#3 kids. mostly an exploration of medieval-ish life tbh. the knight turns out to be a pretty good father which makes him happy
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heavywithplot ยท 2 years ago
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Do you ever devise plots around the children your characters have? What their family life is like? How they raise these kids?
I'm just curious to know as I love your plots and they are so fun and intriguing.
it depends! for stuff like john and the harvester, there are no children involved, so there's nothing there to explore, but for things like the knock off ancient world narratives: absolutely! there's nothing messier than high stakes inheritance claims, and for stuff like that, you need to world build the family life otherwise it's. boring.
I have this one ancient-rome-but-I-filed-the-serial-numbers-off-it story where this one guy hooks up with general of his father (the emperor) (everyone's above 20 here btw), and a week later the emperor is assassinated, and the guy realizes he's pregnant. the general is making a play at assuming power, even though the main character is technically listed in the will as successor, and he hates the idea of the general taking advantage of the pregnancy to legitimize his take over for power, so his best friend comes up with an idea to get married and pass the baby off as his, and there's like. another 20 years of story I've built up in my head after that. there's parricide and everything!
also tysm!! ๐Ÿ’ž๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’–
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