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I'm still alive and still thoroughly distracted.

To be honest, I've lost interest in my TSD story for the time being, so I'm expanding a few of the characters into another universe and another story.

What I'm currently working on (and by working on I mean have finished one chapter about) is a much different setting than that of Mirembe's universe, and focused more on subjects that I have more personal experience in, such as spirituality, Diasporic cultural identity, racism, and inter-ethnic relations.

I'm still trying to come up with a proper name, but the story is centered around four main characters, Tchida being one of them. The city she lives in was founded by different nations based on African, Middle-eastern, Asiatic, and Mediterranean peoples. In the city, people highly value their cultural identity, so those with strong traditional connections are held in high regard. People like Tchida, however, who are descended from escaped prisoners and slaves of an enemy nation, have no recollection of where they came from or what culture they belong to.

So, in essence, Tchida's kind are part of a lower caste of people in the city. And despite the entire region being at war with a very "Eurocentric" superpower on the other side of the world, the united city itself has its own issues with prejudice and oppression of its own lower caste. One high-caste Minister is torn between dealing with the war at hand or turning his attention to his own city's problems.

Another main character, Asahn, is a soldier who just returned to the city after deployment. In his eagerness to keep fighting, he tries to leave the city to find an independent nation to ship him back out to the front lines, and Tchida goes with him to find out where her people came from once upon a time. They manage to befriend an obsolete android found in an ancient temple along the way, which calls itself Kel, and insists on being identified as an actual, conscious person, and feels a connection with Tchida due to their longing for an identity of their own, since the people who built it had long since vanished.

There's a lot more going on in the story, but I just realized I've gotten carried away with the description. I'm probably just going to use this post as a story reference at some point, so whatever.

Description
I'm still alive and still thoroughly distracted.

To be honest, I've lost interest in my TSD story for the time being, so I'm expanding a few of the characters into another universe and another story.

What I'm currently working on (and by working on I mean have finished one chapter about) is a much different setting than that of Mirembe's universe, and focused more on subjects that I have more personal experience in, such as spirituality, Diasporic cultural identity, racism, and inter-ethnic relations.

I'm still trying to come up with a proper name, but the story is centered around four main characters, Tchida being one of them. The city she lives in was founded by different nations based on African, Middle-eastern, Asiatic, and Mediterranean peoples. In the city, people highly value their cultural identity, so those with strong traditional connections are held in high regard. People like Tchida, however, who are descended from escaped prisoners and slaves of an enemy nation, have no recollection of where they came from or what culture they belong to.

So, in essence, Tchida's kind are part of a lower caste of people in the city. And despite the entire region being at war with a very "Eurocentric" superpower on the other side of the world, the united city itself has its own issues with prejudice and oppression of its own lower caste. One high-caste Minister is torn between dealing with the war at hand or turning his attention to his own city's problems.

Another main character, Asahn, is a soldier who just returned to the city after deployment. In his eagerness to keep fighting, he tries to leave the city to find an independent nation to ship him back out to the front lines, and Tchida goes with him to find out where her people came from once upon a time. They manage to befriend an obsolete android found in an ancient temple along the way, which calls itself Kel, and insists on being identified as an actual, conscious person, and feels a connection with Tchida due to their longing for an identity of their own, since the people who built it had long since vanished.

There's a lot more going on in the story, but I just realized I've gotten carried away with the description. I'm probably just going to use this post as a story reference at some point, so whatever.