I know it's yet another useless chapter but Wattpad deleted one of my chapters and I decided to bring you trivia. 40 facts that helped me build this story that I've had in notes for god knows when, slightly edited and contains a small spoiler that won't be too much of an importance in the end... Probably.
1. Raisa Alecrim's nane means in translation "Queen Rosemary", Alecrim being the Portuguese word for rosemary.
2. Her sad past is also reflected in her name, because in Romanian Alecrim sounds like "a lacrimă", which is a regionalism.
3. Raisa Alecrim wasn't supposed to be actually a useful character. Her role was supposed to end after the trip to her shop.
4. The book was supposed to have only 50 chapters, but I decided to elongate it.
5. Polnareff should've been part of whom the reader could choose, but I didn't like him enough to do it.
6. Felicia's name comes from the meme
7. Thomas's name comes from Thomas the tank engine.
8. Raisa's wedding existed only because it was supposed to be the opposite of the "nightmare wedding" the MC has with DIO.
9. Antares is a stand not a demon, and also Requiem.
10. Ares, Juno and Bendis are not actually gods but Isu people, like those in assassin's Creed. And they were the ones to create stand arrows.
11. Stand arrows are actually Pieces of Eden like in AC in this world.
12. The Mannish Boy died by the hand of Ayano, and the only reason he helped MC was for revenge on his killed family, he wanted to warn everyone about the events that were about to come but I couldn't lay them when I wanted or could.
13. Ayano was named after Yandere Simulator's character
14. Initially, Ayano should've been part of the good guys, but I ditched that.
15. Before Requiem, Moonhigh Queen would hurt MC if she was too sad.
16. The musical references of Moonhigh Queen are:
A) Moonspell ~ Desastre
B) Roxette ~ Queen of Rain
C) Blackbriar ~ I'd rather burn (the band became Ayano's stand and how she had to be eliminated)
D) Powerwolf (the stand of Haru)
16. Blood bending isn't available after Requiem, but instead can control the earth, the ability is yet to be used, and I decided not to in the end. But it can do that because of her father's stand.
17. Sylvia wasn't supposed to be an important character, but I added her as an opposite Jotaro and Kakyoin team for MC.
18. Leo is a reference to Leone Abbacchio
19. Leo wasn't supposed to be a character until I received backlash, people thinking Jotaro was meant to be with Sylvia.
20. The assassin's Creed world is connected to this book, if it wasn't obvious already.
21. At first the book had the name "tarot" but changed to "Queen of Cups" because of personal preference.
22. Many of the characters that aren't part of the main cast are based on either JoJo characters or people I've met.
23. The Hamasaki's are brothers only because I initially based them upon the Frye Twins.
24. The book was supposed to contain mature scenes but I decided to not include them.
25. If you DO wanna see the mature scenes though, there's a second book that has a similar timeline but with scenes. But I update rather slowly.
26. The intros to several chapters (the ones speaking about constellations) are inspired by Assassin's Creed Origins, specifically the Stone Circles missions, where Bayek speaks to Khemu, his son.
27. The information about the cards and their meaning is from Labyrinthos.
28. Sylvia is based upon SuntOCiorba
29. Kakyoin's grandmother is Lydia Frye, the granddaughter of Jacob Frye. She appeared once in MC's visions, after she briefly becomes a vampire, which is actually a spoiler for the ending.
30. The part where she becomes a vampire is because of DIO's soul. He was holding so dearly to his immortality that his soul held the vampiric energy.
31. Hamon is useless around the soul, but can be used to communicate with spirits.
32. You don't have to be born a tarot reader to be able to see stands, you can learn so and if it's right for you, you'll be able to see stands.
33. MC has a stand because her mother was killed by an arrow.
34. The scene where blood helped her have visions was based upon Netflix's Dracula.
35. Also the scene where Thomas wants mc to suck her blood has the same roots.
36. The fact that Thomas sold MC to DIO for him to have a vessel is slightly inspired by Chilling Adventures with Sabrina.
37. Kakyoin's cold personality in the beginning was based upon Kowalski from Penguins of Madagascar, while Jotaro was based upon Skipper.
38. Most magic rituals are based upon Romani magic practices I read about in a book.
39. Orla was named such because Daisuke Hirakawa (Kakyoin's voice actor) is the official dubbing voice of Orlando Bloom.
40. Kakyoin's connection to the Frye twins of Assassin's Creed Syndicate has the same roots, since Jacob Frye has the VA of Kakyoin.
Bonus announcement :
I wanted to plan a contest once the book was done, but it was a drawing one. So idk if y'all are interested, leave me a comment here.
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Queen of Cups
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