FAMILY RELATIONSHIP
**Roger went to boarding school before his sister's were born, then taken off (Lore))

When Ann and Mari were bron, they HATED each other. It was obvious Anmarie was the golden child, the one everyone loved, casting a shadow upon her sister. She was spoiled by her father, while their mother, "pited her" as Mari would put it.

This unequal treatment of the girls often led to Mr. and Mrs. Grandell having a couple of short lived squabbles.
After an event that changed their lives, and years that had passed (Lore), was found. And just in time to take care of his sisters after his father passed from his stubborness and their mother died from an illness.
TIMELINE (heavily watered down)
Rogertries his best to raise his sisters while trying to find himself after war. He starts to see this girl who is madly in love with him. He calls her "Doll" (real name N/A as of now).
One thing leads to another, and Doll finds out she's having a child.

And all hell breaks loose.

Leading up to #LucieG's birth, Doll manages to break up the family in a series of hair pulling events. Even after Lucielle's birth, things are still going wrong. When Roger is drafted to war, and Anmarie detatches herself from her family for the sake of her sanity, Mari is left to deal with Doll's absurdity and the safety of her niece.
Constantly worrying about his daughter, Roger is off in the front lines fighting besides #NatS, a battle nurse/rookie who would be one of the closest people in his life. He calls home but when he receives no answers daily from his wife, he asks his Mari--who he's on bad terms with-- to watch over his daughter (he feels that Doll is not taking care of her). Feeling obligated and concerned, Mari agrees to do so.

Fast foward past two years of Doll and Mari fighting about Lucielle's living conditions, education, health, and Doll's parenting methods, Lucie is sent to live with Mari for a bit. through blackmail (lore-- know that it was for the best for her niece).

Mari takes care of the littl' "bugger," her nickname for Lucie.
For a couple of years, everything seems stable, and with the war seeming to die down, Roger is able to take a leave to come home for the holidays.
At a family gathering, Doll throws a fit about Mari, all while acting like a chlid. After years of being stressed and angry with this woman, Mari tells Doll off. Defending his wife, Roger what he'd consider a fatal mistake of yelling at his sister.

Mari storms off into the wintery night, and drives off.

The family never hear from her. They are greeted by two police men with a report on a vehicle that was found on the side of teh road. It apparently slide on black ice, lost control, and crashed.

Mari was in it.
Without Mari, Anmarie drifts off. She runs off to finish her studies. Eventually, Ann gets her dream job, but it's not what she expected. She stays stuck in a dead beat job for years to come and she's miserable.
Coping mechanism (for famial separation, lost of sister, lost of parents)-- drowns herself in work and refuses to acknowlege her feelings. She becomes with herself whenever she acknowledges them.
AFTER EFFECTS
Roger goes onto divorce Doll, taking his daughter. Shortly after, his wife passes from issues regarding addiction. Her dealth confuses Roger. He wants to be sad, but can't help but sigh in relief and yell "GOOD RIDDANCE". He continues (he did this before the draft) goe to his support group meetings, where he had met #TillyL and her friend, #JuroS, through her.
Coping mechanism (for famial separation, lost of sister, lost of parents, wife's death, ACE ((adverse childhood experience)), and current PTSD)-- goes to support groups, stays clear of bothersome things, avoids crowds, tries meditations (he hates it), avoid caffine, educated himself on his conditions.
And he reached out to Anmarie.
Anmarie coping mechanisms (after being reached out to)-- educated herself on her condition, spent more time with family, allowed hers

Whoa..... This kind of makes me wonder exactly HOW much you watered down...?

Wow. :O

@Cleric
Aw! I'm so glad you asked! ^w^
Short answer: How much? VERY

Long answer.
I can't tell you exactly how much, but I can give you a run down on how much information is NOT here based on numbers and whatnot, time on development, and such.
This consists of THREE characters, the Grandell Children, fully fleshed bios from each character mashed into a short "article", with the very basic of their life events without the details.

