authorloremipsum replied to your post:your tags omg "write their name and give it to em...
And the funny thing is? That’s actually how it works? Like, unnamed minor characters don’t even so much as speak out of turn, but once they’ve got a name SUDDENLY they’ve got back stories and flaws and relationships and UGH
FRICKING. RIGHT?? once they get named it’s all over. they’re PEOPLE now. they wanna sit at the table with everyone else and screw you if you think they’re gonna do a damn thing you say anymore lol.
Kind of lends to the whole idea of “there’s power in a name” concept, huh? Give one random person a name and suddenly you’re looking at your work like “you were just supposed to be a random servant bringing the main character a change of clothes, why are you back six chapters later with the magical long-sought artifact upon which the whole story revolves what do you mean you’re a secret agent?? you’re supposed to be a maid????”
:v troublesome little gits.