Some Information Regarding My Future Blog Fic
As you know, if you've been keeping up with the blog is that I'm going to start a fictional blog... eventually. I will be starting it possibly before summer ends (it hasn't officially begun yet), but definitely before 2013. You know this because I've mentioned it in other posts, I did a poll for the title (Apartment Seven seems to be winning as I write this... glad the back door one isn't winning, that's a little dirty), and if you know me personally, I won't shut up about it.
As it's on my mind, I'm going to tell you some information about it now, but nothing spoilerific because I'd rather you guys figured things out as Melissa does. Yes, the main character is Melissa Ruth Miller. She is sort of designed around the number seven, but not entirely. Some of her and the people she already knows going into the blog are based on people I know or have known in real life. Everyone has different names so if you think you're similar to a character or that some of your dirty laundry is being aired for the internet to see... DON'T TELL ANYONE and your reputation as whatever you want people to see you as will stay in tact. Otherwise, just enjoy the story.
Whenever I consciously make characters of my own instead of allowing them to pop into existence from the insane place that is my head, it works best when I do base them on people I know. Usually I end up changing multiple details about them and one day I'm looking at the character and thinking, "I based this character off x-person? They don't even act like x-person! When did they change so much? Why? What happened? I got permission from x-person to put them in and now x-person won't even recognise (him or her) self! What am I going to do?" And then I move on because the new character is so much better for the role I have for them to play in the story anyhow... until they decide what they're going to do on their own because the insane place that is my head let's them do it.
Then it makes the story better.
So... other than that, let's talk about Melissa (Age 25). Everyone calls her Mel, but she doesn't refer to herself as Mel because her name is Melissa. She is the seventh child of eight . Her parents both came from big families and they wanted a big family of their own. Well, they were going to settle for a smaller one after Melissa's mom gave birth to her first two children, but Melissa's dad wanted a son and it took seven children before they got one. So, Melissa has six older sisters and one younger brother. Growing up in a big household was, obviously an adventure of its own and Melissa was as much raised by her older sisters as she was by her mother (her oldest sister is ten years older than Melissa). Most of the time she just got lost in the shuffle. Of course, her little brother was the golden boy of the family. He could do no wrong being the long-awaited Miller heir, blah, blah, blah. Melissa has some issues.
Melissa's story begins when she's fired from her job at the funeral home when one of their dearly deceased guests disappears. Dead people don't just disappear. They're dead. They don't move. Melissa is blamed for it since she was the last person working that night and she lives above the funeral home. She loses her job and the upstairs apartment that came with it.
The next day she walks by a storefront cafe and sees a sign on the door that lists an apartment available, just talk to the owner. This is not a coincidence. The cafe is the famed Lilac Cafe, hub of supernatural beings from every universe where they go to meet, drink coffee, drink not-coffee and probably broker deals with the owner, Porfirio. You've heard about Porfirio if you read the post on characters. If not, just click on the link provided after you finish reading this.
Melissa goes in, talks to Porfirio and learns that she can rent the apartment for an affordable price so long as she does two things. First, she has to help him with a "pet project" of his. Second, she is not to go near the door in her apartment that leads to nowhere... the "back door". Do those two things and she's free to live in the apartment for a low cost for as long as she needs to... The "pet project" is Iphigenia "Genie" Potts, possibly the worst roommate ever for several reasons that I'll let you be surprised by.
So, the blog begins with Mel losing her job and her home. She gets a new one, learns about the magical world of which most people are ignorant, and gets a new roommate that no one would ever want to have EVER. The blog begins with the full, unabridged story of everything I just told you with the surprises revealed and then will go on from there talking about, not just the supernatural hijinks she gets tangled in, but also her friends and family's reaction to her new lot in life and the problems of keeping magic a secret from them. Then there's those firends who knew about magic and the supernatural all along and couldn't tell her the same way she can't tell the rest of her friends.
Expect: vampires, witches, a magical bookstore, Loki's shop from my previous blog and learning what happened to poor Amanda Palmer, werewolves, Azrael (The Big Ugly), The Council, a woman with six arms, centaurs, shape-shifters in general, Western Medieval Martial Arts (Italian style), McGills, Benny The Cat, Benjamin Kramer and his brother, fairies, trolls, goblins, shadow monsters, waffles, brains, zombies, Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse, supernatural powers, Nemo, beasts, fairytales, and anything else my crazy brain can come up with!
