Hi! Do you have any tips on how to keep characters in character? I love the characterization in your fic :)
omg!!! im BEYOND honored to have recived this ask!! thank u I'm so happy to hear u like my characterization of them. my only advice is to 1) become deeply obsessed with a character & think about them all the time 2) talk about them with other people who are also obsessed
become obsessed with a character and think about them all the time. i will be in line at the grocery store and be like "what if Gideon and Harrow were in line at a grocery store"
talk about them with other people. i will message a friend being like "what if gideon and harrow were in line at the grocery store" and my friend will reply something like "omg i bet Gideon is buying the protein bars specifically that Harrow also likes and then saying nothing when Harrow "steals" them" and then i will send a fire emoji and maybe something like "griddlehark post grocery store sloppy make out session when" and we will go on from there.
essentially, put that blorbo into situations!!! it's fun and helps construct a sort of 3D characterization model of them in your brain you can then spin around at will
I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he's going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he'll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he's not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there's a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he's attaching the wings to the harness. And he's putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he'll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we'll be looking at the livestream (it's a livestream now) and we'll scream "No, Amaury, the sun! It's going to melt the wings!". But he knows this already. And he is free.
And just to be clear, writing dissertations at me justifying why he should instead be a conventionally attractive twink will involuntarily cause me to draw him with even fewer teeth.