Breakdown:
Roger Grandell
# of Words in Bio: 5,673 words
length of Bio (fleshed out): 6 pages
Length of development on story: 2-3 hours (at maybe 3am)
**his bio was written during a "writing frenzy"
[I immediately crashed after writing it ^^"]

Anmarie Grandell
# of Words in Bio: 848
length of Bio (fleshed out): 2 pages
Length of development on story: W.I.P (so far 30 minutes)

Mari Grandell
# of Words in Bio: 3,422 words
length of Bio (fleshed out): 5 pages
Length of development on story: 4 hours (starting at 1am)
**her bio was written during a "writing frenzy"

Soooo, with this knowledge...
I wrote THIS POST was
- written in 48 minutes
- developed in 48 minutes too
- and it's length is only //697// words out of all the bios I mentions that, when combined, are 9,943 words =w=

If you, or anyone else, have any questions regarding the characters or the development process itself I'll be happy to answer. uwu

Yeah, I'm kinda curious about the development, too: from what I can retain (my mind's CRaZY) a family's broken apart, and chaos happens when the father remmaries: how'd you did you do every backstory? (Usually I just have people lined up as needed, but none of them have detailed backgrounds like this!)

@Cleric
Close. Roger never remarries. He never marries in the first place! XD

Anyways, about the development uwu:
I do most of this in my head, but I'll try and sum it up and explain as best as possible:

1. I first figure out which OC's lives will interlock with each other.

So, knowing that Roger, Mari, and Anmarie are relatives by blood, and Doll is married into the family, and Lucielle is born into the family, it's prtty obvious they'll be in each others lives at some point in another.

2. I then get a veeeerrry BASIC idea of what will happen in each of the characters lives at certain points in their lives

I'll break down the age groups into smaller groups. We'll use Mari G as an example:
BIRTH
-experimented on
TODDLER
-overshadowed by sister
CHILDHOOD
-moved away
-parents later died
PRETEEN (and teen years)
-brother has a child
-first bad impression with Doll
EARLY ADULTHOOD
-Takes care of Lucielle
ADULTHOOD
-Accident

3. THEN I ADD onto what I have. The details. These details can be anything.
**The details are in the parentheses ()

BIRTH
-experimented on (nothing, too young to know)

TODDLER
-overshadowed by sister (while her sister was the golden child, loved by all, she was cast aside. Mari found herself in the shadows, alone, feeling insecure about herself. With her large wings that were growing in size, she couldn't help but feel like a freak around the other children.)

CHILDHOOD
-moved away (as a child, she was upset about leaving all of her friends behind. When she asked why they were moving, her mother tried to comfort her instead instead of telling her. Though she was young, Mari knew her family was well in Gala, and knew that there was no reason as to why they would have to move. When she asked her father, he was cold and digusted to her, often cursing under her breath. His attidue often caused her parents to fight.
-father dies NOT BOTH PARENTS, SORRY
(as a child, she couldn't understand why her father had acted so cold and upset with her. With everyone around her crying, his death made her feel empty.)

PRETEEN (and teen years)
-mother dies (feels heartbroken after her mother deaht-- she died of an illness- and grieves for months)
-her brother comes to take care of her (with her brother who was rumored to be dead after being taken-- hence why their parents had more kids-- is suddenly back and coming to be her and her sister's role model... That's weird. Slowly, she starts to warm up to Roger, and he treats Anmarie and Mari the same. She feels like he's a great role mother, he;s even brought her sister and her together, and she loves her family being together. They had always been separated.)
-brother has a child (With a sudden announcement of this, Mari has a fit. She knows the company-- her mother's company-- was in debt and they would be running low on money. On top of that, of all people, Roger "had 'knock up' it was Doll!" She starts to get into more arguments with her brother. Meanwhile, she's chastising her sister when Ann doesn't agree with her side.
-first bad impression with Doll: Mari did NOT like Doll--a whiny, overgrown child, who showed no interest in changing her drunken ways when the child came.
-Doll's shenanigans (There's a lot. All summed over the course of nine month: Doll would do something, blame Mari, Mari and Roger would fight, Roger would stand up for his wife. Mari then turned to Anmarie, and Anmarie (poor Ann) would have to choose sides. If she chose either side, she would be yelled at by the other party. )

