- Wings

What am I changing?

- The story is now a direct forerunner of TSBLAD, existing in a superhero universe as opposed to “reality”. It acts as a sort of prequel, taking place at least 25 years before the events of TSBLAD.

- Mutants/Naturals already exist, but are extremely rare (their population is slowly increasing, but they still remain unknown to the world).

- Characters are being aged up to the first year of college, for one.

- Most of the beginning is being completely changed; instead of the introduction being Meg and Ian at a high school/boarding school; it begins with an orientation for a new college, after Meg and Ian (as well as the other members: Pierce, Darren, and Jazz) receive invitations to attend a so called “experimental model” college.

- Connor’s character has been aged up to is TAWNBT age at 15.

- Instead of receiving his powers from a cookie as he did in the original draft, Connor is a naturally-born mutant and thought insane due to his aura sight. Meg is even more protective of him in this new plot, and one of the few to believe that Connor isn’t crazy*.

- We’re going Darker and Edgier.

- Darren and Pierce have a closer relationship here.

- By the end of the book, mutants become known to the world, unlike in the original draft.

What else might happen?

- Pyric may be included in the new plot.

- Debating whether to keep just the original cookies of have the serum spread throughout all of the food.

- Heather, like Pyric, may or may not appear. The same applies to Warp, Heather’s sister.

What will remain the same?

- Overall characterization, appearances, and powers will all remain the same. Small details will change, but overall the protagonists will stay the same as before.

– The plot will remain about the same at its base: Crimson altering a school full of students and hypnotizing them in order to fight for mutant domination, while the six Specials work to keep his plan from succeeding.

And yes, I have been planning to make it a sort of prequel to TSBLAD for a while now, although the original draft showed this through blink-and-you’ll-miss-it references**.

Comments?

- Wings

* Since TAWNBT was scrapped, I merged Andra’s backstory with Connor’s.

** Meg mentions seeing a movie called Attack of the Fifty Foot Prom Queen during the beginning of chapter 2. It later turns up on a movie poster in Retra’s hospital room, with Eclipse mentioning “it was horribly cheesy, but she said that was what she liked most about it.”

- Wings

I could try a Starscream with Heather taking down Crimson…Still not sold on the idea though.

- Wings

- Wings

Note: More information about HTSTW as well as my other works has been placed in my second review forum.

I’ve been absent for a long time, but you will be pleased to know I have been doing much pondering on my works, and decided to change a few things.

The largest one is easily the setting change in the HTSTW series. Instead of being set in a pseudo-reality, the novels have been moved to a world which is experiencing the dawn of superheroes. This change smoothed out a few of the Fridge Logic moments (Where Julian lives, how Elle effectively kidnapped her sister from the mental ward without arousing at least a little suspicion, and several other things which greatly bothered me…And the whole concept of the Titan’s Diamond. It was originally an alien artifact, then it became, and I quote “a conglomerate of Natural energy dating back to the dawn of man”, to…something. I honestly don’t know) and made the series a sort of Spiritual Ancestor to Darken’s saga (Oh, how I’d love to throw a cameo or two in there…).

Therefore, there will be yet another revamp to the chapters.

All changes pertaining to Darkstar Rising (Which really, really, really needs a new title) and Twisted Fantasy (Which also is in need of a better title…although P’s suggestion “A Glitch In the System” was pretty good. Thank you, P.)

- Wings

P: “But as usual a Slurpee and nachos can cure just about any emotional damage.”

I feel sorry for your characters, living in that dystopia you created for them…

“Everyone I cared about is dead, and the world is in ruins.”

“Here, have some chips with synthetic cheese on them! They make everything better!”

…As usual, I’m not one to talk. But whatever.

- Wings

Just to note, Wings, I read this chapter but didn’t have anything to add to what B. Mac said. I’m enjoying this, though, and looking forward to what happens next!

I always had a bit of a penchant for love-hate relationships, and the idea of meg and Pierce together just grew on me. Both of then are fun to write, and their interactions together have always been entertaining.

In the first book, there is little to no evidence of a relationship between them, the romantic interaction will almost entirely occur from the second book onward.

- Wings

Interesting notion to have a Meg/Pierce realationship. Their celebrity couple name will be: Pieg or maybe Meirce. My only question would be why Meg and Peirce? How does the potential realationship fit into the plot?