Short Snippets

💡📙Self-Aware Character📙💡

• Set in the 'Throne of Glass' universe
• A couple hundred years before magic disappears etc.
• Centred around a young demi-fae called Tyler Brownhoof
• His mother (a fae) upped and left him when he was a child, and his human father, a simple mill worker, is left to raise him
• His father tells Ty that he is distantly related to the famous Rowan Whitehorn on his mother's side
• His father, although heartbroken at being left, is kind and supportive of Tyler and his gifts, even though he doesn't really understand magic and how to help him grow
• Tyler seemingly has no magic, except he can shift... into a butterfly
• Tyler has two friends who are also demi-fae; Tomsk Merryweather (who can turn into a pig/(or)/rhino/buffalo/elephant, something relatively deadly, except the size of a beer mug) and Grover Woodclaw (who can make flowers grow. Has never shifted, except once where he half turned into a goat and looked like a faun, got stuck for a few days, and then refused to keep trying)
• They live in [place where Aelin trained]
• There is a full-blooded fae called Bjorn Blackbone (who claims he is related to Lorcan _), who can turn into a massive boar the size of a small house, who bullies them for being half-bloods

• [That place] has a rule that when the male fae turn 18, they must somehow prove their worth with a self-chosen quest for them and their family to remain there. If they fail, they must leave
• 'Tyler scanned over the criteria scroll that the scribe had given him, "wow" he said "'your quest must have at least one death-defying/battling moment, 3 deadly creatures, be more than one week (bonus if it goes for a month or longer) and...'" he looked up, "what!? We have to _?"
• He chooses to go on a quest to find a legendary object that gives magic to it's wearer, not for himself, but for his father so that he may not feel so excluded as one of the only non-magic humans who lives there and so he might understand Tyler better
• Tyler has tried to do magic, but never succeeded. Sometimes he'll try to make ice form or the wind blow, like Rowan, but was never successful
• So he lives his whole life normally until during the quest a rock is falling and about to hit Tomsk and Grover, and he instinctively puts out his hand to stop it and discovers that he does have magic, he is telekinetic (but only under x circumstances)
• "What!? You mean I've been doing stuff normally my whole life when I could've been doing this!? Like that apple in my bag, instead of having to get up, pick it up, sit down, and then eat it, I could just magic it over to my hand? And instead of reaching over and snuffing out the candle at night, I could just lay in bed and snap my fingers!?"

• Eventually during the quest they find a wise mage who bestows the object onto Tyler, warning than it can have unintended consequences when put on someone who already has magic, such as becoming aware of other realms (turns out it has Wryd Runes on it and a thread of Wyrdstone in it)
• Tyler puts it on 'he stiffened as he became aware of peering eyes belonging to a foreign presence' (chapter end)
• (Chapter start) "Who are you? Yes, you who looks through this item composed of glass and metal, reading my... story? No- but that means- I am just a... character? Just made up? But seriously, who in the wyrd are you!? Y/N. That means 'Your / Name'? I can not properly say it but I hear your actual name and it is foreign to me. Beautiful, maybe, or plain, I do not know. The Author does not have that foresight.
• (Story becomes italics) I distantly hear the muffled sound of my friends speaking,
• "Um, Tyler, are you okay? Your face has gone all white and your eyes have gone weird, almost glazed over." That was Tomsk.
• "Well duh, of course he's not okay!" Retorted Grover, "he's probably just had the secrets of the universe revealed to him!"
• Do I tell them? That we are insignificant beings made on an author's whim? No, that would be too cruel...
• I shifted my eyes to look at them, trying my best to smile and shrug nonchalantly but my heart already breaking at the thought of what this new knowledge would mean, but I would ponder it later, right now they needed me, "yeah, sorry. I just felt a bit light-headed. Y'know, the weight of the magic power and all that, heh."
• "I told you!" Said Grover to Tomsk, and they begun bickering again, as always. But it is not as always. They do it because are, were scripted like that. For interest, for character development. To occupy and amuse... you.
• I turned my eyes to the Mage, and he lifted an eyebrow as he read the questioning expression on my face. He knew.
• After they leave the Mage's hut, Tyler goes in and asks the Mage how long he knew the world was fictional.
• "I tried once, many a year ago. Then I took it off and chose to keep living my life."
• "But what happens to me, to us, at the end of this story?"
• "Why," said the Mage, "you will either live happily ever after, or die. It all depends at what point the story finishes. But I think, it would not hurt too much. Not when so many stories and tales are written and told every day. Maybe you freeze, unaware and stuck in the final moment of the book. When they turn that final page of the book, or rather scroll to the next page on their, what is it called again? Ah, yes, their 'phones,' - that's what that odd glass/metal/rubber device is, - maybe you live on, in their imaginations, if your Author has told your tale well enough. (Makes a joke about writers block)
• "But what point is there in life? If we are just mere characters in a story in a world of 'real' people? How can you keep going?"
• The Mage gave me a sympathetic look and placed a warm hand on my shoulder, "My son, just because your world seems fictional and made up to another, it doesn't make it any less of a reality for you."
• In the end, they learn that the end of their world is coming from an internal conflict (wargs or something, idk) and they have to prevent it, but Tyler internally struggles since he feels like there's no point bothering to save his world since it's just a story and will end one day anyway