give her hallucinations, especially if there's going to be anything truly nasty, because hallucinations blend too well with the rest of the world. I know you can write them really well, judging by your commentary on some of TAH's chapters, and I'm just worried about too much unwanted reader immersion when you're not actually trying to drive readers into conniptions.
3053581 No no. Nothing like that. I meant it was a similar vein to night terrors.
...Well, that's interesting.