Mun talks about the muse || Accepting!
😩 Hardest thing about writing the muse?
I think this one’s honestly just “the universal Viren RPer experience”? But damn like every time I have to write a post of Viren being a Bad Dad (so like, most times he’s interacting with Soren in the current canon timeline?) I have to write it through clenched teeth. It’s one of those things you don’t want to shy away from, because like it or not that is his character?
I find that as a writer, I really have to come at it from the perspective of “he was a good father, once,” and that there was a point in his life where his foremost motivation in his work was an earnest and genuine love for his kids, wanting to build a bright and happy future for them. But one of that tragedies of Viren is that over years of compromising morals and “creative solutions,” the worst parts of him killed the best parts of him. Maybe they’ll come back and maybe they won’t, and even if they do, he may never fully be able to make amends to his family.
⌨ What’s a situation you’ve always wanted to RP with the muse?
ON THAT NOTE I do want to write Viren trying--probably very clumsily, and debatably with any success--to make amends with his family. Even if we don’t get that redemption arc in canon (and I’m still fairly certain we will! “Crazy and really really moving journey” says redemption arc to me!), I’d love to write that redemption arc here. I’d love to write Viren grappling with the sense of hopelessness that comes from realizing all your efforts to make things better only made things immeasurably worse, that he drove away or damaged everyone he started out wanting to protect, and that it’s his fault.
And then I want him to drag himself out of that hopelessness and improve, gradually working towards some sense of peace. I want the despair (because who doesn’t love writing despair???), and then I want the triumph of rising past the person you were and the things you did and making something meaningful of it.
