I can do anything in 6 Years / Sweet Prince 3

These are my aesthetics for Jean, Minnow and Alan. I've actually thought Paul Walker should be older Alan for a long time. Minnow's is Charlotte Casiraghi, a princess of Monaco. Jean's is still Jared Leto, but I imagine him with a little more Jay Baruchel.
 



Mimic Mimic
Someone asked me in the comment section how I thought Sweet Prince related to Mimic and I've thought about it...Sweet Prince is like Mimic except with a third wave feminist group hug. Mimic is probably much more true to the, male-centric, cold, weirdness of actual cyberpunk short stories while Sweet Prince is....something else I don't have a name for. They also exist in contrast; Mimic is what happens if Rayne's only son ran away from the family business and Sweet Prince is what happens when Rayne's only son embraces it.

Also, I think Mimic might be a little abelist with the way I wrote Luce being autistic and Minnie being in a wheelchair and doing nothing. Also, Alan calls Minnie mon cher and I have no idea why and it makes me cringe so I'm just going to bury Mimic in the same place I buried Sundays.

 SH-CPShawna Paradox Line
I wrote Mimic 7 years ago and honestly haven't read it in atleast 5. I definitely haven't looked at it recently so, I was beyond shocked when I realize there is a SH-CPShawna Paradox Line !

This is how Kris describes Minnie and Alan in Mimic. Remember that in this version Minnie died at the Life Summit and is a Sage-like character:

He put his arms around her waist to adjusted her properly back in her wheelchair and kissed her again, locking his lips over hers.

I rolled my eyes but, for as long as I had known them they had been like that, more in love than any teenagers I knew. Which was surprising seeing as Alan regularly slept with prostitutes and Aunt Minnie kept a strict schedule of doing everything and nothing at the same time.

This is how Twyla describes them in Sweet Prince:

Alan was a cartel loyalist and he and Aunt Minnie had been together longer than any couple I knew. He practically worshiped at her feet and even after a decade together they acted like the newlyweds I saw in movies.

(The line was originally like teenagers but it was a last second change)

This is Luce in Mimic:

He took Twyla’s hand and lead her to the door,”Come, Kristopher.”

I could have killed him for talking to me like a child but, I followed him out the door, pass the restaurant and to the parking garage.

And this is Luce in Sweet Prince:

“And that’s our cue to go,” Luce says walking out. He motions to me with his hand like I was a dog. “Come, Twyla.”

And in both novellas the Kris/Rias character gets dressed down. In Mimic it's by Alan because he missed Rayne's funeral.

“I was busy--,”

“No one fucking believes that, you better come up with a better fucking excuse.” Alan shot at me

“Alan, sweetheart, you can’t talk to him like that.”

“He can’t be babied. Kristopher isn’t a child anymore, he is a man” Alan said

“Don’t go there,” Aunt Minnie said, “Everybody saying shit like that is why he left--,”

“No it’s not.” I said,” It’s not.”

 And of course in Sweet Prince

“Disarm me,” Luce barks down at Rias. “Don’t you dare fucking cry. Are you being a damn baby because you had to kill your daddy last week ? Is everything too hard, sweet little prince ? Are you so lazy ? Are you a little bitch ?,”

Rias rolls himself out from under Luce’s foot and walks away.

Luce grabs him by his collar and pushes him into a wall.

“Stop being weak, baby brother.” Luce growls.

“Luce.” Mother says. “Give it a fucking rest.”

Give Me Six Years

 Also, I came across this blog post from January 6, 2011..in 6 years I can do anything:

Sweet Prince 3
Recap:Twyla Banner is friends with Colette Santoro, a motorcycle assassian for the Santoro Family known as the Covalcatti. With Sara drunk at Ivy's Twyla's about sneak out to meet Colette when she decided to invite Rias and give him a night of fun. She tries to warn Colette she's bringing him but it might be too late.
"I catch Rias’s body language change. He presses his foot down on the pneumatic device of his ankle holster and his silver and black revolver flies up and into his waiting hand.
 

