for the WIP game: the lingering will one?👀
Hi Espurr!!!!!! I'd love to talk about it :3
It's actually currently more a stream of consciousness outline than any writing and I'm pretty sure it originated in a discord dms ramble. the joys of Hyperfixating on one specific character <3
The most important part of it is like. the Lingering Will has a heart. this is something I've headcanoned for a long time, I've thought about making a presentation about it, i could ramble about it at length. The Lingering Will is a more distinct person to me than to most people. That's important context for this whole au, but I can go over all my thoughts there in a different post!
So LW has a heart, albeit a bit small and young, but plenty strong. Its dedication to Aqua and Ventus have given it powerful connections that sustain it, and when Namine popped in that little connection helped too! So when its body is destroyed, where does its heart go? the most obvious place- Terra's heart.
The gist of the story is Terra finding that out and having to really come to terms with the way he was split apart and the ramifications, as well as the experience of the Lingering Will figuring out personhood. I want to play with that relationship between Terra and something that was once part of him. How the LW differs from him and what they have in common. What does the LW want from personhood? What does identity mean to it?
It's kind of like a Sora and Roxas situation- two separate people existing at the same time, one of whom came from a part of the other. Only a little to the left, because LW isn't a nobody, but close enough. I actually want to have a scene where Terra and Roxas talk about Roxas' experience with coming from Sora and what it's been like to carve out his own identity separate from that.
I have another ask about this in my inbox so i think i'll cut this short here and go on a little more there :3 I'd love to actually start writing it sometime but i already have too many other projects at the moment.