Finally, after a few weeks of writing and editing, I'm ready to present to you the first part of my fanfiction story titled Crystal Clear. It's based on the videogame DotA 2, but the resemblance is mostly about characters.
The story is set in a modern world, where cars are plenty and personal computers are beginning to appear in people's homes. Rylai, the main character, is a teenager living with her older sister, Lina. I've set out to expand the mostly-flat characters the game presents and explore how would they appear in a real world. At the same time, I reimagined quite a few of them into a humanoid form, not unlike what diredude did - in fact, I was inspired by his art.
The stories are bound to feature plenty of shoutouts to the DotA 2's lore, but you can read freely without knowing any of it (barring the names of the characters) - and, hopefully, even if you're not a fan of the game. Crystal Clear was always intended as a story in itself. It's a story about friendship, magics, writing, human nature, the meaning of love, among other things. I intended to explore the human soul of the characters, and that's what I'm going to do.
The first three stories - under the umbrella name of First Cold - are meant as a slow introduction into the world and the plot. It's meant to tell you about the characters in a way that will, hopefully, interest you and make you want to learn more about them - and the world around them. All the stories will be around ten Word A4 pages or more (First Cold II, currently in the works, is, almost finished, 15 pages long).
Feel free to leave a thoughtful critique or an insightful remark, but don't tell me that you simply liked or disliked it - it brings nothing to me or to my writing. Paging _refugee_ for a review.