My first book, "Wicked Normal," kicks off my Persephone Smith series. I have heard feedback on Wattpad that folks would like to see where the characters started... so I'm giving my Wattpad readers a taste. Note: some don't show up until later books, but this is where it all started...
Growing up with a unique quality, one assumes that everyone else does, too. Persephone Smith, the self-confident, fifth grade, narrating protagonist of "Wicked Normal," innocently views herself as "wicked normal," believing that everyone has the natural powers to have psychic visions, precognitive dreams, see ghosts, and make actions occur by speaking them. "Wicked Normal" chronicles the year when she discovers power in her natural abilities and realizes that not everyone has run-ins with fairies or communicates with ghosts.
In many ways, her life is perfectly ordinary. She is the only child of Wally and Demi Smith, who provide her with a strong moral fiber, a very clear sense of right and wrong, and safety from the world. Although she describes her life as the "happily ever after," this year is full of complicated situations and shows her happiness exists solely because her parents love her, and each other, unconditionally.
Despite a strong vocabulary and advanced maturity, Persephone is not perfect, making impulsive, innocently naïve choices with consequences. Her peers include: Gabby, the whiny tattle-tale at day camp; Coral, Persephone's "best friend" who throws temper tantrums if she doesn't get her way; Charles, the quintessential sci-fi/fantasy pre-teen geek; Joey, Persephone's blue-eyed, dimpled, crush; along with Seth, Jade, and others.
"Wicked Normal" is intended for ages 9 and up. The real-life Vermont setting, lovable characters, and realistic fifth grade predicaments blend with the fantasy element of extraordinary powers to create an escape from reality for any "wicked normal" readers.
idk what this is but one day my friend and I randomly decided to take our OCs from different fantasy stories and put them all together in a modern/future/cyberpunk aesthetic world instead. More comedic and satire than the typical serious stuff we usually do. I just decided to put it up here in case anyone enjoyed it
Some characters from my book "Ascendant" are recycled for this (Muiredach, Uriah, and Runa)
my friend created and wrote for Adeline, Raegan, and Klaus
All other characters were created and written by myself
Rated M for mature because of language. There's not a lot of sex or anything aside from talking and joking. I think ages 15 to 25 would likely enjoy it the most. It's kind of goofy and fun.
LORE AND CONTEXT:
A very satire-like cyberpunk style world in 2100s. Superheroes are kind of a known thing though extremely rare and not like how Marvel has one down every street. There are ambiguous "powers and magical forces" people have spoken about more so than in our world but other than that, it's basically our world but the hypothetical and comedic future.
New London is a neglected city off the coast of Canada (Canada is known as North Montana now after the US took it). It's huge and very cyberpunk in style... but it's hard to describe so find our Pinterest board about the story by following the external link in the story parts...
Very Gotham City like. It was where many people from the UK migrated to after the third world war but the city's politics and system are awful and the crime rate is super high