fumiko15
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Gonna just put random stuff here, I'm sure nobody reads this =w=)7 Hi this blog is going to be used for posting mainly random anime related stuff :) Current main fandoms I'm in are Durarara, K, MARVEL, anything Disney, Harry Potter, Pandora hearts, Free!, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
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I'm doing a lot of research on writing and novel structure for Punk Rock Sci Fi novel and one of the things that comes up frequently is the need for transformation or change of the main character throughout the novel.
What's interesting, having just finished re-reading the Captive Prince trilogy, is that Damen only...kind of?.... fits that. He changes in the sense of becoming more aware of duplicity around him, but actually the arc I'd name for Damen is learning how to be the SAME person as the world and his understanding of the world changes. At the beginning of the books he is honest, trustworthy, capable, and honorable. At the end of the books, he's still all of those things. What's remarkable is that he continues to be that person through becoming a slave, finding out his brother betrayed him, and throwing in his lot with an enemy he's convinced until almost the end of the series is going to betray him too. Damen holds strong to the person he wants to be no matter how difficult it is.
"Save the Cat! Writes a Novel" (the book I'm currently using for research) also recommends picking as the "hero" the character who changes the most over the course of the novel/series. For the Captive Prince trilogy, that character is definitively Laurent. Yet I think it works so much better for Damen to be the POV character because our view of Laurent through Damen's eyes is way more interesting. It's fun to let Damen be an unreliable narrator about Laurent and for the reader to have to piece together Laurent's intentions from incomplete information. And it gives the trilogy plenty of opportunity for punchy twists as character and plot points are revealed.
There's not really a point to my rambling here, other than that traditional advice about writing has to be interrogated a little bit and held up against examples to see what fits and what doesn't. Captive Prince is delightful because it subverts these structures.
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Ok but I cant imagine how badly it must have hurt Laurent to start falling for Damen.
TW: CSA mention
(All of this is just my personal interpretation of Laurent's behaviours throughout the trilogy. If anyone has a different one I'd love to hear it!)
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Captive Prince
Before Laurent met Damen personally, the image that he had of him in his head was of a barbarian. The person who killed his brother. He probably even thought Damen was just as bad as his uncle or blamed Damen for indirectly causing the circumstances that led to his abuse. Could be a stretch, but this would probably explain why Laurent seemed confused that Damen wouldnt 'perform' with Nicaise in the ring.
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Prince's Gambit
Then in the second book, Damen shatters this image again and again. He genuinely tries to help Laurent and ensure his survival, and even gets to know Laurent better than he'd like. Damen's changing thoughts about Laurent's behaviours are demonstrated thoroughly throughout the second book, even learning when Laurent is too overcome by emotion to think rationally and when he needs to be calmed down or simply left alone. This probably even leads to frustration because Damen isn't supposed to feel this safe to be around. He isn't /supposed/ to feel this comfortable around his brother's killer.
This frustration is most clearly pictured in these scenes:
Laurent's fluctuating opinion of Damen definitely caused a lot of inner conflict for him. He was angry and he wanted to be angry for his brother, but on the other hand his brother's murderer was probably the first person he genuinely trusted in a long time, and these feelings probably became more complicated when you take into account how Damen reminds him of Auguste. He tries to suppress any semblance of romantic/sexual feelings for Damen because having those emotions at all feels like a betrayal of the one other person he truly loved, but that of course doesn't go very well for him.
Eventually, his attraction to Damen gets too hard to ignore and maybe the reason why he rushes to express these emotions right before Damen is scheduled to leave the Veretian army is because he knows that the next time he faces Damen, if at all, will be as King: the person who killed his brother. It would be easier to get it out of the way and rationalise it while Damen is still a slave rather than grapple with it later. Maybe "Laurent, I am your slave" assured Laurent in it's own way, because as their affection for each other grew, that lie became a comfort for them both; they wouldn't have to face the truth until later.
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King's Rising
When Damen's identity was revealed to the Veretians and they continued to fight together out of necessity, Laurent found himself with two different ideas of who Damianos is: the one who was loyal to him and the one who took everything he had.
Then they get close again and Damen stops finding comfort in the lie that they built for themselves because he can't anymore. Starts acknowledging his past and wanting for Laurent to take him as he is. And Laurent finally realises that one way or another he has to process the fact that these two Damens are the same people. He has to cope with the fact that he might be falling in love with one of the people who hurt him most.
This brings all of the conflicting emotions that he wanted to suppress back, which is why he reacted so badly when Damen tried to directly acknowledge what he'd done:
I hope you enjoy this post that is absolutely made by a person who likes these books in a normal way. I am so neurotypical about captive prince i like it a little bit
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Hashirama trying to get Madara’s face on Konoha monuments: Persistence is key!
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Both of these men have kill counts in the hundreds
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I don't know how to caption this lol but I present some HashiMada Angst (?)
"Is it selfish of me to ask if we could go back to the way we used to be?"
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the gorilla grip these geezers still have on me, not funny didn’t laugh
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yo dude as someone who grew up with Harry potter and avatar and all these stories about child saviours and LOVED them, reigens role in mob psycho absolutely exploded my brain like BRO. when reigen grabs mob, looks him in the eyes and tells him that he's going to lose playing by the enemies rules, and then, totally sincere for once, tells him it's alright to run away, and all the lines melt away from mob's face, and he gasps with relief because he's a CHILD who's already done enough and was only waiting for someone to tell him that he'd done his part, that the burden of destiny does not belong to a child, that there is no prophecy to fulfill, that his childhood comes before his abilities, that he is no chosen one. dude that slapped
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You’ve grown up so much, you know that?
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I am a(n):
⚪ Male
⚪ Female
🔘 Writer
Looking for
⚪ Boyfriend
⚪ Girlfriend
🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember
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I was worried about you, all the time.
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Archeology 👁👄👁
Inspired by this post
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i'm not a big fan of the over heaven novel but nisio isin really saw his chance to write official jd fanfic and ran with it and im very grateful for that
go on king tell me more 🙏
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