He starts firing at the blue Covalcatti motorcycle coming towards us.

Shit..."

 

Sweet Prince 3
Playlist
-1- Bad Girls by M.I.A.
-2- Five Hours by Deorrio
-3-All I Want by Daniella Mason

-4- What Kind of Man by Florence and The Machine

Sweet Prince 2 Aesthetics

So, it's impossible for me to really put into words how these serials came together. Basically, I started Sweet Prince last year right after Compulsion because I knew I wanted to write about an older Rias, 

It was mostly going to be the funeral scene bur I needed another pallbearer and I kind of just added Haley's name for kicks. Then I decided to make the funeral from Twyla's POV and then I wrote the Luce getting a tattoo scene and Haley showed up in the apartment and he had tattoos for some reason too.I think I was going to keep Haley's past kind of fuzzy , but then I decided to write Bright Lines and as I wrote Bright Lines (and Arkham Academy) I just kind of layered back information and added things I was going to bring back.

 I've been wanting to write Haley and Luce in the same serial since I did a TDOSH where they breifly "met". In fact, Luce was originally going to be in the end of Compulsion but I couldn't quite fit him in.

Also, I'm currently playing with this side story about Jean's brothel but it's kind of...dark, When I was writing the sexy times scenes in UL3 I used this Tumblr list to help me and I kind of want to break it out again.

Okay, who's ready for some aesthetics (I think that's what the kids call picspiations these days)

Grace/Washington/Banner Family

So, the inspirations for Zacharias and Twyla are random photos I found  but Luce's is Sam Hueghan from Outlander with dark hair. It's crazy how much his hair color changes the way he looks. I also imagine Twyla with this coloring:

 

 Colette Santoro Aesthetic

In my head she rides a sports bike, but it's surprisingly hard to find images of women riding those kinds of bikes. I just imagine her with strong Mediterranean features and like Cara Delevigne eyebrows.

Haley Aesthetic

Keep Ruby Rose

My new picspiration for Haley is model Erika Linder. I am kind of obsessed with her look because she just kind of presents as either gender depending on how the light hits her, it's not so much about how she's dressed or her hair. length. Like to me, in this gif she looks feminine from the side and masculine when she turns her face.

Also,  her thing when she first came on the scene is that she kind of looks like a young Leonardo DiCarpio when she frowns. It's actually kind of fascinating to look at how much body language influences our perceptions of gender.

Also, yes, yes she did a photoshoot for some fashion magazine with Andrej Pejic... I think this is the future liberals want.

Sweet Prince 2 

Recap: Twyla Banner, the sister of Zacharias Washington, the next leader of the cartel is secretly friends with Colette Santoro, the daughter of a rival cartel leader and a motorcycle assassin.  They try and keep family out of their friendship and Colette invites Twyla to a concert. Twyla decides to tag along with Luce to deliver some medicine to her brother so she can gain some "good sister/daughter points." before sneaking out to the concert... 

Sweet Prince 2
Playlist

-1- A Flat by Black Violin 

-2- Candles by John Hopkins

-3- Litost by X Ambassadors

Jacket Serial Has Arrived ! (w/ alt cover)

As some of you hinted at in the comments the above cover is probably a better cover image for Sweet Prince because it represents the story better  but I wanted to make Bright Lines and Sweet Prince look like they went together as a series since they kind of inform each other.

I realize with the title and cover I went with it kind of does the thing of making this seem like "the boy's story" when it's really  Twyla's story (well, kinda).

Sweet Prince I

So, when  I wrote this I didn't intend to do that sneak peak  of the first chapter so I'm not going to blog too much without getting the rest of the chapter out. Although I do see a GIF post in the future...

Recap: During the afterparty of Rayne Washington's funeral Sara Grace's daughter ,Twyla, sends a message on her syndicate and then slips out the wake using the fire escape...

Sweet Prince 1
Playlist

- 1- Brother by Need to Breathe
- 2 - Gold by Interference  (this is a different song called Gold)
- 3- Autopilot by Seam