EARLY ADULTHOOD
-Lucielle's birth (Doll purposefully doesn't allow Mari to show up. And only allows her family to see the baby. Ann was allowed to facetime the baby. When Mari finds out that Ann knows, she yells at her sister one more final time. Ann breaks down over the phone and the sisters disconnect for months)
-Takes care of Lucielle (Mari blackmails Doll, tells her off for breaking up her family, and takes Lucielle away with Roger's permission)

ADULTHOOD
-Accident: (BEFORE the accident, Mari was drivng home from the party. She was angry, worried about her brother's manipulative wife, the safety of her niece. She was mostly concerned about the relationship with her sister, the one she had grown up with. Though she envied Ann for all the attention she received, she never hated her sister. She cheered her on, living through her sister's accomplishments and finding her own achievements when no one expected anything from her. And finally when their relationship was blossoming, she tore it down by making her sister pick sides. And she she was angry with herself for that.
Blinded by self-hatred, stress, and fear, Mari swirved off the road. She was wrapped up in her thoughts, and loss control emotionally and physically)

@cleric
So with these details, NOW you see WHY things happened. You see the characters emotions, how they were affected and such.
((I am so sorry for these long comments ^^""))

So NOOOOW, We're going to add FACTORS FROM THE WORLD surrounding the characters

(I swear we're almost done)

Really quick synopsis of the world they live in.
Some time in the future, humans left their crumbling earth, after terraforming the moon failed and CRASHED the moon INTO THE EARTH. They decided to go to the "nearest star" and only took DESIRED HUMANS. (really rich, famous). Other desired humans included those who had been paid by these rich, powerful humans to build an maintain the planet.
Upon arriving that this planet, they called it "Chanae." And the humans were shocked that there were aliens. Upset by this encounter, the inhabitants ordered the humans to leave, and the humans said, "no".

20 years of war...

Despite lacking in modern weapons tha the humans had, the aliens won because of their knowledge of the planet. After judging aliens made the humans co-exist under their laws. The humans reluctantly obliged.
You see, as time went on, generations came and went. The aliens reproduced slower than the humans, who they considered to be a "virus." They'd populate, come, move to one area, and take all the resourcs, and repeat.

("[humans] move to an area and you mutiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed, and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area... human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet..." -Agent Smith.)
Did I just quote Matrix? Yes, yes I did. It's awesome btw.

So after watching the population of humans grow, the aliens became worried that the humans would rebel.
Annnd they were right.

Annnd there was a rebel.
The humns won, AND THIS IMPORTANT, hated the aliens. They creted three sections.
Gala: a mostly human, populated place with no aliens allowed. It is also the richest and the most technologically advanced part of the three sections
M (working on name): slighly populated by humans, meta humans (half alien, half human. Usually have powers. Aliens still face discrimination here)
HollowLark: A run down place where most aliens went. It's a small population, THIS IS IMPORTANT, of aliens that HATE humans collectively. It is the poorest section out of all the sections too.
So what does this all have to do with Mari's story?

Her father (in the birth section) experiment on her. She grew wings as a side effect. They moved (in the childhood section) from Gala and her father was cold and digusted with her. The Grandell's moved because it looked like Mari was a meta human because of her wings. The were discriminated in Gala, received threats, and had to move to M, and their father was NOT happy about it (though he was the cause by experimenting on his own child).
In short, the discrimnation from the history of the planet, caused her family to move. Just small stuff like that from the world (Chane is still W.I.P. Also, Mari isn't the best character to show how it affects her life. Roger is, but his story is for another time ^^"))

And finally, I write it all out...
Which I'm not going to do, sorry, because I've written this for two hours in between texting friends. I'm going to go crash and if you have anymore questions, I'll answer them when I'm not face down in a pillow somewhere =w=

..I had a different comment typed out, but Colors signed me out..

