Thoughts concerning Halfbreed
Wow.. it's been awhile since I've used this icon, let alone updated. So basically what's behind the cut are thoughts and spoilers for Halfbreed. I really am working on it, I'm hoping to get the next part out soon, but it's moving slow partially I think because I need to find a more definitive direction rather than "that way". Otherwise I get writing ADD. So, for those of you who have been reading Halfbreed, it's up to you whether or not you want to read this. If you don't want to be spoiled for later parts, that's cool, I understand, but this is also a work in progress, some of this stuff might not happen or whatever. If you do read it, which would be cool, I would really appreciate your feedback for this stuff. If not, it's also a nice way for me to get my thoughts down, which I desperately need to do. So consider this like one of those tv producers or writers blogs that are so popular. Only I hate the word 'blog'.
1. The woman that Nash and Geharis have is named Fiona. This might not be important, but I guess it is for me. The first name is the lettering system and the last name is the cohort. So Eric Bretford would be the 5th subject of the B cohort (the second one, as you can imagine). Kind of like the Island. Thus, her name is Fiona because that starts with an F. I haven't decided if her last name should be Bretford too. But it will at least start with a B. I also don't know or haven't decided if the A cohort was completed. That would be a lot of patients, it's also possible that the A cohort was a different process from the B cohort, not just that they ran out of names. I'm thinking that's more likely. The A cohort was probably initial prototypes and research. If this times into play it will likely be in the next story. (if I don't get to it there, there might even be a fourth, but that's not officially planned yet)
2. They're dealing with Fiona differently. I like how the first one was limited perspective and Eric was much more free to question and discover things on his own without Nash feeding him his identity, but that obviously has flaws. Was it realistic enough? So they've corrected that mistake with Fiona and she'll be given a lot more information... we'll see how that goes, I suppose it would be difficult because they don't know what she did in her other life, whereas with a man it would be easier to say he was just a random soldier. That might sound sexist, but think about how many women are really in our military versus how many men? It wouldn't be realistic to assume that every female subject they have would be in the military. It also depends where they picked her up, and a lot of that stuff I haven't come up with either.
3. Possible plotline for Fiona: She could very well be this woman that Eric keeps thinking about. I honestly have no idea who she is. Maybe she's his sister, his wife, his daughter, his best friend... I think that I'm going to try to let that develop on its own and if it turns out that as I let the writing flow that it's his wife, I don't think that'll be Fiona. Maybe for sister, but I'm not keen on that idea, it would be easier if she was just his friend that he was trying to protect.
4. I'm also debating what to do with Eric, I don't particularly want him to be generic and be a soldier. But I don't want to veer too close to my source and make him a brilliant scientist as much as that would be cool. Who else would have knowledge of fighting and be out of the caves enough to kinda know what he's doing. However, the fish/creek wasn't familiar (as I discovered writing it...) which also could be a result of memory loss, some of which will not come back, or he really never has ventured that far. A doctor seems a little anticlimatic for some reason. Maybe he will end up being a soldier of some sort, and if he is, he's probably a scout or specialist.
5. So the part I'm up to now is going to go into what they changed in Eric, and some physical examinations. It's possible that if I'm feeling morbid or something while I'm writing it, some of those 'changes' won't be working and he'll either have side effects or like.. deadly.. side effects. I won't kill him though, at least not that I can say this far. But things like, his race has their heart lower in their chest and to one side, to maximize effeciency and blood flow. Mark was good enough to inform me that copper would create blue blood, so their blood is copper based instead of iron based. I don't know what that will mean, but at least I know. So there's that to look forward to.
The second half, most likely, will be looking for Fiona. Obviously they'll find out that she's been taken too and want to go find her, etc etc. Because really no one would want to leave someone in the hands of Dr. Nash. One of the questions would be, is Fiona the only captive subject that they have, or do they really have more? Like in stasis or something, or locked away somewhere, from the attack. If so, would the elusive woman that I don't know about yet be there?
6. This part is subject to change. I'm... thinking that Kelvin may not survive the stories. I don't know about this yet, it would be complicated. Ryanne and Kelvin obviously had a thing. If he dies, she'll be the one to kill him. Yeah, that sounds rather morbid and evil. The way I'm looking at it is in the third story, Eric is going to go searching for answers and this will create friction between the Kanash and the humans, and Kelvin and Micia will be stuck in the middle, so Ryanne will also have to question where she stands. That sort of thing. Kelvin is based on Malcolm Reed, and I recall havng a conversation with Athena that it would have been more fitting to Malcolm's character if he had died in the last episode instead of Trip. Sad to think about, but.. kind of accurate. So maybe Kelvin is a substitute. It's a long way off if it does happen, so.. we'll see. I haven't officially condemned him yet.
7. There will be a very brief and unsuccessful romantic interest at somepoint between Eric and Micia.
8. Ultimately the Kanash were a government experiment several generations ago. So this story has to be set several hundred years into the future. I don't know if it's really come across that way. But there has to be a lot of distance to give the Kanash time to evolve. The experiment was unsuccessful and either they were set loose to cover it up, or escaped, and lived in the caves, creating with own culture--being one of the key themes in this story... at least I think so.
