Well, I fell asleep for about a half an hour, which really helped me out, 'cuz I was feeling a little down today. I think I was just really tired. I'm perfectly fine now in that regard.
I was getting kind of bored, so I began thinking about the stories I've begun to write, but am nowhere near finished with. I remembered this (really crappy) short story I wrote in junior high, and I got a few ideas for one of my books in regards to the characters. Next of Kin is already character-heavy, with upwards of nine main characters and plenty of minor characters, but I have come up with a few more secondary major characters.
1.) A sumo-wrestling cicada. I've been toying around with this character for some time (a good four months). Basically, when he emerged from the ground, the main bad guy ("Killer Queen" aka "Gunpowder Gelatine") did a bit of experimentation on him and gave him working mouth parts. As a result, he gains the ability to taste, and develops an eating disorder. This, compounded with the fact that his parents were "brutally murdered" over seventeen years ago, just after he'd been laid in the ground, gives him an incentive to kill.
2.) A goth lemming. Due to excessive radiation pollution from the main bad guy's experiments in the arctic, this lemming was mutated with a rather unusual trait: he bounces. He discovers this when he jumps off his first cliff and lives. Completely suicidal, he meets up with Jacob Kin (the main good guy), who gives his life a purpose. Still depressed over his family's gruesome death, as he witnessed the whole thing.
3.) A constantly-terrified giant spider. He wandered into one of the main bad guy's warehouse's restrooms through an open window and set up camp. As a result, when Jacob arrives under rumors his parents may be being held there, the entire facility agrees to defect if he'll take care of the "spider problem".
This'll be fun.
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