IT IS OKAY! Not a big deal was made out of it this year. :D I had a low key day. IT WAS! Holy crap, man! And luckily Danni is as gung ho about just smooshing fandoms and OCs and everything else together in one giant mash up as I am!
I KNOW! We actually were talking about him over the weekend! One of my current characters is...basically Valyn with less balls, and the opposite emotion problem. He can't not show what he's feeling, no matter how hard he tries. I went over similarities once and was disturbed. Same problems with feeling useless, treated the same by their fathers, same equivalent station, same problem of being compassionate and kind in a political society that really isn't, same issues with women, same storyline where he's thrust into the wilderness with crazy people and no idea how to handle himself or exist outside of his father's house. Even their house colors are the same.
And then, RANDOMLY, Danni and I were working out backstory for a ridiculously minor character, and she basically came up with a situation that is so similar to Valyn and Shadow that it's not even funny. (Personal body servant since they were both young teenagers, only friend/one who understands, undercurrents of Epic True Love, etc etc.) Without ever reading the book, so I had to tell her all about Valyn.
He gets to join in the LARPing fun. :D
But that's why he's been feeling very jealous, and is in need of some attention.
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I KNOW! We actually were talking about him over the weekend! One of my current characters is...basically Valyn with less balls, and the opposite emotion problem. He can't not show what he's feeling, no matter how hard he tries. I went over similarities once and was disturbed. Same problems with feeling useless, treated the same by their fathers, same equivalent station, same problem of being compassionate and kind in a political society that really isn't, same issues with women, same storyline where he's thrust into the wilderness with crazy people and no idea how to handle himself or exist outside of his father's house. Even their house colors are the same.
And then, RANDOMLY, Danni and I were working out backstory for a ridiculously minor character, and she basically came up with a situation that is so similar to Valyn and Shadow that it's not even funny. (Personal body servant since they were both young teenagers, only friend/one who understands, undercurrents of Epic True Love, etc etc.) Without ever reading the book, so I had to tell her all about Valyn.
He gets to join in the LARPing fun. :D
But that's why he's been feeling very jealous, and is in need of some attention.