Fire!
“Fire rhetoric thrusters fore and aft!” riposted a friend of mine while I was in the middle of the latest broadside.
Okay, I giggled. It’s true. I’m terrible when I get on a soapbox. I’m just glad I’ve got friends who can kick it out from under me once in a while, without disparaging me in the process.
I gave Shirley (who is thus far finding marriage a very lovely thing) a habit of gentle self-mockery that I probably ought to appropriate for myself more often. My new Lunar Ellipse character, Hannah Fisher, is closer to me in that regard—blunt and occasionally downright vicious, but no harsher on others than herself. The reverse, if anything.
I like Hannah already. Li and I have been working out a few pre-game character issues, and I have a pretty clear picture of her. (Even visual; David did a pencil sketch that I want to scan and send Li.) Like nearly all my characters, she has a fundamental core of decency. She has been hurt, though; it remains to be seen how far that decency extends. The Lunar Ellipse is her opportunity to prove herself. What will she do if circumstances threaten to thwart her?
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