OOC - Ramblings

[cattygabriel]

Spent an hour or two looking over some old threads between Gabriel and Michael at stillasoldier 's journal. I really miss that RP. It was dark and gritty and perhaps a little depressing, but I loved the plot and the characters and everything. I loved tackling those themes in my characterisation of Gabriel there, which was greatly helped by stillasoldier -mun.

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[rhaphael]

Heh, I started writing a series of stories called Eichelon (yes I know thats not how its spelled) and it was basically about these angels that had been trapped in Hell after the Crucifixion and eventually banded together in preparation for the Apocalypse. They were "grey" as you say, neither Fallen but still angels, rougues really... And while I do have some fluff moments the whole thing is really dark (you already know how dark my stories can get XD) I think if you miss Synechist you should take what you enjoyed about it and try to apply it to your own plot

[rhaphael]

This is what I use for my story maps if you'd like to use it. I do it in a notebook but you don't have to of course. And you dont have to use it but here it is if you'd like it:

PLOT
How does it start?:

Where does it end?:

Major twists or surprises:

Time Frame: (this is where I try to figure how many chapters but I'm guessing in RP it would be Timeline)

CHARACTERS

Major:

Name:
Purpose:
Their use in the plot:

Minor:

Name: (if any)
Purpose:
Their use in the plot:

Details:
(this is where I take each chapter and write a few sentences about what I'd like to happen in that chapter. For Raphael and now Erik's threads in LTSH I just made a few thread ideas and a possible summary, since I did not know what would happen in those threads ;3 In your case you could use it to map out when certain things happen:

• May 6th, the four horsemen ride out
• May 12th, the stars fall from the sky and poison the seas

LOCATIONS

Places of special interest:
(ex:

Heaven

[cattygabriel]

XD Hats off to you. I'm not fantastic at either plots or planning. I do list things like things in settings, or descriptions - I still have the original character notes for Gabriel, and the list of what was in his backpack - but my handwritten story notes aren't linear, they're all over the place. I am very, very disorganised. So the (very few) story notes I have for the Michael/Gabriel bodice-ripper spoof are in a Word doc, but just listed whenever I got one, so again they're all over the place (though they make sense to me). I might adapt your method for my Word docs. :D Thanks!

(I don't think it's possible for a demon to possess an angel because the exposure to so much pure holiness would kill the demon, and having such evil invade their very being would likely kill the angel.)

[cattygabriel]

Thanks, but... I don't like just asking What if? too much. I do ask that sometimes for short stories (though msot of the time I get an image or a short idea and I work on that), but my problem is I always ask WHY. Why is this happening? Why are they reacting like this? Why would he do that instead of that? Wouldn't that be odd considering what we know of him? And hey, that's not supposed to happen, it can't happen because [source] says that if you do that, this happens instead. So I tend not to 'think the impossible' because implausibility always bugs me and I like to research the hell out of everything. But by now a typical Apocalypse fic that sticks to Revelations would be almost boring. XD

I love Jen, and I love her verse. And since we will be primarily playing in her verse or a sort of mixture, God will be a joint effort but based on her version, which means He's an affable Father to them, not someone who goes MIA and works in sadistic mysterious ways like the one from Supernatural or Lucifer. Plus, the presence of Jen's Michael