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So for Siren, I'm still working on the characters and how they fit together.

I tend to get a little carried away with worldbuilding when I work on my other projects, so the goal for this is to just write what I need and not go overboard with everything surrounding it.

So here's a short description of the more relevant villains and heroes within the story:

Barbarian (Barbie for short) A mid-ranking villain, known for targeting visitors of a specific bar. Has super strength and a regenerative factor. She’s related to a hero in a neighbouring city with similar powers. She’s currently dating a low-ranking hero, who knows exactly who she is.

Flipside A mid-ranking hero, currently active in a neighbouring city. Has a fairly quick regenerative factor and can enter a rage-like state when injured. While in this state, he does not feel pain. He’s known to use his own body parts to fight when needing a weapon.

Safeguard A low-ranking hero; he can summon a barrier to deflect whatever’s thrown at him. Because of this power, he’s often unaware of his surroundings. He usually fights the lowest-ranking villains and isn’t great at actual hand-to-hand combat. He is great with people though, and has a sizable following. Is currently happily dating a mid-tier villain, and truly couldn’t care less about her not being on his side.

Hawk A low-ranking villain, who uses their powers to keep an eye on the city for the other villains. They can communicate with birds and use them to gather information. Their information has helped numerous other villains with their plans. They might not put up much of a fight, but you can be sure that, when Hawk is attacked, another villain will be close by to help out.

Respawn A high-ranking villain who can resurrect the dead. She doesn’t fight often, but is a real threat when she does, appearing in large-scale fights to ensure that the villains who go down, don’t stay down for long. Doesn’t fight hand to hand, preferring to just shoot the heroes instead.

Mage A high-ranking villain with healing powers. He acts as the main healer for the villains and, as a result, doesn’t often appear in fights. When he does fight, he won’t use the traps you’d expect from someone who doesn’t appear on the field often. Instead, he fights hand-to-hand and isn’t afraid to get injured. 

Siren A high-ranking villain with the power to make others obey her every command. She’s responsible for the deaths of heroes, civilians and even other villains. She often appears completely unarmed, even when confronted by heroes. However, she has been seen fighting the city’s newest, still unnamed hero. 

The unnamed hero Unranked, unnamed and not associated with the hero committee. He’s clearly much younger than the official heroes, but can hold his own in a fight. He mostly fights the lower-ranking villains and is determined to get onto the official list of city heroes when he’s old enough. He’s decided that he’ll be the one to fight Siren, since the other heroes mostly refuse to engage her in a fight.

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When heroes are found dead, it's usually caused by a villain. Someone actively hurting them, throwing things, going all-out in a fight. 

Certain heroes, though, have the displeasure of dying by their own hand. Not from any kind of mental struggle, though they certainly try to struggle, but by a command from Siren.

Now Siren’s a villain most heroes avoid, having this silent agreement with her not to get in her way too much if she lets them live. So imagine her surprise when she's met with a hero for the first time in years. 

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“What are you doing here, kid?”

A child in a hero’s costume. A middle schooler at the oldest.

They sent a literal child to fight her.

“Hand me your earpiece.” 

He’s still wearing one after what happened to the last assistant she got rid of? He’s protesting it, but still removes the device and hands it to her with wide eyes. She puts it on and barks a command into the device. “Don’t cut it. Listen to me. You sent a child to fight me?”

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Helltown

Takes place in a small, remote town with little to no reception, completely cut off from the outside world. Those who die in this town are brought back to life, but at a price. They are now part of a cycle of death and resurrection, and will slowly start to lose themselves to the curse.

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Carnival

Ah, Pleasure Island, something I’ve had a weird fascination with ever since I first saw Pinocchio and got this weird, squirmy feeling I now get when watching a good body horror. Carnival (working title) takes place in a modern retelling of the Island, which now functions as a traveling carnival. Those who break its rules are still cursed, but they now have to work off their debt or be sold off at the market. (This is as far as I’ve gotten with this, so don’t expect a lot from this plot bunny).

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Siren

Siren follows both the hero and villain of a small town. When following the hero, we see the typical kiddie superhero story; he fights the villain of the week, hides his secret identity from his parents and balances both being a hero and being an average kid. When following the villain, we see just how badly the other heroes get hurt, how powerful the villains really are and just how much they hold back when fighting the young hero.

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Ashen Isles

The Ash Isles is a group of islands mostly populated by the supernatural. A few generations ago, humans arrived and settled on one of the islands. Now, they’re trying to spread their beliefs to the non-human species. A bunch of interconnected shorter stories dealing with how the humans damaged certain supernatural beings and the consequences for both themselves and their victims. (AKA Doe has religious trauma).

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Guess who decided to dust off their writing blog and actually start using it?

I'm Doe, She/They, 29.

I'm horribly shy online, so even though I've been reading fic and reblogging fandom stuff on my main for over a decade, I don't think I've ever sent an ask or really put my writing out there for others to read. (I do reply tho!)

I'm currently working on 4 projects:

Ashen Isles: Dark Fantasy with horror elements mixed in. I’ve been working on this world for nearly 5 years and just keep expanding it.

Siren: Both a light-hearted superhero story and a horror/comedy, depending on the character I focus on.

The Carnival: A plot bunny I’ve only just started working on, elaborating on Pleasure Island in the Pinocchio mythos, but with my own spin on it. So far, It’s just me throwing ideas at it and seeing what sticks.

Helltown: Completely based on a shock-horror cartoon I watched at 16. A rewrite of sorts, but focusing more on the horror aspects of a death-loop. Have been developing this for over 5 years, but this is somehow the project that has the fewest actual words on paper.

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do u ever just

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you know when you really want to talk abt your OCs but don’t know what to say so you’re just holding them up like Simba with a bunch of exclamation points overhead?

Yeah.

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When I finally write the scene but it's an absolute garbage fire

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Always the writer, never the reader.

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the most fucked up thing ever is being obsessed w ur own oc. why do i have to make content of them why cant they just magically appear on my screen for me to reblog 200 times. fucked up and also evil