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(Free art)) Porta Custodis Character: Rayne
15 years ago
[if you read through this and offer useful information, I'll make you a free art- offer your comments on the journal, and if it's helpful, I'll send you a note asking for a character [up to three] and a theme- and if you could pass this around, i'd be eternally grateful)
trying to decide if I'm gonna keep her, or.. uh. what.
She was supposed to be among the more important characters- but so far I've been writing Aaron and Tyler, and forgetting to include Rayne- I'm in the process of scripting chapter 3 (still) and i don't want to write myself into a corner and have her be one of those useless generic sorts of characters....
but at the same time, i had originally intended -THREE- children to be important to the plot, and if i drop rayne, I'm left without a female in the bunch, which seems.. wrong, to me. but she's sort of turning into token girl-with-no-real-personality so i guess it'd be for the best to just not have her in, if at all... but still.
eh. I dunno. i'd just use trish, since i know her a bit better, but then both of Stephen's kids would end up dying (essentially) and given that i hadn't intended ANY of them to die in the first place (but ended up writing about Aaron and not including a fifth kid) he's already losing one.....
um.
it just occurred to me that that might not make sense to anybody with whom i haven't talked about this at length.
OKAY. Stephen is a gate-keeper; he guards the doors to Sheol for about six hours every night; There are four gate-keepers in total.... (one northeast, one northwest, one southeast, one southwest- Steve is the northwest one; Edward is is the southeast one, Branson is the southwest one [somehow. even though he's vaguely Russian in my head], and Randel is the northeast one.)
- anyway, four gatekeepers, and their job is to keep .. the gate. On the rare case that someone escapes from .. well.. hell, essentially- it's their job to keep them from getting past what i suppose would be limbo (usually scripted as "the second/middle cave/rn")
It's around Christmastime (for no particular reason) and within the last few days things have begun getting a little bit more.. tumultuous..
more things coming through, that is to say- and weaker, less cunning things, as well- things that otherwise might never have gotten to the gates, let alone through them.....
And then Edward and Randel disappear, for unspecified reasons.
now, where the kids come in was, in the original idea.. three of them- Stephen's students (His day job is teaching) ... die. And end up in the second cave; because they have a purpose to serve in sheol-
that is, of course, assisting in the unraveling mystery that seems to have become the underworld.
sort of.. an unfinished-business/destiny sort of shit-
this has morphed into a "kids are involved because they found something in a field" cliche, which is still better than a "destiny" cliche-
ANYWAY.
so Rayne.
What should i do with her?
(more info can be found through here, in case i stopped making sense; http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1215087/)
trying to decide if I'm gonna keep her, or.. uh. what.
She was supposed to be among the more important characters- but so far I've been writing Aaron and Tyler, and forgetting to include Rayne- I'm in the process of scripting chapter 3 (still) and i don't want to write myself into a corner and have her be one of those useless generic sorts of characters....
but at the same time, i had originally intended -THREE- children to be important to the plot, and if i drop rayne, I'm left without a female in the bunch, which seems.. wrong, to me. but she's sort of turning into token girl-with-no-real-personality so i guess it'd be for the best to just not have her in, if at all... but still.
eh. I dunno. i'd just use trish, since i know her a bit better, but then both of Stephen's kids would end up dying (essentially) and given that i hadn't intended ANY of them to die in the first place (but ended up writing about Aaron and not including a fifth kid) he's already losing one.....
um.
it just occurred to me that that might not make sense to anybody with whom i haven't talked about this at length.
OKAY. Stephen is a gate-keeper; he guards the doors to Sheol for about six hours every night; There are four gate-keepers in total.... (one northeast, one northwest, one southeast, one southwest- Steve is the northwest one; Edward is is the southeast one, Branson is the southwest one [somehow. even though he's vaguely Russian in my head], and Randel is the northeast one.)
- anyway, four gatekeepers, and their job is to keep .. the gate. On the rare case that someone escapes from .. well.. hell, essentially- it's their job to keep them from getting past what i suppose would be limbo (usually scripted as "the second/middle cave/rn")
It's around Christmastime (for no particular reason) and within the last few days things have begun getting a little bit more.. tumultuous..
more things coming through, that is to say- and weaker, less cunning things, as well- things that otherwise might never have gotten to the gates, let alone through them.....
And then Edward and Randel disappear, for unspecified reasons.
now, where the kids come in was, in the original idea.. three of them- Stephen's students (His day job is teaching) ... die. And end up in the second cave; because they have a purpose to serve in sheol-
that is, of course, assisting in the unraveling mystery that seems to have become the underworld.
sort of.. an unfinished-business/destiny sort of shit-
this has morphed into a "kids are involved because they found something in a field" cliche, which is still better than a "destiny" cliche-
ANYWAY.
so Rayne.
What should i do with her?
(more info can be found through here, in case i stopped making sense; http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1215087/)
it'd be fairly difficult, given the kid in question is between the ages of 5 and 7- though definitely something to work with.. hrmm.
by this suggestion, i'd do the bit i'm currently working on with her, then re-introduce her to Aaron and Tyler....
hrm, and it'd be like her to try to tag along, given she holds the two of them (especially aaron) in high regards (kind of as though they were her older siblings)- and tagging along when they end up in the graveyard (because of the thing they found in the field) would get her into the right place at the right time to be able to keep her in...
Aand the specific article you might find helpfull:
Defining FEMALE Behavior ~ for your Fiction
As for my own comments, it sounds like you need to work with a different character that fits in better with the boys. Just don't make her a token female, she needs a REASON to be in the plot.
Is more helpful than it has any right to be, I think. (or.. is exactly the correct amount of helpful?) and overall makes WAY too much sense.
i'm trying very hard ot not make Rayne a token female, which i think is part of the reason that I'm having such a difficult time with her;
I may have figured out away to fit her in with the boys appropriately, but it would still very much be a one-sided thing..
What you need to do is stop thinking of her in the context of "female" and start thinking of her in the context of "character." The fact she's a character is much more important than the fact she's female - so don't try to give her a "female" role. Especially as kids most "girly" and "boyish" stuff is more forced on the kids by their parents than what they do when their parents aren't looking - sure, you get the odd girl or guy who's that way all on their own, but most girls and guys like to do the same things when you get down to it.
I'm a great believer in the power of the coincidence. Doktor Zhivago, for instance, positively runs on coincidence, and those who criticise it for this seem (perhaps willfully) blind to the way coincidences happen in real life. Destiny? Maybe. "Mysterious object found in field?" Mmm, possibly. "Just is, for no reason?" A lot more fun, and a lot more open-ended. So many things in life "just are"... God, I could give you a list
Anyway, there's a ramble from the 'ragon.