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waterfall-ambience · 7 months ago

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is 'fit of divine madness that makes you do something horrible' (a la heracles murdering his wife and children) still an acceptable story beat or is that too much of the hand of the author showing? real question because i need to sort out how damien's banishment plays out

#perpetua progress notes #auri rambles #right now the options are: luna tries to get damien out of perpetua by trying to fake the banishment.#the plan is to get damien (and avery) isekai-ed into a slice of life series where the highest stakes are like. failing an exam.#but divine intervention happens and damien gets sent Elsewhere.#the other option is that sophie forcibly recreates the banishment scene (luna gets the divine madness and damien is supernaturally compelle #to leave (despite newton's insistence that he stay put).#one is more character driven and one is more directly plot driven #either way it plays into the idea of the characters being doomed to re-create an existing narrative.#despite being trapped in a system thats so much bigger & more powerful than them the ways they love each other recontextualise everything.#thats the idea at least lol.#the divine madness option is more explicitly playing into greek tragedy and this whole idea of fate. which i like.#but i do worry about my author's hand showing too much.#unfortunately sophie and i have run into a similar problem and forcing it feels like cheating on my end

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