Thread:ThisIsXenon/@comment-32273133-20181231004208/@comment-32273133-20190126213742

Things I need to remember to talk about

—JASPER

—Tree People

—Boat People/travellers/forengard equivalent of Moana travellers

—Midori’s kidney situation

—Hester’s plans after the Incident

—Clay after the Incident

—Micah’s other trauma

—I’m writing chapter 23 and it’s gonna be wild

—Calidi’s back, Micah passed out, Damian and Micah had a fight, Damian got drunk for a solid week, Delphi dumped a bucket of ice water him, there’s at least one “family jewels” reference and I’m only 1456 words in

—I really wonder how the second half of it is gonna turn out

—this part of writing is so entertaining because right now I’m at a “a bunch of stuff happens” part in my plot outline so I get to write whatever my 4am brain decides is good

—sure I’ll probably edit some of it out later but it’s fun in the moment

—a related topic but back when I was still posting chapters 12 and 13 but actually writing like chapter 20 was a weird sense of writing jet lag

—now that I’m posting 16 and writing 23 it’s a little better but there’s a bunch of stuff that happens between 16 and 17, 17 and 20, then 20 and 23 so it’s still weird.

— I read old chapters when I have to remind myself that the kids were happy once

—in general autocorrect is a bitch

—“darted” turns to “farted” and “pooling” to “pooping”

—“He farted across the room” no that’s not what I meant

—I’ve had this phone for a month and autocorrect is acting like it’s 12

—also “thinking” changed to “honking” and “wheezing” to “sneezing” when I was texting the SO and that’s a running joke now

—“that’s so great i’m sneezing”

More stuff about Jason

—he was part of Hester’s larger-group experiment so he had six people in his

—Codename was JASPER

—[Jasper, Aoife, Spencer, Pavani, Ezra, Robin]

—they started out as a hodgepodge assassin group who filled in for other groups [like a reserves group] until Hester started getting tech from this Cyber sect company

—It was a small place headed by this engineer couple Shannon and Trey Pemberton

—More on them later, they’re amazing and don’t deserve what Hester did to them [theyre not dead but while working for Hester sometimes they wished they were]

—then JASPER became a high tech group with fancy weapons

—At least one of them has bionic body parts [probably Spencer, xe’s dumb enough to shoot xer eye out]

—they’re not actually dead, even though the register reports them as dead

Ok, let me explain

—so the Keep’s Register works because of a rune card inserted into a super hard to get to slit in the back cover

—note that it’s “hard to get to,” not “impossible”

—it controls who’s allowed in and how their name shows up in the register itself

—since it’s accessible, it can be modified by anyone who can break the code and write in runes

—it just so happens that Aoife has enough runic knowledge to tamper with it, and she does when the KGA collapses.

—No one knows how many people she did it for, at least JASPER and maybe a few others

More stuff on JASPER members, as a note they’re all very happy people and living successful lives

—Jason Zeitger, 29 in current timeline, blue-eyed blonde Caucasian, male, gay, has been married to Robin Zou for about 3 years, father of adopted twin children (Lexington and Concord, sometimes called Lexi and C, age 4)

—He’s changed a lot since his “privileged” assassin days

—Lives in the modern sect and sells bikes in a triathalon/multisport shop

—also does triathlons and is pretty good at them

—Aoife Sanchez, 28 in current timeline, Irish and Mexican, female, pansexual, married to Liz Golding [they/them] [Ezra’s sibling]

—Lives in the medieval sect with the Tree People [more on them later]

—Spencer Thomas, 29 in current timeline, Native American roots, two-spirit, xe/xer, pansexual, has a bionic eye and arm bc xe’s an idiot and got shot a lot

—Originally from the modern sect but got stranded in the medieval as a kid, so grew up there

—is a bartender in the cyber sect

—Pavani Imari, 28 in current timeline, Middle-eastern, trans female, lesbian

—lives in the cyber sect, works for the Pembertons

—Ezra Golding, 27 in current timeline, African, nonbinary, they/them, pansexual, kite shapeshifter, single as a Pringle and doesn’t mind at all

—lives in the medieval sect with the Tree People

—looooong dreadlocks

—Born with the boat people

—Robin Zou, 29 in current timeline, Chinese roots, male, bisexual, married to Jason Zeitger, father of Lexi and C

—Also works at the triathalon store, side gig as a comic artist

—These kids are happy

Codenames for Hester’s groups, incomplete list:

