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headfullof-ideas · 27 days ago

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You know what I realized about writing a fic that’s in the style of ‘characters watch their own show’? Character development happening off screen. Because what the characters are watching, in my fic anyways, has already happened. They’ve been through it all already, it’s not linear to their current characterization. Which means that the characterization they may be starting to achieve while watching the show might not be the same characterization they have while in the show.

So, there’s a certain sense of whiplash for me as the writer when a character is starting to have character development via gentle parenting by Bryce or straight up getting smacked with it through being forced to acknowledge something was wrong via the ‘images’, and they start to grow as a person and start viewing things differently…and then i have to write them the way they were about a year prior, not-character developed and not starting to change their mind and starting to become almost not the same person at all

#im at a point where character development is starting to happen and starting to slowly stick #enough things have been pointed as something wrong or not true #enough things have been hinted at to make people start thinking ‘wait a minute something’s not adding up’#which means I’m now starting to write characterizations that don’t add up to what’s in the ‘images’ they’re watching #keeping characterizations straight is starting to get a litte tough #i cannot BEGIN to imagine how much harder it’s going to get the further into the story I go #httyd/the deep crossover

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