2: meet my imaginary friends
HELLO! Since the last update, I’ve written maybe five sentences and had some thoughts and that’s it. But, check it out, I have an incredible excuse: I’m getting married tomorrow.
I’M GETTING MARRIED TOMORROWWWW AHHHH
See? Great reason. Ayyyyy.
While I don’t have much of a progress update, I DO have a bunch of Stuff created around THE VAMPIRE SHIFT and its characters so here goes:
Presenting: my three protagonists! AKA the members of the band The Vampire Shift.
Killian is twenty-two years old and wishes he was dressed like a hipster and making fun of his exes. As it is, he’s a bargain basement emo trash peaky blinder with wavy hair and golden brown skin and a body count that’s much, much higher than his — uh — notches on the bedpost. He grew up the son of vampire hunters, and let’s just say he's starting to look like a real big disappointment to his parents.
Rae was born between dynasties and destined to die of famine until a vampire plucked her and her brother out of death’s jaws and taught them how to cheat it forever. She’s a virtuosic pianist who plays people almost as well as she does music, has seen all manner of human horror cycling through the centuries, and to this day her greatest regret is having utterly failed to go to bed with Franz Liszt (and not for lack of trying).
Sasha thinks she might be dying, but at least this shit isn’t law school. If you’re going to wake up every day with a spiking headache and bone-numbing fatigue and barbed wire scraping pain in your jaw and a strange hunger that refuses to surrender no matter how much you eat, it may as well be in your own studio flat, packed with guitars and recording equipment and not much else. You may as well be hiding the pain from on a stage, even if that stage is just the corner of a local pub, even if you’re rapidly running out of money and self-control as the heartbeats of your audience pulse louder and louder and your teeth sharpen with an exquisite twist of pain and anticipation —
Here is time lapse video of me drawing a hypothetical cover for the book and rambling over the top of it:
And just to sandwich things nicely, I’ll finish this update with more character info, but this time in the form of Red Flags cards.
Can you work out who’s who? Drop your guesses down below. Remember to Like And Subscribe and ding the bell for notifications! FACE REVEAL IN MY NEXT VIDEO
I don’t know why I’m like this. That’s a joke/massive lie, I know exactly why but we don’t need that omphaloskeptic essay. I just finished my nail art for the wedding (MY wedding zomg) tomorrow and here’s hoping I can resist touching things/accidentally smudging this because DEAR GOD it took ages. Oh man this is unreal :))
Have a great weekend! Farewell from my final hours as a fiancée. It’s time to increase the amount of bling on my hands. It’s time to make this ship canon in the eyes of THE LAW ooooooooh —