—Ennead:  the Nine

—JASPER:  Jason, Aoife, Spencer, Pavani, Ezra, Robin

—Xerxes isn’t an introvert but he spent a lot of time in the forge so he didn’t connect with a lot of people in the KGA

—Somewhat with JASPER because they break things and Xerxes has to repair them, and much so with Cyrus because they were on the same team

—[he tries not to care about Midori but that doesn’t work, Midori’s a poor lost soul]

—But whenever anyone in the ennead needs help, he was always there

—that’s the kind of relationship the Nine has, they may not have been super close to everyone in the group but if anyone needed help they’d give their left kidney

—except Midori

—but that’s because he only has a left kidney so~

—More on that later

—JASPER, however, was always close all around

—they went on assignments together, got deployed to another area of Forengard together, and it always felt weird when one person was missing

—like the first time Spencer got hurt:

>Ezra:  y’know right now we’re just JAPER...

—the fact that their acronym actually spelled something was a huge source of pride for them

Characters and their families:

—Micah:  Mom (Melody Jakarta) is dead, dad (xenon) is still alive (sorta), no siblings

—Clay:  mom (Sil) is alive, dad (Enoch?? Tambien) (I think that’s his name, I never had it saved in my documents anywhere but I think it was in a thread somewhere...) is dead, no direct siblings, several half siblings on Sil’s side are alive

—Hanoi:  parents assumed dead, no siblings

—Korin:  parents assumed dead, no siblings

—Cyrus:  parents dead, no siblings

—Midori:  mom is dead, dad (Tovio Midori) is presumably alive, two younger siblings presumably alive

—Xerxes:  parents dead, sister (Kaelia) assumed dead but she’s actually alive

—Bex and Trin:  Parents dead, sibling alive

—Hester:  killed her parents and her siblings in the Krement fire, only living relative is Clay

>can’t remember if I’ve said what he name was before she changed it....

—whenever there was a consensual relationship going on in the KGA, Hester was always 👀

—if it was between a KGA member and a civilian and the civilian broke the KGA person’s heart, Hester ordered the KGA person to kill the civilian

—if it was in the KGA she just made sure that it wasn’t getting in the way of anything

—though if it was with certain people [ie if Micah had found anyone or if Cyrus and Korin had been open about theirs] she would’ve done everything she could to break it up, claiming a “distraction”

—and in some cases she may have been jealous

—note that the above was with consensual relationships

—her policies on nonconsensual relationships [ie rape] were different and varied a lot based on the case

—if a KGA member assaulted a civilian she turned a blind eye

—if a KGA member was assaulted while out or on an assignment she became a fire-breathing bitch

—however at her social functions she didn’t care then, because whenever she invited clients for a party, her assassins were part of the entertainment, and entertainment was defined however anyone wanted [“customer is always right” mentality]

—[one reason why Korin avoided parties]

—if a KGA member assaulted another KGA member she took it case by case, based on the age and status of the parties involved

—punishment varied from a reprimand and formal apology to expulsion and a kill order

—most severe only happened once, during the first years

—as time went on, she gradually grew less and less harsh about things, mostly because she was drunk on the luxury of her life and having whatever she wanted when she wanted it

—she was, you might say, a rich bitch

—she was less involved with the assassins’ health and quality of life and more concerned with the money and power she got as the leader

—she believed she could get whatever she wanted, and she would do it no matter the cost

—she broke a lot of people

—which leads to what happened to Micah

—more on that later, currently working through the little details

—thinking about making Micah a vegetarian?

—bird-eating-birds seems problematic [@Sasa,,,,,] and I don’t think there’d be beef or ham or anything easily accessible

—also he would’ve grown up on fruits and nuts and stuff from what he and Melody could gather so meat was never a part of his diet anyway

—this means bird boyyo is skinny as a rail for multiple reasons

—on the topic of things being problematic let me add:  Damian is problematic to me irl

—because I’ve known two Damians in my life

—[for the record neither of them were tall or  even marginally good looking or remotely snakelike]

—one of them and I exchanged numbers some time ago [to this day I don’t know which one it was and don’t care to find out] so I’ll scroll through my contacts and then there’s “Damian” and I double take every. time.

—see I just did it to see if that would help me remember and I saw Damian and was like “whomst?”

—random and non-GGaD related but who’s still around on the forums that was there when I was? [other than y’all, obviously] Like Future, Grif, Opal, Necro, Clever, and Rubylav? I heard from necro semi-recently but idk about the others

—also I’m probably forgetting someone and I feel incredibly guilty but it’s been almost a whole year [ughhhh,,,,] and my brain has yeeted out a lot of memory and information since then