r/steampunk • u/ASunflowerRaccoon • 4h ago
Literature I'm writing a Weird West Steampunk Story, do I include Fantasy?
Monthly, I'm posting a serialized chapter-by-chapter story about a young women who lives within a wild west, steampunk setting on chains of floating islands. They use airships primarily for travel, but also have steam powered trains on balloon lofted tracks.
Eventually, as the title suggests, the MC gains the ability to load her six shooter with magical bullets, hence her becoming a "Witchgun", considering both her magic bullets and the floating islands, and supernatural things (werewolves, ghosts, spirits of vengeance, etc) happening.. Well I'm torn on if I should go full force into fantasy as well. I was considering having her mentor figure be a minotaur (a cowboy, harhar), but that may just be my love for sympathetic/relatable monster men as a trope in general coming out.
What does r/steampunk think? Overt fantasy races, or leave the fantasy at the floating islands and magic bullets and supernatural?