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I like how different Stones behaves in his angelic form.

For context, you know how Esmerelda looks in Frolo's mind during the Hellfire scene? Like that. Give him wings, but other than that, Stones can just look like that.

I like the idea of Stones being usually very slow moving, but inconsistently. Like, he always walks everywhere, but he can do that thing where it cuts to a different angle and he has somehow got behind you.

He's also fragile as fuck. He doesn't like being touched. He is the definition of a glass cannon.

But when he goes angelic, suddenly he can fly, but he's also utterly incorporeal. He's suddenly a very physical, very fast moving presence. The first thing he does is grab someone, and then bite them.

It's like, what if you took someone ruled by fear, and turned off his self preservation instinct entirely. His fear is turned towards those around him in a very protective way and his self sacrificing nature gets turned up to eleven.

The question is, why does he stay in his human form? And the answer is complex.

One, he's not fireproof. Kinda a big deal, but also kinda not. But he is essentially cooking himself alive whenever he does this, so it's not exactly fun for him.

Two, he can't cast spells. He likes casting spells.

Three, "I find it easier to think when I'm pretending to be something that can."

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I love that everyone in presbyopia is freaking out, and then there's just Barley like:

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speaking as someone with a disability, there is a certain amount of body horror to the experience that can be milked. Like, my disability is fairly minour, and yet it is still terrifying when my legs just decide not to support me, or my joints lock up and I can't move. That is some proper horror shit and I wish I could see it in stories.

I've heard amputees describe ghost limbs as similarly scary. Like a pain that you can't find and can't really do much about. It's just there, menacing you.

But all too often, the term is just shorthand for the aesthetics. Like, oh no, I have to look at someone who's missing an arm, how scary. There is story to be drawn, but we as a society need to get past our obsession with looking clean (especially since looking clean can mean almost anything in the eyes of biggots) and then we can actually get to real horror and actual good stories and representation.

Also stop having physical disability be shorthand for turning evil or causing a person to snap. It's weird. It's kinda fucked. Stop doing it.

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I think its interesting that none of my character playlists match the vibes of their character.

Like, Stones is menacing and slow moving and his playlist is 90% Crane Wives.

Reece is immaculate in terms of presentation, and yet he has all the butt rock and grunge and punk music in the world

Isabella is nice and charming and patient and proper and her playlist has this kinda modern-ish independent pop kinda feel to it. Like, AJR, Dove Cameron, Sam Tinnesz.

And then there's Barley, who goes out of their way to be blunt and straightforward. And their playlist is the most overly melodramatic collection of musical theatre songs you will ever here. Hadestown. Wicked. Phantom of the Opera. Les Mis.

And I think that speaks to the story. Like, every character in this story has a mask. The playlists are who they really are, and they mean I can write the masks as imperfect.

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don't worry about it

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this is honestly how I write stories

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Hwyaden

dragon doodles: mallard! 🦆

more dragos on my ko-fi!

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this guy

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I like the idea of the Counsil acting like those redditors who think a bad decision is a plot hole. Like, hyper intelligent, knows all. Gets stroppy when humans don't make the most optimal decision at all times.

Like, it cannot comprehend characters acting dumb or taking chances or being wrong.

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Been thinking about how Stones both breaks and enforces the genre of the story.

Because, he's a wizard and a bloody good one. The man can warp reality. He's only not an angel by technicality. It's a bit that every time he whips out a new spell, the next shot is just Payton reevaluating her alliances and life choices.

Which means, the antagonists of the story very quickly work out that they need to be clever, because they can't outfight this guy. Hence why detectives are important here. A battle of wits is infinitely less physically dangerous than an all-out brawl.

It's like, they realise where the apparently overpowered protagonist is overpowered and go out of their way to not engage with him on that level.

But there's the trick. Apparently. Almost everything this man does is for theatre. He's intentionally using his magic and personality to make himself as scary as he can. He's just as if not more fragile than any other human. Case and point, he sets himself on fire regularly, but he isn't fireproof at all.

Essentially, Eli Stones is enforcing the detective genre through sheer force of will.

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Yeah I'm not 52

30-Song Guess Your Age Quiz

Fwiw, they thought I was MANY years younger than I am. Just made me feel good all over. 😊

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a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale