The Blog of Roon

Tamasi, my Passions of the Tide character, is off to a roaring start—half the other characters thus far are scared to death of her, and the other half at least don’t give her any guff.

I find this highly amusing.

(Players are another story—the guy playing Tamasi’s father-in-law sent an entry this morning that had me laughing out loud, it did such a terrific job of making her life difficult. Beautiful work. Beautiful. Tamasi finessed it—I hope!—but it surely did get in under her scales.)

Tamasi is formal, dispassionate, wastes no words—and apparently that is enough. It’s achingly clear to me, already, that she’s got an Achilles heel (well, as much as a merwoman can have any sort of heel) that I hadn’t planned for her. We’ll see if anyone else picks up on it; thus far it is only implicit in her actions.

Nonetheless, quite a woman, Tamasi. I am enjoying her already. I am also enjoying writing the reversal of the usual light=good, darkness=bad trope; makes me think about what I’m doing. (Tamasi is from deep undersea, and is somewhat light-sensitive; darkness to her is a haven, light a painful interruption.)

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