CharLoft Prompt: Apocalypse Now

WORK IN PROGRESS. Saving said progress in this format, because it's more efficient than having a billion sub-categorized folders on my computer. This is a lot of fun to write, but also pretty depressing. I don't think that I'm adequately portraying how depressing it is, but I feel it, trust me. I don't want to jinx this by saying that it's something I'm going to go back and revise (definitely expand, a lot), but I'd like to finish it. I think it's interesting because I'm actually learning about the characters; I'm not writing what I know.

Also, I like apocalyptic stories. So much pathos to be had. I'm especially enjoying the role that language plays, and the added difficulty of, as Willow notes, having your house full of refugees when you yourself are shortly about to become a refugee, and more importantly, you cannot communicate efficiently with them.

Čhatma can understand and write English all right, but he can't for the life of him pronounce anything. I got the idea from a Japanese tutor my class had - she's nearly fluent in English, but because she has such a heavy accent, I didn't know that until I saw something she had written that was in perfect English. So that's what he's based on - the sounds  and cadence in Samicze are so different that it's hard to understand him when he speaks.

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( In Which the Apocalypse Comes And 99% of the Rift World Dies )

At this point, I run out of steam. Or, rather, I run out of exciting apocalyptic scenes. Oh well. That can change. Yes, also, that is Nyali that Kephri is talking to at the end, and the black woman is Reed Henry.

More Apocalyptic Writing: Losses and Language

The Apocalypse happened. There are a dozen survivors, who are locked inside Yggdrasil House. As a pan-dimensional house, it's the only durable safe house during the storms of magic. The survivors are: Matt Xanatos, Diana Richards, Kephri Hekt', Enya, Julian dn Arasia, Reed Henry, Neil Glass, Stephen Semprevivo, Tanwen Oboureon, Naike Oboureon, Nyali, and Čhatma. While I was writing out a scene in my notebook, I noticed that Čhatma and Nyali ended up bonding a bit during the time when the house's babelfish magic was working. Then Sky Is Over by Serj Tenkian came on my music player while I was thinking about it, and I just started crying. So I guess you could say it's songfic.

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( I feel like Čhatma comes across as being an ephebophile in this, but it's juts a cultural thing. Julian has called him out on it before, as explained by his comment )