#re: alternate paths like... idk aside from a world where james lives

[not-poignant]

From the ask meme: 7, 22 and 24 for Gary in UtB <3<3

7. What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

Hmm, I mean he's a peak alpha now instead of a doctor of psychology sdalfkja and he's the love interest instead of the clinical psychologist!

But specifically in Underline the Black, I'd say the biggest change from me coming up with him to now is that actually he's less of a sexual predator than I initially planned him to be, partly because he was SO uninterested in Efnisien in the beginning, and then because this story actually became quite concerned with consent, in its own way!

22. What character alignment would you consider your OC to be?

Presumably this is a TTRPG / D&D reference! In the Fae Tales verse however, he'd absolutely be Unseelie (though I'm not sure of his true appetite).

In terms of D&D I'm not sure! I think on the Good / Neutral / Evil scale, he leans more towards Neutral or Neutral-Good!

24. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

Tbh, honestly just overworking until he dies. Gary was quite apathetic when we meet him. Like, he was working, but he had no real joy or emotion in his life except for grief, and as we saw, he was super resistant to actually opening up to emotion/s that weren't just anger/resentment for a really long time.

So I think his alternative life path would really have been just 'I work too many hours with Faber and one day I die from a heart attack.'

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From the edge OC meme!