37. How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories?
Character solidifying!37. How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories?
Thesequestions are all so good. Okay. Imagination? He’s got an odd one. Mostly for scheming.I don’t think he daydreams per se, but he doesloose trail of conversation a lot because he gets annoyingly caught up in hisown thoughts. Like. Most of the time. Netflix made a pretty good running gagout of it, but he’s honestly a terrible listener. If it does not affect himdirectly and significantly, you losthim almost at your second word. At your fourth maybe, if he cares about you.
And like Isaid, it’s not because he starts day dreaming per se, but because he’s workingthat emotional intelligence of his to steer the conversation whichever way hewants. He may not be actively listening, but he’s watching. Daydreaming is imagining, but he’s actually observing. He’sstudying everything around him. Especially (and mostly) if he’s sobered and hisguard is really high up. He’s carrying his own conversation in his head,thinking well of what to say next before you even start your sentence, which isbasically how and why that Netflix gag works so well lmao. If he’s moreconfident or calm then he’s not daydreaming either, but he’s too busy praisinghimself to be attentive.
He’s not the worrisome type because, believe itor not, he owns up to everything he does. Maybe he doesn’t take credit to ideasthat go wrong or are badly executed, but he takes credit to all sort of villainousactions? I don’t know how to phrase it well so that’s that.
He doesdwell in memory, and though it’s rare that he allows himself to just sit andfeel sorry for himself (never for what he does though), they’re actually verydeep and in detail, almost trance like memories that he exploits in differentways. I think I’ve talked about his emotional intelligence in almost every asktoday but it really affects who he is. Having a strong emotional connectionwith memories means you can recall them more precisely, but not necessarilyaccurately. Brain’s funny like that. He lives through memory in the way that heremembers specific moments very thoroughly, and tends to ironize through that.
Like, right beforehe kills you he might tell you one specific phrase you told him someday that feels ironic to the situation and laugh to himself (and in your face) just to makethe moment more saucy. Right after you betray him or before betraying you hemight recite to you this profound promise you made to him in your exact words. He dwells in the past in that way. Very veryoccasionally in the emotional ‘going to drink three bottles of wine and thinkabout my ex and how she helped kill my parents’ kind of way, but he mostly doesthe other thing and thinks it amusing.
Of course how significant moments or memories might be is subjective, so he may remember and use that one time a bee stung you or you got a rash on your butt and scratched it publicly and completelyforget that one meaningful time you saved his life or he threatened yours or whatever.
