FIFTY THOUSAND VIEWS!?
Well, I'm updating, so yes. Seriously, though, thank you guys so much. Even though half of them are probably the same person, 50K is a heck of a lot. And my ramblings on a chromebook achieved that.
So, I promised a bonus chapter, and here it is:
Have you ever read a book that was truly a work of inspired genius? You're here, at the end of this book, so I'm assuming you have. And after reading that inspired genius, have you ever wondered "Did they plan each and every plot twist? What went on inside their head as they created magic with a keyboard?" (Okay, so I'm being a little narcissistic.) And now, you are about to find out.
It's a lot less intellectual and refined as you might expect. Keep in mind, most of these were probably written when I was sleep deprived.
This is your last chance to escape, reader. I'm warning you.
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Okay, so I guess you're determined.
Fine. Take a step into the insanity that is my brain. Annotated by present day (or several days ago) A. Fan.
BOOK NINE: SWAN SONG: PLANNING DOCUMENT
Sokeefe. How is it going to happen? Sophie is going through Keefe's memories and she sees the alicorn ride from exile from Keefe's POV, which is when he realized he liked her. She FINALLY realizes and basically freaks out while she tries to sort through her feelings. But how does she decide on him? That stayed fairly consistent, though I did figure out the final ending eventually.
Last book in series- don't have to come up with cliffhanger! Yay! Unless I do... GREAT GULON INCIDENT! ! ! ! Be glad I didn't end with Keefe saying "Okay, fine, the incident is when I..."
No epilogue, sorry.
Should end in museum where series started w/ entire group.
What the mallowmelt is stellarlune? "reach your fullest potential"? (Figured out that.)
Is she going to find out her bio dad?
Will they find Kenric's cache?
Betrayals?
Chapter 21 was hard for me, so I tried a summary of it. Chapter... what are we on, 21? Yeah, 21, I guess. So, Sophie tries to sneak out and Sandor catches her, because duh. He agrees that if they do not manage to get a hold of Axel within the next few days, then he will help them as long as they are actually ORGANIZED about it and, of course, SAFE! Of course they end up robbing the house, and that's gonna be fun to write. Hehe. Maybe chapter twenty one will also have that Fitz scene in there?
Who's left in the Neverseen: Fintan, Gisela, Trix, Vespera, Ruy, Gethen, some ogres/dwarves/goblins/ other stuff, some OC's, maybe? Need to figure out who the eNeMiEs are!
OC's
1) Axel- technopath. Male. After the tribunal, Dex finds all the important telepaths (because there are sooooo many of them) and interrogates them. On like, the fourth try, they find the real Axel! Who's name I will decide on later! Oh, and then they get the caches- the caches are important, can't forget about the caches. I said caches too many times, didn't I? Real name: Jayden Hammer. Some details changed, general idea same.
2) Silver- beguiler. Female. Former Exillium coach. Recruited Glimmer. Real name Shrivani.
3) Mist- Phaser. Male. Blur.
Glimmer: Former exillium student. Left hemisphere. Not any previously mentioned character. 17 yrs old. Although their times at Exillium overlapped, they were in different hemispheres and anyway talking was forbidden so she never got to know Tam or Linh. A former Exillium coach Coach Shrivani (the one for the left hemisphere so not tam or linh's coach) noticed her rebellious/vengeful nature and hatred towards the council so, Shrivani recruited Glimmer. (That's her real name btw.) Glimmer was fourteen at the time. Glimmer explains "She's a beguiler, so obviously she was very convincing." When she first started working with the Neverseen they presented it as a group trying to do good and hid all the bad kidnapping, arson, etc. stuff they did from her. Everything she heard about the neverseen, the black swan, the council, etc. was very biased and more often than not said by Silver (Shrivani.) But why does she reveal to show her face? If no one will recognize her anyway... figure that out later. Maybe because she thinks the council will recognize her and send her back to exillium. AND THERE WE GO, THAT'S MY CRAPPY GLIMMER THEORY! Stayed consistent, as it was written right before the Glimmer chapter.
Neverseen. Neverseen, Neverseen, Neverseen. What are they going to do next? Glimmer obviously knows some about their plans, since they actually trusted her. / / / An attack on the goblins. Glimmer doesn't know when. Sophie points out that the goblins are a) outnumbering them and b) way way stronger. Glimmer says she only knows this through eavesdropping, but she thinks she caught the words... "humans." What else? The Neverseen have continued with human testing in Nightfall to further work on overcoming elvin guilt. Once they're sure guilt effects have gone bye-bye, the neverseen are going to commit a mass human genocide. She's not sure, but Glimmer thinks Keefe's new ability may tie into this plan somehow.
