Interesting thoughts (AB meta, my fic and DM spoilers)
In a comment on my recent AB fic, necromancer5 brought up the idea of Anita's evolution over time, from where she was at the end of Danse Macabre, to where I have her go in Family Hour
She got me to thinking. In FH, Anita is pretty secure in herself and her life. When I had Micah's parent basically call Anita a slut to her face, her first reaction was to get angry for what they said about Micah, not react to the slut comment. I had her do this because at that point in time, which is a few months after DM, she's secure in herself and her relationship with both Micah and Nathaniel, and in what she has become. She's not worried about Micah's dad calling her a whore because she knows that the people who count, Micah and Nathaniel, don't see her that way.
Most importantly, she knows she is neither slut nor whore.
However. At the end of DM, I don't consider Anita to be in that headspace. I'm thinking mainly of the revelation that the arduer made her love Micah and Nathaniel, as well as all the stuff she was going through, sleeping with everything around due to the arduer. Anita's way of dealing with things is usually to ignore them for a while, then have it all crash in. But I can't have her just be there, I have to have it happen because we're not talking about minor stuff. We're talking about how Anita sees herself and how she is becoming the monster she fears, and no one around her is willing to talk about it.
It comes down to something I have already touched upon in a drabble a few months ago, Cold.How much of what Anita feels, and others feel for her, is based on metaphysical powers? How can she deal if it's a lot?
Anyway, that's what I'm attempting to deal with in my in progress AB fic. It's set a month after DM, and for Anita, the walls are closing in.
I should have that up soon. I'm halfway through. Maybe then I can get back to writing Anita as the strong character I have made her in Inevitable and Balancing Act and Switchback.
Gotta bail, time for brunch. Thanks for reading my rambling.
She got me to thinking. In FH, Anita is pretty secure in herself and her life. When I had Micah's parent basically call Anita a slut to her face, her first reaction was to get angry for what they said about Micah, not react to the slut comment. I had her do this because at that point in time, which is a few months after DM, she's secure in herself and her relationship with both Micah and Nathaniel, and in what she has become. She's not worried about Micah's dad calling her a whore because she knows that the people who count, Micah and Nathaniel, don't see her that way.
Most importantly, she knows she is neither slut nor whore.
However. At the end of DM, I don't consider Anita to be in that headspace. I'm thinking mainly of the revelation that the arduer made her love Micah and Nathaniel, as well as all the stuff she was going through, sleeping with everything around due to the arduer. Anita's way of dealing with things is usually to ignore them for a while, then have it all crash in. But I can't have her just be there, I have to have it happen because we're not talking about minor stuff. We're talking about how Anita sees herself and how she is becoming the monster she fears, and no one around her is willing to talk about it.
It comes down to something I have already touched upon in a drabble a few months ago, Cold.How much of what Anita feels, and others feel for her, is based on metaphysical powers? How can she deal if it's a lot?
Anyway, that's what I'm attempting to deal with in my in progress AB fic. It's set a month after DM, and for Anita, the walls are closing in.
I should have that up soon. I'm halfway through. Maybe then I can get back to writing Anita as the strong character I have made her in Inevitable and Balancing Act and Switchback.
Gotta bail, time for brunch. Thanks for reading my rambling.