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Time to talk about my favourite character in my books! Rhima Isiris! And her husband.
This post contains some spoilers, as Rhima makes her entrance in the second half of the first book.
Cut because this is a long post and not everyone cares, lol. I just adore her and can’t stop talking about her.
Rhima is an AroAce woman with schizophrenia, and she is a dragon rider. She is married to Vhesznir Isiris, a high ranking man from one of the clans. They are in a kind of queer-platonic relationship, I guess? Can be read that way, definitely.
Rhima is bonded to the dragon Tiliok, who is also her soulmate (and I might make a separate post explaining the concept of soulmates in ADB/ASW), both of whom have the same ability to travel through shadows.
Due to her schizophrenia, Tiliok tends to stay with her at almost all times to help her, usually hiding in her shadow or otherwise nearby. Since he can enter her mind and control her body if she allows it, he can talk for her or help her sort out her thoughts.
She is under contract with the Isiris family that she also married into, mainly to cover for Vhesznir so his family doesn't find out he is gay, and for the extra protection of living with him (since he knows of her illness and the extend of it, so he can help her if she needs it without other people finding out).
For them, she works basically as a spy. There is not much she doesn't know about anyone important enough to send her after, and it's basically impossible to hide something from her and Tiliok.
Which is also the other reason Tiliok is with her at all times. You can imagine those powers make a lot of people quite unhappy with her, lol. But you can't kill someone when you don't even know where the counterattack will come from. And Tiliok can't be seen in the shadows unless he want's to be.
She's sadly not a very big character in the first book, since I'm writing from Meisin's perspective and she doesn't really talk to anyone outside the Isiris family, but her husband is a lot more important. And she'll get a bigger role in the second book.
Most of the things about her in the first book come through Vhesznir or Tiliok, who interact a bit more with Meisin, for wildly different reasons. (Tiliok is bored, and Vhesznir is, well, gay. Yes, I mean he wants to fuck Meisin.) And, of course, others from people around talking about her.
That gives a quite distorted view of her, since the opinions vary a lot. (As in, people not from the family will tell him that her own dragon burned of her face and that she can't be trusted under any circumstance, while for Vhesznir, she is basically the most important person in the world and she can't do any wrong, and he would also kill for her.)
Not a hyperbole btw. He actually kills someone for her.
I adore her, and Vhesznir, but I'm a bit afraid some people might dislike her. Because most people don't really like mentally ill people when they can't romanticise or sexualise their illness, or if it affects them to much in a too negative way. Or who use drugs to cope with their illness. But Rhima is schizophrenic, which means yes, she struggles with anhedonia, avolition, flat affect, disorganised thoughts and speech, etc; and also does in fact take drugs to navigate her negative symptoms (and the chronic pain that comes with her burn scar.)
There’s so much more I want to say about her, or Vhesznir or Tiliok… But I'll stop rambling about them now!
Here she is:
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More stuff about my book!
The protagonist is Meisin Ljoria, a disabled aromantic man.
Meisin starts out as a poor man in crushing medical debt from all the treatments he had to get as a child for his leg to not kill him, and his leg braces - the one he is using now and the braces he had before that when he was younger.
Due to nerve damage, his right leg is paralyzed below the knee, and his knee is weakened, so he can't walk without a leg brace to stabilize his leg. On worse days, he will also use a cane for more stability and to take more weight of his leg.
As the child of a deaf man, his first language is Thrivas Sign Language, or Thrivasin (the sign-language spoken in the village group he comes from), and his main language outside his home is spoken Teyrunal.
He is very romance-averse, to the point where his father jokingly made up a word in Thrivasin to describe his opinion on relationships, and that word basically translates to "anti-love", but Meisin does explain that this word only really works for him in sign language (even though it was originally a joke) and that he doesn't have a spoken word that would describe him.
He wants to become a dragon rider to be able to pay of his and his father's debts to just live his life freely, for which he goes to the riders' school after bonding with a dragon (and a heron). This is much easier said than done, since as a poor, disabled person, people are at best ignoring his entire existence, and at worst outspoken against people "like him" becoming dragon riders, and work to actively stop them from doing so.
Some drawings I made of him under the cut.
This is him:
He and his dragon Siandagh:
#writing#disability#disability rep#aromantic#aromantic representation#loveless#digital drawing#art#A Dragon's Blood / A Serpent's Wish#ADB/ASW
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It's incredibly funny that I just can't write an at least almost neurotypical main-character. I did not plan for Meisin to turn out autistic. But he just got a shutdown because of fireworks & general overstimulation. And I just...
Yeah. Okay. He's autistic now. I get it. Okay.
Why do I even try to write from a neurotypical perspective?
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The Aromantic-representation in my book! (in the form of the two main characters, and one side character)
I mentioned a bit in the specific posts about Meisin and Aivil, but I wanted to go more into detail, as well as mention another aromantic character I have.
As I've mentioned before, Meisin is romance-averse/repulsed, and he is completely non-partnering. His experience is loosely based on my own.
While Meisin does not have words to describe his feelings/orientation in the beginning, he still was very openly not interested in relationships since he knew what that words means, and is repulsed to the very idea of being in one. The only word he has at that point is in sign-language, made up by his Deaf father, and doesn't translate well to spoken language.
He later learns the word aromantic from Aivil, who is, as a transmasc nonbinary person, a bit deeper in the queer community and knows such things (Meisin comes from a very small village of around 300 people, there are basically no queer people there, and the few that are there can't really be described as a community). And while he is like "huh, neat, there's a word for that", he isn't really one for labels.
Aivil, on the other hand, takes a bit longer to figure out that they are aromantic, even though they know the word. He is romance-indifferent, and also indifferent to favourable to the thought of having a relationship of whatever kind. She has trouble telling the difference between platonic/sexual attraction and romantic attraction. Through talking about how he actually feels, he figures out that his "wanting a (romantic) relationship" is more wanting intimacy, trust, and closeness, and that he doesn't actually care how this relationship is labelled, and all his negative feelings about that come more from societal standards and pressure.
There's another aromantic character who enters much later. Her name is Rhima, another dragon rider, but since most people don't like spoilers as much as I do, I won't talk too much about her. Rhima is aroace and married, so does not have any romantic or sexual feelings for her husband, and neither does he for her (he is gay). The marriage is mostly for convenience, and, well – other reasons. Uh. Spoilers.
(Honest questions tho: What do people have against spoilers? I like to know stuff that happens later in books, movies, or shows, and even how they end. And I really don’t understand why most people don’t like to hear spoilers.)
#aromantic#aroallo#aroace#aromantic representation#queer#writing#A Dragon's Blood / A Serpent's Wish#ADB/ASW
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