Hello everyone and welcome to another blog post. Wednesdays will be character profiles, and I'd figure where better to start than my main character. Progress on Dauntless took a brief halt, then sped back up again once I realized that I truly hate the snowflake method of outlining method of outlining. For those not familiar (and for those who don't give a crap, skip to the next paragraph) the snowflake method has you start with the bare bones basics about your plot and characters, then has you go back and add more, and more, and more. Every step where it asked me to add more to this or that character, I'd sit and wonder why it didn't have me do that in the first freaking place. So what I'm doing instead is splitting the outline into chapters, and writing one or two paragraph summary about what happens in each chapter, along with writing what I hope will be what I imagine my perfect review to be (and hopefully it includes the phrase "here, take the keys to my lambourgini). Ahem, anyway.
So with that out of the way, we return to the character profile of Kacey, or as I would describe her, the broken hero. Kacey is a character of contradictions. On the surface, she is fierce, powerful, and independent. A lifetime (for her, she is only 18) of martial arts training, combined with a near obsession with physical conditioning, has made it so that she could go anywhere, anytime, with the confidence that she will be perfectly fine. This confidence extends to other areas in her life as well, when forced to learn any skill, she enters the challenge knowing that not matter what happens, she will rise to the task and overcome it.
Of course, there is another side to her, a side she keeps hidden away from anyone. When Kacey was a young girl, she lost her mother in a tragic accident that she blames herself for. As a result, she hides herself away from everyone, scared that if she lets anyone close, they will suffer the same fate. Her independence is tinged with isolation. She has to rely on herself, because there's no one else that she believes she can rely on. The accident with her mother is never far from her thoughts, and whenever she faces a physical challenge, it's not done due to any love of the sport, but so she can hide away for those thoughts, and for a few hours at a time feel alive. There are two exceptions her isolation, both friends that she had long before her mother's tragedy.
When Kacey is first faced with the mystical world she finds herself in, she refuses to believe it. She runs and hides, doing everything in her power to deny the birthright she was given. It isn't until Pyrus, a strange mercenary she'd never met before, kills a number of her classmates in an explosion, that she forces herself to face the truth about her family, to forgive them for lying to her, and learn to use her powers. She throws herself into training, shedding herself of all of her old guilt, sadness and fear, all in order to become the warrior she needs to be.
Kacey is an internal mage. Thus far she's only been exposed to the physical domain of magic. She's able to unconsciously heal herself from grievous wounds, move faster, think quicker, and fight longer than any normal human could. Over the time of her training, she becomes a master swordsman, preferring the agility of a single short sword. She's also a master of throwing weapons, able to throw blades at great distances with significant force. In the end though, her greatest ability is her determination. If Kacey sets her mind to doing something, there is no force, natural or supernatural, that can stand in her way.
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