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SeleneNightfang

Wayward and where it's been and where it's going

It all started years ago with the story of Mitch, a story that is fairly popular even among those that have their issues with how things were handled. It is also a story that Dana and I feel is very outdated for several reasons. The biggest is that its one of the first RPs we ever did and it was a setting the I made to serve Dana's wants of a School where an unwanted boy would be forced into becoming a slut. As things progressed I started really liking the setting and made the logs into a story to share. Though as things progressed even further we realized that certain changes had to be made for Wayward to even out our desires as Selene was getting more and more outta character to try and fit Dana's desires for Mitchel. It also doesn't help that Mitch the character was fighting Dana's desires as much as he was Selene's attempts to change him.  This lead to the events of 'Chapter 12' which everyone agrees are horrible and do a lot of damage to Selene's character, it was pretty much the beginning of the end for Mitch's story and that particular way things were handled for Wayward. Going forward, Chapter 12 is essentially non-canon.

After my getting burned out and Dana kinda getting tired of Mitch, lead to the abrupt end of his story. Over the years we've done other RPs set at Wayward since then and while all of them have helped refine the setting, not all of them will be told; only a few important ones involving Rhapsody may see the light of day since many didn't get too far for various reasons usually of RL getting in the way.

But this brings us to the current story: Student File: Keith. Those that follow Dana might know the character already. Its the first truly successful RP since Mitchel's and is the best place to start for a 'Modern Wayward.' For all intents and purposes Keith's Story is a soft reboot of the setting that takes place about a two or three years after Mitch's. Many characters will return (Not Mitch) and will be slightly different due to the passage of time, but also a new cast of very strong characters are introduced, and some of the workings of the school are better explained. Everyone involved are generally much happier with how this story progresses and while it currently doesn't have an ending, It has a better chance of getting one then Mitch's.

For those curious: Yes the last six chapters of Mitch's story will be uploaded at some point, I've gotten a new editor who will be helping me to fix them up; but my main focus is gonna be telling Keith's story as everything Wayward from here on out branches off from there. Wayward RP and other things will all take more elements and cues from this story rather then Mitch's. My hope is to try and post a chapter per month til Mitchel's story is finished, depending on how quickly my editor can do things while dealing with RL.  

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Wayward Stories I want to get done:
*The Rhapsody Chronicles: Brand New Night – Prequel to Wayward – Retelling of the comic with expanded events.
*The Rhapsody Chronicles: Brighter Day – Sequel to BNN set between Mitch's story and Keith's.
Student File: Mitchel Lutra - the final chapters
Student File: Keith – Start of Modern Wayward
*The Rhapsody Chronicles Multiple stories – A series of stories that intertwine with Keith's story and deals with a hanging thread from Brighter Day.
*Student File: Kurt Zied – Takes place a year after Keith's.

There is no guarantee on the starred one, but those are my desires currently. Kurt's story definitely won't get told till were near the end of Keith's so that will still be a few years down the line, as Keith's story is rather long, currently it sits at 33 chapters.  
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Added: 7 years ago
 
whitepawrolls
7 years ago
Glad to see this is still getting thought of. I really missed the story and can't wait for the next 6 chapters plus the new ones.
Robododo
7 years ago
*is the editor, waves* Life sucks, might take a while.

Also, what y'all might not initially realize is exactly how INFURIATING it is to adapt an rp to a proper story (ish) just due to the perspective changes and character swaps. I spent an entire chapter thinking that one character was a completely different one because a name was mentioned once, then another name was mentioned later that lead me to understand what happened.

Also, having read Keith's story myself...

Let the new flame war begin XD


That said, hopefully everyone enjoys it. In addition, people are still RPing and are invited to the warward rp discord...thing.

You know, when we actually get that running.
SeleneNightfang
7 years ago
"That said, hopefully everyone enjoys it. In addition, people are still RPing and are invited to the warward rp discord...thing.

You know, when we actually get that running."

Yeah, I want to at least get a couple of Keith's chapters up, since RP will be based on how thigns are in this story. That will give people some idea of how the setting itself has changed.
ZufieUsagi
7 years ago
Well I'll have to look into that discord thing and see if i can perhaps revive Zufie from their one appearance in the early chapters of the story, at the very least to update Zufie's description now that the character is set in stone as to their looks.
Sunseahl
6 years, 11 months ago
I'm glad you found someone to finish this, sweety. I wholly lost any sort of heart for it after that chapter. i'm sorry. -_-
lordofallqwop
6 years, 8 months ago
I'm honestly disappointed about this; Most stories, not just here but everywhere, tend to have one course of action be "Right" in almost the same way that Selene presents what she does to people, or as she called "choices", and having something where no one was right, something where the plot that seems to be happening just does not work would be rather interesting.

You already have a whole thing about how rather then being clear about anything and trying to help she just likes to play games with people and calling them winning "helping", so having a thing happen where they don't "win" her games, where things go wrong, would be really rather interesting.

I'm sure that you could do them justice with how you would write their reaction to it.

Thinking about it, it reminds me of that time where she puts Mitchel in a position to, i think the words were, "Set Sam back [some amount of time]" and it seem almost exactly like someone who doesn't want to be responsible for something doing everything they can to stay in a position where they can blame someone else in order to stay "safe". Just food for thought.

Edit: On a side note: I can't seem to find any of the other places where you claim to have posted the things you have posted here. Would you be so kind as to post the links to some of the places you have done so in responce to my comment so that i might be notified when they are here?
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