...Oh yeah, and bratwurst.
As it's on my mind, I'm going to tell you some information about it now, but nothing spoilerific because I'd rather you guys figured things out as Melissa does. Yes, the main character is Melissa Ruth Miller. She is sort of designed around the number seven, but not entirely. Some of her and the people she already knows going into the blog are based on people I know or have known in real life. Everyone has different names so if you think you're similar to a character or that some of your dirty laundry is being aired for the internet to see... DON'T TELL ANYONE and your reputation as whatever you want people to see you as will stay in tact. Otherwise, just enjoy the story.
Whenever I consciously make characters of my own instead of allowing them to pop into existence from the insane place that is my head, it works best when I do base them on people I know. Usually I end up changing multiple details about them and one day I'm looking at the character and thinking, "I based this character off x-person? They don't even act like x-person! When did they change so much? Why? What happened? I got permission from x-person to put them in and now x-person won't even recognise (him or her) self! What am I going to do?" And then I move on because the new character is so much better for the role I have for them to play in the story anyhow... until they decide what they're going to do on their own because the insane place that is my head let's them do it.
Then it makes the story better.
So... other than that, let's talk about Melissa (Age 25). Everyone calls her Mel, but she doesn't refer to herself as Mel because her name is Melissa. She is the seventh child of eight . Her parents both came from big families and they wanted a big family of their own. Well, they were going to settle for a smaller one after Melissa's mom gave birth to her first two children, but Melissa's dad wanted a son and it took seven children before they got one. So, Melissa has six older sisters and one younger brother. Growing up in a big household was, obviously an adventure of its own and Melissa was as much raised by her older sisters as she was by her mother (her oldest sister is ten years older than Melissa). Most of the time she just got lost in the shuffle. Of course, her little brother was the golden boy of the family. He could do no wrong being the long-awaited Miller heir, blah, blah, blah. Melissa has some issues.
Melissa's story begins when she's fired from her job at the funeral home when one of their dearly deceased guests disappears. Dead people don't just disappear. They're dead. They don't move. Melissa is blamed for it since she was the last person working that night and she lives above the funeral home. She loses her job and the upstairs apartment that came with it.
The next day she walks by a storefront cafe and sees a sign on the door that lists an apartment available, just talk to the owner. This is not a coincidence. The cafe is the famed Lilac Cafe, hub of supernatural beings from every universe where they go to meet, drink coffee, drink not-coffee and probably broker deals with the owner, Porfirio. You've heard about Porfirio if you read the post on characters. If not, just click on the link provided after you finish reading this.
Melissa goes in, talks to Porfirio and learns that she can rent the apartment for an affordable price so long as she does two things. First, she has to help him with a "pet project" of his. Second, she is not to go near the door in her apartment that leads to nowhere... the "back door". Do those two things and she's free to live in the apartment for a low cost for as long as she needs to... The "pet project" is Iphigenia "Genie" Potts, possibly the worst roommate ever for several reasons that I'll let you be surprised by.
So, the blog begins with Mel losing her job and her home. She gets a new one, learns about the magical world of which most people are ignorant, and gets a new roommate that no one would ever want to have EVER. The blog begins with the full, unabridged story of everything I just told you with the surprises revealed and then will go on from there talking about, not just the supernatural hijinks she gets tangled in, but also her friends and family's reaction to her new lot in life and the problems of keeping magic a secret from them. Then there's those firends who knew about magic and the supernatural all along and couldn't tell her the same way she can't tell the rest of her friends.
Expect: vampires, witches, a magical bookstore, Loki's shop from my previous blog and learning what happened to poor Amanda Palmer, werewolves, Azrael (The Big Ugly), The Council, a woman with six arms, centaurs, shape-shifters in general, Western Medieval Martial Arts (Italian style), McGills, Benny The Cat, Benjamin Kramer and his brother, fairies, trolls, goblins, shadow monsters, waffles, brains, zombies, Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse, supernatural powers, Nemo, beasts, fairytales, and anything else my crazy brain can come up with!
...Oh yeah, and bratwurst.
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