(TW: Childhood Trauma, Fictional Kidnapping, Neraidaphobia)
Seeing as this is the first post of its kind, I think that it’s only fitting for you to get to meet the main character and protagonist of my first current WIP, Winnie. Or rather, Winnie’s younger counterpart, seeing as Something Wicked starts out with the overview, which is set in a flashback. I will be doing the characters from Inner Demons, my NaNoWriMo project also but, I wanted to start out with my characters from Something Wicked due to the amount of time that I’ve put in on this project over the past 10-years. Also because, while I do love my NaNoWriMo project, and all of it’s characters, I just feel like once this month is over, I will be going back to this project full-time, and completing it, whereas Inner Demons might take a backseat and become more of a side project. Thank you for understanding.
During the flashback, an omniscient Winnie (presumably from the present-day) is telling the readers about what her best memories from childhood are. It all starts out seemingly tame, after all, what could be so sinister about a little girl talking about her Halloween costume, right? Well, that is up until she tells you that her best memories from growing up are of her best friend; the neighbor boy who was kidnapped by Faeries.
So, who is young Winnie, and what does she want?
Also, why is she such an important key player in the story?
The answer to that is simple. Winnie is often portrayed as being a curious but stubborn child, who often comes off as being very opinionated. She can also be described as being hypervigilant, with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a love of the fairytales and folklore; something that’s he inherited from stories passed down to her by her grandfather who used to tell her and Kieran stories about where he’d grown up in Ireland as a boy.
Winnie is just a child, all she wants is to be understood, and to fit in with what few friends she has, as well as her peers. After all, no one wants to be the weird kid, right? So, as a way to fit in she begs her mother to let her dress up in a storebought costume, rather than one of her mother’s homemade concoctions. After much prodding and pestering, Winnie is finally able to get her mother to agree to letting her wear a storebought costume, although she seems extremely reluctant when Winnie wants to dress up like Tinkerbell from the Disney movie Peter Pan. Because what kid doesn’t want to dress up like their favorite movie characters, right? Winnie doesn’t even think twice about the fact that maybe, her mother didn’t want her to dress up as a fairy because of Papa’s stories. And then… Kieran went missing.
What do you think? Do you want to know more about Kieran and Winnie?
Next time, I think we’re going to get into a little bit more about Kieran. Who was this little boy, and why did he go missing? What was so special about him that the Fae would want to take him away?
-Sky
Skyla N. Lambert
Author | Blogger | Bookworm
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