A & A
[A] Lydia 1. Lydia appeared in a Merlin narrative that I never finished, and immediately settled down and made herself utterly at home in his headcanon. I was moderately ambivalent about her at first but Merlin clearly adores her so that decision was made for me. 2. Lydia has struck a balance between descending into humanity and remaining true to her water-spirit inhumanity that I actually find rather beautiful, even if it only tends to be visible to the rest of you when she wavers in one direction or another. I also like her calm about her impending eventual forever-death. She's very maternal, very organized, very intelligent. 3. She aims that maternal instinct at the worst receivers ever (i.e. Riddle, Merlin, Wall Street to some degree). And has horrific taste in men. 4. I have to have a certain mindset to write Lydia, or else I literally can not. But when she's awake she is almost always spot-on. 5. Slightly younger Lydia, Lydia-now and Lydia-with-Merlin. 6. I have no idea. She'll continue tooling around. The band is probably going to have a cook-out/summer party, I'm sure she'll buzz around doing all the organizing for that. I really want to do more band backstory as well, and finish the Merlin and Lydia Epic Narrative O' Pointlessness.
[A] Perses 1. Nothing. I didn't like Perses at all until I hit the middle of writing his bio, which I had started to prove to myself that I couldn't write a bio for him that would create a create a character I would enjoy, at which point Titan-love overcame me and I placed the hold. 2. Incredible loyalty. Perseverance. Excessive amounts of humility, really. Extremely wise. Etc. 3. To paraphrase Judo, "Perses your internalized reactionary angst is very boring." He's quite screwed up inside but getting that out so it can be dealt with proving... impossible. Which is fine. I mean, he wouldn't be a Titan if he was functional. 4. Quite difficult, to the point that sometimes I literally get angry when I think about him/remember that I have to write something for him. I've got about five half-done narratives and a third of a response to that past log you posted and I owe Judo a tag and PRIMAL SCREAM. I exaggerate. 5. Doesn't exist yet. I'd say "It's all bullshit anyway. Everyone knows Astraios is the wise one" and "He has to evolve, he can't help but move past and beyond feeling as if he's naught but a dead heart and a naked sword even if to do so feels like a most intimate form of disloyalty. Perses already failed: the island and the pit speak mutely to that effect. It isn't until he manages to spend a night sleeping without nightmares, a day without the stab wound of regret and loss hemorrhaging like a physical ache in his chest that he feels like more than a failure, offenses compounded until he's a betraying failure, a failing betrayal. Bad dog." and "Unsought but inevitable, catharsis is probably cheating, his inability to bleed indefinitely further evidence of his ultimate disloyalty. Sometimes the urge to laugh blindsides him out of nowhere, spreading vicious curling fingers through his gut and pouring poison up his throat until everything burns and aches but if nothing else at all constitutes his alleged wisdom he knows that post gut-punch(line) he can never just give in to the framework of the joke or he'll laugh until he chokes on the taste of his own persistent futility, moving on in spite of himself" come close but they're not quite right. Hnngh. 6. Family funtimes. I'd like to trace out his relationships with the fam beyond Asteria and Pallas a little more clearly, while continuing to develop those two since they're two of my overall favorite lines. And I continually strive to get to a place where he doesn't regularly make me want to stab myself in the eye rather than write him.