forum What is your Book called and what is it about?

Started February 02, 2018 by @Celestial-B

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I'd really like to know what everyone's books/comics/whatever you are using this website for is called and basically a summary of what its about!

For mine, idk what i'm gonna call it because I can't think of a title for the life of me. And its about a group of friends all going through the problems of normal teenagers (depression, anxiety, trust issues, popularity, etc) who are suddenly thrown through a portal and forced to defeat this villain while still struggling with their own personal problems >:D! It sounds kinda cliche but I swear its not that bad lol

Anyways, go ahead and share! :D

the fallen star - nova is one of the last remaining celestial fairies and she's expected to fight against the dark prince, who is trying to usurp the throne of stars from nova. she had forgot about the world of fairies while in hiding in the human realm for 1000 years and forgot how to deal with emotions and grief, instead bottling up everything and being unable to trust people when she finds out the truth about herself and her family. she eventually does battle the dark prince and opens the gates between the human and fairy realms permanently, in order to restore peace.

the last star - luna is nova and elowen's daughter, but they've been dead for some time and magic was taken away from fairies and given to two mortals. luna is the last celestial fairy with magic, as the queen of the realm, and she hates the fact that she's the last of her kind. she gets stuck in the mortal realm, where a human girl with magic is threatening the fairy realm, threatening to take all magic for herself. she delves into the realm of the gods in order to appeal to them to return magic to fairies so they can defend themselves.

the rising star - tons of spoilers for this one, but sol needs to find the human with magic to protect the people she loves. there is going to be a big battle. i'm not going into too much detail, but this one and the last star happen concurrently for the most part.

@Cami Those stories sound so interesting! I'm already wanting to pat you on the back and say "well done." ;)

I haven't decided on an official name for my first book, but I'm going with "Twin Mountains" for now based on lots of symbolism I'll portray throughout the book, and since there's a mountain range called "The Twin Mountain Range" in my world. (There are these two, giant, nearly identical mountains right smack in the middle of the range, and that's how the range got its name.)

QUICK SUMMARY: (This is set on a continent of a mixture of renaissance Europe and (just barely) post-feudal Japan, on the brink of the Industrial Revolution. Confusing, but awesome to worldbuild. :D) North and South have bad relations. The Northern country is planning a conquest on the Southern nations, and the weaker but more populated South has been defending themselves through acts of terrorism on trade and (eventually) civilians. Enter Asher, an almost-16-year-old boy who just graduated from the North's training school for lords' sons (and sometimes peasants who have extreme proven abilities) who want to become special ops soldiers for the government. These boys start at seven years old (based on the age that lords' sons started training to become knights in medieval Europe). His father was the former absolute best special ops soldier of the era, but he disappeared when Asher was ten. Asher never had a good relationship with him, and resented that he had to follow in his father's footsteps (especially since he feels like a taboo to a nation who has been weeping bitterly over Asher's missing father, basically a celebrity after a major accomplishment in the conquests of the nation). But Asher is determined to live for himself and spit in his neglectful father's face by climbing higher than he ever did. Enter badass, smol-bean thief girl who successfully mugs him (quite damaging to Asher's pride). Then enter stuck-up, perfectionist prince whose father is NOT the protective type by any means (meaning, the king pushes all his children to be the absolute best they can be in all areas, even to the point of leaving them in the wilderness to survive. Anyone who dies wasn't worthy of succeeding him). These three, through circumstances outside of their own control, become a team of best friends and save the day, of course.

I'm planning two other other books, the second being named "Alexander Mask" (Asher's father). I haven't figured out the third book's name yet. The series will end when these three characters are 19-21, respectively. Assuming none of them die.

