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Modern Monsters
Demon kids loitering outside of convenience stores, lighting up cigarettes with their own flames
Werewolf girls snarling at men who dare to cat call them, baring fangs to show they are not to be trifled with
Sirens crooning into a mic in a smoky bar, voices resonating with otherworldly passion
Vampire EMTs taking night classes and struggling to get into medical school
Alarunes dutifully tending to their gardens, whispering encouragement to their seedlings
Satyrs being the most charming baristas ever seen, flirting with every customer
Gorgons uploading fashion tips and make up tricks onto their blogs
Nagas chatting with their centaur friends about how hard it is to workout when you’re not bipedal
Sphinxes posing annoying riddles at a train stop and then leaving
Hybrid monster kids not being sure where they belong but learning to love themselves anyway
Quote I wrote for a book I'm writing;
-Big bad towards Johanna Everstone.
Happy Halloween!
Here's your modern monsters character!
Her name is Victoria 'Ick' Eyessacs.
She's a conspiracy theorist who may or may not be completely human.
She has a pet dog named Snapper and lives in the back of her bug van from her grandfather's long ago shut down exterminator company.
She found a picture of 'Johanna Ever', a cowboy's long lost love only to realize that she looked a little too similar to Johanna Everstone '2'.
The mysterious stranger who claims to be a distant relative of Evermore's founding family that, like her 'long lost cousin' was named after the original Johanna Everstone, who didn't 'survive' the witch trials.
Needless to say, she's more than a little curious especially when she finds other strange photos and paintings that look an awful lot like the new stranger's friends....
Hope you like her!
Love her! She sounds fun lol.
Here's your Modern Monsters' character's boyfriend!
Silas Pan.
He's a modern day Satyr and unlike the other monsters in town, he's pretty new.
He runs into Ick not long after roaming into town for the annual Everstone Fall Festival.
Cute! He looks great, thanks!
I'd love to hear more about your Modern Monsters story.
Specifically about Johanna and her relationships with her friends and boyfriend.
Johanna's relationships with her friends and boyfriend (and, by extension, her family) have always been seen as a bit odd.
Meaning the brunette has always been extremely loyal to her friends and her partners and even her family unless given an extremely good reason not to (i.e betrayal, a large difference in views, etc).
Her death (?) as a child at her mother and village’s hands affected her greatly—making it difficult for her to be around her family, even if she would still do anything for the Everstone family's descendants.
She's had brief interactions with her family members before the events of the story but she hasn't communicated with these modern descendants of hers (except for the oldest of the family) yet. And when she does, it's awkward because it's still painful for her.
It doesn't help that the town of Evermore hasn't forgotten her. Hasn't forgotten the history her mother rewrote. Like the not so little detail where her mother changed her age at death from 12 to 19 to make her look better (spoiler alert: it didn't work with most people).
Being in Evermore and being around her family is painful. Hence why Johanna never really stuck around with for long in the last 397 years.
(She was born in 1616 and Evermore, Massachusetts was founded in 1620. She died and was revived in 1628).
In those 397, she made a lot of friends and dated a good amount of people: all of whom Johanna cared about deeply.
The first of her friends that Johanna met was Lucius Ryder, an incubus—who she met while trying to summon a demon. She was cursed during the incantation out of frustration and poof! There he was.
When he realized what had happened he laughed at her and refused to take her soul. Lucius stuck around as Johanna tried to summon one who would take her soul. That led to Morana Crimson (a demon), Desdemona Grimm (no one knows what the fuck she is), and Octavius Taranto (some kind of shapeshifter) showing up.
All of whom refused her soul.
Much to her frustration.
The four of them ended up sticking around in her life.
It's because of them she was able to save Halmar Starkden when she was sixteen after finding him after what his witch hunter did to him when he released someone they thought was a witch. They helped her nurse him back to health to the best of their ability.
Long before they found out he was a wizard.
Johanna has an uncanny ability of being at the right place at the wrong time and the wrong place at the wrong time. It's because of that ability that Johanna met all of her friends and saved them/got saved by them.
