Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
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superhero_musesOh geez, I happened to be in flight the last two weeks and just... failed. But I'm back and with a character question!
--What is your most recent POV character’s deepest regret?
Wrestler and sentient sunbeam Sami Zayn again! And ugh, that's a hard one. He'd never regret meeting and becoming friends with Kevin, or trusting him, despite all the pain that happened. And he doesn't truly believe he did anything regrettable that caused Kevin to turn on him, so it's not related to that trauma. And I don't want to go with something simple like "He regrets throwing his arms in the air at just the wrong moment and destroying his shoulder," because that shoulder was a ticking time bomb anyway.
In the universes where he actually was El Generico, mysterious masked wrestler, I think about 25% of the time he regrets ever putting the mask on at all and wishes he'd made his name unmasked. About 25% of the time I think he regrets putting the mask aside to wrestle as himself. And about half the time he still doesn't regret either choice. He's not really a guy for regrets, on the whole, I guess.
How about your most current character? And I hope your writing is going well! I'm signed up for a couple of exchanges but am wayyyy behind on the canon I need to consume... and I only have two weeks left, so that's causing me some stress. None of which is stopping me from forging ahead on the self-indulgent smut I'm loving writing, of course...
--What is your most recent POV character’s deepest regret?
Wrestler and sentient sunbeam Sami Zayn again! And ugh, that's a hard one. He'd never regret meeting and becoming friends with Kevin, or trusting him, despite all the pain that happened. And he doesn't truly believe he did anything regrettable that caused Kevin to turn on him, so it's not related to that trauma. And I don't want to go with something simple like "He regrets throwing his arms in the air at just the wrong moment and destroying his shoulder," because that shoulder was a ticking time bomb anyway.
In the universes where he actually was El Generico, mysterious masked wrestler, I think about 25% of the time he regrets ever putting the mask on at all and wishes he'd made his name unmasked. About 25% of the time I think he regrets putting the mask aside to wrestle as himself. And about half the time he still doesn't regret either choice. He's not really a guy for regrets, on the whole, I guess.
How about your most current character? And I hope your writing is going well! I'm signed up for a couple of exchanges but am wayyyy behind on the canon I need to consume... and I only have two weeks left, so that's causing me some stress. None of which is stopping me from forging ahead on the self-indulgent smut I'm loving writing, of course...
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Date: 2017-07-14 02:14 am (UTC)That is a tough one. My most recent character is from a new novel that I'm barely into so I hardly know them yet.
But Nasim is a Seer who just had a really enormous end of the world vision that linked him to a telepath, Lord Cyan. He thinks that he should regret that bond but he doesn't really. Does regret the headache that came from it but not the vision or the bond.
Overall, I don't think he's the sort to have regrets, except in a vague sort of way that's 'oh dear, it would have been nice if that didn't happen'. Because, you know, seer. He can tell that this thing that happened needed to happen because of X over there in the future.
Now if you'd caught me on a different chapter (all the chapters rotate through the team's POVs) I'd actually be able to answer this one. *laughs* Because most of the rest of the team definitely have regrets to their names. Family and power and bad choices and even just choosing the wrong shoes to go questing in.
Good luck writing your smut! I've been on my 3 novels in 3 months thing, all without sex so I'm jealous that you get to play with it. But once I finish this one I'll be free again so it's all good. Even if I have a long way to go before this one is done.
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Date: 2017-07-17 05:30 am (UTC)Wrong shoe choice is a wonderful little regret! I'll hope that the next one hits you in a better place. :D
I kind of hate writing sex at some levels, because I never feel comfortable with any of the vocabulary choices? But on the other hand it makes it an interesting challenge...
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Date: 2017-07-14 04:24 am (UTC)Oh ouch. You caught me in Gravity Falls this week, and that means Stanley Pines! What doesn't that man regret? There's his twin brother's school science fair project that he accidentally destroyed, ruining Stanford's chances at the best college he could have ever even dreamed for. Or how about pushing Ford through the Portal, sending him to a dimension controlled by a demented triangle? Which then Stan had to work for 30 years to get his brother back. I bet he even regretted bringing Ford back, when Ford was ANYTHING but thankful to, you know, not be on the run from a triangle with anger issues. And then Stan has to regret that he regretted bringing Ford back so...
