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Soul Mates (in progress)
Tags: Mature, M/F, human/human, human (M)/kitsune (F), romance, drama, magic
Soul Mates
When you hit bottom, you gotta get back up. Sometimes it just takes more than one try, and sometimes the climb isn't straight up either.
At some point about halfway through 2017, I had an unusually memorable daydream. I had the idea that I was cornered by this kitsune woman (as in, an anthro fox with many tails), and thanks to what can only be called "dream logic," I knew that she had tried to seduce me and brought me somewhere private to take my soul in the heat of passion. Somehow I saw through her ruse, and because she had lost her chance to take my soul, she had to kill me to keep it a secret. I told her, and I remember this line very clearly: "If you have to take my breath away, can you do it with a kiss?" She didn't get it, and I said that if I was going to die, at least I could go out somewhat on my own terms, and besides, there were worse ways to die. "Than having your soul taken?" "Than in the arms of a beautiful woman."
Then the daydream ended.
Ever since then, I kept thinking about that daydream once in a while, and was like, "Wow, that's kinda messed up, that I'd even think about saying something like that." Not that I want to put that to the test, that I'd say that and mean it. But as time went on, I one day had the thought, "This sounds like something that would happen in the first episode of an anime that probably shouldn't exist but I'd probably watch it anyway."
That was what gave me the inspiration to turn a persistent daydream into a plot skeleton, and that's exactly what I wanted this to read like: The first episode of an anime that probably shouldn't exist but I'd probably watch it anyway.
That said, this story follows an odd trend of me writing the plot skeleton in reverse, starting with exactly how I want to do the last part, then going backwards from there. The part from the daydream that inspired the story is in the first half, but how to get there, and what to do to connect that point with the ending, took a lot longer to figure out. The part of the story I figured out last? The title. It took a long time to think of a title that didn't involve tail puns.
Credits
Thanks to
flyingwolf for being my test audience and creative consultant.
Dungeons and Dragons © Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, etc.
The picture Adam sent to Jung doesn't come from anything; I made it up.
Thanks to Wikipedia for its article on kitsune.
Soul Mates
When you hit bottom, you gotta get back up. Sometimes it just takes more than one try, and sometimes the climb isn't straight up either.
At some point about halfway through 2017, I had an unusually memorable daydream. I had the idea that I was cornered by this kitsune woman (as in, an anthro fox with many tails), and thanks to what can only be called "dream logic," I knew that she had tried to seduce me and brought me somewhere private to take my soul in the heat of passion. Somehow I saw through her ruse, and because she had lost her chance to take my soul, she had to kill me to keep it a secret. I told her, and I remember this line very clearly: "If you have to take my breath away, can you do it with a kiss?" She didn't get it, and I said that if I was going to die, at least I could go out somewhat on my own terms, and besides, there were worse ways to die. "Than having your soul taken?" "Than in the arms of a beautiful woman."
Then the daydream ended.
Ever since then, I kept thinking about that daydream once in a while, and was like, "Wow, that's kinda messed up, that I'd even think about saying something like that." Not that I want to put that to the test, that I'd say that and mean it. But as time went on, I one day had the thought, "This sounds like something that would happen in the first episode of an anime that probably shouldn't exist but I'd probably watch it anyway."
That was what gave me the inspiration to turn a persistent daydream into a plot skeleton, and that's exactly what I wanted this to read like: The first episode of an anime that probably shouldn't exist but I'd probably watch it anyway.
That said, this story follows an odd trend of me writing the plot skeleton in reverse, starting with exactly how I want to do the last part, then going backwards from there. The part from the daydream that inspired the story is in the first half, but how to get there, and what to do to connect that point with the ending, took a lot longer to figure out. The part of the story I figured out last? The title. It took a long time to think of a title that didn't involve tail puns.
Credits
Thanks to
flyingwolf for being my test audience and creative consultant.Dungeons and Dragons © Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, etc.
The picture Adam sent to Jung doesn't come from anything; I made it up.
Thanks to Wikipedia for its article on kitsune.
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