Sorry for a reason you'd type to like several people at once(?) I did it before and it's always hectic!
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Also, I like how everything fits in, now that you've explained the backstory! I can never get anything interwoven in mine; and end up writing sequels to clear everything up. This though, makes lots of it clear: thanks for explaining!

@cleric

Glad this was clear! I was worried that the 3ds wouldn't be able to load up the comments, since they were massively long ^^”

And no, I do not type up multiple people at once. That is too hectic for me. I tried it once and vowed to never do it again with more than two characters. I write character bio’s like this:

I usually make a timeline of all the events that affect all the character that are associated with each other. Then I write from their point of views on the story.

In order to make these reactions to the events realistic, this is where the character bios kick in.

The trick is point of view. Write from the character's point of view on the event based on how they were raised, their personality, **the current situation they’re in at the moment, ect

EXAMPLE:
BIO Character A: Jason: He’s a man with an adventurous spirit and a go-getter in life. He loves to talk with women and is respectful to all. He’s charismatic and well-intentioned always.

BIO Character B: Jessie; A nervous country woman with issues with her parents. She was disowned in her mid-teens, forcing her to couch surf at friends who have slowly disappeared in her life. The only one left is Jason, who seems to have everything going for him.

Situation: Let's say Jason gets a girlfriend and he’s spending A LOT of time with her. He then proposes to her. When this is brought up by Jessie, he feels that Jessie is being immature when she claims that his girlfriend is getting in the way of their friendship. MEANWHILE, she doesn't think she's being immature, she's expressing her worries about losing Jason, her one and only true friend.

POV’s:
Jason: Jason, though he had been Jessie's best friend since forever, he sees Jessie's failure to find new friends and to adapt to the change as an adult as IMMATURE and NEEDY. She can't handle herself without him around, and he starts to become ANNOYED with her.
Jessie: Jessie feels that JASON IS RIGHT about her being needy, but she feels DREAD and ANXIENTY whenever he’s away. In the end, she feels LONELY.

These characters were just made up on the spot, so they’re not perfect, but you see how the characters have the same situation but react differently?

@cleric
Then, we move on to the explanations
Jason:
-He feels that Jessie is IMMATURE because she is an adult. She doesn’t know how to cope with change, something he assumed she’d get at this point
-He feels that Jessie is NEEDY because she always needs to be around him or else, she becomes frantic and worrisome
-In the end, he is ANNOYED with her for always needing him and wants to live his life

Jessie:
-Jessie feels that JASON IS RIGHT because she can’t seem to handle anything well on her own.
-Jessie is filled with DREAD and ANXIENTY because she knows one day; Jason leave with his new wife, start a family possibly, and have less time to be with her
-Jessie feels LONELY because Jason leaving her feels inevitable.

No story is one sided.

Also, if I may, I would suggest saving sequels for a new adventure or a continuation of an unfinished adventure from the first story. SOME plot holes are okay, as long as they don't make a paradox in the story or are so noticeable, or ruin the story altogether.
Try making a skeleton of your story. I usually write a summary of my stories in paragraphs containing only three sentences, maybe four or five. After five sentences, you're just writing details, UNLESS a couple of more sentences are needed to explain the summary of the chapter. These summaries will help you visualize what is supposed to happen in each part, see how the story progresses, and what you're supposed to write there.

If writing paragraphs doesn't help, then you can draw a straight line to represent the timeline and just draw arrows leading to what you want to happen.
I just went on a little tangent, I LOVE talking about writing strageties I wish I got to do it more often. Anyways, hoped this help, thanks for showing interest ow<