Cover made by me using art by Sikke_anki and wordlass
Sit down my children as Grandma Wings tells you a story about illegal experimentation, human/animal hybrids, human trafficking, and her precious children who deserve none of the things that happen to them. Also known as:
The Spock Project.
The Spock project began as a 2014 book called Ombre, later renamed Osprey, that was posted here on Wattpad until The Great Gravity Falls Invasion of 2015, when Gravity Falls took over my life, eradicated all my other fandoms, and made me want to spend multiple years writing fanfiction for it. Osprey was my first full draft of a novel, completed at 67,000 words (the most I'd written in one completed project before that was a trilogy at 30,000). I then went one to write a second draft, titled A Splash of Color, which I wrote 45,000 words for before stopping and starting yet another draft, How We Are Defined. There was also a first chapter of a fourth draft named Chlorophyll that was my last attempt at original content before dedicating everything to Gravity Rises.
That's a lot of titles. So, to keep it simple, I call it "the Spock project" or just "Spock," which I got from the acronym for A Splash of Color (SpoC) and has absolutely nothing to do with Star Trek besides being on opposite sides of the same broad genre.
Probably more back story than you needed, but there you go: Spock. Because I'll probably go through another five or ten titles before this baby gets published. This is normal, it's fine.
What's Spock about?
Spock is a character-driven story that centers around a year or so in the life of Evan Morales, a sophomore boy who lived the first sixteen years of his life oblivious that he was the product of genetic experimentation (and "not human," according to some) until he was recaptured by the organization that created him and subject to illegal experimentation and medical abuse. The main plot of the book takes place during his captivity (though it might be expanded to include the first few months/years of aftermath), so it's not very action-packed. Evan doesn't have very much physical freedom (which has shot me in the foot before but I'm determined to make it work), and much of the plot development happens through conversations and slow changes. Which is gonna be hard to pull off. But I'm gonna do it.
Since this book is very character-driven, probably the best way to describe it is to describe the characters and how they relate to the plot. So here's the (subject to change) master list of named/important characters in Spock:
~Evan Morales
~Gabriella "Gabi" Morales
~Ximena Alvarez
~Iridescent "Iri"
~Tosigo
~Rosario
~Daniel Parker
~Consuelo "Abuela" Morales
~Lynette Ryann
~Esteban Morales
~Raquelita Morales
Spock and its characters are constantly evolving and this list will likely be quite different when this gets published (which I'm imagining will be in five years at the earliest).
That's the basic background. Next up: detailed explanations of each character! (They get their own chapters cuz they're special.)
