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*"He's the only thorn among the roses."* - Velaris tagline

## **Official Description**

Velaris (Star-Crossed) book cover

**Velaris** *(also known as **Star-Crossed**)* will be the first project Amree Aguinaldo and Austin Dy will write together in 2021 so far, although it's unknown when it will be released. Its plot features a boy's love (BL) that would contrast to that of After Solstice, which is both HM and Chrysalis' first girl's love (GL), even though Velaris will most likely be a shounen-ai instead.

As of now in its early development stages, Amree Aguinaldo and Austin Dy only have five characters to focus on; Tobias Avelino who is the protagonist, deuteragonist; Linden Vanderberg, and three tritagonists; Sapphire Aihara, and twins Caspian and Cascade Jiāng.

## **Story Summarization**

The kingdom of Velaris has no king and would only have queens allowed on the throne because of the brutal death of one of the previous king's sons. Velaris' current queen suffers a terminal illness and would want her son, Prince Linden, to be married shortly after he turns 18, so he could rule Velaris with the new queen- his soon-to-be-wife. However, Linden's regent and older cousin, Ares Vanderberg, wants the throne for himself and change the rules once and for all.

In a secluded part of Velaris is the organization of Inferno HQ, an agency that has teenage agents to protect the kingdom from ineligible candidates, while they find who the actual heir of Velaris is, with the members being Tobias Avelino, Sapphire Aihara, and Caspian Jiāng, being lead by Caspian's twin sister, Cascade, and mentored by Agent Sunset Mendoza. Every year, they pick a *Vixen* to be a suitress for the prince to marry, and Agent Sunset wanted Sapphire to be the Vixen for that year. It just so happened that she was then eliminated from the prince's suitresses because she was being silly with her name and the 'kingdom' she was from doesn't even exist. With Sapphire out of the roster and Cascade couldn't be a Vixen again, Cascade tries to coax Tobias to cross-dress as a girl and try to be a suitress for Prince Linden. Running low on options, Tobias has no choice but to agree with her.

## **Characters**

#### **Tritagonists**

* Sapphire Aihara
* Caspian Jiāng
* Cascade Jiāng

#### **Supporting**

* Agent Sunset Mendoza
* The Queen

## **Trivias**

* The alternate story title, "Star-Crossed", is supposed to be a story made by Parker Trinh with a completely different plotline, although this was never released nor continued. Writer Amree Aguinaldo had to ask permission from Trinh in order to use the title.
	+ The title might also imply that the protagonist and the deuteragonist shouldn't be together in the first place, seeing as 'star-crossed' means 'ill-fated' or 'thwarted by bad luck'.
* Velaris would be the first of many projects in HM:
	+ First (and so far only) story of HM to be completely written by only two writers.
	+ First story to be a BL with its direct opposite being After Solstice, which is the first GL project of HM. Velaris is also canonically the third story of HM to have LGBT main characters, the first being After Solstice (Sydney Crimsen, Anna Sinclair, and Rio Togami), and the second being Beyond Worlds (Red Ordonia).
	+ First shounen-ai.
	+ First story to not reveal who the characters are supposed to be after it's being written.
	+ First story that wouldn't have a released demo reel in 2021 (both YES or YES and Beyond Worlds have demo reels and short animated storyboards for the fans in the blog).
	+ First (and so far only) story to have a hyphen in the title (for Star-Crossed), others being a colon like Libitina: Unmasked, or uppercase letters like MORE & MORE and YES or YES.
	+ First story to have a single word as its title (Velaris) that wasn't a translated literary work (SILENT is a film, excluding it, and *Dimensiones* is Beyond Worlds' title for the Spanish translation).
	+ First story to not be considered as a fanfiction, although could pass off as one because of apparent coincidences.
	+ First story to be written by Austin Dy.
	+ First story to be written by Amree Aguinaldo in 2021 (she helped with YES or YES' puzzles and Beyond Worlds' locations, but she never wrote a part in both stories and therefore wouldn't consider her as a writer).
	+ First story in 2021 to not reveal when the release date is.
	+ First (and so far only) story of Chrysalis to have broken the fourth wall (Beyond Worlds technically didn't break the fourth wall since it was a fanfiction; the characters never "talked" to the readers the way Velaris does).
	+ First story to have the monarchy involved as the plot (Smoke & Mirrors doesn't count since it was discontinued while it was on its early development stages).