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Journal housing all my assignments for OctoPrep 2025

Let's see where we go!
October 29, 2025 at 1:47pm
October 29, 2025 at 1:47pm
#1100413
Assignment #28

"Oct. 28 - "Minor Character Profiles:"

"Character: Minor Character Profiles"

(1) Expand or add profiles for one or more minor characters.
(2) Spend some time updating your character list with new information, images, etc.






Muriel Iyana



My whole life I've been trying to prove myself. Prove to those who look at me and think there's nothing to me. A girl raised by her father, who happens to be a trader who runs a farm to raise animals for meat and leather. Nothing very feminine about it. It wasn't until I was ten, when I began to show natural magical abilities called fai's. My father would've rubbed it off, some people are born with fai abilities, but most just have very basic abilities. I don't. I was straight across the board with my elemental fai. Fire, ice, wind, water, earth. Not just a touch either, I can rage a ball of flame, conjure a wall of water from a pond, bring forth a quake in the earth, and shove a wind storm in any direction at any thing I want. I tried to suppress it, because I could do all of these things but it was hard to control and any direction didn't necessarily mean that was where I wanted it to go that way. My father finally brought me in front of the judgement counsel of Hargflait School of Magic, where I performed for them my fai abilities. I was admitted the same day and didn't leave with my father.

For the last fifteen years, I trained there. I learned and I honed my abilities. I can control my fai to the point where I could live with someone and never know I possessed them.

Now, I am free. I feel like I can take on the world, but I must return to my father's farm. I need to show him what I've learned, how I've grown. Prove to him that I am a woman who in charge of her destiny, in charge of herself. If I can prove to him that I have grown, then I can prove the world.
October 29, 2025 at 1:39pm
October 29, 2025 at 1:39pm
#1100412
Assignment #27

"Oct. 27 - "Protagonist Interview:"

"Character: Protagonist Interview"

You are a journalist. The story of your novel is complete. Interview your protagonist and ask the following questions:
(1) How is life for you now, compared to life prior to these events?
(2) How did the events of your story change you?



(1) How is life for you now, compared to life prior to these events?

Life is nonexistent for me. I thought I was the Chosen and I was not. My sister is the Chosen. I think deep down in my guts I knew that, but I had been trained, mentally and physically since I was a kid for this moment. Unfortunately, I was rejected.



(2) How did the events of your story change you?

I learned a lot about myself. Right up to the end. I realized I was more than just The Chosen. I learned that I could be liked and desired for being something other than that. I got to see how big the world is, how much bigger than the castle or Shimmerwood it is. I got to see how difficult life is for everyone in different ways. I grew up more in those few weeks than I did before that. Even with it ending the way it did, I'd never change a thing for it.


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