So this week, I thought I’d give you a peek into my mind and have a look at some of the other people who live there. Yes, people who live in my mind. I’m a writer, albeit unpublished, and I have loads of people lurking around in my brain. They’re as real to me as my “real” friends are, so let me introduce you to a few of them! You may notice that they’re all guys. What can I say, I like writing about men!

Thirteen Imaginary Friends

1. Robin Chain is my oldest surviving character. He lives in an imaginary metropolis and enjoys the high life due to a lifetime of selling drugs and reaping all the rewards of having minions. He’s really the head of the Santine mob, though he wouldn’t call it that. He’s a family guy, with a bucketload of kids who all have problems, a handful of close friends who love to fight among themselves, and a near-multiple personality called G.
2. Deliverance is an assassin. He lives in a fictional Phoenix, sometime in the future where all the young anarchists teenagers and young adults are banding together to form independent clans. D’s very kickass, and has even less morals than Robin, except he, unlike Robin, doesn’t stand for adultry when it comes to his gay lover and best friend, Harlequin.
3. Julian Frost is a military cop. Though in the world he lives in, the military is god, and that makes him a bit more than just a military cop. He’s in the RMF, and is known for being a hardass, and for getting the job done. Though a loner, he’s taken two young recruits under his wing, and the three of them can maybe even be called ‘friends’.
4. Dayton Thorne made his millions doing shady things, but he’s giving back to the community now - by opening up a refuge for troubled boys needing a home. At his side is his lovely lawyer wife and a ‘retired’ assassin, Keenan, who works to provide security for the premises. Thorne’s biggest achievement was discovering that he’d somehow taken in his own son from an affair long ago, and then turning him from a hard criminal to a productive, hardworking citizen and loving son.
5. Banner Chain is the son of Robin Chain. He’s also joined the military, and is now working in an elite squadron and is in command of his own small team. He has a bit of a love-hate relationship with his job, which typically involves work other teams can’t or won’t do, which typically means bigtime trouble and maybe nightmares for life, but he wouldn’t give it up for anything.
6. Jimmy Monterey is in Banner’s squad. He’s also Banner’s best friend, and Banner’s sister’s boyfriend. He’s a charming guy who doesn’t seem at all to be as dangerously trained as he is, and virtually everyone gets along with him eventually. And… he cannot remember anything of his life before joining the military. Not even his real name.
7. Zues is a villian - Deliverance’s brother, in fact, and a very sick and twisted individual. He’s also *obsessed* with Harlequin, and often fancies himself as Harlequin’s soul mate.
8. Keaton O’Connor is one of Robin Chain’s best friends. He’s a former thief, an alcoholic by night, and a sharp-minded businessman by day. His spends most of his attention on one business in particular - the O’Connor Art Institute - because art has always been his passion.
9. Fyren Lothlorian is a fantasy character. He’s a wicked-cool mage, top notch swordsman, and ineffective parent to a son he’s scarcely known. He works with dangerous magic, and is perhaps the most powerful mage in the the land. Despite this, he travels and acts much like a commonor, and if any such fanciful thoughts go to his head, his tempermental wife is sure to beat it out of him right quick enough.
10. Micah is Deliverance’s son. He’s a tragic sort of character, who believes he’s cursed to outlive every lover he’s ever taken. You see, they’ve all died horrible deaths, typically at the hands of psychopathic killers. He’s also just a touch telekinetic.
11. Roshan (The Gypsy) lives in a ‘modern’ fantasy world where slavery is big business. He’s an assassin who leaves calling cards engraved with ‘The Gypsy’ at the scene of all his victims. He’s also got a very complicated love life.
12. Corran comes from another modernized (even futuristic) fantasy world where he and his people (Rakvorians) are in conflict with another species (Lequahns) whom they have enslaved. Corran is a bit of a peacemaking diplomat and knows far more about the Lequahn way of life than your average Rakvorian… but at the same time, he’s quite in love with having them as slaves.
13. Arian is a prince in another fantasy world, looking for an opportunity to overthrow his father, the king, who has been growing more and more insane with each passing day. He’s continually busy just trying to keep his own supporters safe from the king’s wrath until he seizes his opportunity to strike.

9 Comments »

1. Wow, I’d like to read more about them! Is it coincidence there aren’t any female characters?
   Thanks for visiting my TT!

   Comment by Tink — October 19, 2006 @ 4:23 am

2. Not so much a coincidence as just the simple fact that I don’t really like writing them. I guess I’ve never been much of a girly girl, and I’ve been told that my thought process is typically more like a man’s - logical and point to point. And… I don’t know, really. I just tend to love my male characters. I often write with friends, sort of a written RPG or even co-writing… and they end up playing most of the female characters that come up.

   Comment by Katia — October 19, 2006 @ 4:46 am

3. These are some fascinating characters! I hope I’ll be able to read about them in a book someday. :)

   Comment by Darla — October 19, 2006 @ 4:59 am

4. Thursday Thirteen: Favorite Movies…

   Ed # 63

   The Sound of Music
   Grease
   Mary Poppins
   The King and I
   Anna and The King
   Cinderella
   Fantasia
   Prince of Egypt
   Wedding Singer
   Moulin Rouge
   The Passion of The Christ
   The Wizard of Oz
   Snow Queen

   Links to other Thursday Thirteens!
   …

   Trackback by -- a metamorphoself of gabrielle — October 19, 2006 @ 5:15 am

5. WHAT? You’re UNPUBLISHED? I just had fun reading about the characters! I’d LOVE to read something you’ve actually written someday. You have a very interesting imagination. I’ll take the military cop. ;)

   Thanks for stopping by my 13 Scenes, today!

   Comment by Chaotic Mom — October 19, 2006 @ 5:43 am

6. This is a fantastic list…..as an avid reader and a fledgling writer I thought this rocked (in the absence of any other words today!)

   Happy TT!!

   Comment by Tizzie — October 19, 2006 @ 7:30 am

7. Are you signed up for the write-a-novel-during november thing? Or was it october? I was too impressed by everyone signing up that I can’t remember.

   Comment by Michelle — October 19, 2006 @ 9:09 pm

8. wow. lots of interesting characters and so many are interrelated. how many separate novels are involved.

   I hope you don’t mind if i steal this concept for one of my TTs in the near future. My characters could populate a small county or two. And they have been much on my mind lately as I prepare for NaNoWriMo next month.

   I love your crafting and get your obsession with it. For me it is embroidery floss and sily-soft yarns used in embroidery, needlepoint and counted cross stitch.

   Thanx for stopping by my TT.

   Comment by Joy Renee — October 19, 2006 @ 10:45 pm

9. It was nice to meet the other people in your life.

   Comment by Kailani — October 20, 2006 @ 1:55 am

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