Okay, this part is fun: Who dies? (not keefe not keefe not keefe) oml maybe sandor? How could I do that without hating myself? or maybe other forkle has to sacrifice himself? OMG THAT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE BUT LIKE AAAAAAHH HOW COULD I DO SUCH A THING? Except I'm going to. Yep, Sandor. :) He dies protecting Sophie :(
What is Keefe's new ability? I was thinking omnikinetic or omnipath but like? Actually now I like the stealing-abilities idea. Stealer? Absorber? Maybe? And he'd also have like enhanced empathy and everything.
Okay, so basically... I'm just going to leave a lot of the ships undetermined. Sokeefe because duh, Marellinh b/c representation and cuteness in general, Dex declaring his undying love for cinnamon rolls, aaaaaaannnd maybe shipping Amy with a triplet b/c WHY THE HECK NOT!? The last two didn't happen, sadly. That would have been fun, though.
Is anyone going to find out that Oralie is Sophie's mom? Actually yes b/c I WANT A CUTE GRADY/EDALINE/SOPHIE SCENE GOSHDARNIT! LOL, past me, CHILL THE EVERBLAZE OUT!
Blur. Hmm. I'm going with Jensi's brother b/c WHY THE HECK NOT! How he joined the Black Swan (and Neverseen tbh): He manifested like really, REALLY late. For a long time people thought he would just be talentless forever and he was subject to a lot of bullying. There's a school rule that in Level Five if someone didn't manifest an ability by midterms they wouldn't be allowed to come back after the break. A week before midterms, Jaxx still didn't have a special ability. Sir Astin (AKA one of the Forkles, Universe mentor) felt bad for Jaxx so he offered to help trigger an ability. Jaxx was pretty desperate so he agreed. And poof! One day before midterms he manifested as a phaser! However, one of his friends that he hung out with (mostly because they were both talentless outcasts) didn't get an ability in time so they had to leave. Jaxx was like "tHe InJuStIcE!" and Mr. Forkle recruited him into the Black Swan. But guess who also thought he'd make a good addition to a rebel group? The Neverseen. At first, Jaxx thought the Black Swan and the Neverseen were either working together or part of the same group, so he was cool with being part of both. When he finally realized they were enemies, he decided he was on the Neverseen side, and the others convinced him to stay with the Black Swan as a double agent. *Bows* Thankuuuu. Ok and then his tribunal... what happens at the tribunal? Blah blah blah, interrogations, blah. Nothing important, blah, until Dex has the bright idea to ask about the caches. Blur reveals that... AXEL!... has the caches. But who is Axel? Blur doesn't know. Stayed consisted.
Team Valiant. Great. So, they're questioning Blur and Axel. Other members: Idk, the only important one is a recently manifested mesmer. They were hoping for Keefe to steal Sophie's enhancing and therefore make the mesmerizing more powerful. Humans have such "weak minds" that whole groups of them can be controlled at once. They were also hoping for Keefe to steal Grady's mesmer. The humans will be using controlled humans to attack the goblins. Blur and Axel know that the endgame is a human genocide, but they aren't sure exactly how- only that it's in a month. The goblin attack is in two weeks. Yay! Fintan's cache, finally opened only a few days before Doomsday, reveals that the Neverseen will be in Exile- the center of the earth. Originally the final battle was in Exile, then I was torn between Exile and Point of Purity for a while before finally deciding on the latter.
Okay so basically...
This is where I try and fail to be more organized about my thoughts.
Sophie gives cache to Dex
Goes to visit Keefe
Keefe says her name but SURPRISE!
He's just dreaming about her JFDSFIEWURIENDSKFJSIRJKSDFJ everyone hates me though.
~Sandor dies during a fight. I hate myself Still true.
~Keefe loses his memory when he wakes up.
~Fintan escapes the prison placeeeeeee I'm being very smart.
~How does Sophie find out Keefe likes her?
~Oralie opens the cache- next chapter is a sort of projected scene, of a tribunal. A formerly talentless person reveals that he did something with stellarlune to give himself the power absorber- meaning he can take people's powers away from them. He demonstrates by "absorbing" Oralie's empathy. Once Oralie regains her power, the council rules that instead of Exiling him, they're going to be doing something different. Taking away all of his skills (of elvin type), his elvin life span (making him about a 30~ish human man), washing all his memories of the elvin world... and making him live as a human. In Londen. As...
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Ethan Benedict Wright.
~There is like a big BATTLE thingy at the end where EVERYONE FIIIIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHHTTTTTSSSS AND THE NEVERSEEN ARE EITHER ARRESTED OR DEAAAAADDDDD *Battle should last several chapters* Yes, this is your worshiped author: EVERYONE FIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGHHHHHTTTTTTTTS in a big BATTLE thingy.
