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Whumptober2024 Day 11: “Leave no trace behind, like you don't even exist.”

In order to protect his family, Minharh had to erase any suggestion or proof of his hidden identity - that he is Sa'a Kindall, and he survived a fire that some people hadn't wanted him to survive.

It's a secret that must be kept until the truth of what happened with that fire can come to light.

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Whumptober2023 Day 8/9: "İt's all for nothing" | "You're a liar"

A combined prompt for the last two days!

This is both Kyle and Minharh grieving their lost father-son relationship, lost through Minharh's own faked death.

For Kyle, it's a betrayal of trust, and five years of enduring and adapting to a life without his dad (and only friend).

For Minharh, he knew he'd have to reveal his identity to Kyle at some point, if the ever reunited. But Kyle saw through his lies first.

This scene would fall right after the end of Chapter 1 in The Deliverance of Kyle Kindall (KK3)

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May 31, 8-Tau A'o Fire incident

"She got us both out. Really, it would have been better for her own safety to just leave, but she knew I’d seen the stuff in that room better than she did. She gave me her oxygen tank since mine got stuck beneath part of the collapse.

"Apparently she knew her injuries were fatal, but bet on it that mine could be survived.”

- Sa'a (Minharh) in KK3, Chapter 40

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Febuwhump Day 10: "I'm sorry. I didn't know."

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Minharh's viewpoint, finding out about some of the experiences Kyle was subjected to.

He'd thought leaving his son behind was a better idea - that Kyle would be safer, and have better experiences than if he had to share in the same "in-hiding" circumstances as Minharh.

He'd thought staying "dead" would a better idea.

Maybe it was.

Or maybe it wasn't...

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Minharh, Xiuying and Jie sharing a cross-cultural, casual, non-celebratory day's rest on Christmas day.

They're outside, enjoying the afternoon sunshine in the changeable early summer weather of Arkala.

Maybe they'll have a break from investigating the A'o Fire incident today...?

Art for Prompt 8: Christmas Day (Christmas celebrations | Spending the holidays in captivity | With found family)

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About this small found family ~

Xiuying Chen 陈秀英 and Jie Chen 陈杰 (Chinese) are a married couple, however share the same last name -- something not practised in Chinese culture -- due to Jie having Arkala'ana heritage.

Jie is half Arkala'ana, an indigenous & ethnic minority in Arkala whose traditional cultural marriage customs see the male person joining their female partner's tribal community. When Jie and Xiuying decided to marry, they decided to honour the minority culture side so as to preserve it. This is why Jie and Xiuying share the same last name. (Jie was previously known as Jie Li 李杰, and likely still goes by that on official Chinese documents.)

Minharh La'e (Arkala'ana) resides with them. He isn't related to them, but they consider him family.

As he's learnt Mandarin since staying with them, the three usually communicate with each other in Mandarin.

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Whump Advent Calendar 2020 - collection of my art for each prompt + extra alt. prompt

This whump advent calendar prompt challenge was really enjoyable to participate in!

Thinking about it, it helped me get back into drawing and feel better about my art 🌸

These prompts gave me an opportunity to practise drawing different poses, challenge myself with different approaches to scenes (e.g. comic) and try drawing characters I've never actually drawn before.

I also liked that each prompt had a three day window - it gave adequate time to work on something for each prompt without feeling heaps of self-inflicted pressure to do so.

Thanks @whump-advent-calendar for putting this event together! And thank you to everyone who supported me with liking/reblogging/commenting along the way! 🌄

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"My Dad didn't really die in the fire, did he?"

When the son you were forced to abandon five years ago discovers that you've been alive the whole entire time.

Minharh is older, his hair longer and his face more worn, but such things happen over time.

Time which Kyle thought had stopped for good five years ago.

Febuwhump Alt 7: Identity reveal

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Minharh, a fading sunset and streetlights across Lake Kano.

Another day wondering how the son he left behind is doing.

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Febuwhump2022 Day 14: Can't go home

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"Sa'a...we need to destroy all the evidence that you survived that fire. 'Sa'a Kindall' is no longer alive. You have to let go. Including of that picture of you and your son."

"...just give me a minute...please?"

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Febuwhump2022 Day 11: Chronic Pain

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The aftermath of Minharh's injuries (from the A'o Fire) are as much invisible as they are visible

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Writing things - thinking about character development in older written parts of a story

Some musings of mine about some of my writing ~

CW: brief mention of ableist language (since corrected in the story)

Sometimes I'll reread scenes that I've written in original fic and internally cringe at the way I've written a character's wordings.

For example, I was rereading the start of The Case of Kindall, K the other day. In Ch. 1 there's this one instance where Yuuki (25) refers to Kyle (17, almost 18) as a 'boy'/ other times 'teen' - which made me a little uncomfortable to reread, given how their friendship progresses/deepens, how that Yuuki's age isn't that far from Kyle's, and also how the connotations of the words are (making it seem like Kyle is fair bit younger than being a few months off being classified as a legal adult).

But there's reasons for Yuuki initially perceiving Kyle with these words in his POV:

Yuuki was subconsciously distancing himself from people around him, even Timothy (see: calling Timothy formally "sir" - this will be explained more in The Ninao Incident story). He was constructing walls to isolate himself and his PTSD from those around him. Kyle and Yuuki are not even that far apart in age (7.8 years, relatively both young adults (or Yuuki just outside of said group now)). So Yuuki initially referring to Kyle as he did is just demonstrating a strong sense of seperation that Yuuki is feeling (in general) and thus isn't, in fact, weird at all.

And besides that, this scene in Ch. 1 was their first meeting, and this was the youth detention centre that Yuuki (security warden) worked at - so it makes sense that he'd associate a convicted youth (in this case Kyle) there by the words that other (older) staff members tend to use: "teen"/"kid"/"boy"/"girl". As I'm writing the prequel (aka The Ninao Incident), I'm finding that some of the things written in The Case of Kindall K actually do (accidentally) make sense contextually.

I guess the point is, character develop exists, and it's okay for our characters and our writing/art style to develop with us as the story progresses - i.e. it doesn't have to have been planned for it to count. What felt right for the character at the time might be cringe now, but it likely felt right for a reason.

Author personal development exists too. In the case of where I was uninformed regarding referring to Minharh in The Redemption of Kindall, K. (KK2) as "wheelchair-bound man" (which I have since fixed, and the updated text now reads "man in a wheelchair"), these things I will change.

But the other parts that can be recognised as character development? I think it might leave it alone (even though I still cringe at it haha).

Anyways, thought I'd share in case anyone else has had similar issues with their thoughts about their own writing, and in case it helps anyone. (And also to comment about them words I wrote, in case anyone found it weird too! ^^;)

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WIP new cover for The Case of Kindall, K. (Tap/click for better image quality)

I've still got to work on fine-tuning parts of this, but here's the idea I've been working on for a new cover for KK1 🌳

The scene the art is of is The Village Park incident - aka "the case of Kindall, K."

NB: the spine image is from current cover (is there as a placeholder atm). I'm also considering book numbers on the spine?

For reference, comparison between current cover (left) and WIP new cover (right):

As following The Ninao Incident;

Front cover (as at WIP):

Please let me know what you think!

Additional detail notes: to the immediate left of Kyle's head is the Southern Cross constellation (Arkala is in the Southern Hemisphere, between AU and NZ); that yellow light on the hill beyond the lake, do you see it? That's the Chen's house, where Minharh is probably having tea in oblivion to what's happening to his son right now 🙃