I don’t have a ton of plans for Haruki right now beyond wrapping things up with him before Jack gets in! D-doing three in aather sounds too daunting and the legacy train cut down a lot of the queue so Jack will most likely be getting in faster than expected. Haruki has kind of achieved what I set out for with him; he has a weird kind of balance in that he is ultimately willing to bus everyone for Kazuki still, but he’s retained the value for life that he lost as canon went on. He’s made friends and grown to genuinely care about people outside of Kazuki and Yuki! And he’s trying to find a way to reject his fate rather than embracing it as the best solution, because everyone died oops.
JACK IS NOT IN YET but ultimately I want him to retain the confidence he obtained in book four and then lost in book six because almost all of the side characters just lost their development in that book or got sucky endings :T IMA FIX THAT or at least keep him from bottoming out. But of course it depends on which team he ends up on because he’ll be heavily influenced by them and how they play! I am trying not to set specific plans for him because my track record with having characters gain positive things from aather is not doing so well lol.
For Apple I am just attempting to get her back on track with like. Talking and connecting to people! She has been systematically destroying all of her support systems and putting up fronts and going through the motions, which she can successfully do and be FINE even in the long run, but she will get more out of the situation if she sits down and talks to people and works through things with others. She’s mentally burned a lot of bridges and isolated herself so I am just throwing her out to see if she will click enough with someone enough to be like "hey, we should sit down and talk about how Not Okay we are and try to find a solution to that." There will be one step in the right direction and then a few days later there will be three steps back, she is all over the place... Interacting with all of the newer people helps because it gives her a mental check of not being so resigned to things, even if it results in her banging her head against a wall and not being able to change anything. I am keeping my fingers crossed for her to get something positive out of plot and maybe get something positive out of her quest for helping the Darkness’d statues.
Also in general I like it when my characters take memories with other people so I want to do that more with all of them!!
Questions are so hard. TELL ME WHAT SONGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR CHARACTERS
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JACK IS NOT IN YET but ultimately I want him to retain the confidence he obtained in book four and then lost in book six because almost all of the side characters just lost their development in that book or got sucky endings :T IMA FIX THAT or at least keep him from bottoming out. But of course it depends on which team he ends up on because he’ll be heavily influenced by them and how they play! I am trying not to set specific plans for him because my track record with having characters gain positive things from aather is not doing so well lol.
For Apple I am just attempting to get her back on track with like. Talking and connecting to people! She has been systematically destroying all of her support systems and putting up fronts and going through the motions, which she can successfully do and be FINE even in the long run, but she will get more out of the situation if she sits down and talks to people and works through things with others. She’s mentally burned a lot of bridges and isolated herself so I am just throwing her out to see if she will click enough with someone enough to be like "hey, we should sit down and talk about how Not Okay we are and try to find a solution to that." There will be one step in the right direction and then a few days later there will be three steps back, she is all over the place... Interacting with all of the newer people helps because it gives her a mental check of not being so resigned to things, even if it results in her banging her head against a wall and not being able to change anything. I am keeping my fingers crossed for her to get something positive out of plot and maybe get something positive out of her quest for helping the Darkness’d statues.
Also in general I like it when my characters take memories with other people so I want to do that more with all of them!!
Questions are so hard. TELL ME WHAT SONGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR CHARACTERS