Chapter 1 of the sequel is up.

[tocryabout]

Summary: Five years after the end of The Aphanes, Joel and his friend Paul are working with homeless mutants in Montreal. When they meet Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, who is offered work with the Canadian government, Joel and his friends become embroiled in a system that may not be as benevolent to mutants as it appears.

Chapter 1 is The Pretty Girl in Santropol, but do go to the contents page first, if only to read the note on language.

Hope you enjoy.

(P.S., man, that summary sounds Sue-ish. It's not, I swear to God! I promise the sort of spazzy bitchy incompetence you're accustomed to from my characters.)

Comments

[waterstrider.livejournal.com]

Joel has grown noticeably, but is still recognizably the boy we met in The Aphanes.

This I'm very glad to hear. Five years is a long time, and I felt like the changes made sense to me, but I didn't know if other people would feel the continuity.

You could kind of tell that Marvel was trying to be realistic when portraying Jeanne-Marie/Aurora, but (a) information on MPD/DID was pretty sensationalised back then, and (b) it was still a bloody superhero comic and they weren't telling the sort of story that had time to deal with abuse and mental illness properly. So she's been everything from normal-but-repressed to completely schizophrenic. That opens up the sandbox considerably for me, of course, so I shouldn't complain. :-P