The Gemini: unplugged

Hi, my name is Leomile and I'm an author.

It took me a long time to attach that label with my name. I didn't feel deserving of the noble title of Author and despite learning to use the title, it's still hard reconciling with it. Imposter syndrome alert!

Anyway, I would like to talk about the Gemini. She was conceived years ago. I might have been in grade 10 then, but I can't remember the exact year. I practically pounced on this baby when I got her. Unlike all my other babies you have yet to meet, a lot of the Gemini's storyline was pitched to me by my sister and she helped me bounce some ideas around. It was fate. Love at first sight kind of situation.

I'd had a dream about a story and I was struggling to make it make sense in my mind before drafting it all on paper. Then, completely out of the blue, my sister comes to me and she's like "Let's write a book together". Mind you, there's nothing I hate more than group work or collaborations. It's nothing personal, I'm just selfish like that... I fell in love with what she pitched me and suddenly it seemed that the puzzle pieces of my dream fit perfectly together with her pitch.

It all fit so well that at this point, I can't remember whether she's the one who said 'twins' or if it was me. It was literally an author's fairytale story come true. I started working on my floor plan, the prophecy, the characters and I physically saw them in my mind. To this day, their outward appearances haven't changed at all and the basis, the backbone, of the Gemini stayed the same. Almost 10 years of losing her and fighting to get her back, growing with my baby and her being so entangled with me, my life and my universe as a whole and I'm finally done with her.

A lot of the names come from the bible. I saw it and took it as a blessing from the Almighty. There was no way that I noticed the name Assyria for the first time and as soon as I did I saw my ash blond haired princess with vibrant violet eyes and matching unnatural streaks in her hair. The princess living in the human world, so out of place that she experienced a plethora of issues that she brushed over because of her innate princess nature.

She is regal, beautifully ethereal and incredibly adaptive.

Then I met Aine. Her name was derived from the Russian culture. Strong, enchanting, confident and feminist. It took a lot for me to build her character because she is such a complex person that to this day, I wonder whether or not I did her justice because that girl needs some goodness in her life. She has a lot of potential as a character, as a 'person' and a lot of room for growth.

Together the twins could make one phenomenal person, distributing all the best parts of a person and also managing all the worst parts. They are darkness and light coexisting, good and bad. But neither is absolute. While one twin is inherently good, it doesn't mean she doesn't have bad qualities, same goes for the other. I find myself affiliated with the twins a lot and maybe in the near future the reasons for that will be revealed.

All in all, it has been an otherworldly experience sharing the Linnea twins' story (that's what we call the reincarnation of the original twin princesses of Miljor). Nothing could have ever prepared me for this and I hope beyond hope that you fall in love with them as much as I have.

This week's blog is inspired by peace and love curtesy of my new flavor of insanity.

Lots of Love

L <3