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Aerlun and Daemien’s stories, at least at the beginning, run parallel. Each story has four parts. They live worlds apart, but their lives echo each other in many ways. (It is important to note that neither of them have names for the entire first part of the story. Aerlun has many names he calls himself, from Sharp-Eyes to Fingers to Thief, but no birth name. Daemien is known in his ‘home’ as Ilek, but he hates it. Casella started calling him Ilek because he was repeating it over and over when she found him, but he learns later that it means spirit wraith, and he was screaming it because spirit wraiths just killed his family.)
So I have a problem. Aerlun and Daemien not having true names for all of the first and much of the second parts of the story isn’t so bad, I think, since it’s in first person. The trouble is that I intend to write their stories in one book, staggering their chapters. So the chapters will need to start with a designator of who the chapter is about… but I don’t know what to use for the beginning. For Daemien, I could probably use ‘Ilek’ since that’s what people call him, even if he doesn’t feel it’s his name. Aerlun, however… I could start chapters with whatever name he feels fits at the time, such as Sharp-Eyes or Adder, but I feel like it’s a bad idea so early on in the book. Readers could easily get confused as to whether it’s one character or several they’re reading about. Perhaps I could start his with ‘Fledgling Whip’ or something. Thoughts?
As another note, if I write the chapters staggered the way I want to, since there will only be four parts, the part names would be changed to fit both Aerlun and Daemien well. In other words, there wouldn’t be a Capture and a Captivity; these would be the same part, but I would choose a name that suits both characters.
( Their plots )
So I have a problem. Aerlun and Daemien not having true names for all of the first and much of the second parts of the story isn’t so bad, I think, since it’s in first person. The trouble is that I intend to write their stories in one book, staggering their chapters. So the chapters will need to start with a designator of who the chapter is about… but I don’t know what to use for the beginning. For Daemien, I could probably use ‘Ilek’ since that’s what people call him, even if he doesn’t feel it’s his name. Aerlun, however… I could start chapters with whatever name he feels fits at the time, such as Sharp-Eyes or Adder, but I feel like it’s a bad idea so early on in the book. Readers could easily get confused as to whether it’s one character or several they’re reading about. Perhaps I could start his with ‘Fledgling Whip’ or something. Thoughts?
As another note, if I write the chapters staggered the way I want to, since there will only be four parts, the part names would be changed to fit both Aerlun and Daemien well. In other words, there wouldn’t be a Capture and a Captivity; these would be the same part, but I would choose a name that suits both characters.
( Their plots )
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