it's kind of hard to find out what (and who) the story I'm writing (tentatively titled The Ballad Of Morgan Howell) is about when the information is scattered across three or four sites and my brain, isn't it? suffer no longer: here are head shots of six of the main characters (there are at least three more but they're secret >;3) and below is a (mildly spoilery) summary of the first half of the story! if you like it please do tell me, it honestly gives me so much strength to write more!!
Myfanwy and Morgan are non-identical twins. They grew up in a lighthouse on a very small island, Ynys Goleudy, with a population of less than twenty-five people - including their close friends, siblings Osian and Bron. When they were teens their neglectful and uninvolved parents won the lottery and bought a yacht, which they decided to tour the morgwin lands on - without the twins. They went further and further away and got harder and harder to contact. The twins went to university in one of the country's main university towns, supported by the money that their parents had left for them, but Morgan's harp mentor’s death caused him to plunge into depression and he went home. Living alone in the empty residential part of the lighthouse, he took night swims a lot and one night he just…didn't come back. Everyone assumed he drowned, either on purpose or by accident. Myfanwy is heartbroken.
After stumbling through her year-end exams she returns to the island to stay with Osian and Bron's family and mourn. She seems to be suffering from brain fog and often appears confused and forgetful, but everyone puts it down to grief. In the autumn she returns to university (living in a new apartment in order to avoid Morgan's friends) and takes to wearing mourning clothes, both as a mark that she has not forgotten Morgan and to keep people at arms length. The only people she really talks to are Bleidd, a marine biology student with their own tragic past, and Neha, a member of a different and more long-lived sapient species, whom Myfanwy met online.
Myfanwy's confusion advances into small acts of magic and she realises she is becoming a Witch. She can't tell anyone because if the authorities find out, they will force her to either undergo a surgery that destroys the magic but causes brain damage, or go into exile until her own powers inevitably kill her. She tries to continue her life as normal but her magical madness becomes more troublesome as she keeps finding confusing scribbles and notes around her flat, on bedsheets and walls - in her own handwriting, but reading more like Morgan's notes when he was alive.
