Brainstorning: BF October

[toxic_apiaceae]

Alright, I'm pretty certain I know WHO I'm gonna be writing about this month: Boots and Hearts.  I've been wanting to get back to those two for a while now and something about them (probably Hearts) is screaming October is it.  It'll be another serial piece, I think, just to gear up for NaNo.  (Plus, I'm hoping to get another story under my belt

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[mermaidbia]

I'm not too fond of the 'baptism by fire' prompt because it's inherently clichéd, so I originally totally flattened out on this one. Of course what comes to mind first is some sort of initiation ceremony, but that is clichéd too.

The thing that's been kind of whispering in my ear - inspired by my obsession with the Alice games (American McGee's Alice and Madness Returns) - would be to make the baptism part something really creepy and claustrophobic and terrifying. I've been told I'm good at creepy, for being so squeamish about it in real life. Perhaps the 'initiation' could be something that's only in your head, a sliding down into insanity. So I'm picturing a place like Bedlam or Arkham Asylum - the creepy and merciless asylums pictured in the Victorian age, where people basically get no real treatment but get locked away and strapped to beds to grow even more mad by the day. A truly terrifying place, but it's also a universe of its own in that the inmates have arranged themselves with their fate of being mad and beyond help, so

[mermaidbia]

So, any clue on how to flesh this out, Tox? :) Or should I scrap the whole thing alltogether?

[toxic_apiaceae]

I've been trying to get a message through, but LJ's being rather douchetastic at the moment. Anyway, here are my thoughts

[mermaidbia]

Huh...think I can pull this off this weekend? *needs encouragement*

[pelethetart]

I like the word! :)

[pelethetart]

Boots and Hearts are soo endearing. I remember when they were born from a different brain storming session. *sigh* It's so nice seeing you raise them up properly

[toxic_apiaceae]

I'd eventually like to compile a collection of stories about them for publication. Right now, Hearts is being very insistent that I write about them, but she's not giving me anything very clear to write about

[pelethetart]

I'm using the proper one and then Jazz as JFF since Shed wants it that way. :-)

But that's only if Avalon will let me play with other characters. She's been very demanding of my attention lately.