It's nice because he's so deeply rooted in my mind. I don't have to put a lot of thought in his tags or how he's going to react in any given situation. He basically just does stuff and I type it out for him like a happy little puppet. The thing that's really tough about it is trying to remember that it's okay that he's changed. He's seven years older than he was in canon, he's been through SO MUCH more than he ever would have back home, and there have been so many people who've made huge impacts on him as a person. He's really far removed from the boy he was in Hutchinson, so keeping a balance where he's still true to the character, while having evolved in a way that makes sense with all that's happened to him, is a really big challenge. Sometimes I watch canon, or I read excerpts from the book, or I see how Preston's reacting to him, and I wonder if I've just gone completely off the rails.
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Hahahahaha I can't drop him. He won't let me.
It's nice because he's so deeply rooted in my mind. I don't have to put a lot of thought in his tags or how he's going to react in any given situation. He basically just does stuff and I type it out for him like a happy little puppet. The thing that's really tough about it is trying to remember that it's okay that he's changed. He's seven years older than he was in canon, he's been through SO MUCH more than he ever would have back home, and there have been so many people who've made huge impacts on him as a person. He's really far removed from the boy he was in Hutchinson, so keeping a balance where he's still true to the character, while having evolved in a way that makes sense with all that's happened to him, is a really big challenge. Sometimes I watch canon, or I read excerpts from the book, or I see how Preston's reacting to him, and I wonder if I've just gone completely off the rails.