All of these sound awesome, even if they aren't my usual types of books. It is an honor to hear from you all…

Anyway, down to business… My story is about a character, named Connor McGraves, born to parents Bradley (CEO of McGraves Industries), and Magda, in a wealthy, privileged family in Los Angeles, California. His father is struggling with another CEO, a sinister man known as Paul "Ban" Peterson. Well, Peterson, on the losing side, attempts to hire some asshats to try to take Connor, and a couple other "rich kids" hostage by staging a full out infiltration of their highschool, St. Zadkiel Exclusive, and trying to get Mr. McGraves to step down from his corporation, so that Peterson can place his official, Gunderson at the head of McGraves Industries. Connor then has to use his "familiar", named Gnaw, to save everyone's ass, but this leads to Peterson, finding out that Connor's family, like his, are a type of people known as "familiarists", and Peterson and his immediate family and a squad of men, stage an invasive attack on the McGraves Manor while the immediate family of the McGraves is gathered there under high security, now, Connor, on a date with one of the girls he saved, arrives home late, to find the Patersons and his family going at it, along with his help, and the element of surprise that he provided, his family manages to win, killing the Patersons and their squad at the cost of most of the McGraves family, as well as all of their security, most of their servants, and the destruction of the Manor.

Only Connor, his mother, and some security personnel, along with Connor's personal attendant, survive. Magda slips into a coma later. The main part of the story, involves Connor's struggle, with Peterson's, (also without family or privilege) son, Tobias, as well as his going work as a mercenary, and as a businessman, to retake the business that belonged to his family, from a man named Ben Price.

He becomes a full fledged antihero, when that official, Gunderson kills his new girlfriend in order to try to intimidate him, which leads to Connor going apeshit and killing him as gruesomely as he killed his girlfriend, as well as the squad that Gunderson ordered to do it.

Spoilers… Connor outsmarts most of his enemies, he succeeds within a couple of years, takes back his businesses as well as part of his old rival's, (Tobias') businesses as a big "fuck you", which leads to a fight to the death in which our hero barely wins. After he recovers, he deals with Price in a gruesome manner.

This leads to my next book in the Series… Which is about a special mission that Connor and his new team of mercs are hired to handle. That one I won't spoil.

That was lengthy, I apologize.

KxN_13, That sounds so cool! I was enthralled just by reading that summary. Out of curiosity, is this kind of a gangs/mafia situation where nobody goes to the police at all?

No there are police… The police investigate often, in fact… That's how Peterson found out that Connor's family were familiarists… After the investigation, one of the cops he had bribed to be his "eyes and ears" told him, in fact, that same cop, happens to be the one to disclose the info to the media.

Furthermore, I make it a point that my characters don't blunder up, and leave forensics or evidence of their actions… Most of them have untraceable guns, wear gloves, and the more "evil" ones will burn places down to conceal evidence…

Also… They make sure not to leave bodies unless it is unavoidable… And they have a convenient way of getting rid of these bodies (in Connor's case, he just lets Gnaw eat them, seeing as how he's a gluttonous wolf-thing), and all that…

One of the reasons the police don't find out is because the attack happens too quickly, too efficiently, familiars aren't just regular animals, you can't just go inside, play dead, or climb a tree, even shooting them can prove to be useless sometimes… And you certainly don't have time to call the police… These things can rampage and rip through places like a freight train…

They are smart, powerful monsters controlled by mortal men…

And while there are far fewer familiarists, than humans, they are far more powerful, a war would kill off both species, coexistence is the only option.

If somebody attacks you with their familiar, your best option is to use yours if you have one…

And these events can go down fast, Connor was lucky he got back home around the same time as the whole thing went down… This whole grand fight that destroyed a large manor, only lasted a few minutes, the police showed up at the end, and the only reason that the survivors got off Scott free is because it was self-defense, so there's that…

I also play around with extortion, such as…

"If you go to anyone with this, I'll have my guys send a link containing (insert blackmail depending on the situation) to the media and that's that…"

This story takes place in modern times, why not use hacking and extortion in a modern way…

I also tend to play the "corruption" card… Such as how some wealthy characters pay the jury off…

My series deals with a mix of the real, and the surreal… And I find that I mix them excellently…

I like it I like it, really thorough job.

