About ten years ago, I was playing a wrestling video game. I think it was SmackDown vs Raw 2007. I had already made a character that was supposed to be me in the game. I played the story mode in the game and had a blast. There was a story already set in place for me to follow. After I finished it, I wanted to see what the storyline would be for a female character because the one for the male wasn't really a story made for females. As it turned out, there wasn't a story mode for females in the game! I was bummed out by that. But that didn't stop me from using my imagination. I already had a character named that would start with an R like mine. Rebecca was that name. And as I came up with fun ideas for storylines because that's what WWE was always about to me (and still is), the character developed as a middle child who was overlooked by her father. Her youngest sister was always better than her and they hated each other. So Rebecca was a rebel and wanted to prove she was the best sibling. The older sibling never went much further than existing. But the younger sister (named Amy at the time) and Rebecca both would eventually be more closer and protective of each other rather than being against each other. As I got new WWE games, I continued to evolve who Rebecca was and continued that same life. Backstory was building and I didn't even realize it. Fast forward to just a few years later when I grew out of wrestling for a while, I turned to playing more single player games that had character creation and I almost always played as Rebecca. Her appearance hasn't changed that much either from what you can see in the character reveal. I got asked quite a bit, "Why do you always play as a girl?" Well, first off, women just come off as badasses naturally. And I was still character building Rebecca. I wanted to see what else I could come up with for her. But while I had plenty of stories told with Rebecca, none of them were actually her stories. And that was something I had been searching for. Now we're in 2015 and I write my first story. It was a Harry Potter fanfiction where I placed myself into the same timeline as when Harry went to Hogwarts. That was truly an embarrassing story I had written. Once I finished up writing all seven of these stories a few years later, Cursed Child comes out. I read the play script and it inspired me to write another story with my fanfiction, but this time, it would be Rebecca as the main character. This story took place after the events of Cursed Child and for the most part, it was an original story. And then once I finished the first story on that, I realized in August of 2018 that I could run with this story as an original work. But I had to build my own world and replace characters from the Wizarding World. I needed magic to be involved though so I worked out my own magic system. I reworked the plot from the fanfic to fit into the story. Finally, I have a story for Rebecca - "A World Without War"
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