Progress

I've been really trying to get some progress going on my story since it felt weird that I didn't even have all of my characters or even a name for the ship! Well, I've got at least the basics down for now, but I'm willing to change details if something better comes along or it just doesn't work. Scarlett's ship shall be known as Chasing Dawn and shall have a total of 9 crew members aging from Kai at the youngest, 18, to Mara at 40 (though humans have longer life spans now with 60 being about middle-aged). I need to think of their back stories now so that I can fill out their character sheets, like what I've done with Scarlett and Devon, but not as long or detailed. Part of my update today is that I have mostly completely Kai's page, but his is the only one I've done.

I also rearranged my pages a bit, making a general one for Characters and then having a link to each of their sheets which are being hosted on Google Docs. Every character gets their own document which can have comments on them in case anyone wants to help make them better and whatnot.

Those two character spotlights from the other day were created through my laziness because I didn't think of much to update this blog with, but now I've at least got a name and a position for each character. I'm so proud, haha. But there is always work to be done, so I'm hoping to finish the crew's pages and start figuring out the entire plot to this book so I can write 2 more snippets during Spring Break. Gotta keep up with my To Do list!

Here is my updated character list:

Scarlett Rayne Harper

• Captain

• Pilot/Part time engineer

• Trying to find mother

• Loves adventure/challenges/stealing 

Devon Marx

• Becomes resident scientist/medic

• Trying to hide from agency

• Made in test-tube/has regenerative DNA

• Doesn't have his own memories

Kai Sasaki

• Communications

• Scarlett saved him from run-down space station

• Knows that Scarlett is looking for mother, scans communications all the time for information

• Very young, 18, first crew member saved by Scarlett

Javier Mendez

• Weapons master in charge of protection of crew

• Loves his guns

• Short, little bit Spanish

• Decided to join Scarlett when his boss' ship was attacked by her

Jayden Gray

• Ship defense, in charge of mounted guns and other ship weapons/defense mechanisms

• Came with the ship, won in a drinking contest by Scarlett

• Young and possessive of Scarlett

• Smooth and dangerous

Filipo Malala

• Cook and quartermaster

• In charge of knowing supplies, smuggled goods

• Samoan, loves food, basically a teddy bear

• Fat

Tau Zolo

• Mercenary

• South African descent, dark as night

• Quiet, silent hunter

• Short, buzzed hair with scars on head and face

Dmitri

• Full time engineer/mechanic, percussive maintenance specialist

• Russian archetype, slight Russian accent

• Older, drinks all the time

• Crazy, shows up randomly

Mara Cooperr

• Full time medic/physician

• Spends most of her time doing her own research

• Blunt, to the point

• Older, perhaps a bit of a mother figure