Today's #flashfiction The Birth Of A Character

“The one ring to rule them all.”

Kay Jewelers* #quote

I'll be hanging with both CJ and Jessica this weekend so that'll be fun. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Birth Of A Character

       Some writer in some house sits in front of some keyboard and brainstorms some story of theirs. But not even a protagonist existed for the story. 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 story. 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 who would face off against another 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 pet 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 evil wizard and save the kingdom along with avenging its family.