So about that Caithe & Tayne story...09.IV.2024
In this post, I want to introduce the story a bit more and pay due respect to a person who inspired it.
On the origins of it all
This story is a part of a setting that i'm continuously developping since around 2019. It initially stemmed from certain fanfiction i still have several paper notebooks of in my possession, which in turn stemmed from the works of my then best friend and writing mentor. A person who usually calls herself Sunwheel Red Falcon.
She is an aspiring writer of her own original setting and I always gasped at her wordsmithing talent. And she also wrote a lot of comedic self-fanfiction. This was my point of entry into the story: with her permission i also started writing in the setting of this self-fanfiction. However, over time my story started diverging from hers, straying from comedy and fanfiction into like... the main fictional setting of my life. And that was also fine with her! I had full permission to use her concepts for whatever I might need them.
Over time, after i enrolled in a university, we've fallen out of touch, and she isn't willing to reconnect now. But i'm still reworking and continuing that same setting as i will probably do for the rest of my earthly life. In some sense all of it is a tribute to her.
I'll make sure to include links to her works if I manage to unearth them (they weren't in English though). There isn't much overlap left, especially in that part of the setting i'm working on right now, but one that is i'll do my best to credit.
Additionally, I want to credit a person who goes by the name of Amal. She was the one who motivated me to start the current iteration of this setting with the whole archon arc and who kept me through writing the first chapters of it with her commentary.
Some intel on my plans
There is a very large plot of multiple arcs that sits and slowly develops in my head since that 2019. This story here is its first main arc (Tayne's arc); the second one (Shade's arc) is to be a rework of my earlier reimagination of Sunwheel's self-fanfiction, authorised by her, and will take place on late 2010's Earth, and the third one (Asriel's arc) will be a reimagination of my fanfic that started it all, set in the postapocalyptic land of 23rd century Earth.
Funny thing is, neither the overarching story nor its first arc (and don't even get me started on chapter names...) has a normal name yet (Caithe&Tayne is just a temporary descriptor). I'll try to come up with something better in the future.
Each of these arcs has such an absolute ton of info currently roaming my brain rent-free that I predict the unrolling of it all to take literally decades. However, I kinda feel the need to :3
Creator chose to use archive warnings
I feel the need to state that the story will contain the following:
• Character deaths
• Moderately graphic depictions of violence
• Mildly graphic depictions of sex
There'll be nothing super bad to advise viewer discretion in my opinion, though.