Something old, something new

I’m a fan of reboots.

It may surprise you that not only have I read “Pride and Prejudice”, but I’ve also seen almost every adaptation of it to the silver screen or otherwise.

I’m not saying every reboot is stellar by any means, but my point will materialize.

Eventually.

As you may have gleaned from my bio, Harmony has been a work-in-progress for some time. But that also doesn’t indicate the true age of some of my characters.

Some of them have been engaging in shenanigans for a decade or three. So, I guess that makes them:

Experienced?

Aged?

Vintage?

Vintage sounds like that piece of clothing you insist on wearing, but your friends have the good grace to suffer its frequent reappearance in silence. We’ll work with vintage.

So, my vintage characters have their stories told in a variety of formats. They’re seeing publication now, as part of the Bleed Chronicles. I’ve written several short stories detailing their adventures. And lastly, they’ve been traipsing through my tangled tapestry of the mine.

I should probably insert an ironic “help me” here, but my characters become quite cozy in their mental, meat digs and they’re gaining a voice now, at last.

What do my vintage characters have to do with reboots?

They, like reboots, are reflective of the time they find themselves incarnated. The characters’ cores remain the same, but there have been reinterpretations and refinements to their stories. I mean, I’d like to think I’m a far more experienced storyteller than twelve-year-old me, but who knows? In almost every case these past stories have become a part of their vintage mythologies: tales or legends that are fantastical creations, but simultaneously true.

Whether you’re a fan of reboots or not, try looking at them as multiversal, alternate mythology. If you look at Greek mythology, for instance, there are many variations in those myths. Which of those myths is the “truth”, and does the “truth” actually matter?