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fandomsecrets2015-01-20 08:09 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2015-01-20 08:09 pm
[ SECRET POST #2939 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2939 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 036 secrets from Secret Submission Post #420.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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Well, my sales pitch for the story proper is over here, as are the links to buy it: http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/358833/nonpony-announcement-i-have-a-book-out-now Basically, a superhero, a magical girl, and a werewolf meet, and they realize something is targeting all three of them. They work together in order to survive, and in the process, they start to understand how limited their approach to this whole "hero" thing is. I deliberately set up three people whose beliefs and values mean they should hate each other, but whose personalities and virtues mean they wind up liking each other, and I had a lot of fun bouncing them off each other.
For selling Melody: she's thirteen years old, she has magic powers, and she watches way too much anime. She's been fighting and destroying malevolent spirits since childhood, so she comes off as a hardened veteran in some ways, but in other ways, she's just a hyperactive kid. I really enjoyed messing with that dichotomy of her being the youngest and the "oldest" character.
My initial decision to make Melody trans was somewhat shallow, to be honest. I realized I wasn't comfortable with what I'd been writing, since all the characters were finding out that they really weren't what they thought they were, so I decided to make one character be exactly what she thought she was--a girl, even if her family and her school insisted she was a boy. But it wound up tying into the idea that her magical girl identity is really the only identity she can meaningfully claim. In her so-called "real" life, she's been denied the opportunity to be herself. When she transforms herself with her magic and fights monsters, she's not pretending to be a hero like the werewolf is, or trying to be a hero like the superhero is--she is that girl already, and that's not escapism, that's just being herself.
And then, of course, there are the consequences of that. Melody doesn't like to show it, but she's one of my most desperately lonely characters. The life she's found for herself is one that the people around her wouldn't understand, and she's overjoyed to meet Price, another girl who's in the same "business," so to speak. They act as mutual mentors, close friends, and eventually something I don't even have a word for. Price would not have survived without Melody, and in turn, Price risks everything to save Melody's life.
In all honesty, I'm still a little worried about Melody. I did everything I could think of to make her feel like a real person and not a stereotype, but I'm not trans, and I don't know how well I succeeded. I'd love to get your opinion of her.
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I'll sleep on it and then decide whether to buy the ebook. (I always do this; I am TERRIBLE at buying things.) Last year, I made it my resolution to pay more attention to small-timers, but the excerpt I read looked much better than the "HARDCORE ACTION" blurb made me think.
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