Username: I Like Bees
Flit name: Paradise (Called Ms. Para by her students)
Which flitz: #3 (Moss and kelp; 17)
Your plans:
I've been reading a lot of mystery stories lately, and I'd love to use this Flitz as one of the main characters in one of my own. I'm still piecing together a lot of the smaller details, but what's written below is a basic overview of how the story will go.
Plotline:Paradise is an elementary school teacher. She mostly teaches first grade, but has substituted for every grade from preschool to eighth in the past. She's also transferred between different grade levels before, depending on where the school needs an experienced teacher the most. Paradise is teaching first grade the year that
Flint is kidnapped.
Flint is kidnapped during the middle of lunch, and Paradise blames herself for not keeping better watch over her students. The school apparently blames her too, because she loses her job within twenty four hours of the kidnapping.
Paradise meets with
Bob and
Comet, Flint's parents, to find out if there's anything she can do to help them find their kidnapped child. (Comet is a private investigator, so she's running her own investigation into her son's kidnapping.) There isn't much Paradise can do, until a ransom note is sent.
The police don't find any valuable clues on the ransom note (no fingerprints, typed instead of handwritten), but Paradise immediately recognizes something on it. There's some sort of random scribble in the corner, and she identifies it as actually being the signature of someone she knows. (I haven't quite figured out
how she knows the kidnapper yet; likely I'll go with they went to school together and were close friends.)
Unfortunately, this isn't enough evidence to prove anything to the police, and it wouldn't be of much use anyways. The Flit who Paradise identifies the signature as belonging to has been dead for over a year.
Comet calls in her friend
Steve to find out everything he can about Paradise's deceased friend. Steve is a tech genius (coughhackercough), and promises to have everything about everything the potential kidnapper has ever done. (Steve is, of course, exaggerating, but he will find a lot of data, including some credit card usage that helps pinpoint his general area.)
Somewhere along the way, they discover that the possible kidnapper's brother's dog was recently kidnapped as well, and they discover the same signature on the ransom notes. They hear the kidnapper's brother's story as well, and eventually manage to piece together what they think happened.
Steve finds that one of the supposedly "dead" Flit's credit cards was used recently, and the group travels there to try to apprehend him. (They still don't have enough evidence to go to the police, especially considering their suspect is "dead.") They follow a yet-to-be-determined series of clues, then finally catch the bad guy.
Paradise's biggest moment would be right at the end, when her ability to fly and look terrifying (who wouldn't be scared of a large insect-like creature; also the kidnapper hates bugs) help the group corner the kidnapper. She gets him to admit the entire truth behind the kidnapping of Flint and his brother's dog, and even records it to give the information to the police.
The kidnapper is arrested, the dog and Flint are found (both were fine; they were living in the kidnapper's apartment and literally given cookies and unlimited board games), and everyone is happy. Paradise is offered her teaching job back, since she showed such amazing dedication to finding her lost student, but she politely declines. Paradise takes up a job as Comet's assistant instead.
The End.
The Truth:(which the investigative team eventually discovers)Seven years ago, the kidnapper's brother went to one of Bob's motivational speeches. The talk completely turned his life around, and he dropped out of the family business of smuggling. Unfortunately (at least from the perspective of his brother), the Flit also grew a moral compass. He testified against his brother (the kidnapper) in return for full immunity against his own past crimes, and his brother was sent to jail for a ten years.
The kidnapper is believed to have died in an explosive fire accident in prison six years ago, four years before the end of his prison setence. This death was faked, of course, and the kidnapper escaped from prison without needing to fear being hunted down. He waits almost a year before making his first move, just in case the police catch on to the fact that he might not be dead.
The kidnapper isn't the violent type (he was just a smuggler, not a murderer), so he doesn't go out and murder his brother. Instead, he breaks into his brother's house and steals his beloved dog. He sends a ransom note to his brother, with the ransom money being some insane price that his brother definitely cannot pay.
He learns where Bob is living now, and discovers that he has a kid. Since a kid is obviously a much harder loss than a pet, the kidnapper kidnaps Flint. He sends another ransom note, again with the same signature.
(Note: The kidnapper's name will probably be named Void. The brother will probably be named Clarence.)Other Stuff about Paradise:Paradise will usually do anything to keep herself out of potential harm's way, but when it comes to her students, she would do anything to protect them. She has no interest (yet, at least) in having Flitlings of her own, instead preferring to consider each one of her students to be her almost-child. Flint is one of her favorite students (not that she'd admit that), mostly because he's always polite in class, and brings her her favorite flowers (yellow lilies) for every holiday.
Paradise lives in an apartment with her sister, Rosaline (currently an NPC; will hopefully adopt a Fairy Flit for her eventually). The apartment is two blocks away from the school Paradise works at, and directly next to a book store that Rosaline runs. Both sisters love reading, though Paradise doesn't have as much time to read as she'd like. She loves fantasy, sci-fi, and mystery books, though she's willing to read anything with an interesting plotline.
