fae X troll romance thing

[quillpunk]

Today, I started outlining my Fae X Troll (gay) romance novel (tentatively) titled SUNSETS & MIDNIGHT LIGHTS. I'm only on chapter 2 of the outline, but I am already liking this. I also made a cover for the novel because... well, I just do that when I start working on a new project. It's fun! (That's why I had to come up with a title, and that one was the first one I liked.)

It's a simple love story, really. The troll is a woodcarver, and the fae is a medicine peddler, and so far I have done negative zero worldbuilding. It'll come eventually.

I'm also making a point for the fae to be nobody important, because to be honest I'm a little tired of that. There's nothing wrong with fae kings and assassins, I'm just not interested in writing that or similar things because, well, it already exists. A lot.

I'm a lot more interested in the little things. In how day-to-day life for fae and trolls and other things look. What a marketplace would look like. In social norms of such things, and how it would crash between species. I don't care about the politics (though I do care about the laws because laws are fun) and I don't want to tell another story about a fae prince saving his kingdom or something.

I'd like to read a gentle, kind story where the fae might be a little monstrous and dangerous, but it's not a problem to be fixed, or seen as something odd. It's not a result of a tragic background. They're fae. You can't judge them by human (or troll) standards.

So this is a simple story, with a simple (and happy) ending.

...Low-angst, low stakes, little drama and with absolutely no-one saving anyone. It's just a troll and fae falling in love, and I think that's really all it needs to be.

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

That sounds nice. <3

[quillpunk]

yeah, i'm very excited to write this! XD

[hanami_angel]

I totally feel you about day to day fae living! The little things are my absolute favorite part of world building.

What do you think the fae eat for breakfast, in your story?

[quillpunk]

honestly i was gonna say blood but then i remembered that that's vampires (though i think a fae vampire would be cool—they'd either be hilariously overpowered or hilariously weak)

but no, i thought about it and i'm thinking plant-life and such that are toxic/poisonous to humans. like mushrooms and flowers and parts of animals that humans can't eat. like fae are different species so they'd have different dietary requirements and it's pretty normal that they're very dangerous and more powerful then humans, so are they carnivorous, then? like a flowers that eat flies are carnivorous? or still omnivorous but with different tolerance to different things? (could they drink coffee?) or maybe even strictly herbivores, but with such different tolerances and requirements that it fools others into thinking they're omnivores?

i think i'll need to consider this some more...