How Does the Past Affect the Present?
Something that's helped me write a fleshed out story is writing the backstory for the elder characters. Like, in a way, it almost feels like writing this story is actually a sequel. The difference is you guys don't and may never know all the details of the backstory.
I'm not gonna lie, I get kinda sad when you guys say in the comments that you hate Minerva, but then I remember that in a way, I know and understand her a lot more, and you guys are still getting to know her... and also so far she nearly killed a character you actually like! So, maybe that had something to do with it, but I can't be too sure. (Bleh, I wonder if this is how Neil Druckman felt in The Last of Us 2... seriously. Fuck that game). That being said, I'm really trying to write this story with "Death of the Author" in mind, so if after everything, you still hate Minerva, that's perfectly fine! It's my job to tell you a story, not to tell you how to feel about it. ^_^ Minerva understands too. She may feel sad and lonely inside, but she's wise enough to know she stopped being "the good guy" centuries before the story started.
As long as you're having fun reading, and as long as I'm having fun revealing the story every week, everybody wins!
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This is not Dragon, this is me practicing writing alphabets in other languages.
For the past two months, my brother and I have gotten together on Discord and worked on creating a Draconic language. He's been doing all the hard stuff. It's my job now to write some runes to get a writing system together! Of course, you don't create somehting out of nothing. I've been practicing writing the alphabets of Georgian, Farsi, Aramaic, Old Church Slovik, Viking Runes... and yeah, I think that's all of them.
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2 thoughts on “Let Us Help You”
John M
People like to say “Your past doesn’t matter” when it comes to reforming your life or going from villain to hero. However, it is equally true for those who go from good to bad… Judge someone by how he acts now and the recent past, not the distant past.
Bridget Silver
I’ve been rereading one of my favorite fantasy series, In the Shadow of the Bear by David Randall. And one of the main characters, Lady Melisande Cindertallow, puts me very much in mind of Minerva. These women are not nice. They often aren’t particularly warm, unless it’s in moments shared with spouses or children. They speak their minds and are particularly strong-willed. Probably my favorite moment of characterization for Melisande is what she tells her heir apparent about her own duties as a ruler: “I don’t like killing… but – yes, when I sentence a murderer to death, I feel satisfaction. I’ve dealt justice for his victim, and I’ve prevented him from ever harming another soul. When I fight in battle, I know I’m fighting so my subjects will be able to live in peace later… I do take pleasure in my power as Lady Cindertallow.” From what I see of Minerva in these comics, and from what you’ve told me about her backstory, I think she’s very much like Melisande: proud, emotionally distant, sometimes hard, but not lacking in compassion or a sense of justice. And both of them are weighed down by great personal losses.