[versepost] With Only Strangers Watching
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wordfallshortname/nicknames: Sundrop
genre/format: urban fantasy, ???
Brief synopsis: Superpowers exist, with a price: those with these powers have shorter lifespans to begin with, especially those who are particularly powerful, and using them more can cause further health complications. The Sundrop Center is one of many places across the world opened to take in powered individuals in the attempt to help prevent their powers from taking that toll on them, and while most of those places have their own issues, it's one of the more positive ones, until a media frenzy leads to the center being shut down. The former residents are less than pleased with their sudden freedom, the media storm surrounding it, the loss of their built family within the walls, and the closing of the one place where they knew what was expected from them.
major characters:
Frankie -- early 50s, empath. an awkward and emotionally stunted person because of how his early years were spent, but inclined towards kindness, especially with the younger people who came to the center. Alice -- late 20s, telekinetic. Angry and frustrated, and extremely good at self-control in every definition of it. Probably our POV character if I ever write this properly.
Sam -- 20, shapeshifter. basically a unit with his brother. extremely traumatized by his family and deals with it by using his powers more than he should. likes to be a cat, or anything else small.
Tom -- 20, voice manipulation. basically a unit with his brother, same as Sam in most respects. only Sam really knows what his actual voice sounds like.
Joey -- 18/19, pyrokinetic. bouncy sweet extremely loving trans girl from a family who understands nothing about her.
current focuses:
- is this??? a short story collection? a novel? going to ever be written?
genre/format: urban fantasy, ???
Brief synopsis: Superpowers exist, with a price: those with these powers have shorter lifespans to begin with, especially those who are particularly powerful, and using them more can cause further health complications. The Sundrop Center is one of many places across the world opened to take in powered individuals in the attempt to help prevent their powers from taking that toll on them, and while most of those places have their own issues, it's one of the more positive ones, until a media frenzy leads to the center being shut down. The former residents are less than pleased with their sudden freedom, the media storm surrounding it, the loss of their built family within the walls, and the closing of the one place where they knew what was expected from them.
major characters:
Frankie -- early 50s, empath. an awkward and emotionally stunted person because of how his early years were spent, but inclined towards kindness, especially with the younger people who came to the center. Alice -- late 20s, telekinetic. Angry and frustrated, and extremely good at self-control in every definition of it. Probably our POV character if I ever write this properly.
Sam -- 20, shapeshifter. basically a unit with his brother. extremely traumatized by his family and deals with it by using his powers more than he should. likes to be a cat, or anything else small.
Tom -- 20, voice manipulation. basically a unit with his brother, same as Sam in most respects. only Sam really knows what his actual voice sounds like.
Joey -- 18/19, pyrokinetic. bouncy sweet extremely loving trans girl from a family who understands nothing about her.
current focuses:
- is this??? a short story collection? a novel? going to ever be written?
