OC Inktober Day 4 - Lily

Moving on to some of my middle school OCs (I may or may not be done with the elementary school ones, we’ll see as the month goes on). Lily is the main character of a book I wrote throughout my three years of middle school, called Time Portal. In it, Lily and her sister, Dianelle (number one question of those three years: “Do you mean ‘Danielle?’” No. No, I don’t) are transported to the medieval past of their hometown (yes, I went with that plot device), where a war breaking out threatens to alter the present day.

The continent, known as Aladia, had been calm for years, ever since a firelily flower was planted as a symbol of everlasting peace and hope. However, with chaotic magic causing time portals to spring up everywhere, a dragon by the name of Darshanne recognizes the omens as a means towards changing the future, and steals the firelily, which throws the different nations into a panic. When the two sisters arrive, Lily’s name is taken as a sign that they are meant to help retrieve the firelily, and they are thrown somewhat unwillingly into adventure. Dianelle leaves to find the offshore city of dragons and plead for their help with the creatively named Goldspark (silver-scaled dragon, with veins of gold running across them; this pattern reverses when he invokes a spell of concentration and fury), while Lily remains behind at the castle to help two magicians, a wolf named Whoot and a white vixen named Vermeera, try to find a way to counter the chaotic magic running rampant after Whoot accidentally released it. Towards the end, there’s a scene where Lily summons spirits created from different elemental magics, one of them being the rabbit in the picture.

Although they succeed in defeating Darshanne, the continent is left physically split in two by the clash of magic. The story was originally planned to be a trilogy, with the second book entailing them trying to close the Ravine, and the third detailing Lily and Dianelle trying to go back home.

Anyway, Lily is the level-headed and more shy of the two sisters, so her character arc involved her showing her strength through quieter, but powerful, ways, such as the magic which ends up saving everyone from Darshanne, versus Dianelle's wild ride of a quest to way too many place involving way too many sideplots XD ah well, yet another story I want to rewrite.