foxfire74

So I started writing this book and was DETERMINED that the heroine wouldn't be very similar to me (I'm firmly convinced that God intended me for support staff, and I'd be a terrible adventure protagonist). Seeing the author's issues peek through their protagonist's POV has always grated on me a bit. I think I succeeded in keeping Kestrel reasonably not-like-me.

But then.

I looked at the setting. Reasonably ordinary bit of country that's badly scarred by being Ground Zero for spite between two powerful forces? Main theme of the series being "fix what we can, fortify against what we can't, and incorporate the few Good Things that resulted"? Secondary theme being "can we sort through all the fragmented memories and years of conflicting information to figure out what normal actually IS"?

You'd almost think I grew up in an emotionally abusive household or something.

So much for preserving distance. :)

Book is indie-published on Amazon. I am not entirely sure how to feel about this, because it looks all real and stuff. And I STILL have to get the paperback going. But, here's a link. Sort of...Fallout meets Little House with shapechangers? I guess?

I love way, WAY post-apocalyptic settings (this book probably owes a debt to trashy mid-80s fantasy, where EVERYTHING was centuries after the big kaboom) and figuring out how people could have adapted. In this case, it's with shapeshifters, plant whisperers, and, um, people who can talk to rocks. I had fun with it. I will have retroactively had fun with the sequel, but right now it is driving me bananas.

So I have committed fanfic, after a very, very long dry spell. Mostly because the now-11-God-help-me baby has turned into a massive Voltron: Legendary Defender fangirl, and I enjoy it enough that we can geek out together, which is fun.

But gets me thinking. And when I think, I frequently commit fanfic. In this case, fic about "how might a skyscraper-sized millennia-old sentient robot lion see the world?" Y'know, like you do. One Green Lion, mid-series, and one Red Lion, pre-series. Mostly here so I can have an easy-access copy, but comments are very, very welcome. Unbeta'ed, spoilerrific, and heavily inspired by maychorian's Voltron fanfic.

( Cut for spoilers, also for passive-aggressive mechanical kittehs )