Comments | alien_writings: The Church and Its Orbs

alien_writings

The Church and Its Orbs - A Problem

Aug 24, 2013 03:51

Possible material for The Church and Its Orbs. One of my characters decided to go off in a completely unexpected direction that may or may not stay. Characters -- they do weird shit sometimes.

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“I still can’t believe you got drunk and ended up in the Divine Realm,” Wren mutters. “I’m impressed.”

( My face flushes, and I narrow my eyes her. )

pov: gemma, character: wren, series: the church and its orbs, 500themes, trigger: substance abuse, rating: pg-13, character: gemma, character: kai, original fiction, character: brandon

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pixiebelle August 24 2013, 09:06:45 UTC

I love learning more about these characters. You develop suck rich characters and their dialogue is always so fitting for them. I'm seriously jealous of how smoothly it flows and how genuine it feels.

Oh and I finally got another reference to Kai being gay... Coming out of the closet, eh? ;)

alien_writings August 24 2013, 12:29:53 UTC

Do you think the whole "Kai has a drinking problem" story works? That was so unintentional and not something I would have ever thought of on purpose. But I needed to write words, and those are the words that came out. Brandon's fear of spiders was also random and unintentional, if a whole lot sillier. If I keep that in, there's a billion percent chance they'll end up fighting a giant spider at some point ( ... )

warmwar August 24 2013, 17:37:10 UTC

Daddy long-legs are pretty innocent. Or, at least, they're the only spiders that don't scare me. They're all skinny, and can float away. And they don't look like they could bite me or anything. Or maybe the movie Honey We Shrunk Ourselves made me think they're nice!

Drinking problems aren't that unusual when you're god-like. I mean, we're the most intelligent species that we know of and we have them. I would say it's because we sometimes feel too intelligent. Maybe it's the loneliness of having our unique opinions and outlooks on the world that causes us to eventually numb ourselves into oblivion.

alien_writings August 24 2013, 17:43:07 UTC

When I was around nine years old and in sleep away camp, I spent more time with the daddy long-legs than my fellow campers -- the spiders were lots friendlier. Do you think I should change that bit to another species of spider or just not mention the species of spider? I think I chose daddy long-legs because I used to play with them at camp, lol. Though I don't think the movie you mention with friendly daddy long-legs exists in Gemma's world, so maybe it's okay to use them to scare her sister?

Now I'm wondering if Kai here isn't the only god in this universe with a drinking problem.

Thank you for your comment. :)

warmwar August 24 2013, 17:56:46 UTC

I don't know, if there's a world where shrink rays exist like in that movie and you can talk to daddy long-legs face to face, then anything is possible!

Here's the clip, haha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0RGrrii9X0

It would make more sense for it to be a type of spider that's all thick, black, and scary looking. Like all the twin spiders that appear in my house. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_spider