Stacey Monners

## Origin

Stacey Monners is the first Character in the "Face of God" series, first appearing in her debut book *Heart* (Up and coming, realistic fantasy), and has the Heart of God trait.

## Abilities

The extent of Stacey's abilities is debatable in canon; outside of canon, it's simple. She can make anything come to life, heal, or be restored to its original state. For some reason, this doesn't apply to people or humanoid creatures.

Each of the 16 has an aspect that contrasts a Silent. Wherever she puts life, death has to leave, because it can't be in the same place.

Others can create something based on their own skill set.

## Extent

   Each of the 16 have a paramount ability that is the core of their face of God trait. Stacey's is the ability to envision a perfect plan for the transcendence of humanity (for relevance, see The Dreamers) ; this is the "heart" of god. This basically manifests via the abilities described above. Her highest power is creating anything, both physical and metaphysical. The converse--being able to destroy anything--is also hers. She can even destroy sadness, grief, and inner pain with the free will approval of anyone who allows it.

## Story Arc

In *Heart* Stacey begins her story with her close friend Rose who she loses in a car accident. She gains friends in this story with the help of her family, friends, and close friend Syl, who is instrumental in doing so along with her counselor John Smith. The justice for Rose campaign reinvigorates Stacey; she discovers more about her powers; she meets Eli who tells her there are others like her; and she comes to terms that she won't see Rose again.

In *Heart's Hand* Stacey begins in the second year of college and learns more about the forces behind the madness of this world (e.g., The Silent), as well as about Thomas. Her and Syl's friendship develops. She learns that Rose's death had a deeper cause, and she calls Stanley to ask more about that. He tells her nothing. She mentions that she's under an NDA (for relevance, see "The Depression Initiative").

"So you should be able to tell me something. I can't say anything."

Stanley paused on the other end of the line. Trying to think what to say. "I'll talk to you later about it--we can talk later, it's kind of complicated. Not something we can really discuss over the phone--hey what about Saturday or Sunday?"

"I guess, I don't have any plans."

They discuss a time and talk later about it over the phone.

Stacey misses the call because she's nervous; she talks to Claudia.

During this journey, she gets ahold of Bo Wilson, the firstborn son from the "Under the Table Dynasty" book when he is in his arc of eliminating the connects he's received via his father, as well as cementing himself as an enemy to their operations. Syl becomes aware of these predicaments as well and lends a hand. In the end, Stacey discovers what has been revealed to the reader via flashback--that Rose's cousin Ray Rodriguez (who is Bo's best friend, and the one who helps him seek to save his love interest) was the instigator in her death. Along with this, Thomas' role in shown to be connected to Stacey, but this doesn't concern her personally. In *Heart of Hearts* (possibly to be called "Ace of Hearts" instead)*,* Stacey graduates from college and eventually begins her career at an accounting firm, meeting someone there. Somehow, she is reintroduced to Bo and that conflict recommences. She learns about the religious organization that Ray is connected to, and gets Stanley to help her seek him out. Here she finds out more about Rose and how exactly she died and that she had feelings for her.

In *Gems* the arc of Stacey is allowed to pursue what she doesn't want to, but is willing to help with in arresting Ray, along with Kaycey, etc. when several parties come together to bust Kaycey and team in the "Gems Bust," and later the "Aura/Radiation" disaster. It still has to be determined what Stacey's actual motivation for doing this is, because her real concern is honoring Rose. It may be that she will discover that Ray is behind it here and decide to get revenge. In such a case, Stacey will be instrumental in capturing Ray if not killing him.

At the end of *Heart of Hearts,* there is a memorial service for Rose, and Stacey takes on a not official but de facto friend/older sister role to Ava, Rose's sister, while she holds her in the service. The end of Stacey's arc mirrors Stanley's in that they involve being close to people they love. After this, "it is what it is," and Stacey is done trying to avenge Rose. Her life was already moving on, but now she feels she's completed her part and will just never forget her friend. She and Syl are together and might marry.

