Because the main character wouldn't leave me alone, and I kind of wish Cage had an original fiction version. (A more direct-from-fan-fiction one may be in the works still, since this doesn't follow closely.) Like another idea, this was inspired by a Genesis song. Also like its sibling, it feels a bit lacking yet.
Working Title: Home By the Sea
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Horror
Protagonist: Andrea, a 15-year-old girl of Persian descent. She has very long hair she keeps down and is quite pretty. She's very submissive and quiet and has an average frame.
Other Main Character: Henry, a 17-year-old black boy with very short hair. He's fierce and moralistic, sometimes to a condescending extent. Like Andrea, he has some stupendous regenerative abilities.
Antagonists: Cheryl and Noah, a young married couple. Cheryl has reddish-brown hair pulled back in a bun and slim glasses; Noah has short, dark hair and a lot of freckles. Both are disillusioned scientists with a fair number of unsavoury connections.
Setting: Modern-day. Andrea is initially kept at the couple's home and laboratory on a small, beautiful island. If escape is managed, she will be hiding in an American city or two.
Plot: Andrea had been abandoned by her parents after they labelled her a demon child, and she was passed around a few foster homes before being discovered by the antagonists. After securing legal custody over her, they whisk her away to the island and begin harvesting her organs—she can grow back anything but her heart, regardless of whether the operation is initially lethal—to sell them. Andrea is soon hammered down into hopeless obedience; however, some years later, Henry comes in to break her out. While she's sure she remembers him from somewhere, she isn't entirely cooperative, and Henry will be lucky to get her out without becoming a victim himself.
Point of View: Third person, limited to Andrea.
Sounds fantastic! The idea of them harvesting her organs really freaked me out, especially since the villains seemed so, I don't know, nerdy and unassuming at first! Also, on a side note, I really like how you always put a lot of ethnic diversity into your stories - it's inevitable with Hetalia, but you always make an effort to do so here as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks! They really are kind of, I don't know, low-key. More apathetic than evil (although they still have a typical scientific curiosity).
DeleteYeah—I had just been thinking about some of the ethnicities and thought I hadn't done any Persian/Arabic people yet (aside from possibly a bit in Cora of Chemists, although I'm still debating that). I still have a habit of giving them some non-white ethnicity and it being completely irrelevant to the rest of the character, which may not be entirely a bad thing when most of the characters are born and raised American or whatever, but I think I should at least start putting a few touches in, you know?
And there's actually a tally coming up—while working on it, I was sort of overwhelmed by how my white characters are such an overwhelming majority. But when half my character images are based on different hair colours, it's kind of hard to resist...