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Woop! Woop! We've made it back! I feel good!
So, if you aren't familiar with my works for Ny and Val Adventures then this adaptation is not apart of that canonical storyline, so it should be easy to catch on, but I'd still like you to read the Ny and Val Adventures, of course. The characters here are older, maybe even a little wiser, but definitely still very gay and useless with their homosexuality. I took a different approach with Valerian in this story; she's a schoomzer, and she knows how to get exactly what she wants with as little effort as possible. If it were up to Val, she'd sleep her days away, and only come out of her room for women, booze, and food. I also toned down her promiscuousness, not to say she isn't a player, but it's less implied in this story than it is with the Ny and Val Adventures works that I've published previously.
Spencer and Jasmine serve as the primary secondary characters as well. I've split up the trio formed between Valerian, Spencer, and Jasmine in the Ny and Val Adventures, however. In this instance, I've connected Jasmine and Nyota more so, with Spencer being a mutual friend between Nyota and Jasmine. Valerian and Jasmine are near-strangers in the story, they know each other exists, but don't worry, I'll get the group dynamic up and going in no time.
I went a different route with Nyota in this instance as well, previously, Nyota is fairly down-to-earth, kind, still searching for real people to be around, which draws her to Valerian. However, in this tale I ramped up her intellect and assertiveness, not to say she's an ice queen, but the temperature definitely drops significantly once she enters a room. I wanted Nyota to be a powerhouse in her job despite her age, I had her graduate high school earlier, and graduate college at an earlier date, and still be younger the rest of the characters. She's quick, doesn't take shit, believes hard work is the only way to prosper in the world, and definitely wouldn't ever cross paths with a person like Valerian and take them seriously.
Which is why I don't have them cross paths.
Mwahahaha, now that was the appetizer for the prelude to the story, the caesar salad if you will. Here's the main course, the turkey, ham, and mac n' cheese, I hope you're hungry now.
I added a mind link. Sue me. Now, I wanted to frame out these mechanics.
The link only occurs between Nyota and Valerian, it seemingly pops out of nowhere. Mind link dialogue will be indicated by italicized text, with the absence of quotes. Actual conversation will be indicated with "quotation marks." I will also be writing in first person p.o.v for this story, I think it's going to enhance the WTF factor that the mind link brings, and put the reader directly inside our wonderful protagonists' heads.
The link picks up every. single. thought. So if Nyota or Valerian are thinking of an embarrassing moment they've had at the age of 12 or 13? The other person will automatically feel that embarrassment as well. The link not only tracks thoughts, and the quippy conversations the two will have, but it translates emotions between the two of them. The link does not pick up dialogue, so there will definitely be moments where Nyota and Valerian will be physically speaking so the other doesn't have to hear what they're thinking. I don't have an estimate on the length of the story, I'm looking for the chapters to be around 4,000-6,000 words each, and I will definitely be getting into sexually explicit movements between the two of them, but I want the burn to be slow, so the tension will be on a low simmer for some time, these women are not going to like each other off the bat.
I'm also going to be alternating perspectives between Nyota and Valerian, I really wanna give you guys some insight into Nyota's head because the entirety of the Ny and Val Adventures is written from Valerian's perspective, so with that, we're definitely going to get some #smartypantsNyota because she truly is a smarty pants.
I hope you guys are excited about this story as I am, this idea has been gnawing at me for some time, and I'm finally ready and very excited to share this!