About

"It's our decisions, yours and mine and everyone else's, that determine destiny."

Ever since she could remember, The Author has always told stories. These oral storytellings, however, were fleeting and temporary in the memory, and inevitably were forgotten within days of telling them. She was encouraged to write them down by her parents, so they wouldn't be forgotten, and so she did, writing and writing story after story as they came to her. Through years of practice, The Author's writing skills improved and refined, until she became the skilled writer she is today. But through all of it, her desire to tell a story has never changed. And one day, The Author realized that her writing had become more than just stories - they had become real, stable worlds. Worlds she could visit in the flesh, so to speak, in the epitome of an author's dual experience of being both an omniscient being shaping the world, and speaking through the actions of characters with limited perspectives.

In the 'real world', The Author is just another person living out her life. Normally, you wouldn't even look twice at her. But in her stories...that's an entirely different matter. As for why she is known only as The Author within them, well. Names have power, and hers especially. That would not be the kind of power she would like to see being invoked in her worlds. Too much potential for catastrophe there. As a creator, The Author's far from an apathetic observer, or even a god, even though she technically fits the definition of one. Bring it up around her and she'll adamantly deny the notion, getting more upset the longer you insist on it. The Author refuses to see herself as anything more than a regular person. Well, a regular person who can create worlds with her writing, but that's besides the point.

The Author's abilities to walk in fictional worlds while similtaneously existing outside of them extends to more than just the ones she's created - she has the ability to enter the worlds of others as well, whether through dreams, digital media, books like her own, or more, though her power is much more limited in worlds not her own. She's met and made many friends that way, including other world-creators such as Wykin, and also made bitter enemies. The Author doesn't see the denizens of these fictional worlds as merely characters, but rather as living, breathing people going about their daily lives. As much she enjoys her time among these worlds, The Author keeps her true identity hidden for multiple reasons, most of which revolve around denizens of fictional worlds wanting to change their reality to their own desires, among other things. She has died in other worlds before; it isn't pretty. Like waking from a written nightmare, back in the 'real world'. If The Author isn't in her second skin as The Guardian or living as a 'character', she might blur her true form in their memory, change what they remember of her appearance (she's fond of appearing as a tiger), or even wipe their encounter entirely if necessary, but The Author doesn't twist and rewrite memories. Minor tweaks of a chance encounter or the erasure of a few minutes is one thing; rewriting someone's entire life is another. Memories and experiences are an integral part of a person, and she would NEVER violate that.

She isn't perfect, though; there are actually a few traces of her presence in her worlds, but not many. Some old carvings and murals, folktales, and even a couple of blurry photographs taken of her unnoticed. Things like that. Even then, her very existence is but a rumor on the wind. A myth. Not many people believe The Author even exists - or existed - at all. In the various myths that have survived, The Author's storybook is known as the Book of Life, and her pencil the Instrument of Fate.

Hopes, dreams, struggles, triumphs, defeats, growth; all are things written into the worlds by her pencil. And though the tale may be tough, and the story long, things generally work out for the better in the end. Maybe not in the way they were expected, or wanted, but they work out - even if it's after one has passed on into the afterlife. And there is ALWAYS an afterlife. You won't see angst that isn't resolved, dark worlds that eternally languish in sorrow and grief. That's not to say that terrible things don't happen, or that she hasn't created dystopian worlds, but through all the hardship, there is a happy resolution at the end. The Author doesn't have unopposed control over her stories either; the decisions and actions of the characters within shape destiny just as much as her writings do. And she wouldn't have it any other way. They're as much people as she is. Even if she IS personally freaked out by the mini cult that's built itself around her in one world, one that she has no issues thwarting with her pencil. She's not the only one who wants to stop them from potentially screwing over their reality. But that's a story for another time.

Creation of worlds

The way creating worlds works is that they need some kind of anchor to ground their existence to. Whether its dreams, books, games, animations, or more, all of them share that same basic need. The Author's medium of choice is books, and though she writes by hand editing is like using a word document - easy to move, delete, and add things wherever needed. When The Author goes into a world, she is both writing in that world book and yet personally inside the world at the same time. The little blue book she carries into it is a representation of the world book out in the 'real world'. It's because of this link that anyone who writes in it can affect that world as though they're writing in the physical world book outside - which The Author unfortunately found out the hard way. It's only happened once before, which is how she found that out, and she immediately panicked and quickly scribbled down in the book in the 'real world' to turn it to ash. She's very careful with the linked book now; not that she wasn't before, but there was a new sense of urgency to it, knowing what kind of disaster the little blue book getting stolen can cause. At least it was a five year old that got her book instead of a villain, and the end result was honestly kind of adorable. The Author ended up deciding to leave the park-sized distortion of nature where it was. After all, a five year old's imagination never hurt anyone.

Ragnarok

Just as worlds can be created, they can also be destroyed. The books are far from indestructable, and if the worst happens, it destroys the world within in a mimicry of how the book met its end. For example, a book burned beyond saving would have the world within go out in flame, a book suffering irreparable water damage would have it go out in a flood, and a book ripped to shreds would have the very reality of the world within violently torn apart. Not fun. But it isn't the end; a book destroyed can be rewritten, and the denizens within saved. However, they still remember the end of their old world, and everything in it. Restoration isn't perfect; sometimes The Author forgets things that were in the old world, and so aren't in the new. But since the people of that world remember what is missing, she'll go into the newly restored world to try and catch anything she's missed. The reactions vary among people as well; one world that burned in fire praised their creation gods for her actions in saving them, while another that met the same fate blamed them for the destruction of their old world - her, in fact. It was heartbreaking, but The Author could hardly force them to see the truth. Just...do whatever she could to shore things up, and come physically to lend a helping hand.

Relationships

The Kylacine [ Family ]

The Author and The Kylacine are as close as siblings, even though they're cousins by blood. The Kylacine introduced The Author to the majority of the videogames she knows when they were younger, drastically expanding her world. And when they were older, they were the one to teach The Author about the LGBTQ+ community, and what it meant. The Kylacine helped The Author realize that she wasn't broken, but asexual, and overcome internal biases The Author didn't even realize were there. She can't imagine her life without her cousin in it, and doesn't want to.

Wykin [ Close Friend ]

Wykin is a world-creator just like The Author, though instead of creating multiple realms, she only has the one: a world known as Sallentine. Hilariously enough, the pair actually met in a digital world known as FurVilla, over a group of Chubby Dragons from an event used by The Author to pay Wykin for an art commission for two of her characters. It was a match made in heaven, and The Author and Wykin have been thick as thieves since. The pair often talk shop together, comparing and contrasting their different anchoring methods and ideas they have for their respective worlds. That doesn't mean that they don't have their fun, or don't spend time together merely as two friends. They even became close enough to reveal their true names to each other, and thus find the other on Earth, though Wykin's situation there is a bit...tricky.