Today's #flashfiction #TheManyReincarnationsOfACharacter

“Safety first!”

Evel Knievel* #quote

        CJ is coming over today. I will also be heading to my fun nerdy, anime club. I love nerdiness. It makes life fun. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Many Reincarnations Of A Character

          Some writer in some house sits in front of some keyboard and brainstorms some story of theirs. The story's plot is outlined. Rescue a kingdom from an evil necromancer. But no protagonist existed for the story. No hero existed. The author already planned to take the simple framework and make the hero go through a grand adventure to gather the resources and allies to go against the necromancer...but no hero existed. So now the writer had to invent and form a character in his mind.

         First the character existed just as a name. Carl. First thing that popped into the brain.

         Carl transformed into Jason and the outline of body appeared. Like a ghost made of black mist.

          The black mist turned into the vague form of a teenager. The author thought to make the character ascend to full adulthood as he went through his adventure. At that time the author went through another name change to John.

       For want of a stronger character to fight the boy became a knight and aged instead. His body became defined as a suit of glistening armor. His name went back to Jason. And it went from a tale of coming of age to a story of revenge.

      A desire to pit magic against magic in the story entered the writer's mind and the character kept the same story of revenge and went from being a knight to being a wizard.

     The writer than thought about a time when he heard about writer's who based characters off people they knew. In that moment the character Jason became Caroline and partially based off his younger sister Carol.

       His sister owned a little cat named Bobbie and that soon became the character's dragon named Scalie, the only surviving member of the family that the necromancer killed.

       And after a few more nuances of the character were decided it went on to defeat the necromancer and save the kingdom along with avenging its family.