Ramblings - Adytum
SO. One of my irl friends asked something about one of my characters. This then caused a seismic chain reaction. I have recently discovered that, despite what I was originally planning for, no, Ahlos is in fact not a small child whilst the events of ‘canon’ occur. No, he is, in fact, nearly 20 years old. Which means that all of the characters who interacted with him and his sister on something of a level, have also aged up.
This has completely changed the interactions of three of my characters -Ahlos, Hyades, and Byx.
Younger!Original!Hyades-and-Byx interactions were quite fraught, as Hyades was very protective of bb!Ahlos and aggressively didn’t trust Byx.
Now that they’re older, they’re introduced in a different order - Byx meets Ahlos first, and gets to know him somewhat before she and Hyades are introduced. As the scenario has changed, Hyades is p much ambivalent to Byx when they first meet.
Byx is staring at Hyades in horror going ‘oh. oh no. she’s hot. fuck.’
So now I have a pining!Byx sending lovelorn glances at an oblivious!Hyades.
Accidental lesbian relationship that I didn’t even know was going to happen until I spotted Byx shooting metaphorical puppy eyes at Hyades, and just. When did that happen? How? They were never going to end up in a relationship, until suddenly, BLAM! Surprise! Accidental lesbianism!
Like, Hyades is Pan and Byx is Bi, so both being in straight relationships was statistically unlikely to happen, but. They’re happy? And there are enough broken/dysfunctional/will-they-won’t-they relationships in fiction that I don’t reeaaallllly wanna break them up just so that they can get with their original partners.
Now I just gotta figure out what to do with the person that was supposed to get with Byx before canon. However... things have moved enough that they might not even meet, so maybe I’ll create a different ending for them? Yeah, they can be happy offscreen.