Kind of a weird question I know, but let me explain. I’m not talking about your themes or messages, but the general feeling someone looking into your world or imagining themselves in it might get about the situation, when the world is not in conflict. Basically, you know how when you watch a franchise like Star Trek, it has certain recurrent moods and feelings, like the tranquility of flying through space, the bittersweet isolation of being on a ship in deep space, where you are close to your crewmates but far from everything else you know, and the general professional but still sufficiently jovial atmosphere that they seem to go for? Or with Pokemon when it’s very adventure driven and based around meeting everyone you come across and making friends both with other humans and also with these magical creatures! I’m sure you can think of descriptions like these for your favourite franchises. We’ve all imagined ourselves in these worlds or imagined ourselves as characters in these worlds right? What were some of the vibes or feelings you imagined when you imagined your world? Or I guess another way of putting it is what would a slice of life exploration of your world be like?
I’m trying to go for a dune-ish, lonely feel. Lonely, in that the Padishah Kaiserin’s plot is understood only by her majordomo Monika. It’s also got a lot of war, so there’s the excitement there, I guess. And finally, Pavel’s life in the killing game for him feels like fighting upstream.
For the sequel, the ghola Haika is again lonely, with only her caregiver Leto for support in yet another killing game that threatens to destroy them. I guess she also has Miu, sort of, but she doesn’t really count.
On a brighter note I’m working on another world that’s much brighter and takes place in an AU socialist world. I won’t spoil too much, but it’s entitled “Shokaku and Misha’s Socialist Tankist Life” or something along those lines.