forum Creating New Characters in Wonderland
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@kat_i_am

So, a bit of backstory
This takes place after AiW and TtLG, but before (….roughly: I need to brush up on TtLG before I can say that for sure) those two, Wonderland was engaged in the Jabberwocky War. All of the jabberwocky were killed except one. He'll be important later.
Alice has returned to Wonderland, where the people have tired of the Queen of Heart's, Helena's, reign of terror. We open on a scene where the rebels are discussing a battle plan, figuring out how to take Hearts Palace. The Knave of Hearts kills Helena (or captures her, for a public execution at a later date, haven't quite decided yet), and Alice is " voted" as next queen. She is uncertain, but the Jabberwock (in disguise) convinces her that becoming Queen will help her achieve her ultimate goal of eternal youth. He tells her that the ruby mounted on the Queen's scepter, Vitality, has the power to drain youth from others and give it to the owner of the ruby. Enchanted with the idea, she accepts (more on her obsession with eternal youth later). The Knave of Hearts returns from visiting his sister after his part in the rebellion (she was having a baby), and is enraged to find that he wasn't considered/established as king. After all, he did so much for the rebels' victory. The Jabberwock makes a deal with him too (He's kinda like Rumplestiltskin-esque). The Jabberwock has this overlying plot to gain control of Wonderland and avenge his people and family.
Why does Alice want to stay young forever? As a child, she was friends with Peter Pan, and she learned how he never aged, but was too afraid to fly away to Neverland, leaving her family and her cat behind. Eventually, Peter's visits stop, but she never forgets him (and no romantic subplot, they are children). She doesn't want to grow old, she's afraid of it.
Let's see, what else. THE TEA IS MAGIC AND CAN DRIVE PEOPLE MAD AND OMGOSH THIS IS LIKE MY FAVORITE PART. Teamaking is like…. idk. alchemy or potionmaking or something. The Mad Tea Party (hosted by none other than yours truly, the Mad Hatter) has a large array of teas and treats, both benign and harmful. There's teas that just… help overcome colds or that help you sleep, but then there's ones that like… let you see the future. I have it all planned out in my notebook (an actual one lol). And I'm going to have this rad subplot with both the Mad Hatter and the Jabberwock trying to bring their dead family back to life, trying to turn back time.
So yes, time is a major motif.
also spoiler for the end:

@kat_i_am

Also: Vitality, the ruby, is from a cave on Neverland full of these magic youth-sustaining rubies. Neverland is like… the stuff of fairytales (hypocritical as that may sound) in Wonderland, but Alice, though she was young, is convinced it's real, and I have magic porTAL MAKING RABBITS that she enlists to make a rabbit hole to NL, because the way looking glass portals work won't work (I won't bore you with my magic/science stuff), but then she has this conflict with the White Rabbits, the directors/mediators of the portal rabbits, and it's like. Big mess
but she's also a child? and doesn't know better and wants to have everything her way

@kat_i_am

OH MY GOSH! GUUUURRRLLL!!!! THAT IS SO FREAKING GREAT!!!

ISN'T IT????? I'M SO EXCITED IT'S BEEN IN DEVELOPMENT FOR ABOUT A MONTH NOW
I have like no rebels right now though lol
which is a problem obviously. They're crucial to my plot.

@kat_i_am

HONESTLY IT'S GONNA BE SO GOOD
I ALSO HAVE LIKE
MAGIC RIVERS
AND
YES
IT'S EXCITING
about a month ago I did a ton of magic building (mostly rivers and magic tea and fun stuff like that) in the magic forum lol

@kat_i_am

I have my universe layout and everything
and I have this one chapter mapped out, it's like a one page aside that's like…. wait you don't know how the realms are arranged? well. first of all earth is not in the center. It's rather far to the left. The only thing farther to the left is Oz, a magical land of yellow brick roads and emerald cities and witches. But that's irrelevant to the story. Moving on.
not in those words. But essentially those words.

@kat_i_am

I also have the last line planned out.

also it's called
All Hail the Queen of Hearts

@kat_i_am

THE EXCITEMENT ONE CAN GET FROM THEIR CREATION IS SO FREAKING SURREAL

IT'S LITERALLY GONNA BE SO GOOD
I'M REALLY REALLY STUCK ON MY MAIN PROJECT and also v unenthusiastic about life and work in general rn SO I DECIDED TO COME WORK ON THIS AND I THINK THIS IS MY NEXT STEP, REBEL CHARACTER CREATIONS, SO HERE I AM AND HERE YOU ARE AND WELCOME TO MY BRAIN IT IS A V BIG MESSY PLACE BUT IT'S COZY AND CREATIVE (sometimes) and also lazy and kinda depressed sometimes BUT IT'S AIGHT AND IT HAS NICE MAGIC BUILDING TALENTS

@kat_i_am

guys
we should make a DM and start working through all our blocks together and help each other out
I'll help you both with plot as best as I can and I just need some ideas for bases of characters lol