Hideki Exposition (->Teen)

[mzyra]

Somebody made the terrible mistake of giving me the opportunity to exposit at length about one of my characters :D  This'll teach them! (But we can still love them really ;) )

Comments

[amylu1988]

:D Love it.

It works for me, and with the household with all the adults/elders he grew up in it's no wonder he's turned out like he has.

Also love his jealousy of Elliot, it would seem to Hideki that Elliot has everything that should be his, by rights.

Also guessing Hideki doesn't have many nice points? :)

[mzyra]

Hehehe, I thought/hoped you might ^_^

Heh, his relatives only really realise they might have been doing things wrong when he becomes a teenager and won't help anyone but himself *sighs and rolls eyes*

Indeed, indeed. Elliot probably does have more than he deserves, but Hideki doesn't really deserve it even as much as Elliot does then :P

Heh, well Hideki was actually born with 2 whole nice points, but I'm thinking with nurture that number's effectively reduced bit by bit. Or the niceness would be reserved for the aliens if/when he gets to live with them instead... ;)

[esmeiolanthe]

Hee hee, I inspired a whole post all by myself! :D That makes a lot more sense. Thank you

[mzyra]

Oh, he was always going to get at least a part of a mini interlude /or something/ because ^all that alone will not explain who he'll be as an adult. There's more to come but I don't want to spoil it.

The thing is that I'm already trying to focus on too many people at once really; got to try and characterise all seven >.< of the Ryman kids (and that's going to be a struggle when their personalities are mostly so similar), and then there are first cousins... Just remember what I did with Seth; he'd existed in the background but nobody really knew who he was or what he was doing until after he was caught. I may not always get these things right and there might be better ways to reveal people and develop their characters to the audience, but there's often too much to tell by just shoving it into a chapter. Zack has mentioned he's been helping to raise Hideki (or at least an alien child) in a previous chapter, but of course they don't think they're /spoiling/ him, or maybe they'd have stopped :P I just thought I'd leave explaining

[esmeiolanthe]

Seth was very well done, I thought. You played fair -- he was where he needed to be, when he needed to be there, and the motivation made sense. As a reader, I couldn't have guessed all of it in advance, but nothing was withheld that should have been put in (if that makes sense). And while Seth is a bad guy (and I can't say I approve of his taste in men :P), I quite like him as a character, and I don't have the strong negative reaction to him that I do to Kimmy or Rodney

[mzyra]

Thank you :) And heheheheheeee. Bad taste in men indeed ^_^
I expect you would have disliked him a lot more had I actually followed him closer while he was, you know, killing people. But he doesn't have that motivation anymore so he's oddly personable otherwise.

I wouldn't expect anyone to remember Zack mentioning it, it just sounded like small talk really, but if people went back and read through all the old stuff they'd notice a lot of odd/significant things (Seth as an adorable child, and a different major spoiler that I'm not sure anyone's remembered to notice *hmm*). Everyone's fine without those bits though, unless you start to think too hard about it ;)
What can I say? I talk too much about stuff if given the chance, especially my characters (/VILLAINS :D) *hugs*

No, can't say I've heard of her. Why? *is interested*