Some time ago I did a LiveJournal meme where the poster is supposed to make something for the first five people who reply. This is what I wrote for Porku. It’s the first of the five things that I started, and also the first that I finished, albeit several months later. The start and finish of the writing both came in a great burst of motivation, and hopefully you’ll be seeing even more writing from me in the near future.
Hopefully the story is comprehensible without too much outside explanation, but it takes place in a setting I call “Nine Towers,” which I originally conceived of as a D&D campaign setting. In it the powerful and expansionist Empire of Man has conquered a world inhabited by a vital native race (the wild folk) and established a city called Nine Towers. It’s a bit anime, a bit steampunk, and some other stuff besides. Octavia is my D&D character (a human warlord), here cast as an imperial noblewoman whose family recently relocated to Nine Towers. Admittedly this was a bit self-indulgent on my part, but I think her part in the story fits the overall theme.
I probably need to do another draft to really get the story right, but as a first draft I’m very happy with how it turned out. At the very least it says what I wanted it to say. :3
(And for the record, the bond between Tara and Rose is wholly platonic, though very strong.)
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