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ghostwise · 2 years

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One thing that happens to me when I’m writing a character’s backstory is that, because I hate backstories involving grief/death, I wind up with tons of presumed dead but still alive characters. So if I decide to give someone a meaningful loss for character development... I will almost immediately say ‘ah! but what if they’re not really dead?’ and it becomes a ‘character seems to come back from the dead after being assumed dead by the protagonist’ trope.

This happens to TONS of my characters. smh

#i need to reel it in there's only so many times that situation can feasibly happen #i did it with rinna; that one i'm sticking to i hate what the story did with her and she has too much potential for me to not #i do it with nousha's backstory #she and her father both believe the other is dead #anthony and ezekiel kind of count; ezekiel died but is still around (as a ghost)#i was going to do this with refugio's mom but i also want to do it with his late fiance #(refugio's mom thinks he died at the spire; yuribia died in vestra)#(and is going to stay dead bc i need to commit to writing decisions even when they're sad)#for a while i was sorely tempted to do this with hamal's mom but i couldn't write a way around it #my brain just can't handle loss :-) it probably means something #but is that kind? (the question i ask in regards to every writing decision) is it kind? is it kind...?#maybe just processing the grief is kinder bc grief is unavoidable in life #(will i ever not write about death... doubtful... remains to be seen)#anyway it's mementing absolute mori thanks for coming to my ded talk #(get it? ted talk but-)

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