#Mallory Forbane

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Belated OC Kiss Week

I was sick when Kiss Week was on this year, and I was very VERY much looking forward to those prompts.

So I'm taking advantage of the fact that I need some promotional posts next week across all my socials, and completing the prompts a month late.

And I'm loving some of these prompt fills I've come up with tonight.

My favourite part about OCKissWeek is that I get to play with characters that are either on the back burner, or who don't always have POV scenes of their own within the main books I'm working on.

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Nik: We all know which of us is more invested in this relationship. Mallory: Don't be ridiculous. I confessed how I felt before you did. Nik: Ah, but I was attracted to you first. Mallory: Well, that— Nik: And I pursued a relationship with you first. Mallory: That's not— Nik: And— Mallory: And which of us was the first to say 'I love you'? Me, that's who! Nik: I proposed first! (Pulls out a ring) Mallory: Well, I— Wait… What?!

@faelanvance

[author-a-holmes]

I try to keep my cast fairly balanced, but I've voted female characters, female writer, because I usually START with a female character and build the plot, secondary main's, and supporting characters around her.

For Fey Touched it's Lizzy, and in the initial draft of the story Booker was her female best friend.

Stolen has Stella at the lead, and while the cast is slightly male-leaning, it's more because the secondary characters are Reilly's support network first.

I haven't developed the cast lists for my other projects as extensively, but the main characters are Krysis who is a female grim reaper, and Mallory Forbane, another female lead.

Writers: do you normally write female or male characters??

Recently I realized that, as a girl, most of my characters are usually boys. That let me to question why I was doing that, and I think it's because it kinda gives me a sense of freedom. Like, as a writer, I'm intrigued to explore different perspectives and worlds I wouldn't be able to in real life, so I guess writing male characters is kind of my "what would it be like being a boy?". So now, out of curiosity I want to see if this happens to any of you or you just like to write from what you know.

Also, please join my other ongoing poll if you haven't voted yet!!

If anyone would like to share more about their characters, I'd be very happy to know.

Happy writing :)

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🌙 and 👻 for the October ask game!

Thank you for the ask hun! (Link to the Ask Game; Here)

🌙 Moon: Do any of your OCs have dark backstories or secrets they’re trying to keep?

I had to give this one a bit of a think because I have such a cast of characters now across several projects lol.

No one in the Fey Touched Trilogy has a dark backstory, and I don't think they're keeping any huge secrets. Everyone HAS secrets, of course, but nothing earth shattering...

I think the biggest "secret", that's no longer really a secret for anyone who has read Changeling, if Lizzy's mixed parentage. But even that wasn't neccessarily something that her mum, Madeline, was intending to keep from her forever.

👻 Ghost: Can you tease some wip ideas that have been haunting you/something you want to write in the future?

The Chronicles of Verald.

I've described this project to my best friend as "The idea that is standing behind me, in the shadows at the corner of the room, grinning widely, while holding a baseball bat."

It's so freaking intimidating to me, but I've just got this GUT feeling it's going to be ridiculously fun to write.

It's going to be a series of Romantic Fantasy books, a minimum of nine, possibly as many as 12, that follow a character called Mallory Forbane who is a Viken. Vikens are rare and the only people who have the ability to manipulate and edit curses cast by Volvar, the spell-casters of the world.

The other lead character, Nikalas Greyson, is a Draugr, cursed to immortality, his curse is mutating and he requires the help of a Viken every few centuries to manipulate the curse back into a bareable state.

Nik's going to be a Morally Grey character on the darker side of that spectrum, and I really want to lean heavily on the rivals-to-lovers trope between him and Mallory over the course of the series.

But this beast is such a monster, I'm not even letting myself work on the outline properly under Fey Touched is complete. I have a metric tonne of worldbuilding for this already, and character outlines, and backstories, and plot details, and original cursed creatures/monsters. I've even outlined book one, because I was doing something different with my outlines and wanted to see if the idea was even viable... but then I've put it away, but it's constantly on my mind.

I have a dedicated sideblog for this project, and I just reblog stuff that makes me think of the story or gives me vibes or idea's, so it's definitely what I'd call an active project, even though I'm not currently working on it in any meaningful way.

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Mallory Forbane

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Good Lines Tag

Thank you @avrablake for the Tag. I've not seen this one before but I love it, so I'm going to pass it onto a few people...

Tagging forward, with no pressure, to; @faelanvance @charlesjosephwrites @authoralexharvey @acertainmoshke @queen-kass-the-writer @sylhorn @ashen-crest @world-of-fire-and-flight-admin @afoolandathief @fictionalbullshitter @artbyeloquent @ettawritesnstudies @sleepyowlwrites @duckingwriting @kaiusvnoir and @tisiphonewolfe. Also anyone else who wants to play, consider this an open tag.

Rules

What's a line that you're tremendously proud of writing, and what's a line that's just out-of-context ridiculous?

CW for the snippets: One talks about death and dying. The other talks about womens monthlies.

Line I'm Proud Of

It's a line Andric Roche says to Lizzy in Changeling, and I remember writing it, pausing and going. "Wow. Where did that come from?". It's stuck with me as a very quoteable line, and it's one of my favourites in Changeling.

"Survival is always about chance, Lizzy. Everything in the world wants to kill us. Even time."

Out-of-Context Ridiculous

I wasn't sure what to share for this one, but then earlier this evening (May 9th) I was doing a bit of writing practice with some characters from a future book and one of them spat out a line that's just perfect.

"Are you asking me to... to speed up my moonflow?!" she hissed out, and something on her face or in her voice must have warned Nik how close he was to igniting her fury because his hands raised fully, palms out, as he shook his head.

[ideas-and-inpo]

Character A: Mallory Forbane

Character B: Nikalas Greyson

one of my absolute favourite tropes is where character A asks character B "why are you doing this for me? why do you care so much? what do you get out of this?" and B just gives them a sad smile and says "isn't it obvious?" with THE MOST affection possible, just so obviously head over heels in love that it's almost ridiculous that A hasn't realised it yet. just fuck me up why don't you

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Nikalas Greyson/Mallory Forbane Inspiration

When days are dark darling, remember, my love for you won’t go away…

David Ramirez

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.... *Nervous Laughter*

@faelanvance - Nikalas Greyson with Mallory? 'Kalas with Mallory!