Of Second Chances

For all of the shit I talked on Hunter and Sage (though mostly Hunter, seeing as Sage was a character not under my control), they are characters that have stuck with me for well over half of my life at this point. I love Hunter and Sage. I love the way they interact with each other, the way they bounce off of each other, and the way they encouraged each other to grow. Am I suck up for romance? Yeah, of course, and so I love the way they fell for each other over time.

I've thought a few times about rewriting their story, making it from a single perspective as a full novel, rather than the role play it originally was. I'm still good friends with the creator of Sage, and I've talked to her about this before, and she's ok with the thought. Unfortunately, the original role play is not only bad, but broken. Roughly a hundred pages of the story were simply erased from existence by bad web design, and while I have a vague recollection of what happened during that time, it's not enough to go off of.

So another thing that I have thought about is writing a sequel. Hunter's death at the end was vague - rather than being torn apart, or die of old age, or anything like that, his body was turned to stone, and in a world of magic, that is hardly a permanence. The question than is how to approach, and that is something that I have actually explored on this blog. But unfortunately, I have little more than a start to the story - I know the situation I want to place Hunter in, the trouble he has to face, but I don't know what comes after that.

Having Hunter come back in Sage's lifetime simply negates the point of his sacrifice at the end of the original story. Hunter will have to come back long after, in a world where he is little more than a myth, in a world without magic, and worst of all for him, a world without Sage. He'll have to find his place from there - learn what purpose he has to serve, how he can serve it, and how he's going to get by without the love of his life.

But what about after that? What role will he play? What happened to the magic in the world? Why did he come back if there is no magic anymore, and in fact has not been for some time? How will he cope with the loss of Sage? He was a soldier and a wizard - with the use of both of those gone, is there any kind of thing for him to stand against?

These are questions that intrigue me, and that I would absolutely love to learn the answers to. I would love to tell that story, to explore those harsh realities, and to see how Hunter copes with them.

But good lord, I don't even know where to begin.