Decisions are hard, man

[naomi_jay]

 So, I've got this story I want to write. It's a YA about a girl called Cassandra, repressed memories, some Satanic ritual abuse, and a whole shedload of angst. I've had it floating around my head for a while now - well, years, actually, but I kinda feel it's become a bit more solid recently, and I'm ready to actually write it.

I just can't decide on my hero. See, this is going to be an urban fantasy with great fat lashings of occultism, but I don't know yet how far I'm going to take the devil-worship aspect of it. As is, are there going to be actual demons at work here? If yes, I'd love to bring a fallen angel in If no, then my first choice for hero is a mysterious psychic, because mysterious psychic  = win! But fallen angel = win! too, so... I don't know. Quite possibly I'll just make it all up on the fly and end up having no angels or psychics and making the hero a mutant lizard from the sewers instead.

Comments

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can have a mysterious psychic that's bffs/involved with a fallen angel (...who may or may not be on a redemption arc? I am a massive sucker for this sort of thing) who are kind of interested in crawling through each other's brains and this is a perfect opportunity to do so. Except there's mystery and secrets that they probably don't want to reveal to anyone, so as fun as it is to crawl into someone else's brain, there's also that.

Or there's the mutant lizard from the sewers. He could be amazing and Cassandra can look past his social ineptitude and scales to the reptile within.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

*gasp* I spy a love triangle! With possible gay overtones!

And also pet lizards for all!

[dwg.livejournal.com]

But rather than the typical love triangle where the heorine has to choose between men, she can have them both? Or at least get one man and it's completely unclear if the fallen angel even has a gender, let alone identifies as one, and even then it could be fluid. It makes the relationship very flexible.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Oh man, this novel is suddenly so much more complex than I realised! ^_^

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

Stupid plot bunnies. Why can't they just give us the finished story at the outset? :)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I know, right? And send in minions to do the writing, too.

[tezmilleroz.livejournal.com]

I'd vote for a mysterious psychic over a fallen angel. Maybe because fallen angels seem to be the paranormal creature currently en vogue.

A mutant lizard from the sewers would also be fine ;-)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

The lizard might have to go in the sequel!

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I'm not sure it matters whether you know if the demons are real or not, perhaps it could be a journey both for you and the hero/ine of your book. Sounds like an great idea; difficult subject to write about too. Good luck!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

Lol, my first thought was "the psychic *is the angel, only she doesn't know it yet!" But, you know, that's coming from my cracked out brain, so take that with however big a grain of salt is required. :)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Lol, I might just do a mash-up and have one character with disassociative identity disorder!

[cherith.livejournal.com]

I vote yes for mutant sewer lizard!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I had no idea mutant sewer lizards were so popular!

[summersdream.livejournal.com]

I vote for mutant sewer lizards and satanists. Also fallen angels, because clearly where there are satanists there should be some fallen angels lurking to say "You people are SO WRONG. It's cute."

I also believe firmly that all satanists should at some point run across a Necronomicon and show their intelligence by staying as far away from it as possible.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Yes! Or I might have a TSTL Satanist who tries to summon Cthulhu and suffers mightily.