Bleakeas (Author)

Bleakeas is the writer of Gun Wounds and one of it's authors alongside Taido404.

## Private Life

Little is know about the writer. We do know that she's a female as mentioned on many of her social medias where she purposely adds her pronouns (she/her) and there's a hint that she might be French as well. However, apart from that, we do not know where she lives nor what she looks like she seems to want to keep these information private for now. Maybe one day she will reveal it to the world but for now she remains secret.

A information that's not hidden is her friendship with Taido404 (Author/Artist), the two friends are childhood friends and work together on Gun Wounds.

## Works

Bleakeas is known to be Gun Wounds' writer/author but she also wrote another book way before Gun Wounds called Scary Murderer. Her book is available on Wattpad and already reached 2k views. The book was apparently released in June 2018 and even has a lot of fan arts online that could be found easily if you type the name of some characters. However, this book is in French, another hint of her possible nationality.

Not only she is a writer but she is also an artist as well! Some designs of Gun Wounds were drew by her, for example the official logo of the story, most of the organizations' emblems, the plans of some places and a few chibi drawings alongside one illustration for the Spin-Off. That being said, her main skill remains writing that's why she leaves the drawings to Taido404.

### Gun Wounds' Adventure

The first chapter of Gun Wounds and the account Bleakeas was created and released in February 2022. But, even before publishing the first chapter, Gun Wounds was definitely not as it is now, she says:

*"At first, I was simply watching The Walking Dead for the first time in my bed. I don't really know why and how but I suddenly got captivated by Rick Grimes, I don't know. I liked his policeman figure and when I started to really think about it, I wanted to create a character that would embody his personality. **That's how Michael Blake was born**. I only wanted to create the perfect male character in my image but it turned out differently."*

On that thought, she had another idea. She says:

*"[...]because I'm a Yaoi/BL lover, I wanted to create my own Yaoi story (since I didn't have the chance to do so with Scary Murderer). I created Roméo Grriatz, this character was supposed to be Michael's future lover in the story. I wanted to give him some of my identity to have an authentic character, that's why he's French, for example. But his origin also means a lot to me, not only because I am French myself but because I wanted to create a character that **finally represents French people as they are in reality and not how the world thinks they are**."*

Not long after creating them, she wrote the two firsts chapters of Gun Wounds (which would later become the Prologue of the story). Nevertheless, she made an unexpected collaboration that changed everything. She says:

*"[...]it wasn't supposed to happen. Taido and I were childhood friends and I just happened to slip a few words about Gun Wounds. He was hook up by the story and gave important ideas for the story such as the concept of 'Arcs' which really gave us a whole blank page to add every scenarios we had in mind. **I have to say, I wasn't expecting that. I don't think he did too**."*

In only a few days, the first digital drawing of Michael was drawn by Taido404 and that single drawing marked the beginning of the creation of the character designs of every characters in Gun Wounds. She says:

*"I was so happy! I was really picturing someone like that when I was imagining Michael in my head. It was so cool! **Without that, any of the drawings we're currently making would be the same**."*

When the writing machine was turned on, that's when a lot of ideas came. She says:

*"[...]Yeah yeah sure-- most of the ideas of Gun Wounds arrived when I was writing, for example hm.. Let's take Nick Carter, he wasn't supposed to be a main character at all. When I first wrote his first appearance in Chapter 1, **he was a coward and meant to be a mob**. A background character. However, because there was only Michael and Roméo as 'true characters', we needed to add more to the main cast and because Carter was one of the background characters that had a name and an appearance in the story, I chose him alongside Alexander Quinn, Owen Patland, Maddie Wilson. I chose lengthily after to add Ally Spellman and Carl Horton to the main cast as well, we needed diversity."*

This story represents a lot of different characters, situations, personalities, backgrounds and identities. According to Bleakeas, it was "meant to be". This huge diversity gave a whole new identity to the story. She says:

*"Yes, it was supposed to turn out like that. I wanted to create a story where there's many differences, various societal issues and even exchanges between opposite environments. I do not want to create a whole queer-friendly story and add queer characters only to add them, **I just want to deliver a story with deep double meanings and a mature content that convey important messages and issues in the society.**"*

About the queer content, she tried to express her love for the Yaoi content through Gun Wounds. She says:

*"I am not ashamed of writing such stories, I'm even proud. I've always wanted to write one but didn't have enough inspiration to do so. With this story, I want to write a story I never saw elsewhere. Usually, Yaoi stories stick to hardcore content or basic romance, that's not what I wanted for Gun Wounds. If we kept the idea of Arcs in the story it's because I wanted to create a sort of Yaoi-Shonen/Seinen story and not a simple romance. **Yes, the main romance is very important for the plot but it's not everything** and that's why we chose to add other romances (queer and straight), objectives, targets, bosses,.."*

In the end, she managed to keep up her idea of Yaoi / Shonen / Seinen with the bang of the Arc 1: Welcome to DrugCity that shows the various contrasts between romances, drama, action, danger and mysteries. She says:
*"[...]and I am proud of the 1st Arc so far. Even if it's not Taido's favorite, I am proud of what I wrote and chose to show to the readers/viewers! The first Arc must be good, it's the starting point of everything so **I needed to put my soul in it and I will keep on doing so until the last arc**."*

And so, the adventure of Gun Wounds is still ongoing! Who knows what could happen next..

## Social Media

Bleakeas is very present of social medias, here's a couple of her main social medias' accounts:

Wattpad: @Bleakeas

Instagram: @gunwoundsofficial

Twitter: @gunwoundsoff

Facebook: Bleakeas Arrer

Pinterest: @GunWoundsOfficial

But you can also follow her on manga upload websites such as MyReadingManga or Mangapark where they upload arts of Gun Wounds!

## Bleakeas' Signature

This is the official signature of Bleakeas that she created herself and that she uses in official and published works online.