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@everyone soooo…I have a rather disruptive update…

After some prayer about Spire and God’s will for the story, Spire underwent a MAJOR renovation in the span of maybe three days…to the point where I can’t actually title it Spire anymore because it’s not actually set in a city called Spire (I do plan on recycling it for Basil’s story, though!)

Here’s the changes (I’m just copying some of this from another post XD)

Right now, the story is set in a rather dreary little town in a setting based off of the PNW forests and mountains.  More specifically, at a large estate owned by the rather eccentric and lonesome Lady Thorne, and right in the beginning of a Great Depression/end of Prohibition inspired era.

Like many in their social circle, Kit’s family lost a ton of money in the economic crash, and so he and his brother Jasper have left their family to work for Lady Thorne as a butler/cook respectively.  A huge part of this arc involves the emotional side of this social “downgrade”/upheaval triggered by the Depression, as well as the changes in dynamics with the other people they once knew.  It’s interesting though, I actually don’t think Kit and Jasper feel much shame because of this – Jasper always wanted to be a chef, and Kit’s become rather immune to shame after being ostracized (also I know Kit probably just wanted to live in a lavish, fancy house and eat gourmet food for free. Even though he’s technically a servant, I’m pretty sure he sees himself as the pampered one in this outcome XD)

Like Kit, Val has been stripped of her agency as well – she was quietly shipped off to Lady Thorne’s place after an extreme social faux pas with a socially powerful suitor convinced her family that her “mental fragility” was a risk for their image (this was none other than Alastor btw, who orchestrated Kit’s social expulsion as well…) In many ways, this is a sort of sanatorium for her, but she knows that she’s essentially been imprisoned by well meaning wardens. Val’s actually incredibly intelligent and perceptive, but a lot of well intended people are absolutely convinced of her “fragility” (in reality, undiagnosed autism) and won’t listen to her.  So, she’s become very miserable and bitter as a result 🙁

So, a common theme here is Alastor’s social expulsion of people who’ve somehow offended him.  Kit’s antagonized him a lot, so he outed him to isolate/publicly shame him.  Val publicly embarrassed him (at least in his perception…) so he raised a fuss to get her sent away…which seems bad enough  until his business partner Sebastian Thorne (Lady Thorne’s grandson) disappears entirely.  At least so they say – Val saw Sebastian after his supposed disappearance, but Kit is the only person who believes her

So here we have Kit and Val, who’ve both been stripped of their agency to varying degrees, and long story short, they’re going to be forced to work together to find Sebastian, and of course also end up uncovering some much deeper problems along the way 🙂

Anyways, I’d love to get started when you guys are ready!  I’m really, REALLY looking forward to this next challenge XD