After this, in the *Silence* trilogy as well as in *Day, Heart, Hand,* Stacey's arc is about coming to terms with her abilities, just like many of the other sixteen, and the genre focuses on politics, etc.

Following the war is the "God Saga" in which the sixteen become gods, the conflict is exploring the galaxy. When the cycle begins and they all realize it, and when the war with the dreamers ends (For more information, see "The Current Cycle Iteration"), Stacey as well as the sixteen end as gods.

## Stacey and Thomas: Heart and Hand

*[possible]*

Thomas Manns' is a character with the ability to being karma on people, or trade someone's karma for another. His initial character description shows him to be level headed and smart near the beginning of his story, when he's a practicing pathologist, but then later shows a non healthy mental attitude and possibly delusion, when he gathers a group of followers to basically take over the world. It would be better to make Thomas' level headed all the way through his arc, giving him a chance to be a foil to Stacey and main enemy until they join forces in the god saga.

Their parallels include both hunting, both losing someone they love, both having a visionary point of view. Thomas has this point of view from the beginning, but Stacey develops it later on. Their arcs include how to deal with loss and how that shapes their actions especially when their abilities are stronger. Rather than an antagonist, Thomas may be a foil instead because of the similarities of the characters in that they're are not magnetically different but somewhat. Bo Sanderson is very different from Stacey almost polar opposite, but he will probably act as a partner rather than antagonist.

Amy Moore would be a good opposite to Thomas too, since she is an extroverted good will seeker who will go out of her way to help people; Thomas' rationale would be scary to her even when it's not evil as would Amy's courage.

Someone else that wouldn't be an antagonist to Stacey but would get on her nerves is Yana Popov; their are no plans for them meeting yet but they would at some point. Yana would think Stacey is boring, Stacey would think Yana is vapid and possibly an idiot. Yana's arc includes claiming her own path and using her body to manipulate people until she changes her mind and learns to respect herself; while Stacey learns to trust people again.

Eli is also quite different from Stacey, but they find they share similar values for people and fun, so they have an uncle niece thing going on. Eli is the top foil to Stacey and vice versa. Syl is next on the list. Rose is also a great foil especially in flashbacks, more than Eli.

It's my opinion that the best narrative and even real life best friendships include two people that are more than a little different but not very different, rather than very different and simply coming to an agreement to disagree. Syl is currently quite similar to Stacey so I may make him different. Rose and Stacey fit in the "more than a little different" category.

## Stacey and Nathaniel: Arm and Heart

Nathaniel's story within the Face of God universe is one about courage, fatherhood, and the grittiness of medieval life. The bigger role he plays is to act as the mediating actor between Stacey and Thomas, as the initiator of the vision (heart) and the facilitator of what is needed to act out that plan.

Though born in different eras, the two will probably meet via time travel as facilitated by Eli. At the very least they will be able to communicate. In a similar way, Ailios and Alysa Peters will also communicate at some point.

Nat has many similar values to Stacey. In the God Saga the two will develop a relationship and possibly take each others' side in the God civil war.

It is possible that Nat's sword act as an artifact that as an initial "God weapon": in the God Saga, weapons are made based on intent. So a sword wouldn't be necessary but it a narrative bridge to those weapons. His sword will be found at some point and maybe used as a tool to create aura based tools for modern day war (for information surrounding this idea, see "Inventions Made By the 16's Abilities").

Alysa's whip is the first tool with Nat's aura in the modern day. How she gets access to this is uncertain, but it may be that she simply finds it, perhaps after learning about her history and using her resources to find it. Part of Alysa's arc is who she sees herself as (in connection to her uncle and nuclear family) and the discovery of Ailios would contribute to this journey. Learning that her great ancestor was a magic imbued Scottish princess would change her entire course and could be an impetus to lead her to becoming more of a protagonist rather than an anti hero.

So coming back to the present, Alysa could act as Nat in the present with her whip. It doesn't have nearly as much power as Nat's sword but it is still influential. Perhaps she will be instrumental in the War of Silence.