Amanda Yaeger

Assignment One Story Statement: A high school student needs to study magic to save her town and her brother from ancient evil that seeks to regain power, Assigment Two Antagonist: The Dark Son/Sethos/Malvagio: was born Sethos Costa and purchased as a boy by a rich man (named Malvagio, a name the Dark Son takes on when he kills him) who had a “school” where he trained boys in magic. Forced to fight against each other, Sethos killed his best friend so he could live. Malvagio brought on a new round of boys, and rather than suffer this again, Sethos killed Malvagio by summoning an ancient demon – some said a god – that lived inside of him. The school Malvagio created in Italy lives on today but its manner of training its students have much improved The Dark Son ruled the small town of Arken in the early 1900s but was bound by a Tate witch in a place of darkness under Our Lady of Mercy church. Ressurected by her descendant, his first goal is to obtain a body, his second is to destroy the last of the Tate witches, and finally he wants to return to his seat of power, relying on the old families who benefited from his stranglehold on the town and now bow to him again. Goal/background/reaction to the world around him: The Dark Son doesn’t trust anyone he can’t control. Assignment Three Titles: 1. Gargoyle Moon 2. Gargoyles and Grimoires 3. A Witch’s Guide to Surviving High School Assignment Four Comp Titles: - “Legendborn” by Tracy Deonn – comparable because of magic world set alongside real world, character age, worldbuilding. - “Sorcery of Thorns” by Margaret Rogerson – comparable for magical elements including a grimoire that's a living entity, strong female protagonist, and dark and mysterious setting Assignment Five Core Wound: After discovering she’s a witch, a floundering high school student is torn between struggling to live up to her golden boy brother’s image and accepting her diversity to save her brother and town from an ancient evil. Assignment Six Inner Conflict: Maddie is grounded due to going to a party that the police raided, but when she gets an invite to a scholarship gala with her lying, boyfriend stealing ex BFF Kylie she has a hard time saying no. Also, her friend Olivia is in a coma from the Dark Son’s magic. Her gargoyle guardian warned her away from the gala, knowing the Dark Son would be there. So, when Maddie’s ex boyfriend is there playing a gig, and tells her he hasn’t been dating Kylie, she is confused and anxious about confronting Kylie, who is her ticket into this world of glitz and glamor. Maddie’s also worried about being caught at a party when she told her mom she was studying, and crushed under the guilt of attending a fun party when she should be figuring out how to use her magic to revive her friend Olivia from the Dark Son’s spell. Assignment Seven Setting: Arken is a medium-sized town perched on top of a dark well of power. The old buildings lining the streets harken back to the town’s logging and industrial beginnings, but the wealthy now reside on the outskirts in sprawling new constructions, working as lawyers, bankers and businesspeople living. Lively coffee shops, austere offices, and churches – like the one that mysteriously burned down the night the gargoyle winged Maddie away from it – and a grass-covered public square used for concerts and gatherings are part of the heart of Arken. It’s a cozy town, the sort of town people like to send the children to school in, on an upcoming list of cities with the fastest growing population because of its safety, art and theater offerings, and good job prospects. Not the sort of town anyone would expect to raise a corpse-wearing magic wielder from the dead to wreak destruction. Maddie lives in a grey brick Victorian house. The inside is slowly falling into disrepair – the old wallpaper curling from many years of hot summers and frigid winters – but the outside was built to weather the ages. Ivy curls up its sides, stretching towards the sun. On the third floor, for as long as anyone can remember, sits a stone gargoyle, facing west, waiting for the sun to set and the moon to rise. The dining room’s crown molding and large crystal chandelier ironically now seat only two residents, Maddie and her mom. The house is full of antique objects from arsenic books to uranium glass, and most all of them are haunted. The first ghost Maddie was introduced to is Whisper Gray who haunts a lamp in the living room, a pretty, dark-haired girl with a broken neck, but her brother introduces her to new specters with each find their father brings back from his archeological travels. Arken, like most towns, is quiet on the surface but has a dark well of history and power underneath that the curious need only dig for.