It's past midnight, but I was determined to get this up tonight

[kailita]

Title: Life on the Wildside
Genre: Modern
Length: About seven pages
Challenge: 20 - “Eat sassafras, it tastes like Fruit Loops.”
Rating: PG-13; language
Notes: You guys, I wrote this in four days and I finished it in time for the deadline. I am so proud. ^.^ This is more for fun characters than for a magnificent plot or anything. I love this lot

Comments

[kailita]

I think if I was trying to make this a well-polished part of a larger story, I would have put more effort into the pacing and the introduction of the characters. But as it worked out, I was working on the (extremely overdue ohmygosh I'm so behind) challenge for gelsey's birthday, and I realized, Hey, I can use some of these guys for challenge 20, and then it was just a scramble to finish on time. ^.~ Not that I didn't put time and thought into it, but it's definitely not as refined and edited as it could be. I also kind of wanted to get all of the characters into the first paragraph so that as the story goes on you can just glance back at that paragraph if you get confused about who's who - and the way they each respond to Chester is pretty reflective of each of their personalities.

Chester telling people to eat plants is actually not as strange an occurance as it might be for someone else - but yeah, Eddie would probably have something to say about that - and so would Jeremy and Kevin and maybe even Jake. But I don't think Matt would - he's used to that kind of stuff from Chester, and he tries to ignore weird behavior to keep from encouraging it, so he would probably just roll his eyes and get on with his business. And since I was following his point of view, I decided to leave it at that.

The setting...heh. The setting has changed the couple of times I've used these characters, which may be why it's so nebulous. These guys are based loosely on people I used to know - so that's obviously modern-day Earth. But I used them in roleplay in a futuristic setting that had "time bubbles" everywhere, so you were just as likely to run into a feudal baron or a fantasy-style rogue as a modernistic cyborg - which explains why the boys would be a little confused and wary about a gang of "thiefmaidens," but not completely nonplussed. But I don't think I'm going to keep that setting, at least not in its entirety, just because it takes a whole lot of explaining to understand. So...I'll get back to you on the setting. ^.~ It will probably end up being something like modernistic fantasy.

So yeah...giant setup for something else, pretty much. And not an extremely well-done one, but I had fun with it. ^.~

[kailita]

Oh, and whoops! I forgot about the ages. I mentioned Eddie being 13, Henry being 16, and Jeremy being 17. Matt, Maris, and Jake are also 16, Chester and Tony are 15, and Kevin is 14.