midnight story babble
Jan. 17th, 2011 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sagesariaOk so I was talking with Irena tonight about Karrah and its related stories and just wanted to vomit out what I can comprehend of what we talked about before it goes out of my head completely
Primarily we were talking about Ryder and his backstory. I brought up some of the questions I still had about him and some new ones arose. First was about his family; she wanted to know what his parents did that got him on the hitlist, and we brainstormed that his father may have in charge of some sort of underground cultish thing, which meant wanting him dead, and by proxy his wife, but of course she was pregnant at the time so they couldn't take her out just yet, but then of course once the baby was born that was no problem.
His accent, we brainstormed, may actually be related to this cultish thing; they're some sort of hidden race or culture that have a similar accent, which would mean that Ryder would have to be old enough to remember overhearing it; we're thinking between two and four years old. Which means the baby his mother was pregnant with was another child; his sister. Of course both of them would be taken in by the rogue guild, but neither of them would know they're related. I mean the guild isn't just gonna say "yeah, we killed your parents, here's your sister!" Ryder's age is a good point to remember bits and pieces, but probably block out a lot of the more scary stuff like watching them kill his mother, whom I'm starting to decide was also raped (which got the assassin in trouble, I'll tell you what); I imagine the offender strangling her to death while doing so. The unusual accent becomes a sort of personal separation from the guild when he starts to resent what they do; he speaks to himself, imagines himself in that accent, but covers it when speaking to them. After Grace's death, it becomes part of his being, just as his new name Ryder does. Still unsure what his name was with the guild, or in his early life with his family, or whether Ryder is his real name from the latter. Mixed feelings about the accent being a separate entity as well; perhaps it could be how he talks anyway just because of weird trauma and vague memories of his father's work, and he could just be "the new kid who talks funny"
The sister thing won't come up until the sidestory where Ryder goes to take out the guild so he doesn't have them over his head so he can be with River and their daughter. Not sure of the details yet, possibility of my mental image of him being captured is not by the assassins, but by someone who knows them and is wary of him, and knows Ryder's family and what his father was in on. Who his sister turns out to be or how they will interact is yet to be established; won't really be involved in River's story.
Original establishment of the guild as completely neutral may be more difficult than I thought, maybe even impossible. Will have to talk further when we're both more awake and coherent.
TL;DR: Ryder's backstory is still way more interesting than River's. Though it has been mentioned that being a freedom fighter has plenty of potential.
Primarily we were talking about Ryder and his backstory. I brought up some of the questions I still had about him and some new ones arose. First was about his family; she wanted to know what his parents did that got him on the hitlist, and we brainstormed that his father may have in charge of some sort of underground cultish thing, which meant wanting him dead, and by proxy his wife, but of course she was pregnant at the time so they couldn't take her out just yet, but then of course once the baby was born that was no problem.
His accent, we brainstormed, may actually be related to this cultish thing; they're some sort of hidden race or culture that have a similar accent, which would mean that Ryder would have to be old enough to remember overhearing it; we're thinking between two and four years old. Which means the baby his mother was pregnant with was another child; his sister. Of course both of them would be taken in by the rogue guild, but neither of them would know they're related. I mean the guild isn't just gonna say "yeah, we killed your parents, here's your sister!" Ryder's age is a good point to remember bits and pieces, but probably block out a lot of the more scary stuff like watching them kill his mother, whom I'm starting to decide was also raped (which got the assassin in trouble, I'll tell you what); I imagine the offender strangling her to death while doing so. The unusual accent becomes a sort of personal separation from the guild when he starts to resent what they do; he speaks to himself, imagines himself in that accent, but covers it when speaking to them. After Grace's death, it becomes part of his being, just as his new name Ryder does. Still unsure what his name was with the guild, or in his early life with his family, or whether Ryder is his real name from the latter. Mixed feelings about the accent being a separate entity as well; perhaps it could be how he talks anyway just because of weird trauma and vague memories of his father's work, and he could just be "the new kid who talks funny"
The sister thing won't come up until the sidestory where Ryder goes to take out the guild so he doesn't have them over his head so he can be with River and their daughter. Not sure of the details yet, possibility of my mental image of him being captured is not by the assassins, but by someone who knows them and is wary of him, and knows Ryder's family and what his father was in on. Who his sister turns out to be or how they will interact is yet to be established; won't really be involved in River's story.
Original establishment of the guild as completely neutral may be more difficult than I thought, maybe even impossible. Will have to talk further when we're both more awake and coherent.
TL;DR: Ryder's backstory is still way more interesting than River's. Though it has been mentioned that being a freedom fighter has plenty of potential.
