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  • Mar. 1st, 2007 at 2:13 PM
Butterfly dreaming
I decided I wanted to find a better use for this journal than rants on my life and memes, so here you go ;) Lately, I've been going back to an old story of mine (well not that old really, I worked on it last year and then left it at some point). I do that a lot bouncing back and forth between worlds and stories, making up something, mainly while biking to school or doing other non so cognitive things, and than I lose interest and pick up something else. Later, if the story was good, I might pick it up again and continue.
Same happened to this one.

The world it takes place, Agina, is 'divided' into three main empires. Land-walkers, who live on the main-land and have an imperium in food and nutritions, and are often in possession of supernatural powers. They are good buisnessman, and are said to be greedy, manipulating and mean, but that's mostly fear of their powers.
Than you have water-walkers, who mainly live on ships, islands, underwater-cities and upwater-cities. Waterwalkers have fiery tempers and are hard workers. They have a very advances technology, which they obviously need to survive at see all the time. Landwalkers call them stupid and untalented and undisciplined
Land and waterwalkers hold a constant grudge and where it not that they need each other and are scared of the consequences, they would most certainly be in constant war. They are on the edge of war as it is.
The last are airwalkers. They live in the air, mainly on huge airships with bases on both water- and land territory. They wisely keep out of the grudges between the others and live peaceful lives. They buy food and help from landwalkers and the needed technology from waterwalkers. Often they become scientists and philosophers and they are widely known as wise. There are some who have supernatural powers, but almost all of them are defensive rather than offensive. They only mingle withing the ranks of the others when strictly needed, avoiding them where possible. They think of the land- and waterwalkers as hotheads and dumb, unintellectual and not people you want to associate whith. The land- and waterwalkers think them strange and weak, air-heads who can't do anything useful, and they mostly just ignore them... Which is just what the airwalkers want, so at least everyone is happy in that respect.
Originally, all characters, air-, water- and landwalkers alike, had wings, whether they may be rudimentary or working (some do, and some don't work. I can imagine most air-walkers to have working wings, while those of water- and landwalkers don't work anymore).

The main story focuses strongly on Anyunna, or short, yunn. Yunn's the daughter of one of the highest officials among the waterwalkers. Her father had meant for her to marry some highly respected official and live save and sound in one of the underwater-cities. Instead, she ended up the youngest captain ever on one of the governments trading-ships (They are a combination between guard- and trade-ships) and falling in love with one of her (also female) lower officers. Her father still tries all things he can to get her away from the ship and to marry the man she had been promised to, but to no avail. With the sympathies of both her mother (a powerful woman if not in position definitely under the surface) and the emperor himself, Yunn is mostly save.
Yunn usually wears loose, easy, no nonsense clothing that's easy to work and walk around in, to the great horror of her father, who would like to see her in big, puffy, very tight dresses that the higher class ladies tend to wear. (think rainescanse)
She has wild hair in all shades of blond and red, from bright orange to gold-like blond and dark red and is quite tall for a girl. Years of living and working on a ship has given her quite a broad stance and a well-developed body.

This brings us to Lizz, the girl Yunn has fallen for. Lizz doesn't seem to have an identity, she's shy, a year younger than Yunn, and doesn't talk much, but when she sais something, it's definately worth listening to. Noone really knows of her past, but she is very able in the area of navigation and the like.
Lizz is small with almost boyish features. She has short, blueish black hair with silvery white stants that seem like stars. She wears non-describtand clothes and generally just doesn't stand out much.

Everyone can look forwarth to musings on my own and others' stories and characters here... ;)
Ok, I'm gonna add a note anyway. Took this from deviantart, from finnguala (go see her galary, it's amazing! http://finnguala.deviantart.com/).

Comment and...
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that i've always wondered about you.
8. you MUST put this into your journal (if you haven't already).

Comments

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[info]ulvarmarson wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 04:56 pm (UTC)
OOh! Story sounds intresting! Asnd the world sounds awsome too!
[info]ginnyvos wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:14 pm (UTC)
I love it! I decited that my god-tale-thingy is actually gonna be the mythology of this world... My mom, sister and brother have been entered too: Mom is the mother-goddess, goddess of protection and maternal love, Kristien is a storm-goddess, and Roeland is the god of wild nature, plants and trees and rough uncultured land... That'd make them pretty close, as they are both gods of things that are wild and free, wich actually suits them both very much.
[info]ulvarmarson wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:23 pm (UTC)
Whii! Will I be the godess of music? *puppy eyes'
[info]ginnyvos wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:32 pm (UTC)
Yes you will, love ^^ *snuggles* That does so totally fit you... I'll be godess of hope, Sarah Goddess of logic and science, Rian goddess of thinking and knowledge (minds, in short :)) My Amersfoort friends will be entered as well, and maybe some of my HPO friends, I still gotta figure them out though... One of the best things to do is to go biking, walking, bathing, whatever, and just fantasize away, making up that world. To me, that's actually much more fun than writing the actual story...
[info]ulvarmarson wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:34 pm (UTC)
Weeeeee! *dances*
[info]ginnyvos wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:39 pm (UTC)
*grabs you by the hands and dances with you to the music of your goddess-heart*
[info]befanini wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:26 pm (UTC)
Mmm... reminds me of this fantasy RPG PS game I once played. Your story notes alone have the power to transport me to another place, another time. See what loving fairytales can do for one's imagination? ^_^ This sounds like a rich, complex, lovingly detailed work, and I can't wait to start reading it when you've written up a chapter or two!
[info]ginnyvos wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:35 pm (UTC)
Whiii thank you so much! That's actually a big compliment, altough I dunno wether I'll be able pull it trough. To me, much of the fun in it is making stuff up... Most of these stories never get written down. I do have some old scribbels that would have to be editted a little and than would be part of the story.
Altough the story is told from Yunns point of view, a lot of it centers around Lizz... She's an interesting character indeed, wich is basically why I didn't tell much about her. There's a lot to tell, you see... So I might actually write it down, specially if you guys keep pushing me ;)
[info]befanini wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:41 pm (UTC)
I understand totally what you mean when you say that much of the fun in it is making stuff up - that's what happened to me with a certain solitary beauty and a naughty redhead... ^_^ But when I saw that there were so few fanfics that portrayed their inner selves, that's when I decided to write down a few of my daydreams.

It would be so nice if you could share a portion of your lovely daydreams with us!
[info]ginnyvos wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:51 pm (UTC)
Hahaha there are a lot, I can assure you. I've actually made up tons of worlds, all building them up, making them as complete as possible... It's fun.
Oh btw, the world has just gotten a religion ;) When I asked her how she was, my gf answerd 'I'm god' (instead of good:P), and with than, the realm of gods has been founded! ;)
[info]befanini wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 05:55 pm (UTC)
Yup, I've been reading how you've incorporated your loved ones into the god realm. ^_~ Only goes to show how much love goes into your stories!
[info]ginnyvos wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2007 06:07 pm (UTC)
Haha it really does, actually ^^ I've always been putting them in stories and all... started really writing at a HP-fansite, where we would all put our own persona the Harry Potter world and go on adventures together... I mean, I made up stories before, I've always done that, but I never really wrote them down before that. I was about 12 at the time, and when I read it back it's horrifyingly bad XD *grinn* But it's fun and it's a habbit that's stayed with me ever since...
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