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I have this vision of a colorful, exotic starport, reminicent of India. A 17 year old girl has been "married" since she was 10 and now she is expected to join her "husband" and his family. She doesn't want to. She runs.
I was thinking it would be fun to each have a central character making up the crew of the ship she stows away on. They can each have their own back stories and secrets.
If anyone is interested let me know and we can talk about characters!
I've always wanted to do a steampunk collab!
I will start it out from the girl's POV. She is looking to escape somehow from her very constricting society, so when she sees an opportunity to stow away on a star ship she takes it. Eventually she will be discovered and sort of become part of the crew.
Someone else can write from the captain's POV and elaborate on who he is and why he is in this port, etc. Whoever writes his POV will be in charge of coming up with the character's backstory.
As people join, they can play the crew members of the ship. Everyone will have a secret, but you don't have to reveal it right away.
We type in our character biographies here; then you copy-paste them into the authors guidance.
For the bio example:
Name: John smith
Age: 28
Appearance: dark hair, green eyes, fair skin very straight nose. Likes wearing tweed.
Personality & minor background: a bit of a goofball, but he can't standing seeing people get hurt. Kind, smart and very talkative. he travels a lot.
Or something like that. No this isn't my character bio, I'll post that later.
Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Appearance:
Clothing preferences:
Voice/accent (if applicable):
Skills:
Weapon of choice (if applicable):
Other info:
And you can skip any category if you feel it doesn't apply to your character.
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I haven't gotten the plot started quite yet, I thought we might want to set the captain's character up a little before she sneaks onto his ship.
Age: About 17
Occupation: Sells newspapers in the city
Appearance: Light brown skin, high cheekbones, large brown eyes. Skinny, looks a few years younger than she is.
Clothing preferences: Pants that are loose and full, coming in at the ankles, a long, close fitting top, scarf around her head, going under her chin. Coordinating, rich colors but no shiny things or jewelry.
Voice/accent (if applicable): Very quiet, lilting voice, but clear. Can be loud when she wishes.
Other info: Was "married" off at age 10 and hasn't seen the boy since then. She will soon be expected to join him and his family and really behave as a married couple. She doesn't find this idea attractive. Keeps begging her father to let her divorce the boy and keep selling newspapers.