#kienan van der buskirk

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the true protagonist of echotrance book. kienan i’d do anything for you

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🎮🎧📌 for your wip

YEYYYY YEY YEY thank you for sending this in :3c

Context: This WIP is about Kienan van der Buskirk, a 20something college student with AVPD, who becomes unexpected friends with Echotrance Saulnier, the new student in her Psychology 201 class with the biggest dark circles under his eyes anyone’s ever seen, who claims to have not slept for even a second for ten straight years (and, as it later turns out, was sacrificed by his parents to an elder god in his basement, but didn’t die and in fact came back, which … was NOT supposed to happen).

🎮 - Describe your WIP as if it were a video game. Is anything different?

Probably not. I think it would be a game a lot like the Persona series, where you focus on getting social links. Though it would most likely focus on Echotrance. You’d be playing Kienan, the 20something college student with AVPD, and you’d have to raise your social links with your friends Sydney, Kat, and Nick. Somewhere along the line you’d meet Echotrance, and the game would be pushing you to make social links with him, too. Kienan would probably give you pushback about it, but the more you had her hang out with Echotrance, the more comfortable she’d get. And becoming friends with Echotrance would open up the second part of the game … which would be a full-on dungeon crawler where you’d have to find the god that Echotrance was sacrificed to and kill it for good so it could never hurt Echo again. Or something like that c:

🎧 - What atmosphere does your story have? Describe it with examples.

It’s a pretty chill atmosphere, to be honest. I write a lot of urban fantasy and science fiction, so most of my stories are largely just regular life but with absolutely wild shit going on behind the scenes. It takes place in Alaska, so a lot of the ‘atmosphere’ is quiet and serene, which is reinforced by the fact that Kienan’s AVPD makes it so she’s often on her own. I can’t say much about the climax, because HELLA spoilers, but it definitely 100% reinforces this as well, which is interesting for a climax, since you’d expect the action to ramp up and a big fight to take place. But instead, it’s just … hollow. Lonely. I think a lot of this novel is just about terrible loneliness.

📌 - If the WIP has a pinterest, post the link and your favorite picture from it!

It doesn’t … but it does have a UQuiz where you can find out which character from it you’d be c: Here’s the link! Have fun! (And tell me what you get if you want!)

thanks so much for sending these questions !! (and the link for anyone who wants to send in any more is right here~)