The protagonists of my novel The Guardians of the Earth Type Planets are two vagabonds named Amaranth and Loto who live in planet Twinmortal. Amaranth is an innocent girl who just survives stealing food from the markets and moving from place to place. In a way, I designed her personality based on the manga subgenre called Shojo, or manga for girls.
Amaranth
promises the half machine and half human woman Hanshin to search for the
mysterious castle in the map. To help Amaranth in her journey, Loto immediately
joins her. He is a vagabond just like her, but with full knowledge of how to
defend himself and how to kill people and evil creatures. An archetype of the
manga subgenre Shonen for boys and adventure films from of the 90s.
As the
novel develops, the two Twinmortal adventurers advance and grow up as they try
to find out where the castle is and the hidden secrets of their past in the
defunct planet Mortal. Somehow, the two move from the original idea of one
dimensional manga like characters to round characters like in coming-of-age
stories.
Now, back
when I started to write this novel The Guardians of the Earth Type Planets in
2007 until I published it on April 7th, 2014, a lot happen that made
me decide to evolve the characters.
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