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Deymx is the Master of Masters.
They both have skinny arms.
They both are much more laid-back than they should be.
They both have the same mannerisms and are very physically expressive.
They both prefer to sit back and observe.
Just a thought.
I'm not sure if you've answered this one before, but I need advice about how to forshadow/write/reveal a toxic parental relationship (in my case, mother/daughter). I have expirence with this first hand, but I find it difficult to put into words. By the way, you and your works are awesome! Keep it up! 💙🐱
Tips on Writing Toxic Parent/Child Relationships
I’m afraid I don’t have personal experience with this sort thing, but I can talk about how I write my abusive mother/daughter relationship, and maybe that will give you some ideas.
If any of my followers can point us to blogs, posts, or other advice that helps, that would be appreciated!
1. Word choice. A toxic or abusive relationship can be a hard thing to write, especially if the character is as manipulative as Dr. Agau is. Choosing your words carefully can build up a specific tone for the relationship and the interactions they have. This works especially well when you build up an entirely different tone for other relationships the daughter will have.
2. Your reader will know what a non-toxic relationship looks like, but your character probably will not. Readers will know when the mother is being toxic towards the daughter, but your character might just accept it as normal because it’s all they’ve ever known. That’s the case with Beth and Agau--Beth doesn’t know any better. Her ignorance plus her love for her mother lets Agau manipulate her however she wants.
If your daughter character has realized that her relationship isn’t a healthy one, then things (like how she thinks about her mother) might change. Again, I don’t have personal experience, so I can’t tell you how to write this, but I would advise considering how your daughter character sees the relationship.
2.5. Based on what she knows, it might be hard to write a “reveal” for a toxic relationship, unless your character is not living around her mother any longer. If that’s the case, you’ll want to do your research on how toxic parental relationships affect their children later down the line--habits they make, how they approach friendships and romantic relationships, etc. You can work those things into your character before she talks about her past and her abuse.
When she does finally “reveal” her past (probably by opening up to another character), then the traits you’ve written her with so far will make sense.
3. A toxic relationship is built up over time. Maybe you don’t know how to put this one particular scene into words, but you can always fix that in the editing process. Toxic relationships have patterns and trends that happen over many scenes, so the words you might not have now might show up later on.
Not all of these scenes have to be in the story, mind you. You can have knowledge of how these characters have acted in the past and show the consequences of that in the current narration.
For example, Beth knows that Agau expects her obedience because she’s been punished for not obeying before. She also knows that Agau dictates her activities and routines every day. These things aren’t explicitly shown in the book, but the reader picks up on it through the narration. Lines like “She remembers what happened last time she didn’t do as Agau told her” and “She hates this morning routine, but nothing has ever gotten her out of it.” will show your reader evidence of past and continuing abuse.
4. Probably obvious, but it deserves saying: make sure your character is developed and fleshed out beyond her toxic relationship. Obviously this relationship will have affected her and influenced her greatly, but don’t let it define who she is as a character.
I like to think of it this way: can you describe the daughter as a person and as a character without bringing up her abuse? If you can, then that’s good; if not, you have more work to do.
I’m not a perfect person or a perfect writer, so if I’ve said something wrong or offensive, I do apologize and I do welcome polite corrections. But I also still hope this list helped you out in terms of giving you strategies on how to write your characters.
If you ever need advise on anything else or you just want to say hi, inbox is always open!
Rachael Haile (one of my protags) LOVES to sleep, and is a very vivid dreamer. Her primary form of meditation is guided sleep and lucid dreaming. It's cliche, but it has helped warn her about dangers her and her partner (*coughalsoloveinterestcough*) may have to face.
She can see futures in her dreams?? Very fancy. I wouldn’t say it’s a bad cliche though because dreaming is one of the things that is still a confusing science thing (science thing yep)
My characters don’t have any cool lucid dreaming skills. Oliver just has nightmares!
Tell me a fact about your oc and I will respond with a semi-related fact about mine
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Call me Larxene, cause I'm shocked that we got this far!
(....bad joke? Bad joke, okay)
Speaking of the Savage Nymph herself, I FUCKING DESPISE HER. I despise her attitude, I despise her fights, and WHAT THE FUCK IS ON YOUR HEAD, GIRL? ANTENNAE? LIGHTNING RODS? THE FUCK?
To give credit where credit is due, tho, I feel like her personality and attitude fits her quite well: she's a ball of PMSing electricity, and is savage af as a result. Wonder if I give her some chocolate then she'll calm her ass down for a bit...
And since she's gonna be in KHIII, I'm excited to see what her role is. Yeah, we know she'll be in Arendelle (Frozen world), but this begs the question....will we fight her again? A part of me is getting aboard the NOPE Train, but the other half wants vengeance for the shit she put me through in KH: CoM (and to a lesser extent in KHIIFM+).
Hope you're well! Let's see...I've started an in-character journal for one of my characters that's supposed to help tie in to the first episode of my series. Been playing a bit of DnD and listening to a channel on YouTube called NightMind for inspiration. And also watched don't hug me i'm scared because why not. Anything interesting on your end? (I may have missed a post or two...having a crap day job will make thay happen tho lol)
An in-character journal? That sounds amazing, why haven’t I thought of that! I love to journal, and I love my characters. I probably wouldn’t be able to fill a whole journal of one character, but I could fill a journal of snippets written from each POV.
Hm.
The most interesting thing that has happened to me was I just hit 50K recently and I went to a women’s retreat with my mom!
