True Colours

[tinhuviel]

The oddest thing is driving me to finish The Blood Crown: The Augury of Gideon, specifically the character of Kallum McCreary, the mortal incarnation of the Vampire Faust. I'm about to get to "The Sainted Confessor" section of The Blood Crown. Despite falling victim to Dengue and not hardly writing at all for the past three days, I'm still current on my word count with The Blood Crown. I even have added some of the cushion that allowed me to fall deathly ill and not suffer stress from being behind on NaNo. In the past two hours, I wrote over 1700 words. It's like I was possessed. Then again, I was writing Cadmus. I was actually writing as Cadmus, so I was kind of possessed.

But then iTunes decided to play "True Colours" by Cyndi Lauper. This is the song that helped create the Angel that began to visit Faust during his tribulation. She always came to him in a kind of a rainbow and would disappear by descending into his body. This song also said a lot about the character of Faust. Despite his Vampiric nature, he never lost his human spirit, which was inherently good. He was a genuinely good soul. I want to show this in The Augury of Gideon, even though his mortal self returns as a little wounded. He returns with memories of what Cadmus did to him as Faust and he finds himself being forced to align with the entity who visited such agony upon his person.

Then again, had it not been for Cadmus, Faust would never have been sainted. He would never have returned to his mortal state as Kallum McCreary. I'm wondering if Kallum will purchase a Triquetra to wear in The Augury of Gideon. Not only would it be a nod of appreciation and honour to Bear McCreary, but it would also fit in the story, representing the three Vampire Relics and the fact that Kallum will be the key to unlocking the Augury of Gideon. I'm thinking it will be Cadmus who actually finds it, who lays his hands upon the relic first. He's the one who is in possession of the first relic, the chalice of Kelat, and he's the one who claims the Blood Crown, even though it eventually goes into Kelat's possession, since she is the only who can touch the thing without falling into a kind of coma.

But that's a story for later on in The Blood Crown. I have the feeling that I may actually win NaNoWriMo because I'm so eager to finish The Blood Crown so I can get back to Kallum. Watching the movie Wanted has not been a great help to me. James McAvoy's secondary anchorage to the character is stronger for the mortal Kallum than it was to the Vampire Faust. One thing that won't change is Kallum's cerulean eyes. James McAvoy gifted those to the Vampire and he'll continue to gift them to the sainted mortal.

So strange that a plot device has become so important to the overall story. Then again, Cadmus was a plot device at one time. Now he's the main character. Funny how the characters demand their place in the world of my making. Do we do the same with God?

Comments

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I'm about to try that again, too. Found out last night that Cadmus blogs. Not just ha-ha blogs like here, but really blogs - blogs, as a healing process from the events of The Chalice. So a about a third of what was written last night was his blog entry about what he did to Mary Magdalene. And he had a large following on his blog because people think he's into some sort of role play. Silly humans...

If I can get Orphaeus and Cadmus in and out of San Fran today, then I can plot 'Sainted Confessor' down into the story and know I'm about 2/3s of way finished with the book. If I cheated and used Confessor for word count, I'd already have almost 65,000 words. As it stands now, I have 25,000 to go. I want to be under 23k to go by the end of the day.

I still say that, thanks to your pictures, I was able to get through 'Sainted Confessor,' which has allowed me to write the rest of The Blood Crown. At risk of sound ::whispers:: crazy, your illustrations helped maintain my "sanity" while I wrestled that section of the book to the ground. So thanks for that.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Well, I seriously needed the illustrations. When the time comes for Kallum, I'd love to see your interp of him too, given his mortality and all.

[falkenna.livejournal.com]

OK, what's he done to Mary Magdelene?

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Well, you know she always loved him. He let her think it was requited until she, too, was fed to the chalice. Was there any other way? Of course, I wrote the back story, should you care to read it.

[demonicanevil.livejournal.com]

OMG! I found pictures of your last reunion online and I had to share! I found them here

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Good times, man, good times.