Liberation PoV Character #2: Kyrean

Hey y'all! Cas here! You guys ready to meet my second PoV character? Meet Kyrean Dey:

Kyrean, also drawn by Maddy Pisio

Kyrean is a Daemonborne, as seen by the dark shade of his wings. You'll see early on his connection to Dom. Kyrean has already gone through his Metamorphosis quite a bit before the story begins, and has recieved his Grace. Kyrean is a Harbinger, which means his job is to take the damned to Hell. Because of this, he resides on Earth instead of Hell. He's still only 17, so he goes to school and all that. His human parents don't know about his true nature, due to some reasons I won't share yet. Kyrean, of all people, goes to a private Catholic school, as you can see in his lovely prep school uniform. There, he tends to be the class clown, while still managing to get straight A's.

Kyrean takes it upon himself to both guide Dom through his Metamorphosis and protect him from those that would hurt him. He's quite the interesting character, with a lot of quirks. I guess he fulfills the "Funny Best Friend" trope. Anyways, I'm sure you'll all love him from the start.

I may update later with a teaser scene. Check back! And please tell me what you think of my characters!

~Cas

Liberation PoV Character #1: Dom

Hey everyone! I'm back, bringing you the first PoV character in my novel! Meet Dominic "Dom" Miles:

Dom, as drawn by my friend Maddy Pisio

Dom is Angelborne. He's the first PoV character you'll meet.

Now, before I talk more about Dom himself, there's something you should know about Angelbornes and Daemonbornes. Both Heaven and Hell have taken countermeasures to avoid being like the third force I mentioned earlier. For the first 16 years of one's life, he or she is completely human. They are born to human parents (however they do have supernatural parents as well), raised as humans, and believe that they are humans. Their bodies are completely human as well. For all intents and purposes, they are human.

Now, the 16th birthday is key. On the 16th birthday, the first change takes place. This change is simple, minuscule, and yet at the same time extremely important.

After this first change, a few weeks of rapid transformation occur, called Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis has many stages:

-Physical (obvious, the bodies begin changing)

-Mental (the strength of the brain increases rapidly)

-Spiritual

The Spiritual stage is the last and final stage. It's also, in some ways, the most important. Spiritual Metamorphosis is simultaneously exactly as it sounds, and also a bit more than that. Firstly, during Spiritual Metamorphosis, the soul is changed into the soul of an Angelborne or a Daemonborne, depending on which nature the true mother had. However, they also receive their Graces. Think of the Grace as being similar to a class in a video game. It simultaneously gives them specific skill sets and a specific role they must play in Heaven or Hell.

Dom's Metamorphosis takes place throughout the book, which provides a nice internal struggle: dealing with the rapid change in his body. Think of it like puberty on steroids.

Anyways, at the beginning, Dom is human, and he's definitely not angelic. In fact, if it wasn't for his heavenly parents, he'd probably be going to Hell when he dies. You see, Dom is a stereotypical overly-popular, partying, bullying jock. To sum it up, he's a jerk. He even has some pretty serious skeletons in the closet, but you'll have to read the book to find those out (I know, I'm terrible).

Early on, Dom gets forced into this world, and plot-ish stuff ensues.

Come back later tomorrow to meet the second PoV character!

~Cas

Liberation

Greetings! It's- once again- Cas!
I'm here to share something with you, I'm not sure if I ever talked about it before. For those of you who don't know, I'm an author. I'm currently unpublished, but I've been trying to get my first finished novel published. Anyways, I talked to a friend, and she said I should try rewriting it, doing the whole thing from scratch, with possibly a new plot and other stuff, but keeping the original idea and spark.
Anyways, it was originally titled In the Inferno, but my "reboots" working title is Liberation.
Liberation draws its inspiration from Judeo-Christian mythology in that Heaven and Hell are main forces in the book, but the similarities just about end there. In fact, some of the ideas in my book are probably downright blasphemic.
For example, Heaven and Hell aren't warring forces. In fact, they're not only allies, but extremely friendly towards each other. Hell loves humanity. Like Heaven, Hell wants humans to be good little children. Heaven and Hell just have different ways of achieving these ends.
Think of it like the stereotypical parents. When you were a child and you misbehaved, was there a specific parent you feared more? For me, it was my dad. My mom and my dad had very different ways of inspiring good behavior. My mom tended to reward me for being good. My dad, on the other hand, threatened me with punishments for bad behavior.
That's the perfect metaphor for Heaven and Hell in my book. Hell punishes us for being bad, but that's because they want us to be good.
Right now, as I'm typing this, I'm thinking, "Wow, my readers must think I'm a complete cliche-hog. 'Stereotypical villain isn't villain.' What, you think this is Wicked?"
Well, that's not the entire thing. In fact, if it was, there wouldn't be a story, because there would be no conflict.
Well, let's imagine Heaven and Hell aren't the only forces in play here. What else could there be?
Let's imagine an anti-thesis to Heaven and Hell. Take this quote by Elie Wiesel, author of Night:

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference."

In this sense, even the traditional Hell isn't the opposite of Heaven. But that's even more true for my portrayal of Hell. So, according to this quote, the opposite of dual forces of love must be dual forces of indifference.
That's where this get interesting. My anti-thesis doesn't hate humanity. It doesn't actively want humanity dead. It just doesn't care whether humans live or die. This makes them all the more dangerous, because even hate is easy to understand. These forces walk among us, and they hold no regard for us. Hatred is caused by a reason. This indifference will allow them to torture and kill us for little to no reason.

So what are these forces?

Well, I'm not going to give their name yet. That will be found in the book. I know, crazy, right? I won't reveal such a tiny detail! Well, actually, the stuff I just said, that's still literally only 10% of the content in the book.

However, I will give you guys a sneak peek at my two PoV characters tomorrow! Be ready!

If you're interested in all of this, comment, please!

~Cas