Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions
This entry is part 52 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge
So characters have habits, ways they interact with certain people and situations, things they do and like to do, stories and histories together. I've known a lot of my characters' for a long time but getting them all into fic is interesting, particularly for the ones I don't know that for.
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So... Joe vs. Volcano quotes:
1. "I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?"
2. "I'm not arguing that with you."
3."What kind of clothes do you got now?"
"Well, I got the kind of clothes I'm wearing."
"So you got no clothes."
4. "You're in a rotten mood."
"It's the sunshine. Gets me down."
5."Nobody knows anything. We'll take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?"
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I need to get myself writing again, too. :/
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Shift came home late, only one small lamp gleaming in the living room to welcome her. Or it should have been only that lamp. Soft footfalls sounded in the carpeted hall, and she was met by a slender, serious-faced seven-year-old girl reaching up for a warm hug.
"You're supposed to be in bed," Shift admonished affectionately but kissed the the top of her daughter's head and picked up the sleepy child to return her safely to her room.
"I missed you, Mama," Lise murmured, already almost asleep.
Shift tucked her in and kissed her, smoothing over the soft brown hair and whispered back, "I love you, little one. You're my heart."
Kilter leaned in the doorway to Elisabeth's room. He had felt the change in the air when Shift arrived home. Even weary, Shift brought a tension with her: ( ... )
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It's one of those supremely messed up situations that I don't know how it's going to resolve.
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I just asked because I'm afraid to really root for them or get invested in them without knowing more because they do have something, but I don't want to watch it... fall apart spectacularly like I can see it doing. It would be all too easily done with a situation like this.
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Considering my general approach to fanfic, let me pose you this challenge for myself: Do you think you want them to work out?
I can do that. It'll just be spectacularly um... interesting along the way. No on-screen stuff, because it's you, but you are aware that she is shamelessly promiscuous when it serves her ends and currently sees absolutely no hope for redemption for herself? THAT's a journey I haven't exactly walked with her yet. At least not successfully. It's doable. It's just... challenging.
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A part of me says yes, that I do. I'm not sure if that's just me, though, and if it's the right thing for the characters.
I guess what Shift really needs is a reason to believe she can be redeemed, a reason to forgive herself.
For some reason, I've got these lines from a movie echoing in my head, where one character says, "I don't know that I deserve you" and the other one answers, "Someday you're gonna forgive yourself." That doesn't seem much like Shift, though, so I don't know why.
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I came up with some rather... unlikely and not well thought-out and kind of lame ideas like:
1. Maybe if she for some reason lost her memory and didn't have that knowledge of what she'd done but that's almost like cheating and would probably not last once she remembered or someone told her what she was.
2. Her having another child, without all the complications of the first one, one that she could just be a mother to without having to sacrifice everything to have free. I just don't see that coming around in a good way, either.
3. Other thoughts involve her being shown that either she's not as bad as someone else who found a redemption or someone helping her find another way, but unless that someone is Kilter, that second part would not end with them together, either.
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That might be the start of things.
Though... again, how would she lose that taste when she's done almost everything before without regret?
Hmm. Maybe there is no logical solution to this.
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