This was first going to be a story idea, but then it decided to be set in the Macbay-verse, so I felt it would work better as a short story tie-in.
Title: Thrill
Genre: Steampunk
Main Characters: Anthony, the seventeen-year-old son of Max Webb. Quite tall, he's a thin sort of muscular with oddly long fingers. He has straight, near-black hair he keeps spiked, and hazel eyes. He's attractive enough to have a few girls after him, and the distant/bad boy attitude helps. He doesn't speak or smile often, but he very much enjoys steambike racing.
Maude, a sixteen-year-old girl with shoulder-length, wavy, blonde hair. She's a bit of a fangirl when it comes to Anthony, although she's rather calm about it (enough so to gain some respect from him).
Fenton, Anthony's older brother. He's much more social than his brother and hasn't spent much time with him since Anthony started distancing himself.
Setting: Ten years after Macbay Transportation Services, in the same universe (specifically Central City). Steambike races are a huge form of entertainment, helped by the fact there are a lot of crashes on the hugely-banked tracks (and no effective brakes).
Plot: Anthony rides the race circuit in spite of the risk to his life. Maude tries to set him straight, but Anthony's family shame-based suicidal tendencies aren't an easy barrier to break.
Point of View: Third person, limited to Anthony.
I must have missed this one, sorry about that! I think it's quite cool that you chose to set another story in the same universe as Macbay; I see a lot of creativity in a writer who can create a universe intricate enough to support more than one story.
ReplyDeleteHaha, no big deal.
DeleteYeah, it was originally just some steampunk story, but once I started probing Anthony to see why he was so cool but suicidal, the shame cast on Max's family by the end of Macbay came up, and this happened. (Incidentally, I changed the youngest son's name since Anthony refused to budge in this story. Fenton's the same, though.)