Hidden Hollow AG Dolls: elves

Hey ya'll!

Today I'll be doing one of my favorite things- talking about my wip! :D

Also, this is the first time in a long time that I've posted something besides a This Month on Instagram. Hmm. Busy, am I? yes. lazy? .....maybe.

Any way, here we go!

My project is a fantasy trilogy that I've been working on for about two years.

book 1: Initiate

book 2: Warrior

book 3: Hero

And here is a super bad blurb, but I'm not very good at writing blurbs lol I'm sorry

Aidene is excited when she finds a portal into a fantasy world. It's amazing! Just like in books! But the people there are worried about being attacked by mountain trolls, they’re only farmers after all. And when the trolls do attack, they disappear with her new friend’s brother, Matheo. Aidene isn’t ready to be a hero. She doesn't even know if she can. But she wants to help, and when she bonds with a dragon, and becomes a legendary warrior, she knows she can help. She sets off on a quest to rescue him, with her friend, Mira, her dragon, Amethyst, and two others. But darkness is rising, and Matheo’s disappearance is only the start of it. What other evils are waiting for them? What else will they uncover? Will they be able to rescue Matheo? And worst of all, what if he doesn’t even want to be rescued?

it's absolutely TERRIBLE and I can't find Charis's post on how to write them and googling writing advise is always so daunting. halp.

so instead, I shall tell you that it's a story about disaster kids trying to save the world, ride-or-die friends, getting back up when you get knocked over, and never giving up. It's a story about a world of fear and darkness, and finding and appreciating the buttercups and sunshine. It's a story of dragons and magic and holding on to hope no matter how hard it gets.

All three of these are Aidene, I thought it looked cool to draw 'em like that. 😛

she's an optimistic ball of fire and sass, and is the first Dragon Warrior in about a thousand years, so shes got a lot on her shoulders. She would die for her friends in a heart beat, and literally one of the first things she does in the book is ditch the elves and their training schedule to go on a road trip to try and rescue Mira's brother. they have no plan, and only a vague idea of where he is. It's a disaster and i love it. XD

here she is later, after she's slowed down enough to learn somethings and get a totally wicked set of armor. :D
I heard this song called Warrior, by Hannah Kerr, early this spring and it ASTOUNDED me on how well it fits this series! not quite so much in book one, but definitely books 2&3.

it's awesome I love it :D

This is her best friend Mira. she is the most darling child ever, very smol, super soft and sweet 💛 she wants to be a story teller when she grows up, and is great at memorizing things, is also a pretty good healer.

Other characters, who I have not properly drawn are Amethyst, Matheo, Arrow and Célia.

Amethyst is a purple dragon, she's feisty and sarcastic, Aidene and her make a great team. fun fact: she's absolutely terrified of small lizards.

Matheo is Mira's older brother. lots of secrets about him 👀 he's got grand schemes for power, but he doesn't want anything bad to happen to his little sis tho, he's not that heartless.

Arrow. Poor Arrow, I'm kind of mean to him and he doesn't deserve it. XD he's half elf and half human, and pretty much shunned by everyone. His mom, (the human) is dead, and his dad basically disowned him in an attempt to re-gain his standing among the other elves. but he's still really cheerful, and loves and protects his friends because they're literally the only ones he has.

Célia was Arrow's only friend for the longest time, until Aidene, Mira, and Amethyst came into the picture. (I have a lot of girls on this team 🤔) she lost her feet in an accident when she was really young, and now has magic wooden ones. It's not too much of a problem, (until she's around too much fire eheeheehee) and she would have been able to fit in with elf society without too much of a hitch, but she befriended Arrow because she felt bad or him and knew a bit about being different, so now she's like, looked down on since she befriended a shunned person. she's definitely the most mature, she's also quiet, a bit standoff-ish and no-fun zone. It takes a long time to go from tolerating them to actually accepting their friendship.

Oh! Can't forget about my villain! my villain's name is Vivianda. She's a total fantasy evil-scientist, her goal is immortality with a side dish of world domination. She wants attention, immortality, (like I mentioned) and the feeling of control. Her backstory is actually kind of sad, but don't feel bad for her now. By the time the series starts, she's been completely corrupted by dark magic, and will torture you to death "for research" without remorse.

