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[thenightdayblogger]

🍎 👻 🧥 for the fall writer asks!

thank you em! also you were so fast i saw this in my inbox a minute after reblogging LMAO. Ask game here

🍎 Apple: Do you have a favorite friend/platonic dynamic? Any friendships gone sour?

Ooh plenty, but I think one of my favorites is Cordelia and Elise, which has grown out of Elise's progression of character—although I always wanted them to make amends, she was much more of a static rival character and their reconciliation/friendship after years of being in constant competition and with mutual dislike just felt a little bit too easy. She's a much more interesting character now, I think, for her strong sense of justice, and the event that split them apart in the first place, both of them had (hopefully) very sympathetic reasons for doing what they did, and reacting as they did—as well as reasons they can look back on and regret responding to the other so angrily.

👻 Ghost: Do you have a character or a scene that continues to haunt you? Something or someone you wish you had done differently or just can’t stop thinking about?

WHEW, a lot. Difficulties of doing mostly third-person limited and having a fondness for subplots being very subtextual/limited in information until the main character gets whammed w them, I never get to go into depth the way I'm tempted to. Hyacinth, Duke Ardennes, Carys and Hatzirah, literally Rhen's entire backstory—they could all be their own books. And an addenum to that, in apparently a consistent character archtype to me—Constance and Elinori, two mothers who are dead but who haunt the narrative in very different ways, and sort of the distangling of this benevolent, ideal legacy left behind to the much more complicated woman beneath.

🧥 Coat: Where do you feel most comfortable writing or brainstorming?

At home so nobody can see the weird faces i make or hear when i say dialogue out loud so i can see if its got a good rhythm to it LMAO

thanks for the ask em!