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Writing tip: if your characters start forging new branches on the relationship chart on their own, you've been studying dramas and their conventions too much.
I feel so sorry for this secondary character of mine, Mitsuko. She already had a pretty screwed-up love life awaiting her, just from the fact that her main love interest is her half-sister Yomi.
(Not-so-short explanation: the characters are meant to represent different genres; Mitsuko represents shounen and seinen action anime and manga, while Yomi represents shoujo romance; since the genres are related, they're related; and they're both female to soften some of the squick towards male/female incest, and as a sort of stand-in for homoerotic fanservice and the tendency for characters to be slashed in fanfiction. I could've made them both male, yes, but Mitsuko started as a female in another version, so female she remains. Everything does have a logical reason, honest.)
Except when I was writing earlier, Mitsuko suddenly gave herself an attraction to Verne, the vaguely-pulpy Campbellian science hero girl genius (if Verne was the lead, she'd probably echo Agatha Heterodyne a little too much... which is part of why she isn't the lead). And it's not even a straightforward "oh gee I think you're hot" attraction. It's one of those horrible "oh gee you seem to sufficiently resemble my primary love interest, whom I consider unattainable, so I want to use you to try to forget about her" attractions. This literally hit me between one sentence and the next.
Fortunately, Verne's pretty much asexual (to echo Tesla, who thought romantic emotions got in the way of his ability to think, and so abolished them). Thank the freaking gods. I don't think I could handle that level of relationship drama and angst so early on, even if I've got some planned for later. And...
Son of a bitch. Now Mitsuko's in my head telling me how it's going to be imposed anyway, even without Verne's active cooperation. Damn it.
Writing means you get to hear voices without having to be schizophrenic.
I feel so sorry for this secondary character of mine, Mitsuko. She already had a pretty screwed-up love life awaiting her, just from the fact that her main love interest is her half-sister Yomi.
(Not-so-short explanation: the characters are meant to represent different genres; Mitsuko represents shounen and seinen action anime and manga, while Yomi represents shoujo romance; since the genres are related, they're related; and they're both female to soften some of the squick towards male/female incest, and as a sort of stand-in for homoerotic fanservice and the tendency for characters to be slashed in fanfiction. I could've made them both male, yes, but Mitsuko started as a female in another version, so female she remains. Everything does have a logical reason, honest.)
Except when I was writing earlier, Mitsuko suddenly gave herself an attraction to Verne, the vaguely-pulpy Campbellian science hero girl genius (if Verne was the lead, she'd probably echo Agatha Heterodyne a little too much... which is part of why she isn't the lead). And it's not even a straightforward "oh gee I think you're hot" attraction. It's one of those horrible "oh gee you seem to sufficiently resemble my primary love interest, whom I consider unattainable, so I want to use you to try to forget about her" attractions. This literally hit me between one sentence and the next.
Fortunately, Verne's pretty much asexual (to echo Tesla, who thought romantic emotions got in the way of his ability to think, and so abolished them). Thank the freaking gods. I don't think I could handle that level of relationship drama and angst so early on, even if I've got some planned for later. And...
Son of a bitch. Now Mitsuko's in my head telling me how it's going to be imposed anyway, even without Verne's active cooperation. Damn it.
Writing means you get to hear voices without having to be schizophrenic.