This is Charla Seelom and Sheeril'la. They're legends, the last Dragon Warrior before Aidene finally came along. Charla Seelom's real name has been forgotten- (actually, there might be one elf who still remembers it, but I haven't decided on that or not.) she also came from Aidene's world, just a long time ago. Her stories say that she came to their world through the same magic tree Aidene did, during the war with he-doesn't-have-a-name-yet, became a Dragon Warrior, won the war, (no one know how she defeated him, and she never told) and spent the next 500+ years rebuilding the country, learning and teaching and keeping the peace and justice. She didn't like to talk about her world, and def not her life back there. when she earned the name Charla Seelom, (it mean Dragon Soul in the old language) she took it and never looked back. No one remembers her old name now. And then one day she and Seeril'la vanished. She was the last Dragon Warrior, (the rest of them died during the war) and no new ones appeared until Aidene, another girl from the same world as Charla, came and became a Dragon Warrior. Now why is that? you shall have to read and see... :D

But you don't really get answers until book 3, Hero, so. I better get writing.

I'm also considering writing a prequel series about her :D

I discovered the joy making memes about my book, so I would like to share some of my better ones :)

The plot of Warrior in a meme format.😛

Maybe I should use this instead of writing a blurb for Warrior. XD

c'mon, Vivi, you drama queen.

I really like this meme format. XD

I also drew this real quick, it's sort of a meme?

Very Tired CéliaTM

Very un-elf like behavior, Arrow. Elves (or half elves) do not submit to flower crowns!

This is like my fav pic of Aidene. XD

Amethyst being terrified of lizards, and Matheo tied to a chair because he was being annoying. (aka he's snarky and Aidene had enough)

And I made a few aesthetics :D

(this post just keeps getting longer and longer lol I hope you don't mind i love my book.)

I'm actually pretty proud on how I balanced the gold/fire with the purple :D

(I should prolly choose between the person or the drawing huh.)

Matheo's are a work in progress, and I haven't started the others yet.

Well, I think that's all I have for now. I hope you enjoyed that little peak, and I hope I can make some good progress writing them, because my birthday in on Monday (I'm gonna buy a mermaid tail with my birthday money! yeeess, I'll be 17, is that a problem? it means I won't grow out of so it'll last longer, it's an advantage really...) and I'm starting school after that. Help. (I'm starting 12th grade. why am I so old. O_O)

Bye,

Hey! How are ya'll doing?

I hope you had a great October, mine was pretty cool.

(many of these following pictures I didn't actually post on my Instagram, so you're getting exclusives 😛)

We drove up to NY to see some relatives; a great aunt, and some of my dad's cousins and their kids. The mountains were cool, and fall colors were coming out.

Our great aunt was super nice, and she had a big old dog who looooved attention, (her name was lexie) a skittish cat, and really skittish cat. I've never met a black cat that wasn't skittish.

There was this guy who lived about 10 minutes away, and he had set up like, 100 plastic skeletons in his yard, a whole army marching towards his house. I didn't take many pictures, because it was dark and the lighting was terrible.

There were like, 6-8 skeletons walking each T-rex, and maybe you can see in the back, a small calvary of skeleton horses

There were also six normal skeletons starting to climb up the walls of his house, and one looking right in a window... great way to scare your socks off every morning.😂

There were about a dozen of these tree things defending the house, they were made out of what felt like styrofoam, paper mache, and paint.

Pumpkin catapults.

And dragons! poor little things!! I shall free you!!!

We went on a walk with the dog to a park, and it was a really cool park, but I don't have any pictures of it, except for Ivy using the giant see-saw as a surfboard.😛

We also went to a really cool river.

(that's Ivy's hand, in case you were wondering. My hands still have nail polish)

The current was scary fast, but we waded up stream through it anyway, because why not.😁

And since we were way out in the country, there were the most beautiful stars! It reminded me of Clara's star shoot

except she took those photos around midnight, and the stars I were watching came out around 9pm. They were so beautiful, I remembered why I love stars.✨

Our next stop was Niagara falls for a few hours. It was AWESOME.

There were so many rainbows! And they were so bright and easy to photograph!

It's a face😄

Sooo pretty

uhhg I wish I could fly.

AND THE PRETTIEST RAINBOW YET whiiiich has the worst picture. But it looked much more vibrant irl.

I really like this one. The water matches the clouds. :)

We also paid to get cheap sandals and pink plastic ponchos and go on this board walk at the bottom of the falls. We got really wet, and it was a lot of fun.

Yeah.

My brother had a Civil Air Patrol weekend thing to go to, (which is why we went on this trip in the first place) so we stayed in a cabin in the mountains while he did that.

They had the prettiest tea cups😍

And if a tea cup and a mug had a baby, it would look like this.

😂

My dad made a fire, and I got to admire the stars again.

🔥✨

The couple who owned the cabin were out of town, and Daisy was ridiculously happy that we got to take care of their dogs. The dachshund is hershey, and the chihuahua is cricket.