Yuna
Just because the Universe doesn’t work the way you want it to, doesn’t make it less true…
Life is cruel. How is it that a born liar with a rich daddy and the IQ of a fruit fly can became one of the richest people ever, and a smart youth with poor parents barely get a job to pay their bills? How is it that a young girl be the daughter of someone who would so freely kill innocent people? And why is it, for that poor child to become that person in power, one must literally sell their soul?
Life has no answers. You must find them on your own. But it can often give us guides, but Yuna and Jimmy are nether. Or would they rather be nether? They just want to move on, to have a life untethered to sins of
the past. They see the mistakes being made around them, they feel the hate and curiosity in people’s eyes, they know more about the universe than anyone else ever would…they also know, even if one was a god…or just had their
powers…sometimes there are things you just shouldn’t change.
Yuna
The idea of self is always the most important driver in our lives…its also what causes so many people to give up. But what happens when you literally cannot give up?
I will be honest with you, Yuna is not for everyone. While it is certainly a love letter to 80’s anime, it didn’t start there. When I originally wrote this story, it was inspired by the same shows that inspired me to write Arida:
Aladdin, Sword in the Stone, Fairy Oddparents. But those were for kids. You don’t stay a child, and as I grew up, especially through the so called culture wars of the 2000’s I saw many of the topics I loved to write about
manipulated by both sides of the aisle into subjects that were hard to touch. Yuna was originally written for a transformation story website I found in High school (good luck finding it, I can’t). The original version received
high praise, and caused me to wonder were could I take the story if I just kept working it. To let you know, if I had finished this first story as envisioned it would be over 800 pages…so there is a part 2 coming.
Yuna takes place in 2000, but much of her life is based on her own childhood in 1400’s Japan. Much of what she experienced back then would have been hard for even people of the time, but now she must judge all of this through
21st century eyes, and the level of depression, PTSD and even regret weights heavily on her. And what’s worse is, as she sees this world roll on, she continues to see the same things that lead to the loss of all she knew restart
once more. It literally is an endless waltz.
AGE GROUP RECOMMENDED
I have a page for what I think about Book Bands, however, even before that, I knew that Yuna was not going to be appropriate for all ages. I wrote this book without restriction. So here I go: DEPENDING ON THE LAWS IN YOUR STATE
(because 1st Amendment) Yuna is ether for Teens or Young Adults. Its MPAA Equivalent rating is: R
Genre
This story is mostly Contemporary Fantasy, but does have elements of Paranormal and Horror in it. Think The Craft…but nicer…sort of. I saw that movie all but twice but now that I think about it, some elements from that story may have
snuck in here.
DOES THIS TRIGGER YOU?
Well. Here we go. Yuna contains: 1 Sex scene, graphic depictions of murder, some language, paganism (or, depictions of non-Christian religions more specifically ancient Egyptian religion as well as Shintoism, I know that’s a problem for
some), non-traditional views of Christianity (but this is 2024 as I write this, I don’t even think the people who think there is a traditional view of Christianity know what that is), Homosexuality, what could be transgenderism, mind control,
recounts a real political event (mainly the Gwangju Uprising), and…maybe toxic feminism? If you want to know why no toxic masculinity…those people are called jerks. Have been for six decades now.