#what if i were to ignore all the weird parts of canon smen and instead take the parts i like and use them to hurt my ocs

[house-of-mirrors]

20 about miles?

20. Share a random piece of trivia about the creation of your oc. Examples: scrapped ideas or changes you didn't expect to make.

I intended for Miles to be ruthless, manipulative, and power-grabbing. They do Heart's Desire because they want more power. They do smen because they want more power. I wrote them a certain way to be an embodiment of the corruption of the Victorian upper class so that I wouldn't get too attached to them when I went to knock.

Miles did turn out to be all of those things, but when I initially planned their character, there was a certain level of competence I expected from them. They were meant to succeed at more evil things than they actually did, and actually try to be a smooth villain rather than devolving into metaphorical slappy-hands shenanigans. Instead, the majority of their schemes blew up comically and predictably in their face. Which, I suppose, was in character, because they were technically Mr Cards at the time and all the masters are destined to fail hilariously.

I didn't expect them to develop a complex rivals dynamic with Orsinio, but in hindsight it isn't surprising with how much I love enemies relationships. I cut a whole bit of Miles being an intentionally investigative character to them sort of just winding up a seeker. SMEN combined with HD form a theme of addiction and self-harming behaviors for them which I didn't expect either when I created them. To be honest, they were a 1D character when I made them, supposed to just exist to knock, but they developed deeply on their own.

Without spoilers, I will say that the hate ending of smen was the only fitting way for their character arc at the time to end. But after a few months of processing that, I did one more thing with Miles that I never expected to: I resurrected them with a new account because I missed them too much. I really didn't expect to get so attached to them, but what can I say, they're my terrible son, my poor little meow meow, my problematic fav