Thanks to a couple of lovely commenters, I have enough to at least get me started on New Yourk and Bucking ham Fountin )which might show up later in this one, too, I dunno yet) and I even have enough in his bio to start the story with, But here's my next hurtle.
I'm going for the Urban fantasy thing, because I'm noticing that's where my stories always seem to end up (they turn in to fantasies; not all of them end up being urban, though) But I don't want C starting out in the urban fantasy setting, but in the real live honest-to-goodness "what you see is what you get" NY.
Somehow he manages to sort of- arrive in a mirror world where the fantasy creatures (gryphons, elves, the like) ar. His idea was to fall through a dumpster, and while I like that, it just doesn't have the right feel to it. I'm thinking of maybe having a world where there are no "humans" so he's sort of odd looking in the first place, or maybe a world where the police are zombies, but I don't know yet. I've even been toying with the idea that when C gets there he changes *because* there are no purely human people, and whatever "Force/deity/whatever" saw C going there decided he didn't need that to contend with as well as the issues inherent in realizing that he isn't where he thinks he is anymore.
So throw things at me. How do I get my street-living, smart-ass C into a mirror world without being hurt too terribly badly? Yes, I know that was horrid, sorry.
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Date: 2007-10-31 08:24 pm (UTC)Thanks to a couple of lovely commenters, I have enough to at least get me started on New Yourk and Bucking ham Fountin )which might show up later in this one, too, I dunno yet) and I even have enough in his bio to start the story with, But here's my next hurtle.
I'm going for the Urban fantasy thing, because I'm noticing that's where my stories always seem to end up (they turn in to fantasies; not all of them end up being urban, though) But I don't want C starting out in the urban fantasy setting, but in the real live honest-to-goodness "what you see is what you get" NY.
Somehow he manages to sort of- arrive in a mirror world where the fantasy creatures (gryphons, elves, the like) ar. His idea was to fall through a dumpster, and while I like that, it just doesn't have the right feel to it. I'm thinking of maybe having a world where there are no "humans" so he's sort of odd looking in the first place, or maybe a world where the police are zombies, but I don't know yet. I've even been toying with the idea that when C gets there he changes *because* there are no purely human people, and whatever "Force/deity/whatever" saw C going there decided he didn't need that to contend with as well as the issues inherent in realizing that he isn't where he thinks he is anymore.
So throw things at me. How do I get my street-living, smart-ass C into a mirror world without being hurt too terribly badly? Yes, I know that was horrid, sorry.
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