The Weirdest Career Origin Story Ever

You know the usual career stories. One became an actor because he was inspired by one. One became a game developer because his favorite past time was playing Zelda. One entered the world of politics because his folks were in that field too.

I became a flight attendant because my older brother was one.

This is not a story of how I became a flight attendant. This is the story of how I became a writer.

I became a writer because of a superhero movie.

I was always a bookworm. Growing up, I had more books that Barbie dolls. I had more books than friends. I like imagining the stories that I read in my head. But, it never ever crossed my mind to write my own stories. I had no favorite author. I do have a favorite book. (Harry Potter FTW) I did say had. Now, that I am aware, Queen J.K. is my Top One, hands down. Harry Potter saved me. THAT is a different story to tell altogether. Yet, it did not provoke me to write.

I had a thing for visual arts and handicrafts. That was my second best friend after reading. So, I thought that if I was going to have a career aside from being a flight attendant then that would have been being an artist. Going back…

Back in 2013, I watched Thor: The Dark World movie. Always loved movies like how I love my books. Anyway, I, like any sensible young adult, like those kinds of cinematic action. Loved the movie. Boom the feelings. I have this habit of watching the prequel movie before I watch the latest installment in the cinema. For reasons that I now forgot, I watched TDW without watching Thor at home. So after the movie, I watched Thor once I returned home. As if I was watching it for the first time, there was this one scene that piqued my interest. It was the part wherein Loki discovered his true parentage and had a confrontation about it. For some reason, I was enthralled by how raw the scene was. The emotions stuck too close to home. It was like I was no longer watching a superhero movie. By the end of the film, I could not explain why would such a film invoke such feelings. (I now blame the acting skills of Mr. Hiddleston and the greatness of Mr. Branagh for this.)

Going back, I exited the cinema and the mall had a small figure exhibition of the characters. I posted a photo of Loki’s figure on my IG account. There was this ‘loki_roleplay’ user that liked it. I was curious about the username so I checked out the account and discovered the roleplaying community in Instagram. I followed it and read the stories at first before I took the courage to ask if I could join even if I was not a roleplay. ‘Loki_roleplay’ was very accommodating and I liked the experience so much that I created my own roleplay account. I created a few original characters but my canon was Loki.

It was sort of my saving grace, writing and roleplaying on Instagram. That was the time that I had nothing on my mind and schedule but training for being a flight attendant on top of being heartbroken due to the end of a five-year love affair. I could have drawn pictures like I used to when I wanted a break from it all but I found writing faster and more stress-relieving at the time. Writing kept my sanity and creativity intact. Six months more or less of that, I wrote what I later discovered to be my first fanfiction about that movie scene that changed my life. It is still available in Wattpad. It was my first published work. I am still quite proud despite the multiple faults, After a year of roleplaying, I decided to create a pseudonym for myself. C.A. Villeta was born and I fired up my first WordPress blog.

The rest is history.

Now, C.A. is on leave. I took down the WordPress blog. My IG roleplay account has been inactive for over a year but is still available for public viewing mostly because I do not have the heart to tear it down. My C.A. Villeta account is also in the same state and for the same reason. Now, I am just here on Medium and Twitter writing my life away and on my personal account on Instagram.

On the process of still learning and still writing until I finally publish my own book. Quite happy as to where I am now and I would like to thank J.K. Rowling for being my writing inspiration and to Loki Laufeyson for being my writing muse.

Odd, huh?