First up is my slightly infamous (well at least on Tumblr and Reddit) "Harvey Diaries" story. When Harvey's floodwaters had trapped my family, I wrote a short piece of writing I posted on Storm2K called "Sympathy for the Devil." It basically dealt with the emotions I was having regarding the conflict between how fascinated I was with Harvey as a phenomenon, and how frightened I was by the fact my family and friends and pets were all in danger, by personifying Hurricane Harvey and comparing his perspective to the perspective of the people on the ground.
I did not initially intend for it to go anywhere past that, but a month or so later I realized it could be the start of an interesting story. So I added 11 more chapters to it that dealt with Harvey's dissipation and ascension into the spirit world where he encounters storms from the past. I don't want to paste walls of text here so I will just give you the "master post" on Tumblr which has each chapter linked:
https://quasarlasar.tumblr.com/post/165499917264/the-harvey-diaries-are-finished
I will warn you it gets very bizarre, including among other things, a jet stream conductor and low-key hurricane flirting.
A few months later I did some art focusing purely on Harvey's journey in our world. The link is here:
https://quasarlasar.tumblr.com/post/168511520119/harvey-retrospective-hurricane-season-came-and
but I can post the images on this site for you guys since there's only 7 of them.
Harvey's initial development where he becomes a tropical storm, falls apart, then becomes a tropical storm again
Harvey as a hurricane with his eye fully open*...from the corner of which he then notices some deep warm water [oh dear]
It turns out to be a Loop Current eddy, which he then proceeds to basically swallow whole
which propels him to his category 4 peak with eyewall mesovortices and an eye so warm it's a flaming death glare**
he then is slammed into the Texas coast right afterwards. Needless to say he's not particularly happy about this, and he basically thrashes around like a beached fish bleeding water everywhere
Harvey is now a tropical storm with a hollow core and he's very tired, in pain, and hungry.
He's stuck inland with nowhere to go and doesn't really know what else to do except cry...a lot...like really a LOT...basically he floods everything with his tears.
Overall in terms of the personality he ended up having, he's rather childlike and naive. He doesn't really know that he's being destructive, or even that humans exist, just that he was a category 4 yesterday, and now he's not, and he's stuck on land, and he hates land. He's a big crybaby, and falls apart in the face of adversity. One of my friends questioned this, saying "why is he so cute" but to be honest this is the sort of personality I imagine most hurricanes would have. He's not someone who desires death and devastation, but someone who really just wants to stuff warm seawater into his mouth and watch the tropical sunrise.
His destructiveness ultimately comes not from his personality, but from his inherent power. He is innocent, but in the same way a panicked bull is innocent. Innocent, yet deadly.
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*I realize now I should've probably made his cartoon appearance resemble his appearance on satellite more. But I was too lazy
**I toned down the mesovortices a lot in my drawing because they actually looked really unsettling to me.
