#apparently I like a character with some wild register changes in their dialogue

[epersonae]

Writing asks: 25, 26

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

I think I only ever wrote into into a fic once, and as an aside, but I cherish the headcanon of Lucretia being colorblind after Wonderland.

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

I think I've listened to the entire 70+ hours of TAZ Balance at least five times, and bits and pieces several times more, and at one point I was deeply familiar with Tazscripts.

I am currently watching Our Flag Means Death again from the beginning for maybe the ninth time in 5 months. (Currently: "at long last he'd become a real boy") I think I watched episode 5 an additional four or five times, and as you know, I've probably watched the first five minutes specifically about 10 times. I'm at a similar point with episode 6 while I'm in the middle of writing the chapter about that episode.

So, yeah: immersing myself in the source material. Digging up weird little details. Trying to get to a point where I can hear the dialogue cadence in my head. ("We're going to catch up with it forthwith and kick its ass" lives rent free in my head at all times, as does the single word "booyah" - both of my main blorbos get so often written with much fancier language than is justified in canon, and I fall into that trap sometimes myself!) And then they just sorta rattle around in there until the words fall out.

Sometimes I get out by switching characters, but I think on some level they just don't ever really leave? There's a Lucretia who will live in my head when I'm like 90 years old or whatever, and I'm good with that.