WORKS IN PROGRESS

The site is technically one big WIP but this page is for the WIPS of all time. These are the stories that aren't fully fleshed out enough to be a thing, but have been thought about enough to be mentioned. **(JOY YOU SHOULD ADD TO THIS TOO JUST COPY THE FORMAT)**

## The Mermaid in my Pool

A mermaid is tossed into a high school pool as a practical joke, then forgotten about. She ends up growing up there throughout the years and stays hidden by camouflaging into the walls. One year, she falls in love with a member of the swim team (who also cleans the pool), and saves their life during a school shooting.

(i always imagined Great Fairy Fountains playing when they get shot and fall into the pool)

be warned, loud gunshot sound at the beginning of the vid.

I made the above for my RISD portfolio and ended up only being able to include the guy dying. So there’s that I guess…

## Dune

A fortune teller who reads tarot for a living foresees the death of someone he loves. He desperately tries to change it only to find out the hard way that he can't. However, the person accepts their death and teaches Dune (the mc) to learn to move on and something about not focusing on what can't be changed and just living in the moment etc. etc..

This story has been a thing since I created it for Animation 1. I just never did anything with it :(

Below is some other stuff I made for him, including his tarot table:

## Unnamed PJO fanfic

The main character is a daughter of Hebe (goddess of Youth!) who goes on a quest like all Percy Jackson characters do. Her ragtag group of individuals include a son of Aphrodite (goddess of Love (underrated (especially for the guys (hated on way too much imo like hating her doesn't make you prettier (IM JK))))) and other people I haven't thought of yet. Hebe is also the goddess of forgiveness (the main theme of the fic), something the main character will come to struggle with as she becomes an increasingly bitter and angry person.

## The Cameraman

The story follows nameless Cameraman (only referred to as “the camera man”), an employee in an organization that handles the multiversal world of visual fiction (comics, manga, anime, cartoons, etc). His job is to capture the images we normally believe are drawn/animated "on set". The story starts light-hearted because he needs to perform comically impossible feats to get the right shots and angles while also emerging unscathed (it's like that one video of the camera man running alongside the track team :skull:).

Anyway, the story takes a turn into psychological/horror/surreal when its revealed that the camera man is not actually *The* Cameraman. Since the camera man is technically a character within this story, he too has a camera man who's "filming" him (presumably the reader is taking on this camera man's perspective as we follow the mc). There's a fourth wall break and paradox as the mc finally realizes this illusion and sees the other Cameraman.

## Unnamed Elnea Kingdom story

Perry Pepper is a citizen in Elnea Kingdom, newlywed (married to Simone Pepper) and an aspiring scholar. However, after his marriage, things start to become strange, and he increasingly can’t shake the feeling that something is off.

PLOT TWIST! This life is not his first. It's actually not a technical life at all since he's in a game (Elnea Kingdom). He ended up figuring this out in his last life, where---despite being married---he fell in love with a traveler named Linda. She repeatedly confessed to him but due to the game's code, he had to refuse every time. This causes him to realize he has no free will and he descends into mania. In his frenzy, he finally finds a way to reset the game and "start a new save" which might give them a chance to be together but will also destroy everything else in the save file. Because of this, Linda begs him not to do it at the critical moment and assures him that she's totally fine with just being in each other's lives. Unfortunately, Perry is way too far gone for that. At this point Perry sees people other than Linda and himself as nothing more than lines of code and thus doesn't care what happens to them. He makes the selfish decision to drag Linda in with him as he resets the world.

As these memories slowly return to current Perry, he realizes that he’s been doing things subconsciously that mirror his past life. For example, he cut Simone’s hair to look like Linda’s, and even convinced her to dye her hair pink. He constantly befriends male travelers and convinces them to stay in the kingdom due to an innate sense of loneliness, which comes from missing his last life’s best friend, Yvon.

It’s also revealed Perry’s sense of unease is due to the fact that Linda is searching for him in this world. Like him, Linda does not look the same, meaning she could be any stranger on the street. Her anguish is only increased by the fact that he married a woman who’s not her, the only redeemable part of his selfish and maniacal quest. For the whole story, this sense of encroaching doom from Linda’s arrival paints her to be the villain. However, at the climax when they finally meet, Linda confronts and accuses him, saying he made her this way. It’s only then that Perry remembers the whole truth.

## Steampunk fantasy story

The story takes place in a steampunk world where they’ve discovered and harnessed magic. It didn’t use to exist until a giant portal in the air appeared (it literally is just a huge black hole in time and space). Now, explorers embark into the portal’s dark, unknown depths, hoping to earn fame and fortune by charting its dangerous contents.

The main character, Maxine, is one of these explorers. She hopes to learn more about this mysterious plane and she takes to with her crew, journal, air blimp, and awesome wardrobe. There, she encounters the Sands of Time, home to Hatchlings which were currently incubating in their golden eggs. She accidentally breaks one open and out comes a rooster guy… incredible. They embark on their deadly adventure together (which probably concerns the fabric of reality itself).

## Rockin’ luck

A battle of the bands. The main character, Brandi/Brandy, is the leader of a band (unnamed currently) which is, at the moment, missing a bassist. This is because the last bassist quit.. after officially becoming Brandi’s ex. It turns out this ex-status is not uncommon and Brandi has like a buttload of ex-lovers who he all ended on bad terms with. Who are also all in the music scene. On rival bands. As THE band competition is coming up, Brandi and the two other members who somehow persevered through his shenanigans are determined not to lose to this multitude of musically inclined ex-lovers. The story begins with them desperately searching for an adequate bassist.

They finally get an audition from like a really good bassist. Like REALLYY good bassist. The only problem is, he has an attitude, doesn’t follow the group, and also his style is totally out of sync with theirs. On the plus side, he is the recent ex of one of Brandi’s main rival band exes, and thus hates them too (and is thus willing to help crush them underfoot). Of course Brandi and the bassist get together. It is the most Barbenheimer opposites attract enemies to lovers.. and yes the name is a wordplay on “rotten luck”.

Also despite looking and acting like the Californian ever Brandi is from Delaware… and bass guy is the one from Cali.