UV Ramblings with AppleStorm

Well... I've decided to do something I don't think I've ever done since I started this whole "Posting pictures I've drawn on a Saturday night" thing. And that is, not to post a picture. That I drew.
... On a Saturday night.

Mainly because It's already Thursday (as I write this) and I have the sneaking suspicion I'm not going to be drawing at all this week. It's just... not a good week.

So instead I shall be talking a bit more about UV. Mainly just about what's on my mind, but hopefully it will still be enjoyable. Rambling, but enjoyable.

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Right. Ok. So... Ruby DeathDancer. I'm sure most of you guys are familiar with the character; Red kangaroo, Vampire, went to a not-vampire school and met a buncha life-long friends and family (and Midnight). Bookworm, tired voice of reason, potions expert... also has a Grandmother who's immortal. And a sandwich obsessed spider who's also immortal.

Yup. That was her age 15.

But uh, here's a thing... I have never spent a day in school in my entire life. Not one. Which was probably pretty obvious to anyone who did. But my 12 year old self really wanted to write in a school setting. Like, REALLY wanted to. Which was cool, I guess. But even a preteen me felt that, unless I actually went to a real school, I couldn't capture the 'right spirit' of the story I had grown so attached to. I still did it, but... obviously I trailed off to more generic adventures later on. Too scared to try and explore something I felt I would get wrong, not matter how much I researched or read about.

Maybe that's why I'm still so... hesitant, to revisit Ruby's teen-hood. Oh, BEFORE she went to high-school, absolutely no problem. Some mundane Vampire shenanigans of a quiet, angry little home-schooled girl trying to gain approval and attention from her Grandma gives me lots of stories. To say nothing of K&D, with big-brother affection, protection, and teasing for their feisty little sister.

Would also give me a chance to explore some Vampic Culture. And how Ruby's family go completely against that.

And the parents. Yeah. Them too... 

*deep concentrated look of pure resentment for Ruby's mother. But not the father. He tried his best.*

And after she graduates, she and Sapphire, Ollie, Harland and Midnight all go off on an almost 1-year road-trip around New Zealand in an old van which totally wasn't stolen. Until Midnight's parents caught up with him and forcibly crowned him... and put him under house arrest. Ruby and Harland stuck around with him (to keep him company) and got married after a few years, while Sapphire buggered off and started doing her own thing. Got hooked up with an amateur adventuring team and never looked back. She visits occasionally, but she's got her own separate story now. Ollie went to university and became an engineer of some sorts. Probably computer or electrical. Or both. Also got married and moved to Ireland. Still kept in touch with Ruby, though.

Then when Reginald comes in, that's when things really start kicking off! Midnight finally has someone competent to do the taxes with, and Ruby and Harland's business - The Déjá Brew - starts doing well. It's a little coffee cafe, potion shop, and pub in the more 'magic friendly' part of town. Although in Bandwell everything's magic friendly, but... *waves hand* More so.

And when all the kids start turning up...
Yeah.

I've got lots of material, as you can see. It's just...

That middle bit still bothers me.

Intellectually I know a high school is just a group of different personalities with bad coping and people skills, with lots of hilarious mistakes and stories and dramas and stuff. Which is 90% of what my story is anyway. But another part of me leans heavily on the "Write what you Know", and I know NOTHING about that kinda world. It's frustrating.

Hmm.. but then a part of me is glad I never had to go through all of that. Would have probably damaged me more than benefited. 

Eh. Who needs friends your own age, anyway? A twin sister is a thousand times better, any day of the week. And older people are more interesting. Plus, it would have meant I couldn't have spent so much time learning to draw or write, or anything I was actually interested in.

Yeah. Maybe this was for the best...

But anyway.

I'm getting tired... I'll wrap this up and go watch some more Discworld Noir. And finish reading Terry Pratchett's GUARDS! GUARDS!

It's only taken me about 3 days to finish it. A very lovely, non-stressful way to spend your free time, I must say.

See you, guys. :)