Character Feature: Kiya

I'm slowly becoming more obsessed with Kiya. She was fun to write from the start, especially because she doesn't have powers. That makes her a little bitter, mostly since she is still forced to be in that community and can't find her place in all of it (recall, she's the daughter of Finnley and Nate (for those of you reading the Soul Series)). It also doesn't help that when she went to get her powers, it backfired... massively. So without powers and some past trauma, including actual paralysis, she's become a hardened shell and that's the big asshole personality she shows.

I think it's quite intriguing to test her boundaries a little bit and see what soft pieces I can poke inside her and gauge how she reacts. On multiple occasions, we've seen her try to manage her past relationship with Isobel and deal with the raw emotion that is still there. She is still very much in love with Iz, and that's a hard pill to swallow since they didn't break up because they stopped loving each other. On top of that, Kiya has a budding thing with Ryder that can't fully be explained. It's definitely a piece of the puzzle that will develop throughout this first draft. I've already found the characters pulling me away from my original plans for this book. I've handed them the reigns and will see where it goes!