Thank you very much, seriously… What're you working on, eh?

Yeah you deserve it! And I wrote about it already up there

Oh, alrighty then…

Sorry, was there something else you wanted me to say I was working on?

I guess…

You wanna take a shot… Go ahead, I got too much free time these days…

I have a couple other story ideas, but I've been focusing all my creative energy on the book I described above. I'm really interested in politics and government and war, so I've been trying to brainstorm the best way to go about writing the political intrigue that'll happen throughout my series. There's a war building up, spying on both sides, acts of terrorism, preemptive strikes, secret anti-monarchy groups within the government, yada yada yada. I have so many different characters with political views of their own, and long-term goals of their own that are going in completely different directions from each other (to make them seem more human and less like everyone cares about the main character and what HE wants), and I've been trying to weave it all together into a central plot. It's hard to think through by myself, so I'm CONSTANTLY talking out loud. To people OR to just to myself. :P

I've also been researching some political intrigue situations through history, and I gotta say, history is CRAZY man. XD

I know how it is, that's how I am with this series… It's suuuper time-consuming, but it can be worth it.

To See the Sky: Humanity has no dominance over the earth. They are forced to live in hiding, underground, only going to the surface out of necessity. Dragons reign sovereign over the places they used to call home. Now they're locked in a struggle against the monsters to regain their freedom.

But no one has ever killed a dragon.

Fast forward to today.
Nyir is a single mom. Her husband was lost to the dragons two years ago. Ever since then, she's promised to kill as many dragons as she can. She is a Chaser, a gifted fighter with limited teleportation abilities. One one fateful mission wherein she almost loses her life, her team of Chasers manages to retrieve a sample from the eye of a dragon, the weakest part of the beast. After intense research, they find a substance that might be able to kill a dragon. Thus equipped, Nyir leaves her son, Tasper, and heads out to kill a dragon.

Tasper wants to become a Chaser, like his mother, but he's terrified of the land above. As he trains and learns, he starts to unravel secrets about their underground society. He feels both desperate and terrified to escape to the world above.

Their stories intersect on their quest to finally see the sky.

(Corny, I know)

@writelikeyourerunningoutoftime That sounds pretty interesting! I've thought about writing stories about people who live underground too, actually.

Yeah, it's really neat.

Hey! I am writing a lot of different things right now, but the one that I have the most progress on is one titled, "A Princess' Worth". It is about a group of people, mostly teens, but one 24 year-old who is like the mom of the group,one 67 year-old wizard who is like the grandpa,and one 8 year-old who is like the secret weapon of the group. There are ten of them in all, and the 24 year old is the queen and the princess, who is fifteen, is adopted from one of the neighboring kingdoms. The king sent the ten of them one this quest to find these things called Guardian Stones, which will help them defeat the bad guys, cliche, I know. It is kind of hard to explain so I will elaborate more of it later.

That's a pretty solid storyline.

Why thank you.

Hey no problems, it's part of what I'm here for…

So I have many stories on the go, so I'll just stick with one of them.
It's called 'The Innocents'. It follows identical twins Alearie and Alyria Cicierega. So they are the middle kids of seven. They're family is dad (Edmund), mum (Atlantys), the siblings Jaren, Malia, Avon, then Alearie and Alyria, Vanyen and Dana. So the story starts off with their family castle beingattacked and overrun. Lord Doelgar claims that Edmund has committed some sort of treason and must be punished, so they execute him. Then Doelgar decides that the rest of the family must be punished, so he chops off the heads of Atlantys, Jaren, Malia and Avon. Alearie, Alyria, Vanyen and Dana all escape (for reference the twins are 10 and Dana is 4). They travel to the neighbouring kingdom, while trying to avoid being caught by anyone. Somehow the twins get seperated from Vanyen and Dana. So the twins go about searching for their siblings, only to find that Vanyen was caught, however no one knows where Dana is. And the twins are constantly searching for her, while avoiding the authorities.
Not sure if any of that makes sense, but it works in my head.