HMMHhehe's PlanMo 2026
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Bring on the Journal Challenges!
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Elevator Pitch
In a world protected by knights who's catchphrase is "Peace is our battle", a young man dreams of rebellion... but is the path he has chosen right? Between adventure and peace, he will soon have to choose. -
Character & Location List
Spoiler
Anthon (main character)
Maertha (Anthon's mother)
Arec (Knight Commander of the Westfieldses troop)
Rye (Anthon's best friend, Knight)
Tamsin (Alec's second in command, Knight)
Efia (Tamsin's best friend, Knight)
Dion (Efia's little brother)
Ethan (Anthon and Maertha's fifty year-old neighbour)
Ellender and Fingal (Strangers)
The Westfields (start setting, Anthon's natal region)
Wellglade (barbarian attack setting)
Fairenford (noble region, includes the Heroic Knight Veterans' Residence - HKVR)
Steel Peak (Prison)
(Berlin
Frankfurt am Main
Paris
Calais
England ?) -
Most Challenging Character
Enspoilered because of length and actual spoilers!Spoiler
I think that the most challenging character will be Ethan. He's supposedly going to be very 'wise', or at least try to stop Anthon from rebelling or something. But I've never managed to make that sort of character, and I don't really know how I'll make him seem wise! I'm also not sure about how much to include him in the story. I know I want him there for the beggining, but at some point Anthon should leave and I'm not sure what to do with him. I want him there at the end, too, to give a feeling of homelyness. But maybe instead of that, since I want him to be, sort of, the wise old mentor (but not too much!) I could kill him off and have Anthon feel guilty of that for some reason. Or he could just be a normal, side-character grumpy old neighbour. I'm definitly going to be thinking about that, maybe writing down some pros and cons and things like that, researching how wise old mentors are shown in my favorite books (Harry Potter, the School for Good and Evil, Keeper of the Lost Cities, Uglies Pretties Specials Extras...) and thinking about how his interactions with other characters might make him more one or more the other/how other character's interactions with him would make it better for him to be more one or more the other. -
Character Questionnaire
(main character)Spoiler
Name: Anthon
Pronouns: he/him
Age: 19, then 22
Height: tall?
Eye colour: blue
Hair colour: black
Physical appearance: strong but not buff
Unique physical attributes: scar on the back of his right hand (long, thin line)
Favourite clothing style/outfit: Pants (beige) and tunic (blue)
Favourite shoes/footwear: sandals
Defining gestures/movements:
Speaking style: to Ellender and Fingal, accent - otherwise, strong voice with authority
Things about their appearance they would most like to change:
Physical health: strong
Pet peeves: when the Knights say "Peace is our battle"
Fondest memory: Overall childhood
Hobbies/interests: rebellion and adventure
Special skills/abilities: --
Insecurities: sometimes thinks about how the others told him he is wrong
Quirks/eccentricities: Abhors mushrooms of all types and stages
Philosophy of life/motto: "Peace is boring. Rebellion is the real adventure!"
Positive traits: he can care and love, laughs at jokes
Negative traits: enjoys revenge, can hate easily and enjoys chaos
Things that upset them: mushrooms and the Knights winning
Things that embarrass them: Maertha kissing him
Things that make them happy: Winning against the Knights, thinking of great plans
This character is highly opinionated about: Peace vs Adventure
Any phobias? --
Superstitions: --
Deepest, darkest secret: wishes he weren't different and could be a Knight with Rye
Reason they have kept this secret for so long: Thinks peace is boring and prefers rebellion
Where do they live? What is it like there?: The Westfields. In a village (start setting)
Description of their home: a small village in a savana-like region, but not too hot
Description of their room: --
Family (describe): Maertha, mother. Protective and caring.
Any pets? --
Other people's opinions of this character: Alec=a wimp, Rye=choosing wrong side, Maertha=perfect
Favourite bands/songs/types of music: --
Favourite movies/TV shows: Star Wars. But only later.
Favourite books: --
Favourite foods: his mother's date flatcakes
Favourite sports/sports teams: he can horseride
Dream holiday: --
Best thing that has ever happened to this character: it's a secret!
Worst thing that has ever happened to this character: When Rye said the rebellion was just a stupid childhood delirium
Three words to describe this character: emotion-relying, adventurous, innerly kind
If a song played every time this character walked into a room, what song would it be? a sort of Far West cool cowboy song, something like the intro of La Folie des Grandeurs but slower.
Favorite ice cream flavor: -- -
I got the vague idea (what's in the Elevator Pitch) for this story one or two weeks ago, but I couldn't gather up the courage to start it. When I learned about NovMo and PlanMo, I thought it'd be the perfect thing to try =D
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The Vibes!
Inspiring music
Outside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPQ1aJ-yBk&t=2s
Inside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7f189Z0v0Y&t=186s -
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^ the start setting!
Tysm @AlexWrites !!! =D -
The Knights, "peace mode" -
Anthon's battle plans! -
Anthon prefers rebellion and finds peace boring. -
Spoiler
You did click on the spoiler, huh? It really is just a chaotic summary though.
Sooo... Anthon lives in a peaceful world protected by Knights where rebellion doesn't exsist.
Anthon's childhood best friend is Rye. When they were small, Anthon had an idea for something "completely new": rebellion! NOT doing what the Knights said... NOT doing peace... going AGAINST the Knights... just like misbehaving, but very big! He and Rye spend most of their childhood plotting their big rebellion and thinking themselves so smart.
During his late teen years (starting: [FILL IN]) Anthon sees very little of Rye, as Rye has left to study [FILL IN] in Fairenford. When Anthon is 19 and Rye is [FILL IN], Rye comes back and Anthon is very excited for the rebellion. He heard that Rye will be there in the afternoon, and prepares everything to leave immediatly, even the note to his mother. But then he sees Rye arriving in Knight armour, and Rye actually enroled himself before leaving!!! :O So when Anthon speaks to Rye, Rye says he found better friends and that the Rebellion was nothing more than a "childhood delirium". So Anthon is extremely hurt, but still sets out to make his OWN rebellion.
Then Anthon becomes a "master mischiefmaker", never caught by the Knights, always making crazy plans and with a network of people devoted to his ideology that "peace is boring, adventure is better".
Then [FILL IN] and Anthon is in a place like our world with everyone actually doing violence and everything! He meets Ellender and Fingal, and they [FILL IN]. [FILL IN] Anthon is disgusted by violence. [FILL IN] Returned to his world, he [Becomes a Knight???] The end!
Don't click on the spoiler... It's just a weird chaotic incomplete "summary" where I spoil everything I've planned for my story...
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