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Three books, same premise.
Jul. 21st, 2022 11:52 pm"Parents mysteriously disappear; optionally, some time later the non-parental guardians ALSO mysteriously disappear. It transpires that the adults are in hiding/on the run from a magical/supernatural threat. Children are thrown into a new world utterly unprepared. At least one of the children is disbelieving even in the face of the evidence."
DO NOT DO THIS TO YOUR CHILDREN. If you are actually a Super Important Person in the magical world and the fight or whatever, loop them in! Even if they don't believe you, at least they won't have quite such a steep learning curve when the fight inevitably comes to them.
Plus, you shouldn't lie to your kids about stuff like this. It's not quite up there with lying to them about adoption, but it's darn close.
Semi-relatedly, it'd be a nice twist if, after all this set-up and perhaps an entire book or at least most of it, we were to find out that the parents were on the wrong side. (They could've at least partially changed their minds by the time the kids got roped into this, if you want more sympathy points. It can be hard to write loving parents who are also bad people.) We don't see this often enough - actually, I can only think of two examples, and in one it's extremely obvious to the reader right from the start, and in the other it's obvious to the reader and also the kids from very nearly the start. Also, they're both supervillain stories, not magical world stories, but same diff.
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DO NOT DO THIS TO YOUR CHILDREN. If you are actually a Super Important Person in the magical world and the fight or whatever, loop them in! Even if they don't believe you, at least they won't have quite such a steep learning curve when the fight inevitably comes to them.
Plus, you shouldn't lie to your kids about stuff like this. It's not quite up there with lying to them about adoption, but it's darn close.
Semi-relatedly, it'd be a nice twist if, after all this set-up and perhaps an entire book or at least most of it, we were to find out that the parents were on the wrong side. (They could've at least partially changed their minds by the time the kids got roped into this, if you want more sympathy points. It can be hard to write loving parents who are also bad people.) We don't see this often enough - actually, I can only think of two examples, and in one it's extremely obvious to the reader right from the start, and in the other it's obvious to the reader and also the kids from very nearly the start. Also, they're both supervillain stories, not magical world stories, but same diff.
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