Stormbite (Storm Series)

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Stormbite (Storm series) is a book written by T. Hearts and is published through Amazon. The first book was published on September 1st 2018

## Synopsis

*Storm isn’t human, none of the Rogues are. They’re Synthetic and hidden in the very heart of London, making it their job to help other Synths in trouble with ARCDA and Hasekura, with the assistance of the group of renegade humans known as the Rioteers. However, when Storm makes one inadvertent mistake on what seems to be a fairly routine mission to track down a group of missing Synths and discover what has happened to them, little does she realise that she has inadvertently sparked a chain reaction that will have dire consequences for not just her family of Rogues, but for all Synths across the world.*

## Plot

This page contains information that may spoil unread content.

####  Prologue

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The Prologue follows a young storm waking up from being in the middle of an MRI scan and panicking. In her panic she is released so that she doesn't break her own bones and tries to escape when they open the door to restrain and sedate her. After this she blacks out and is woken up by an electric shock only to find that the entire building is on fire and everyone is running away and screaming in panic. Afraid, she lashes out at a doctor trying to save her from the fire, and in the chaos gets separated from her sister and runs in the opposite direction and straight into the arm of masked men who started the fire. They capture her and bring her to their leader, a man named Rex who tries to take her away, but again she escapes and flies out of the building and over the lake to see what is happening.
As she is seeing her world on fire, she makes eye contact with the leader of the attackers just as he shoots her out of the sky. Eventually she wakes again, this time everything is cold as she has fallen into the lake. She pulls herself out and is found by a Canid who asks her who she is and if she's alright.

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## Characters & Critters

### Main Characters

* Storm Fraser-Swann : The main protagonist, Storm is the leader of the synth group known as the Rogues.

* Beth Lovelace :The second in command of the Rogues, Beth, is the technician and planner of all of the missions and knows a lot more than she lets on.
* Wilny Mira : An ex-Elite Avio suffering with PTSD.
* Katana Tsume :A Hasekura made tribrid.
* Raoul Hunter:
* Malana Été :A four year old Avio with telkens.
* Amell Rakena :

#### **Secondary Characters**

* Rex Brisbane, The Rioteers
* Kathy Grey
* Comet Sang
* Eve Mira
* Sabre Merlo
* Fell Merlo
* Wilheim Mira
* Asena Canis, Asena's Pack
* Crow Corvus, The Daggers
* Palmer Hunter
* Freeborn
* Roux Cuélebre

#### Minor Characters

* Adonis Oola. The Xanas
* Maira Foley
* Silver Quill
* Owen Blackburn

### Critters

* Drake Raptors

## History

Prior to its publication in September, Stormbite has come through many drafts and edits before it was finalize to what it is now. It started off in early 2010-2011 as a script, then became a rough comic in 2012, before being overhauled and written up in full as a book with many smaller stories and a much larger more open world splintering forth from it .

Upon it's publication, the first book has a total of 486 pages with 33 chapters.

Upon the 2021 Re-work, the font size was increased from 9pts to 10pts which initially put the original script up to 670 pages, but has since been reworked and is now down to 564 pages but with 34 chapters.

##### ***First Draft Notes:***

* The first draft was an absolute mess as it was essentially planned by a depressed 16 year old. It was more episodic in nature with lots of smaller missions and no overarching arcs with all of the characters being picked up and rescued along Storm's travels.
* At one point Storm had a split personality and her eyes would change colour between green and yellow depending on if she was Storm or Frost. This was very early on in the first draft and was removed from the plot as it was "*stupid and very anime.*" Frost/Freya was dead in this draft and the personality split was an assimilation of her sister.
* Storm also permanently wore a collar within the first draft which she was imprisoned by until she broke free and wore leather jackets until T.Hearts realised that it is not easy to move fast or flex with a leather jacket on and so her outfit was evolved and changed.
* Wilny also had a very different appearance, being far paler, which was updated and modified due to changes in artistic tastes. He has also had a personality shift, from being very cold and moody to having much a lighter side.
* Kat originally had no tail as it was cut off, but has since been returned to her. She also had wing patterning of a bluejay but this has since been changed to be more unique.
* Beth had a pet owl in the very first draft when it was a script, and communication with animals was universal amongst synths. A remnant of this exists with the ferals.
* Sabre and Fell were going to be part of the Rogues and brothers to Storm and Freya as part of a larger batch, but their story was adjusted as the plot changed.
* Amell was once very skinny and thin with blue eyes, and was much younger at about 12 when he was rescued.
* Raoul, Palmer, Malana, Eve, Wilheim, Free, and Roux didn't exist in the first draft.
* Comet had rainbow wings and could tell the future. Again removed because T.Hearts deemed it stupid.

## 2021 Edit and Update

Because it would have been three years since first publication, and nearly five years since writing Stormbite was finished, T.Hearts reread through it to get to work on cross-referencing Silverbird with Stormbite and got mad at her own writing style for Stormbite. Because of this, she decided to update and some major issues and grammar with it, as she was originally working with no timeline, no solid lore, or any solid plot.

#### **Hotfixes**

* Bigger font size and spacing for paperback.
* Updated cover art and additional internal designs.
* Improved grammar and writing.
* Improved clarity on Synths, ARCDA, Elites, etc.
* Reduced wordiness and over explanation.
* Better timeline.
* Messy scenes, cleaned up.
* Improved languages.
* Less purple prose.
* Small changes to ages and character details.
	+ Raoul is now seven instead of thirteen due to over thinking on "how would he have gone through ARCDA not already knowing this and being so innocent?"
	+ Beth is more apparent in being Transhuman.
	+ Palmer's age is clarified as being two months old.
	+ Caesar's age is clarified as being three months old.

## Themes

***Morals are Grey***

It is often shown within the book that there is no clear cut Good Guys-vs-Bad Guys elements to the characters. The Rioteers might initially be presented as the 'good guys' but it becomes clear that their methods are bad as they resort to behaviour more often seen with terrorism, whilst ARCDA, on surface level could be seen as a classic 'evil scientist organisation' has been shown to be helping the world through technology and new sciences. Even with the Rogues, who engage in criminal activities such as blackmail, theft, and espionage, they are aware of the moral greyness of what they are doing.

***Growth & Recovery***

Growth and Recovery is a very strong theme within Stormbite, as all the characters have troubles and traumas that they are trying to grow and recover from. Wilny's character arc heavily features growth and recovery as he is still recently coming around from a deeply disturbing trauma, and is struggling to come to terms with it, and Storm is struggling to appropriately handle it. They clash but they ultimately grow from this and learn to find a different way around it.

***Family is What you Make It***

Family is a branching thing in Stormbite, blood relations are not strong but bonds are. Storm refers to the Rogues as her family, and includes those who have left the Rogues as still being part of that family, giving each other terms of Brother, Sister, Mother in the form of titles of affection rather than familial ties and relations. Wilny quickly adopts Raoul and Malana as his children, and Raoul adopts Palmer as his own son.

## Promotional Art

Fulll CoverThe Rogues
 Trivia

* Initially, Stormbite was drafted as a script, then a comic, then it became written out in a longer format and then became a book.
* There have been 7 different drafts and plots for the series, each one being redone or cast aside due to it either being a bad idea or it lacking enough scope.
* The author is aware of the grammar and spelling mistakes and has done her best to get all of them and fix the mistakes, but a few still evade her.
	+ 2021 Update: T.Hearts is so mad with her past self's writing, that she is editing the book again.

## References

1. ↑ T.Hearts' own words.
2. ↑ T.Hearts' own words.
3. ↑ T.Hearts: I know i know, I've done my best ;3;;;

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