I've been writing micro stories since May 1st of this year, and inevitably I've developed some recurring characters. In fact, it's become a bit confusing to keep track of what I know about a couple of these characters, so I decided to track down every story related to each character or group of characters and write down what I know. And why not blog about it! *gasp* Two blog posts on consecutive days? The horror!
Medea the Sorceress
Without question, this is the set of characters that I've reused the most. I've written 33 micro stories involving Medea the Sorceress and her unnamed raven familiar. So far we know that Medea is a powerful and rather famous sorceress who dwells in a sort-of European village set in the past (perhaps Renaissance more than Medieval, or perhaps even early modern/age of discovery. Of course, she lives in a world of magic, but she also lives in the same world (albeit in their past) as the Super Friend Squad, my hero team (see below). Medea is a practical sorceress, is addicted to coffee, likes good pizza and sometimes has it delivered from modern-day New York (so we can assume this world is mostly like ours, apart from the magic and superhero stuff). Her raven makes the coffee and answers the door, and little else. She has recently brought a brass raven to life, and perhaps a brass parrot as well. She is friends with a lich named Gygax who only wants to be left alone to read.
Stories:
Raven 052423
Clickbait 052423
Story Pill 060323
Pigmancy 060523
Resurrection 061723
(writever) Amphora 062023
(micro) Wings of Freedom 062323
Exposure 062623
Patsy's Pizza 062723
(writever) Responsibility 070823
(masto) belt 070923
(micro) familiar 071323
Coffee Story 071523
Imagination 071523
For the Birds 072523
(masto) charm 072523
(writever) management 072523
A Visit From Death 073023
Death Fairy 073023
Wise Owl 073023
(micro) Animate 080423
Brass Raven 080623
Selkie's Lament 080623
Worship 080623
(masto) Delay 080623
(writever) Algorithm 080623
Desire to Read 080723
Fairy Godmother 080723
(masto) Doll 080823
Fearocious 080823
Out of This World 080923
(writever) Generate 081123
Witch Burning 081523
The Superior Friend Squad
Most of my stories involving the Superior Friend Squad revolve around Meteor Lass and Mister Chronos. Meteor Lass can summon meteors from the sky. She has a master's in Forensic Science which she almost never gets to use, and her skin tone is mocha. Mister Chronos can travel through time, a skill that he abuses liberally. He's also the pilot for the team (their craft is the Friend Ship), and has recently learned to travel to other dimensions. His power comes from a magic medallion around his neck that was gifted to him by Medea the sorceress. Other members of the group are Kid Atomic and the Amazon of Atlantis. Their enemies include Doctor Cobalt, who dwells on Death Skull Island and has a talking monkey minion named Nix. Another enemy of theirs is known as Empire Cranium.
Back in Time 050823
Trapped in Time 051223
Drunk in Time 051223
Big Reveal 052023
Fish Nazis 052123
One Trick 052123
AITA 060223
Bloom and Doom 060723
Volcano Theme 062523
(prompt) Boring Machine 062923
Jump the Shark 070623
Discombobulated 072523
(writever) transition 072623
Time Travel Party 072923
(micro) Describe 081123
(masto) Meteor 081323
(micro) Skylight 081423
Grandpa Anarchy
I've been writing Grandpa Anarchy stories since the mid 2000's, although mostly in the last 13 years. I've written over 350 stories involving the world's oldest hero, so I could go on about him at length, but basically he's been a hero since the early 20th century, is mostly a brawler, his costume is a grey suit with an anarchy symbol on the left breast and a hat (sometimes he wears a domino mask and/or gloves). He's had a bajillion different sidekicks, he tends to have a new one every story, or at least he did until I got tired of coming up with new ones. Many of his former sidekicks are now heroes themselves. His favorite breakfast is strawberry pancakes, and he's in a supergroup known as the New League of Two-Fisted Justice. His key traits are that he is virtually unkillable (or rather, never stays dead) and he's been doing this for so long that he sees the tropes coming from a mile away. I have written only a few micro stories involving Grandpa, but I'm likely to write more.
quips 072323
(imcro) drape 072223
(writever) meet 080123
(visual) Air Fortress 080623
Hellbird
Although my two Hellbird stories are jokes at the expense of Twitter/Elon Musk, the salient point is that Hellbird is NOT in any related to Twitter. I kind of like this character and he's very likely to appear in a future Medea story.
Hellbird 070423
Ex Hellbird 072323
Superior Being Pizza
Superior Being Pizza is a pizza delivery service run by an advanced energy being, such as those that plague the Star Trek universe. Because why not? I wrote a Medea story where this guy shows up again so I guess he's a recurring character now.
Energy Being 053023
Out of this World 080923
Viniculum
I'm really not certain how much mileage I can get out of a supernatural death metal band, but I've named all four members and have learned a few things about them so far so I'm willing to try and work them into more stories. (Technically the story "Gig" was about a different band - but I've decided to retroactively make it about the band VIniculum.) Onni is the bass player; he's also a part-time demonic lawyer. Eevi is the lead singer - and also a werewolf. Edvin is the guitarist and Arvo is the drummer, I have no idea in what way those two are special yet. All of these names are Finnish because a lot of my favorite metal bands come from Finland, in particular Amorphis, and also Nightwish.
(visual) Xenofan 060323
(writever) gig 072023
(micro) Imposter 081223
(writever) Convolution 081423
Jalia the Shaman
Jalia McMarrin was my barbarian shaman character when I played Everquest years ago. I've always wanted to write stories about her, so I've managed three micro stories so far. Eh, better than nothing. She very likely exists in the same universe as Medea?
(prompt) names 070323
(micro) matted 071223
(micro) gall 071923
