He does indeed. I almost had something deep to say as a possible explanation, but, attention span of a moth. Something about how he's really all emo inside and tries to hide it with the drinking and womanizing. It was a lot more profound in my head.
Well, there's the self-obsessed with, of course. Just like how Ianto wouldn't really be easy to write in first person at all. How could he disappear discreetly, after all? And lose himself in somebody else?
I guess I've been thinking about this sort of thing a lot because whereas in fanfic it's almost always third person (I've seen a very few mavericks), in original fiction it varies quite a bit. Actually, I think my favorite use of voice that I'm aware of might be in Eugenides' Middlesex (which I should read again now that I live in Michigan), which is in both, because it's a family epic. So the narrator loses itself in the third person when going back and telling the backstory but then becomes first person again in the end.
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He does indeed. I almost had something deep to say as a possible explanation, but, attention span of a moth. Something about how he's really all emo inside and tries to hide it with the drinking and womanizing. It was a lot more profound in my head.
And yeah, you totally called it. :golf clap:
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I guess I've been thinking about this sort of thing a lot because whereas in fanfic it's almost always third person (I've seen a very few mavericks), in original fiction it varies quite a bit. Actually, I think my favorite use of voice that I'm aware of might be in Eugenides' Middlesex (which I should read again now that I live in Michigan), which is in both, because it's a family epic. So the narrator loses itself in the third person when going back and telling the backstory but then becomes first person again in the end.
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