My CampNaNo is going fairly well! I just spent the last two weeks writing one sex scene. It's way too long. I love it. I've ignored everything with a deadline so far. Written nearly 50k, most of that is the one sex scene that DOES NOT have a deadline. And uh. I should actually be writing my Stancest fic right now because it is due mmm, tomorrow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
SELF-INDULGENT SMUT FOREVERRR!!!
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Date: 2017-07-17 12:25 pm (UTC)I just spent the last two weeks writing one sex scene. It's way too long. I love it.
These are happy words to me! Hey, if you're loving writing it, it cannot be too long, as far as I'm concerned! Self-indulgence is what fic is for!
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Date: 2017-12-07 03:55 pm (UTC)Anyway.
I've not been well enough to write but D&D has been a positive force holding my sanity together, so I'll be answering my catch up questions for this current campaign's batch of my characters. Last campaign with silly Meekmahan wrestling overtones has come to an abrupt but satisfying close (but lasting effects on the world, such as the Seven Deities being the canonical deities of the region). So this is a new batch! But one semi-familiar face is among them for you, mith! They are:
Rorden of Ghostriver Farm: A handsome and burly half-elf melee ranger with a Jean Val-Jean esque backstory and a lifestyle of wandering from village to village helping with odd jobs then moving on, never settling because his true home is forever lost to him, accompanied by his faithful hound Tover.
Sian Fairshadow: The RP With Tal AU (actually the Original Version, but DRH him has overtaken so much!) version of the Sean you know from my main work. In the D&D setting he's an inkeeper's son, elder brother to the massive jolly beast of a man Lyrican, of the homebrewed 'Northman' species (my homebrew), and a sorcerer who has been repressing his natural powers so much that it's causing supernatural phenomena to fizzle in the air around him.
"Bloody" Mary: A fey corgi barbarian. Yes. She is a bipedal sentient corgi. It's a homebrewed feywild based species (Not my homebrew but it's pretty great). She was raised by her grandparents and they were killed (she the only survivor) by raiders who were seeking a holy artifact of her region's religion. On her quest for Vengeance, she's developed a deep bond of kinship to the Fairshadow family, who took her in at their inn. She's Sian's constant companion, and her barbarian rages conjure the ghost of her ancestors (again, all corgi people) to march with her on the field of battle.
OK with intros out of the way, the answers to the question:
Rorden's deepest regret stems from being gone (serving on a chain gang for a crime he didn't commit (well he did, but a crime committed while possessed by a demon isn't a crime said person is guilty of) ) when the demon army of Grazz't overtook his homeland. Yes, he likely would have died/been converted into the incubus hoards with the rest of his family and former villagers, but he can't shake the survivor's guilt, that he should have been there. The reason he always, unerringly introduces himself as 'Rorden of Ghostriver Farm' even though he just goes by Rorden is that Ghostriver Farm is no more, and will never be again, and he wants it to be remembered.
Sian's greatest regret in this setting (since his brother is sane and alive and he lives a humdrum life except for repressed magic) is related to his love life - his very first lover walked out on him the next morning. He pined for him and also regretted ever giving himself to the man in the first place. Years later, that regret in human form has walked back in the door (Kemaer, one of Tal's characters) and they have tentatively agreed to pick things back up, but it's leaving Sian feeling very vulnerable and wibbly.
Mary regrets being unable to save her grandparents - not that she would have had any power to do so, given that her barbarian rage powers awoke as a result of losing them, and before that she was just a simple girl. Corgi. Thing. Like Rorden, she struggles with survivor's guilt, but hers is more coming from her feeling of having been powerless in that moment.
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Date: 2018-03-26 10:35 am (UTC)The reason he always, unerringly introduces himself as 'Rorden of Ghostriver Farm' even though he just goes by Rorden is that Ghostriver Farm is no more, and will never be again, and he wants it to be remembered.
This is a lovely detail and just the kind of thing that survivor's guilt would drive one to. I really like that both Mary and Rorden have their own kind of survivor's guilt, but it comes out in different ways...