#thoughts from other authors and from ASPD havers???

[sometimesraven]

RAINE. I FORGOT ABOUT RAINE.

Raine is a character in House of Magi who I initially wrote into a particular scene just as a side character for forwarding the plot, but she ended up being One Of The Main Clique. Though it won't be named in-universe (due to Icarus Syndrome being a blanket diagnosis slapped on all Magi who 'act out'), I intended Raine to have ASPD and during my research I ended up becoming so annoyed with the stigma vs lived reality of these people that Raine kind of developed herself further into the story. I love her and I hope other people do too.

Not sure how to make it official that she has ASPD tbh, I might add an author's note or acknowledgement at the end that is like "did you enjoy Raine's character? Research more about ASPD and shed the stigma" with a bunch of resources maybe, because I want people to like her before they find out about her disorder so that they're forced to confront their biases.

Hello! Just stopping by with a question about writing XD Do you have any characters who's role grew bigger than you expected? Any surprising changes your characters went through during the writing process?

HEWWO!!!!!

Gosh, that's been happening to me for so long I forget half of the instances. I can say that the love interest for the fantasy project I am not currently working on was originally a fanfic OC who was supposed to die in the first fic I ever wrote him into XD

I've definitely had some of that with the Truth Saga though. Book 2, Bitter Truth, is proving to be full of surprises and character roles are included.

Initially in writing the novel, I intended for the focus to be entirely on Erik and Blade with only brief roles from other characters. It's definitely stayed that way to an extent but with Erik being one of the main characters it actually led to a lot more Lydia than I expected, and Violet is taking a more active step forward recently to the point where I now have to fight her getting her own story before Evie does (whom I've planned for book 3's main character).

Tori has surprised me a lil as well, which I didn't think she was capable of any more but here we are XD While she's already well built and pretty stable in her character, her ongoing condition related to her powers has expanded to a full blown chronic pain/mobility issue which tbh, I should have seen coming given that she's always been my subconscious way of coping with things that make me feel helpless IRL