Update for VilCorp
It has been a while since I have posted on Medium. So, I am updating all my novels. Basically, I am starting with VilCorp. New Cover.
So, VilCorp I started in the middle of 2018. It was inspired sort of by The Boys comics. Bit took a different things. Instead of corrupt heroes. It was a villain that got villains to go corporate and rule the world that way. Since people weren’t going to hate on heroes.
I also decided to edit back in I took out in first publication. Which was anything but a few curse words and some vague mentions of deaths. So, it is going to be back to its gritty former glory so to say.
It is Copyright 2018 first published in 2020.
It really isn’t a new idea, the villain turning good, or the villain needing the hero. This is just my version of it. For some reason, and there is psychology behind it, people like a redemption arc from the villain. It has to do with our genetic predisposition to want see the good in the world. Though there are the pessimists. And that is more influenced by environmental factors. But you don’t want to read about my thoughts on psychology (I am a psych and business administration major that is graduating in October and starting graduate school in January! Yes, in psychology and my thesis will Gamer Psychology: Why We Are Drawn To Fictional Worlds. Which is a play off my senior project which is a paper in Fandoms: The Good, The Bad, and the Toxic).
Back to VilCorp! You can read the updated version slowly on Amazon Vella.
This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to persons living or dead (unless explicitly noted) is merely coincidental.
And I am told that I should put some warnings.
Trigger warnings! There is few: Violence, blood, self-harm, attempted suicide, suicide, murder, witch trials, war, gay sex, sex, orgies, I think I mention a villain eats eyeballs with a candy cane (it tends to be a theme in some of my bloodier works) language (I have a mouth and so do my characters), sexual assault, dubious consent, there are heroes and villains, it is not The Boys level, but there is murder and violence more detailed than in the edited older version, this is really what the novel was going to be like, before a friend edited. Take The Boys and turn it down a few notches. Or a notch. There are some mentions of exploding heads.
The first chapter is tame, just to set a tone. But once we get into the chapters it will be R rated. There is no exploding of sexual organs, but there is some cutting them off. Maybe. I can’t honestly remember. But I do know my MC does not take kindly to those who take with no regard. There may be cannibalism if I am remembering correctly. I am going chapter by chapter and editing with my first draft from back in 2018. But I do think there is a villain that eats people. I am editing this as I am posting. The short story Freedom’s Fall is going to either be worked into the chapters or at the end of this novel. Or I may stick it in the middle as an intermission type break. I honestly, want a bit more background on Tony’s character before you actual meet him. But you will get to know his outcome as well with the story. I like Tony. He is a character that I intended to be a side character that became supporting character.
So, I may put most of it in the middle and work the rest in. He was my favorite character to create for this story, even if he is not the main character. That reminds me, drug use is mentioned, both consensual and not.
This book is for my best friend. She has helped me more than she can ever know. Discovering the GISH and Supernatural community has helped me become myself. This is for Tressa. May seem like a weird book to dedicate to my best friend, but she reminds me daily I have to be myself. I have to write what I want to write and not worry about what people think. Those who will like my works will read them and celebrate them. And those that don’t, don’t matter.
Yes, I know I also have a middle grade series and a few planned children books once I find someone to illustrate. But like with everyone. People have different sides. So, do I. And The Katy Lily Series was a story I created in 1992–1997. I just chose to finally write it out and share it.
VilCorp:
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Villains run the world.
They went corporate and used their powers to control the world.
Superheroes went into the shadows. Many died.
Hundreds of years later, Etain AKA Arc, is informed of a plan from her ‘partners’ so wrong she cannot let the corruption, even as much evil as she is, continue.
She speaks against the proposal.
Etain is beaten and left for dead when she will not cross the line to wipe out humanity.
She goes to the only hero that she knows she can trust.
The only hero that may take up their mantel once more.
Etain is a Villain who needs a hero.
The hero once known as Earth Phoenix now just goes by her name, as her father gave her hundreds of years ago, Catriona.
When the villains won, she moved to a small city, opened a bakery, lives her extended life in peace.
Until one day, she finds the villain that always played upon her thoughts, on her doorstep.
The Queen Villain is asking Catriona to save the world.
Will She answer the call once again?
Or will she make Etain face her consequences alone?
Read the first couple chapters in Amazon Vella now.
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0D8WNSGXG