She was there with a magic ring when Douglas Graves struggled with being a skeleton. To explain what happened to him and to help him get readjusted into society.
Johanna was there when Fin Finley, a merman, was dying of dehydration. There when Mako Akula seemed shady but turned out to just be a 'monster' like the rest of them. There when Clover Boggs, a fairy, injured her wings and couldn't escape hunters. There when Samantha Bellweed, a tree nymph, was struggling with pollution. There for their friends when Victoria 'Ick' Eyessacs confronted all of them on not being human and she was there to answer Ick’s questions.
She was there when Ick turned out not to be human and she was there to help Silas Pan, a satyr, get used to the human world.
Johanna was there for the people who would become her friends and they were there for her.
Her friends were there for Johanna through every betrayal, every death, every tragic event, etc.
The lot of them are there to help discover the secrets of their pasts, the mysteries of the present, and being around one around is very beneficial to all of them because each of them? They are othered.
They are from different times, different places, and are living in a world that isn't full their own through choice and have been doing so for decades.
Does that make sense? I hope that answers your question.
I'm revamping the story so I can't mention every character. But I can definitely tell you more if you want.
Old version. I'll redo it later.
Modern Monsters Moodboards part 2;
Name: Shepherd Wellermen.
Species: Angel.
Modern Job: Kroger worker.
Significant other: None.
Physical age: 22 years old.
Name: Douglas Graves.
Species: Skeleton.
Modern Job: Smoke Shop Cashier.
Significant other: Unknown girl.
Physical age: 19 years old.
Name: Lucius Ryder.
Species: Incubus.
Modern Job: Chef and Ametuar Flim Director.
Significant other: Desdemona Grimm.
Physical age: 21 years old.
Name: Desdemona Grimm.
Species: Goddess.
Modern Job: Artist and Mortician.
Significant other: Lucius Ryder.
Physical age: 21 years old.
Name: Morana Crimson.
Species: Demon.
Modern Job: Mortician.
Significant other: None.
Physical age: 18 years old.
Name: Finn Finley.
Species: Merman.
Modern Job: Musician and Baker.
Significant other: None.
Physical age: 19 years old.
Name: Clover Boggs.
Species: Fairy.
Modern Job: Teacher.
Significant other: None.
Physical age: 22 years old.
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Requested by my good friend, @crimsonstar2096 .
Part 1.
Old version.
I'll redo it later.
Modern Monsters Moodboards;
Name: Johanna Everstone.
Species: Witch.
Modern Job: Author.
Significant other: Halmar Starkden.
Physical age: 21 years old.
Name: Manih Attor.
Species: Dragon.
Modern Job: Musician, Chef, and Martial Arts instructor.
Significant other: Britannia Attor.
Physical age: 21 years old.
Name: Britannia Attor.
Species: Gorgon.
Modern Job: Golf instructor and sculptor.
Significant other: Manih Attor.
Physical age: 22 years old.
Name: Tezuka Katsuro.
Species: The Oni.
Modern Job: Martial Arts Instructor.
Significant other: Unknown girl.
Physical age: 23 years old.
Name: Shanti Perez.
Species: Poltergeist.
Modern Job: Babysitter.
Significant other: A long, lost human boy who's name is lost.
Physical age: 22 years old.
Name: Halmar Starkden.
Species: Wizard.
Modern Job: Musician.
Significant other: Johanna Everstone.
Physical age: 23 years old.
Name: Nathinel Bennett.
Species: Ghost.
Modern Job: None.
Significant other: None.
Physical age: 14 years old.
Name: Octavius Taranto.
Species: Archnecentuar.
Modern Job: Event caterer.
Significant other: Unknown girl.
Physical age: 22 years old.
Name: Boris Conall.
Species: Werewolf.
Modern Job: Waiter at Cracker Barrel.
Significant other: Unknown human girl.
Physical age: 20 years old.
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Requested by my good friend, @crimsonstar2096 .
Part 2.
Staff I made for my Modern Monsters character, Morana Crimson;
Modern Monsters Playlist;
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Quotes From My Characters (Part 3);
-Johanna Everstone, from 'Modern Monsters'.