9. I need to come up with a title for the next story. I have a very loose idea of what it will involve. If Fiona isn't back yet by chapter 9 or 10 of Halfbreed, I'm going to wrap it up there and head to the next story, which will go into getting her back, then finding out what's going on. Fiona will help. Eric is going to have to make himself human again at some point to go into the heart of human civilization to get the information, and it'll be difficult because at this point Kelvin and Micia are probably not held in high regard, so they'll have limited help. This means that either Eric or Fiona will have the scientific and medical knowledge to be able to develop or modify stolen samples of Nash's formula so they can do that.
For now, that's all.
1. The woman that Nash and Geharis have is named Fiona. This might not be important, but I guess it is for me. The first name is the lettering system and the last name is the cohort. So Eric Bretford would be the 5th subject of the B cohort (the second one, as you can imagine). Kind of like the Island. Thus, her name is Fiona because that starts with an F. I haven't decided if her last name should be Bretford too. But it will at least start with a B. I also don't know or haven't decided if the A cohort was completed. That would be a lot of patients, it's also possible that the A cohort was a different process from the B cohort, not just that they ran out of names. I'm thinking that's more likely. The A cohort was probably initial prototypes and research. If this times into play it will likely be in the next story. (if I don't get to it there, there might even be a fourth, but that's not officially planned yet)
2. They're dealing with Fiona differently. I like how the first one was limited perspective and Eric was much more free to question and discover things on his own without Nash feeding him his identity, but that obviously has flaws. Was it realistic enough? So they've corrected that mistake with Fiona and she'll be given a lot more information... we'll see how that goes, I suppose it would be difficult because they don't know what she did in her other life, whereas with a man it would be easier to say he was just a random soldier. That might sound sexist, but think about how many women are really in our military versus how many men? It wouldn't be realistic to assume that every female subject they have would be in the military. It also depends where they picked her up, and a lot of that stuff I haven't come up with either.
3. Possible plotline for Fiona: She could very well be this woman that Eric keeps thinking about. I honestly have no idea who she is. Maybe she's his sister, his wife, his daughter, his best friend... I think that I'm going to try to let that develop on its own and if it turns out that as I let the writing flow that it's his wife, I don't think that'll be Fiona. Maybe for sister, but I'm not keen on that idea, it would be easier if she was just his friend that he was trying to protect.
4. I'm also debating what to do with Eric, I don't particularly want him to be generic and be a soldier. But I don't want to veer too close to my source and make him a brilliant scientist as much as that would be cool. Who else would have knowledge of fighting and be out of the caves enough to kinda know what he's doing. However, the fish/creek wasn't familiar (as I discovered writing it...) which also could be a result of memory loss, some of which will not come back, or he really never has ventured that far. A doctor seems a little anticlimatic for some reason. Maybe he will end up being a soldier of some sort, and if he is, he's probably a scout or specialist.
5. So the part I'm up to now is going to go into what they changed in Eric, and some physical examinations. It's possible that if I'm feeling morbid or something while I'm writing it, some of those 'changes' won't be working and he'll either have side effects or like.. deadly.. side effects. I won't kill him though, at least not that I can say this far. But things like, his race has their heart lower in their chest and to one side, to maximize effeciency and blood flow. Mark was good enough to inform me that copper would create blue blood, so their blood is copper based instead of iron based. I don't know what that will mean, but at least I know. So there's that to look forward to.
The second half, most likely, will be looking for Fiona. Obviously they'll find out that she's been taken too and want to go find her, etc etc. Because really no one would want to leave someone in the hands of Dr. Nash. One of the questions would be, is Fiona the only captive subject that they have, or do they really have more? Like in stasis or something, or locked away somewhere, from the attack. If so, would the elusive woman that I don't know about yet be there?
6. This part is subject to change. I'm... thinking that Kelvin may not survive the stories. I don't know about this yet, it would be complicated. Ryanne and Kelvin obviously had a thing. If he dies, she'll be the one to kill him. Yeah, that sounds rather morbid and evil. The way I'm looking at it is in the third story, Eric is going to go searching for answers and this will create friction between the Kanash and the humans, and Kelvin and Micia will be stuck in the middle, so Ryanne will also have to question where she stands. That sort of thing. Kelvin is based on Malcolm Reed, and I recall havng a conversation with Athena that it would have been more fitting to Malcolm's character if he had died in the last episode instead of Trip. Sad to think about, but.. kind of accurate. So maybe Kelvin is a substitute. It's a long way off if it does happen, so.. we'll see. I haven't officially condemned him yet.
7. There will be a very brief and unsuccessful romantic interest at somepoint between Eric and Micia.
8. Ultimately the Kanash were a government experiment several generations ago. So this story has to be set several hundred years into the future. I don't know if it's really come across that way. But there has to be a lot of distance to give the Kanash time to evolve. The experiment was unsuccessful and either they were set loose to cover it up, or escaped, and lived in the caves, creating with own culture--being one of the key themes in this story... at least I think so.
9. I need to come up with a title for the next story. I have a very loose idea of what it will involve. If Fiona isn't back yet by chapter 9 or 10 of Halfbreed, I'm going to wrap it up there and head to the next story, which will go into getting her back, then finding out what's going on. Fiona will help. Eric is going to have to make himself human again at some point to go into the heart of human civilization to get the information, and it'll be difficult because at this point Kelvin and Micia are probably not held in high regard, so they'll have limited help. This means that either Eric or Fiona will have the scientific and medical knowledge to be able to develop or modify stolen samples of Nash's formula so they can do that.
For now, that's all.