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Okay. Here’s some stuff. I uh, I realized I might be contradicting with a lots of stuff here, but it was while I was thinking at home and if there is ANYTHING y”all don’t like or are unsure about or confused about PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO TELL ME xDD my feelings will not be hurt at all!

CHARACTER IDEAS

MAYBE (and I do mean maybe) Gisette and Kester DO split up to rule different kingdoms at the end, but sometime in the future are reunited. They get married, and the two kingdoms join together to make one.
I don’t want Kester to die, I’ve decided. The thought of him, Gisette and their children living to be ripe old ages and ruling over a peaceful kingdom makes me incredibly happy.
It would be really awesome if Gisette and Clarion’s friendship really strengthened when they fell off the edge of the boat (the point where Kester and Basil think they die)! They should become like, sister-friends. The kind that still take time to have tea together even when they’re, like, eighty. xD
Clarion should totally show Basil a few tips on the mandolin!! If so, then Basil, of course, is probably gonna pick up on it way faster than Gisette does (bless her poor soul). MAYBE playing instruments or music is a thing Basil uses, in the future, to calm his nerves??
WILL BASIL BECOME KESTER AND GISETTE’S ADVISOR WHEN THEY GET MARRIED? Because Kester, of course, will be king, and couldn’t be an advisor anymore.
Kester should really love to sing to Gisette when their relationship is more mature. And HE is more mature. xDD And to their kids. He’s not particularly good at it, but he can carry a tune well enough that you don’t want to shriek and plug your ears.

WORLD BUILDING IDEAS

In this world, there may be stories about how they came to be floating islands. Perhaps there is a myth that their ancestors (a relatively smallish [maybe two or three hundred] group of outlaws/outcasts?) were banished from some mainland, and part of the land was (quite literally) cut off for them and used as a sort of floating prison. Since then, however, they’ve grown and established kingdoms of their own, surviving and hundreds and hundreds of years. Whether it’s ends up being true or not, I think that’s a neat story—especially if we actually go with”The Cliffs” idea, because it could be symbolism for passing from chains to freedom.
It should be a custom to say “Peace come upon this household” before entering someone’s house based on something I read in the Bible (somewhere between Luke 9-12), just because that’s awesome 😀

PLOT IDEAS

Maybe the islands’ floating-crystal-things should start failing, which is causing the islands to falter and a few small ones to just drop clean out of the sky. Maybe that’s why the King went away—to figure out why, and to try and fix the problem.
The villain doesn’t know WHY this is happening, but he knows how to fix it (SORT OF). The more crystals are gathered together, the stronger they are—which is why the bigger islands stay afloat longer. That’s why he’s trying to take them all, so he can guarantee the safety of his kingdom.
Maybe an important plot point is that he has to keep collecting crystals for his weather machine to keep working. Eventually their strength weakens, so he has to just get more and more and more.
Somewhere along the lines, IF we go with this line of plotting, they should realize that they are going to have to find mainland, or else they are all going to fall out of the sky. Who realizes it? Maybe this is a place where some of the characters split up—some try to find a map to the mainland, while some try to destroy the weather machine and take back the crystals. OOOOOOOO MAYBE BASIL AND KESTER DECIDE TO TAKE DOWN THE BADGUY AFTER THEY THINK THE GIRLS DIE AND—AND—AND GISETTE AND CLARION MEET THAT OLD HERMIT DAVID WAS TALKING ABOUT AND HE HAS THE FLIPPIN’ MAP TO “THE CLIFFS” AND *pterodactyl screech* AND WHEN THEY “COME BACK TO LIFE” THEY SHOW EVERYBODY LIKE HERE IT IS, THIS IS IT, WE CAN SAVE OUR KINGDOMS
But of course the BADGUY is gonna want it all to himself if/when he figures out that the possibility of a mainland exists, because (a)how do they know that the mainland would fit them all and (b)the more land for him, the merrier! So he tried to TAKE it and MAYBE that’s the moment when Gisette is just like “NOPE” and yanks those crystals out of his wings