Okay, let's wrap this up

I'm sure we all need to take one

 * I lost this post and copied and pasted the information from the preview so that's why the formatting is a bit off.

Seraphina, Bellum III

I know this chapter didn’t bring on the good kind of feels and I knew it was headed here and have been working on this chapter on and off for a while.

I always knew there was something unsaid about Isobel wanting to move into a house full of men, and Sera's placement in SGI said it all. Sera spends so much time looking out for Ariel that she forgets to look out for herself.

The writer in me wants to let Sera and Ariel runaway somewhere far away, instead of exploring her character in a place she is never going to feel comfortable. Furthermore a place she doesn't want to be, she never chose to go to St. Lilth's and Sera is all about free wil. She is only staying becuase Helios won't look for her there again

We get a tiny peak of Seraphina’s POV and that's probably going to be it. The issue with Seraphina’s POV is that she is a very unreliable narrator. She’s very detached from herself.

As you all predicted she does undergo a bit of a physical makeover after section two .  Her new look is similar in style to models Ruby Rose and Elliot Sailors.


Elliot Sailors is my new ideal picspiration for Seraphina. I wish I found her earlier if only because she is the right age and has that very strong jaw line. Sailor's does double duty and models menswear to get more work.. These first few pics aren't  from a catalog these are her wedding photos.




Ruby Rose
The first picspiration I stumbled across was Australian Maybelline model Ruby Rose. Rose got some internet fame for her Break Free video. Yes, I also stole the music from her video. Of course Rose is going to be famous as she will be on OITNB, but I found her first !

Lysander

 found myself getting really interested in Lysander. In this chapter he was the “loyal” friend. He really backs Paris up. As you know I do things out of order, so when I was working on this section , I realized that I’d killed Lysander off in chapter 5's draft  (In the explosion at the shops). I immediately changed it so he is injured , because I liked him so much in this chapter. 

Obligatory .GIF post

How you guys think I treat my characters

Really, I like happy endings and you are probably all

So allow me to cheer you up with a .Gif of a Kardashian taking a selfie with a Koala Bear

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As you know there is a final (and shorter) part to Bellum. Part III. I'm really feeling the first chapter in Bellum III and you all know how when I'm working I'm all

Bellum III

There is a lot going on here and I went back and forth on ending this on such a dark note. The reason I made Bellum in three parts was because I knew each part would be focused on the status of Sera and Paris’ relationship. Part 1 was the attraction, Part 2 Pariphina as a couple, Part 3 is focusing on the aftermath of their break up.

One comment pinged one something that happens in Bellum III, we are going to explore Paris and Seraphina with the absence of a physical relationship.

I know how this serial ends and what the fates of the character are  I just don’t know how  to steer the boat. I’m excited because I get to write a little freer but scared that I may go off the rails. Yes I know I changed metaphors.

Ariel is going to begin interacting with the daemons so I’m excited to write teen characters !

Between Isobel’s return, Sera’s rape, Ariel/Sera being exiled, Helio’s killing people and Jona defecting and  I have quite the feat in Bellum III. I wish I could say it’s as. . .finished as I want it. It will be much shorter around 10 chapters.


Into to the trenches . . . I also need to work on. .  . that . . . other thing. snippet. (;