Tag: super insider info

I collected all the Vale facts from my twitter, just to have them in one place because they’re fun 🙂

  • Fun fact about Vale: Cephas was almost called Kieran in the beginning. No idea why. 

  • Another fun Vale fact: though there is a church in the story, religion isn’t explicitly mentioned, and no gods actually exist but hell is referenced several times and is widely believed in.

  • Fun Vale bits while I’m editing: Vale’s mum was always “the tallest person in the room, by far”.

  • Further Vale tidbits: Zavier, Ormandy, and Cephas are the only named male characters in this book that have a speaking line. There’s some other named dude but he dead. (edit: this is actually not true, Eamon and Tulip are also male characters but they don’t have many speaking lines)

  • Sad Vale tidbit: Cephas never had a friend in his life until he met Vale. Good times!

  • Vale secrets! I made Caelmoor into an island because this way it’s 1) a town 2) a country 3) a kingdom 4) an island, and I never run out of synonyms to call it within a sentence without repeating myself :3

  • Vale insider info: in my 1st outline Morlene and Vale weren’t exes just friends. That was a stupid that idea and I’m so happy I decided they used to be together cause it made some of my favourite relationship dynamics possible, including the one between Vale and Morlene’s new gf.

  • A longer Vale insider info, this might take several tweets so bear with me: the song History by One Direction fits the story very well so naturally it’s on my playlist and because I’m an idiot I keep imagining a movie made from the story while the song plays over it.

    Except the song has a part that goes “good champagne, and private planes” which is not that relatable to Vale cause planes don’t exist in Vale so I usually just change the words to “good champagne, and bad champagne”. That’s… that’s the info… that’s all I wanted to say…

  • other Vale tidbit: before I had the scene written fully, I used Scanlan’s answer to Vax’s “How do you do it?” question when Cephas asks Vale why she came back for him. (as a placeholder)

  • Fun Vale tidbit: I was actually going to find Vale a badass assassin name but then Bloodslinger came up and I thought it’d be so much funnier if she had a dumb name she hated, the way Ed hates being short in Fullmetal Alchemist, despite being the damn Fullmetal Alchemist.

  • Vale insider info: Leo, Morlene and Lourdes’ kid, was taken from the acid water-world story that I had where they were the agender sibling of the protagonist. That story was also completely revamped and then turned into what is Risk of Rain today (another story I never finished).

  • More fun Vale facts: Cephas was originally the name of the villain from a story called Part Time Goner where he was a demi-god who promised a mortal girl immortality and with that deal he bound his soul to her. The girl then spent the rest of the story

    trying to get rid of him and finding a way to stay immortal. That story also had the chapter with the Festival of Flowers that I eventually used for Vale as well because it was too cute to be wasted.

    That story also included a family of demi-gods who were just trying to fuck with each other. The Original Cephas’ sister had wings made of bones!

    Eventually the girl found Cephas’ body and put his soul back into his body but then she started dying for some reason, I got no idea. In the end they bonded and Cephas sacrificed himself to keep the girl alive. WHICH IS IRONIC, CONSIDERING [VALE SPOILERS]