~Lady Gisela ends up dying and we get flufffyyyyyyy SOKEEEEEEEEEEEEEFEEEEEE HEHEHEHEHEHE Again... I'm less of a smart author now.
~At Sandor's funeral/aurification the Neverseen attack there too.
~After the two Neverseen attacks (where sandor is killed and in Gildingham) Sophie decides that they need to end the fight with the Neverseen. So they leave a note, or prepare their own attack, and get ready for the big BATTLE thingy. Ended up changing this with a more solid Neverseen plan.
~Once the Neverseen are all arrested/dead, Sophie decides to focus on fixing the Elvin world like she was intended to do. I'd been planning this since the beginning. Especially the "Really frickin' gay!" line.
~Cute Oralie/Sophie scene where Oralie tells her she's proud to have played a part in creating such an amazing girl and like fluff and sophie forgives her and all. Mostly happened.
~DEX DYES IGGY AT THE END AND NMBGFDXDBVHNJHHBGFVDFSDSHYJUMHNBGFHJMMMMMMMMMMKJDHFEWIURUIEWHJSDJFLSDKJFLKDSJFDSLKM *Deep breath* i'm okay. (Narrator voice) She was not okay.
~At Black Swan meeting Glimmer provides more details about the Neverseen (plans, members, etc.) and about herself.
Another attempt to give my planning doc some sort of coherence. Even I can't understand this. And I wrote it.
Okay, I need to be more organized about this. So:
As of right now...
~Tribunal (Apparently I wrote this right after the tribunal.)
~Filler chapter/Dex hailing Sophie/Foxfire reopens maybe?
~Meet up to open cache
~Forgotten secret revealed
~Keefe wakes up
~Keefe's memory is gone
~Sophie is sad
~Sophie and Fitz use cognate power
~Great Foster Oblivion ends
~Sophie and Keefe talk.
~Ability training for Keefe and his new "thieving" power
~Caches/catching Axel (sort of)
~Jensi asks to join the Black Swan even though he is talentless
~Sophie tells Grady/Edaline about councillor not-her-mom (flufffffffffffffffff)
~Somehow, Sophie chooses Keefe
~AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHASDFGHJKLFANGIRLATTACKKKKKKK Me being smart.
~Big EBWSATBJFWBMSLSNS (I almost forgot about that acronym for a second) scene maybe? Plus all the rest of the friends ( ro!) have to "react"
~Somehow, the Neverseen manages to attack a big group of them getting together, detalis tbd
~Sandor diessssssssssss omg I hate myself everyone hates me too *dies in hole* Sounds about right.
~Incomprehensible sobbing noises
~How do I move on from this tragedy?
~Let's make it worse (I'm really obsessed with the tilde symbol: ~~~)
~With Sandor's aurification (did I spell that right? IDK)
~Neverseen incite full Gildingham attack
~with the humans! O.o
~It's a struggle
~With many casualties
~But eventually
~The living members of the Neverseen retreat
~Some of Sophie's friends were badly hurt
~And only after do they realize
~GISELA DIED
~Fluffy Sokeefe hurt/comfort.
~Black Swan stuff
~Open cache
~Genocide is in Exlie, need to figure that out. Or possibly at Point Of Purity. Some sort of biological warfare- like corona but deadlier.
~Big BATTTLEEEEEEEE THINGYYYYYYYYYYY
~Finally, the Neverseen has like 2 living members and they go to Exile
~Council stuff, blah blah blah... (need scene with Oralie, scene with matchmaking and EQUALITY FOR ALL!)
~FLUFFY ending at museum!
Stats as of chapter thirty five (inclusive): 45,596 words. 11-12th grade reading level. Keefe is the most repeated word (not including common ones like "the") at 360. Dex is also high on the list at 209.
DEX IS RELEVANT! XD. I think it's a high reading level because spellcheck doesn't recognize most of the words.
Final word count: 60734.
All right, so, hope you enjoyed your glimpse into the non-grammatical madness that is my brain ™.
Crowd: You trademarked your brain?
Me™: Yes™.
Crowd: As for your question: Madness, yes, enjoyed, not so much.
Me: Fine. Shameless self promotion time, Glitter-Fangirls-23 has a oneshot book now, and this account has my Marellinh fanfiction posted (because I have no impulse control). So go read those!
Also...
You know...
Most of the Keepers books have short stories...
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I'll post a poll on this account for which character. If you're a guest reader, or the character you want isn't listed on the poll, let me know who you want in the reviews. NOT: Fitz, Keefe, or Tam. Literally every other character can be requested.
Okay, that's all- I hope you enjoyed the insanity, and please review!