saphic-with-t reblogged
‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony
Me: nice, what a fun and cool concept. I’m glad I wrote down a list of their traits and concepts and have started to integrate them into the story.
My silly little mind: but where is the innate sense of doom? Where is the tragedy that makes them suffer? Where is the underlying understanding that they will never know true satisfaction, that the world has failed them, that they are suffering and the cause will never know justice?