#;; monster hunter sunbreak has taken over my life as of late

[bcnezone]

;; me: snapping awake

my favorite relationship kind that i could ever write ties directly into my favorite kind of character to write: a ‘hurt’ person. someone who’s been through something so terrible or so life-changing for the wrong kind of reason, someone who’s suffered or struggled or put through the wringer to be where they are that on some level, they’re dysfunctional and ‘barely human’. where they could be considered emotionally stunted or hard to get along with, or they treat people poorly or act aloof/dangerous/ambivalent. the kind of person who could even be considered toxic on some level just because of their behavior and how they view the world and the people around them, possibly not seeing them as people but just tools, or just trying to get their way because the world wouldn’t let them before, or maybe they’re just unable to open up at all because they’ve been hurt so bad or they’re traumatized and can’t bring themselves to do things most people could do.

and that leads into my favorite relationship in writing: “broken people”. the relationship of two individuals who’ve suffered a lot in some way and find solace in each other. they don’t need to know each other’s history or what they’ve been through, they just want each other. they find comfort in each other, something they can’t find anywhere else, and that bond is so powerful that they would go through hell again to protect it. love, platonic or familial or romantic, that makes the person want to be Better and improve for the other, to be a better person. they might slip up and fall back into bad habits and it might be a long time running before they’re ever in a place that could be considered ‘better’.

my favorite thing to write as of recent, which has been the past few years, is healing. people in terrible places just, slowly getting better and getting away from the traumas and habits that tie them down and hurt them.

and my favorite ship song that fits into all these themes? H.ozier’s “Like Real People Do”.