Art Archive

Prompt: Three different outfits for your character
(+ your character as a child, adult, and senior from Week 2)

Last challenge! I realized I wanted to do the child/adult/senior prompt from Week 2 as well so I fused these into one. Although it’s more like child/teen/adult for story reasons (because this story of mine jumps back and forth from these four as teens and then as 30-something adults).

Anyways, these are the main characters of my original novel The Road Home, which is currently a work-in-progress (but there’s an excerpt at Inkitt if you’re curious). Notes under the cut.

Xander is the youngest of this bunch. He was a tiny kid (look at that lil bae). He came from a tribe in the mountains so his clothing was pretty simple. As a kid, he covered the scars he sustained from the attacks on his tribe.

By the time he was thirteen, he was traveling alone, trying to learn how to be a healer. His traveling attire usually had a hooded cape, to cover his unique hair and eyes. His trip was supposed to be a peaceful and educational one until he Kassia, Aoife and Enda, and his role became primarily shouting at the girls to “please stop trying to get killed” and then healing them after. He has an innate ability to harness energy from nature, and he uses this mostly for healing. However, after facing dangerous stuff, he decided to learn how to use it to defend himself as well. Just to give the girls some backup, on the rare times they need it.

Years later, after they went separate ways, he still travels from town to town, but now as an experienced healer and researcher. A pretty badass-looking healer. But an actual softie. He’s a lot more laid-back, and comfortable with his scars. He doesn’t have a permanent residence, but he knows he has a family and they’ll welcome him anytime.

Aoife and Enda both came from the town of Falconport, a town of weaponsmiths.

Aoife as a kid was often called ‘princess’ and considered the ‘darling of the town’ because she was a very beautiful and graceful girl.

By the time she turned fourteen, she studied ink magic, which allowed someone to summon an object (in her case, weapons) from tattoos on her skin. She studied it primarily for the art side. When they started traveling at sixteen, she also started training herself (usually as Kassia’s sparring partner) to use the weapons to fight as well. She was a fast learner and quickly became a good fighter.

As an adult and after settling down, she quickly became known as the best ink artist in their town, and occasionally still went on hunting trips to keep herself in fighting shape. She no longer keeps her tattoos covered. And she never forgets to keep in touch with…

Enda. She is Aoife’s childhood friend, and she worked with her mother in a weapons forge, so as a child she rarely spent time outside her working clothes.

Even though her work was making weapons, she was studying to be a Spellhall librarian like her father. With Aoife’s encouragement, they set off for Spellhall, so Enda can become an accredited librarian. She changed into more comfortable traveling clothes, and always carried a special protective dagger by her waist.

As an adult, Enda settled down in a small peaceful town a little ways off Spellhall. She is still a librarian, this time doing her work, which were primarily studies and research, at home. She also teaches a subject in the town’s school, and has a couple of apprentices under her wing.

Kassia came from a mountain province, and was a pretty active kid, always running around town doing errands, and joining their local pastime of climbing trees.

She set off on a trip to go see the world when she was seventeen. She has a list of places to see, all taken from stories of her parents who were adventurous hunters. She trained in fighting while on this trip, and found her footing as a huntress.

As an adult, she still travels, still going from place to place and taking various jobs (hunting, guarding, please get that wild rampaging troll out of our carriage’s way, etc.). Her years of experience show in her various scars and stronger build. She still has a list of places to see, but the last destination is always ‘home’. On a little house on a hill, and Enda’s smiling face happy to see her again.

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Whew, that was long. Anyways, the novel really is how these four met and traveled together, became this little family, and what happened after they went separate ways.